ARSIS, Virginia’s melodic/technical death metal band, has revealed the artwork by Mark Riddick for their upcoming Starve For The Devil album, set to be released in North America on February 9th, 2010.
Here’s the tracklist for Starve For The Devil:
01. Forced To Rock
02. A March For The Sick
03. From Soulless To Shattered (Art In Dying)
04. Beyond Forlorn
05. The Ten Of Swords
06. Closer To Cold
07. Sick Perfection
08. Half Past Corpse O’Clock
09. Escape Artist
10. Sable Rising
Music for Starve For The Devil was recorded with producer Zeuss (Municipal Waste, Agnostic Front, Hatebreed) at Planet Z Studios in Massachusetts.
ARSIS will be touring North America on the “Tyrants Of Evil” tour with ARCH ENEMY, EXODUS, and Mutiny Within beginning January 20th, 2010. Stated guitarist / songwriter / singer Jim Malone about the upcoming trek: “Not only will it be our first tour in support of our new album, but it will also be the first time that ARSIS toured in the United States in well over a year. I hope to see many familiar faces; I have greatly missed hanging out with all the ARSIS fans at shows.”
The band’s currently touring in Europe on the Neckbreakers Ball tour with Behemoth, Devildriver, and Scar Symmetry. The ARSIS line-up features James Malone on guitars & vocals, Mike Van Dyne on drums, Nick Cordle on guitars and bassist Nathaniel Carter.
John Baizley Live. Photo by Show Heart Photography.
Baroness singer/guitarist John Baizley recently spent a few days in NYC to promote his band’s third album, Blue Record. We took the opportunity to invite Baizley up to our studios for a little chat to hear what’s been going on with his progressive hardcore act since our last meeting.
Below the jump, watch Baizley talk about dealing with increased expectations, new producers and, um, journalists who ask questions about hidden wieners in his artwork. (more…)
MESHUGGAH have just released The Singles Collection—a package of singles in three vinyl formats (10 inch, 11 inch, 12 inch)—through Night of the Vinyl Dead. This is a limited edition run of 450 hand-numbered copies.
Candlelight Records has just confirmed that January 26 will be the American release date for After, the new album from former Emperor vocalist/guitarist Ihsahn. Recorded during the first half of 2009, After completes the musician’s planned trilogy of initial recordings. The album showcases the Norwegian icon with drummer Asgeir Mickelson (Spiral Architect), bassist Lars K. Norberg (Spiral Architect), & saxophonist Jorgen Munkeby (Shining).
“This is my first album written with 8-string guitars as basis which has been both challenging and inspiring,” he comments when discussing the creative process. “I also decided early on that I wanted to mix this album with Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia) and recorded the album with that in mind. Asgeir and Lars have again delivered superb performances. I’ve always wanted to implement the saxophone in my music; Jorgen’s contributions truly added a silver lining to the album.”
Recording was completed over an eight-month period at his own Symphonique Studio, with additional work at Toproom Studio (co-engineered by Borge Finstad).
After track list:
1. The Barren Lands
2. A Grave Inversed
3. After
4. Frozen Lakes on Mars
5. Undercurrent
6. Austere
7. Heavens Black Sea
8. On the Shores
SUFFOCATION’s only official live record, The Close Of A Chapter: Live In Quebec City, is currently streaming in its entirety at this location: SuffocationLive.info. The Close Of A Chapter: Live In Quebec City will see its North American release next Tuesday, October 27th, via Relapse Records and is available for pre-order at this location.
The Close Of A Chapter: Live In Quebec City was recorded in 2005 during the band’s Souls To Deny world tour. The complete track listing for this unedited full live set is: “Infecting The Crypts”, “Thrones Of Blood”, “Surgery Of Implalement”, “Catatonia”, “Liege Of Inveracity”, “Despise The Sun”, “Subconsciously Enslaved”, “Immortally Condemned”, “Effigy Of The Forgotten”, “Tomes Of Acrimony”, “Breeding The Spawn”, “Pierced From Within” and the encore “Funeral Inception”.
SUFFOCATION Tour Dates:
October 30 Auckland, NZ Transmission Room
***All dates from Nov. 1 thru 7 w/ ARCH ENEMY, WINDS OF PLAUGE***
November 1 Perth, Australia Capitol
November 3 Adelaide, Australia Fowlers Live
November 5 Melbourne, Australia The Forum
November 6 Sydney, Australia The Roundhouse
November 7 Brisbane, Australia The HiFi
November 13 Montreal, QC Trois Rivieres Metalfest
November 14 Seattle, WA Studio Seven (w/ THE FACELESS, VITAL REMAINS, more)
November 15 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre (w/ THE FACELESS, VITAL REMAINS, more)
Jacob Bannon about to ignite another packed crowd. Photo by Matt Miller.
When hardcore stalwarts CONVERGE rolled through New York last spring to play Brooklyn’s Club Europa, MetalKult grabbed our cameras and posted up to capture all the twisted riffs, guttural barks and flying bodies that a Converge show brings.
During that show the Massachusetts four-piece—made up of singer Jacob Bannon, guitarist Kurt Ballou, bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller—debuted a couple of brand-new tracks, “Wishing Well” and” “Axe to Fall,” which would eventually make their way to the band’s current release, Axe to Fall (Epitaph).
To celebrate the release of Axe to Fall, which hits stores today, we’re pleased to present that March 27, 2009, show in it’s entirety.
COALESCE have just posted a brand new track, “Through Sparrows I Rest”, taken from their forthcoming OX EP release. Listen at the band’s MySpace page: MySpace.com/COALESCE. OX EP, the EP follow-up to their OX album, will see a November 10th release date. OX EP will be available on CD and 12” vinyl and is available for pre-order at this location.
COALESCE released OX, their first album in 10 years, this past June. The critically acclaimed record is currently streaming in its entirety at CoalesceOX.info.
Additionally, COALESCE has confirmed their only northeastern US performance of the year with a BrooklynVegan sponsored show on December 30th at Europa in Brooklyn, NY. COALESCE will also be appearing at The Fest 8 in Gainesville, FL later this month and Austin, TX’s Fun Fun Fun Fest on November 7th. A listing of confirmed COALESCE tour dates can be found below.
COALESCE Tour Dates:
October 30 Gainesville, FL The Fest 8 (w/ COLISEUM, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, YOUNG WIDOWS, TORCHE, more)
November 7 Austin, TX Fun Fun Fun Fest (w/ DANZIG, JESUS LIZARD, and many more)
December 30 Brooklyn, NY Europa
Because I’m an unrepentant, and slightly obsessive, metal fan, I often find myself scouring the record bins and online portals for the filthiest up-and-coming bands. As a reader of MetalKult, you’re no doubt familiar with this obsession. Once in awhile I come up empty handed, but more than not I’m pleased to find that the underground is alive and well.
The most-recent gem I found in my scavaging was a band of young Norwegian death metallers called Repellent. I first discovered them when I saw they were among Aura Noir’s top MySpace friends. I figured if the mighty Aura Noir vouched for these guys, they’d be worth checking out. Boy, was I right.
A few weeks after I reached out to Repellent through their site, I was stoked to open my mailbox and find that their self-released demo had crept its way across the Atlantic. When I spun the CD, I was stunned by what I heard: eight songs (in 15 minutes!) of straightforward, no-bullshit death metal attack boosted with a healthy dose of early Bathory-style riffs.
Sven-Erik Dœhli (left) and Christoffer Bråthen
Much like their Swedish peers Tribulation, Repellent—made up of bassist/vocalist Sven-Erik Dœhli, guitarist Christoffer Bråthen and drummer Jørund Losnegård Skjervøy—stay exceedingly true to the grim, European extremity of pioneers like Celtic Frost, while managing to harness the ripping thrash power of Sodom and Destruction.
Songs like “Desolate in the Dust,” “Torture Cave,” “Putrid Death” and “Rotten Grave” are fast, brutal tracks in the lineage of Dismember, while “The Smell of Vomit” and “Maniac Killer” reveal the extent of Repellent’s love of Celtic Frost.
Repellent’s 2008 demo shows a ton of potential. The tracks featured here are, on average, a minute and a half to two minutes long and are, admittedly, more like really good ideas than fully fleshed-out songs. But mind you, it’s is only a demo, and a strong one at that.
I don’t fully understand what those Scandinavian kids are doing over there to nail such classic sounds so early in their careers. Maybe it’s their pedigree, or the extreme landscape and climate. Whatever it is, Repellent have it in spades. So when your grubby metal claws come across Repellent’s forthcoming full-length, snag that shit! I know I will. —Henry Yuan
Slayer fans who purchase the deluxe edition of the band’s forthcoming album, World Painted Blood, on November 3, will find that the package will include a bonus 20-minute DVD entitled ‘Playing with Dolls,’ a brutal video-graphic novel directed by Metalocalypse director and Slayer fan Mark Brooks.
Check out the trailer for Playing with Dolls below:
