Album Announcements

Today, SVART RECORDS sets May 30th as the release date for OPIUM WARLORDS’ Taste My Sword Of Understanding. Set to be release on CD and double-LP formats, Taste My Sword Of Understanding is the third offering of OPIUM WARLORDS, the final project of Sami Albert Hynninen (REVEREND BIZARRE, THE PURITAN, …

2014 has seen UK death/thrash outfit Flayed Disciple back in the studio recording a new EP and follow up to the 2012 debut album ‘Death Hammer’. Chuck Creese, who produced the ‘Ejaculate While Killing’ EP in 2010, was back at the helm recording the new record. Guitarist Jon Whitfield comments, …

British madcap thrashers LAWNMOWER DETH have launched a Kickstarter campaign to re-press their 1990 debut album, “OOH CRIKEY IT’S… LAWNMOWER DETH”, after recently being confirmed to play at this year’s Download Festival on Saturday, June 14th.   Having been unavailable for nearly twenty years, repeated demands from hardcore fans has …

If you haven’t heard of the Nashville metal underground’s best kept secret VOODOO PROPHET yet, get ready. The five-piece metal act hailing from Music City, USA is set to begin tracking drums and bass for its sophomore EP, tentatively titled The Flood, this June with legendary Zing Recording Studios in …

SVART RECORDS announces May 23rd as the release date of VAINAJA’s debut album, Kadotetut. Taking influences from early ’90s death metal and doom, VAINAJA is a three-headed beast from Finland, and their Kadotetut debut is one of the heaviest records ever made in the Finnish language. Besides the crushing riffs …

NAPALM DEATH are another one of the greatest bands ever to walk the Earth, but even they know that Cardiacs are the greatest of them all. Hence this cranium-decimating cover of one of Tim Smith’s spikiest and snottiest creations, To Go Off And Things, recorded in tribute to the man …

Las Vegas breakthrough rockers, OTHERWISE, have begun recording their highly anticipated sophomore album, tentatively scheduled for a late Summer/early Fall release. Their sophomore release “Peace At All Costs“, is being produced by Grammy Award winner Dave Bottrill (Tool, Muse, Stone Sour, Godsmack, Staind, Peter Gabriel) at Audio Mix House and …

Record Store Day began in the US in 2007 when over 700 independent stores in the USA came together to celebrate their unique culture, the UK soon followed suit and on April 19th 2014 will see the seventh celebration of the UK’s unique independent sector. All of the independently owned …

UK melodic extreme metallers Bloodshot Dawn have announced some of the guests that are set to appear on their second album which is set to be recorded this summer. Sven De Caluwé from Belgian death metal band Aborted will be weighing in with vocals, Swedish guitar maestro Per Nilsson of …

IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS sets May 19th as the release date for VERBERIS’ debut tape, Vastitas. The current state of New Zealand’s VERBERIS is as obscure and uncertain as both its origins and future. With the only certainty being the current moment, VERBERIS exists to traverse the devastating terrain of ravenous …

Genre-defying sextet Umphrey’s McGee announces the release of their highly anticipated seventh studio album Similar Skin (9th June in the UK). Similar Skin will be released via the band’s newly formed independent label, Nothing Too Fancy Music, named after one of their most beloved songs. As one of the most …

German heavy metal heroes ACCEPT have just announced the release of their forthcoming studio album, entitled, ‘Blind Rage‘. Since the release of their self-titled debut in 1979, the quintet, led by guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, have influenced countless bands worldwide.Having already unleashed classic albums such as ‘Restless And Wild’ (1982), ‘Balls …

SVART RECORDS announces May 16th as the international release date for TUSMÖRKE’s ‘Riset Bak Speilet’. A Norwegian group, TUSMÖRKE (”Twilight”) is a strange beast. With roots stretching deep into the Scandinavian neo-progressive rock underground of the early ’90s, the identical Momrak twins recorded a TUSMÖRKE demo in 1997 but soon …

German thrash metal heroes TANKARD have just revealed the album cover for their upcoming album ‘R.I.B.’.The artwork was brought to life by Patrick Strogulski, who is a student of the former TANKARD cover artist Sebastian Krüger. Mastermind Gerre states:  “R.I.B. continues the story of Chemical Invasion. The crazy professor is …

UK Metal titans DRAGONFORCE are nearing completion of their sixth studio album entitled ‘Maximum Overload’. Produced by Jens Bogren at Fascination Studios in Örebro and Varberg, Sweden, the new opus will be the band’s first ever album involving an outside producer, having historically opted to record themselves in association with Karl Groom.   …

Tridroid Records – We are happy to announce that we will be releasing “From Forgotten Worlds” by Auroch on both tape and vinyl. Originally released on CD in 2012, “From Forgotten Worlds” is 8 tracks of  pure death metal assault on the senses. The cassette will be released on April …

Progressive technical mavericks The Room Colored Charlatan are delighted to announce the details of their new record, Primitives, to be released on May 6th via North American prog gurus Subliminal Groove Records. To celebrate this most auspicious day, the band are releasing a teaser single and lyric video for the …

Prog pioneer Steve Hackett proudly announces the DVD release of his critically acclaimed live spectacular Genesis Revisited, filmed at the sold out show at London’s legendary Royal Albert Hall in October 2013. The DVD of this landmark performance will hit the stores on 30th June 2014. Genesis Revisited: Live at …

Hellion guitarist Maxxxwell Carlisle releases the first single from his upcoming solo album, “Visions of Speed and Thunder”. The new track, which is the title track of the album, features a guest appearance by Lords of the Trident vocalist, Fang VonWrathenstein. “The full length album, which is the follow-up to …

More details are being made available on EYEHATEGOD’s new, self-titled album. The European version (available on Century Media Records) will come in a CD digipack while the LP will be a single slab of vinyl in a gatefold jacket. The first pressing will be limited to 2,000 copies and made …