Protest The Hero will release their new album, Volition, on October 28th, an adequately titled album if there ever was one seeing as the record was crowd funded. Now the Canadian band is streaming a new song, ‘Clarity’, from the album. The band is still taking cues from their last album Scurrilous, which was broadly … Continue reading →

Last year the prolific Australian musician Dis Pater commenced his new project under the guise of Tempestuous Fall, where he stepped away from black metal and into funeral doom, and the result was the rather stunning album, The Stars Would Not Awake You. This October he’ll release a new TF album entitled Converge, Rivers of … Continue reading →

Outer Heaven posted their cover of Incantation’s ‘Golgotha’ a few days ago as a preview of Toxicbreed’s Funhouse Casa de Diversion Vol. 3 covers comp. Outer Heaven released a demo last year and while a hefty hardcore record, it definitely took much from the old school death metal of Incantation and their pivotal album Onward … Continue reading →

Dream Theater are releasing their new self-titled album next month, their first with Mike Mangini involved in the writing process, though he did play on last record, A Dramatic Turn of Events, and the band has posted ‘The Enemy Inside’, which is the first taster of the new record. You can stream the song below, … Continue reading →

This past week two Irish bands posted new songs from forthcoming albums that are worth chatting about. Firstly, Parhelia have emerged from inactivity with their first release in years, posting a new track ‘Capricorn One’ and there won’t be much waiting around either as the album, The Precipice of Change, is supposedly coming out in … Continue reading →

With the exception of early 2012’s Ataraxia/Taraxis EP, it’s been nearly four years since Chicagoan instrumental outfit Pelican released a record, that being their full-length What We All Come To Need. The band is now getting ready to release a new album, Forever Becoming, on October 15th, through Southern Lord and has released a new … Continue reading →

Last year, Irish doom metallers On Pain of Death finally unleashed their long awaited debut album, Year Naught Doom, after years and years of stops and starts. The album was limited to an online release with the promise of a physical coming soon. While news on the vinyl from Handshake Inc. still waits, Dry Cough … Continue reading →

In case you missed it, Kayo Dot will be releasing a new expansive double album called Hubardo later this year, which they are crowdfunding through pre-orders before the recording began. Toby Driver has just posted a new song from the album – ‘And He Built Him a Boat’. Featuring guest vocals from none other than … Continue reading →

In the last few days we got a fresh offering from the inimitable Column of Heaven. You may be still reeling from the stellar Mission From God LP released last year, but the powerviolence band are following up with a number of 7” releases soon, most notably Holy Things Are For The Holy, coming out … Continue reading →