3 (NY) | Three is a band apart: Dark yet uplifting, spiritual without any connection to religion - theirs is a sound that transcends the genre conformity of modern pop culture. Rapid-fire acoustic guitar infus... |
The Absence | "Testament for the 21st Century- The Absence stand bound to lead another thrash revolution!"
Tampa, FL area natives, The Absence, laid waste to an unsuspecting metal community with their debu... |
Amon Amarth | Since their humble start in 1992 as an underground band from Tumba, a suburb in southern Stockholm, AMON AMARTH have managed to establish themselves as one of Europe's top death metal acts through har... |
Angel Blake | ANGEL BLAKE is the name of my present musical direction. When THE CROWN split up I took a heavy trip into soul-search land to figure out what I wanted to do with my musical life. To stop writing music... |
Anterior | "Anterior rocked everyone's balls off! They were amazing, these kids could fucking play!” (8/11/2005) - Brian Redman of Roadrunner Records own 3 Inches Of Blood. The sheer quality of their material an... |
As I Lay Dying | As a wise band once pointed out, what happens on the road always comes home. Sure, you can read into the darker side of that sentiment, but if you’re talking about the San Diego quintet As I Lay Dying... |
Beyond the Embrace | “Ferocious”…”melodic”…”gifted”…”strong debut”…”truly old school metal riffing”…”superior debut”…”modern”…”high octane”…
The press for BEYOND THE EMBRACE’s 2002 debut release “Against The Elem... |
Beyond The Sixth Seal (MA) | BEYOND THE SIXTH SEAL has existed in many forms over the years. The band may have formed in 1998, but the metamorphosis that they experienced since then has left people scratching their heads…
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The Black Dahlia Murder | The often imitated yet never duplicated Detroit deathsters The Black Dahlia Murder have returned to the public eye to reclaim their rightful throne as leaders of all things extreme with their third bl... |
Bolt Thrower | BOLT THROWER were formed in 1986 by Barry Thomson (guitar) and Gavin Ward (bass). They were soon joined by Alan West (vocals), and completed the line-up with the addition of Andy Whale (drums). Inspir... |
Born From Pain | BORN FROM PAIN was founded in the early summer of '97 after the demise of the glorious Feeding The Fire. Rob, formerly of Point Of No Return, Feeding The Fire, Backdraft and Wheel Of Progress, along w... |
Brainstorm | Formed in 1989 by Torsten Ihlenfeld and Milan Loncaric on guitars and Dieter Bernert on drums, BRAINSTORM released their first demo “Hand Of Doom” after one year of existence. Following shows with Sto... |
Callenish Circle | Almost 10 years of hard labour finally started paying off when major U.S. label Metal Blade Records offered the band a worldwide record deal for 4 albums in the year 2001. The first album on Metal Bla... |
Cannibal Corpse | Cannibal Corpse the name should say it all but, for all of you that don’t know they are one of the foulest bands out there. With songs like “Dead Human Collection”, “Sanded Faceless”, “Coffinfeeder” a... |
Cataract | Swiss hardcore/metal monsters Cataract have been going strong for almost six years now – their releases blasting through the world’s stereo systems and their live performances burning stages all over ... |
Cattle Decapitation | Cattle Decapitation can be described as the bastard child of Cannibal Corpse and Carcass weaving a vicious blend of Gore-grind and Death Metal into complex structures with the end result being some o... |
Cellador | Formed in the summer of 2004 by guitarist Chris Petersen, CELLADOR is an extreme power metal band from Omaha, NE, whose members’ ages range from a mere 17 to 23 years old. CELLADOR was founded with th... |
Daysend | YOU CAN do one of two things: listen to what the critics have to say about Daysend's début album 'Severance', or do what most sensible people do – take the CD out of its jewel case, put it in your ste... |
Demiricous | Deep from the bowels of Indianapolis, IN rise Demiricous, a band that offers up an unrelenting mixture of pure American metal and thrash. Scott, Nate, and Chris love old thrash but nothing like that w... |
Disillusion | In October 2006, Metal Blade Records will release the new DISILLUSION album "GLORIA". And what an album it is!
Sure, the new material is innovative, original, masterfully arranged, etc., but ... |
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Evergreen Terrace (FL) | EVERGREEN TERRACE is a melodic hardcore band from Jacksonville, FL that takes cues from no other. The band transitions effortlessly from fast, powerful heavy hardcore to melodic punk/rock. This has al... |
Falconer | In 1999 FALCONER recorded a demo as a solo project by Stefan Weinerhall (ex-MITHOTYN), and Mathias Blad was found to do the vocals as a session member. The demo got them a contract with Metal Blade. S... |
Fleshcrawl | Fleshcrawl came to life in spring 1987 by Stefan Hanus and Bastian Herzog. The band worked under the name Morgöth until the year 1990, when they changed their moniker to Suffocation and decided to bec... |
Forever In Terror | FOREVER IN TERROR, who's sound is a mix of modern day metal, black metal and thrash, began just over three years ago with five fifteen year olds in Streetsboro, Ohio about 30 miles outside of Clevelan... |
Fragments of Unbecoming | Fragments Of Unbecoming saw the light of day in the hot summer of 2000, initially serving as a side project for Sascha Ehrich, then guitarist in MORTIFIED, and Stefan Weimar, guitarist in VENEREAL DIS... |
Fuel By Fire | Starting in 2002 with Carlos Gutierrez on drums and Sal Zepeda on guitar the two began to put a band together not knowing how far they would take it. Carlos and Sal started to ask their close friends ... |
Goatwhore | Goatwhore guitarist Sammy Duet (formerly of Acid Bath and Crowbar) is fucking stoked…not only because his cats have apparently developed fine tastes in brutalic black metal ("My cats freak out when I ... |
God Dethroned | Henri \"T.S.K\" Sattler - Guitarist/Vocalist
Isaac Delahaye - Guitars
Henk \"Henke\" Zinger - Bassist
Ariën Van Weesenbeek - Drummer
God Dethroned was ... |
Gorerotted | "A New Dawn For The Dead", apart from the obvious reference to the classic horror films, also has a subtler message; this is a "new dawn" for GOREROTTED. Now stripped down to a five piece (following t... |
Impious | IMPIOUS was formed in 1994 by Valle Adzic and Martin Åkesson. Later that year Robin Sörqvist joined the band. After releasing two demos with session drummers, IMPIOUS finally found Ulf Johansson, thei... |
Into the Moat | Started in May 2001 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL by drummer Matthew Gossman, Into the Moat started as a one-man project. Matthew recorded all the instruments for several demo tracks and showed them to friend... |
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Job For A Cowboy | "Their name is a lighthearted nod to the ranch-country surroundings of their home base outside of Phoenix, but there's nothing funny about JOB FOR A COWBOY's sound...possessed" - REVOLVER
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King Diamond | KING DIAMOND is back with the 2007 release, titled; Give Me Your Soul… Please
Give Me Your Soul… Please is a blistering metal “horror-opera concept album” that draws from themes from the occu... |
Machinemade God | Hailing from Europe's most densely populated region, Germany's Rhein-Ruhr area, a place that has spawned many a great hardcore band in the past, Machinemade God combine the genre's most effective elem... |
Mercyful Fate | Kim Bendix Petersen is born in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 14th 1956. He began his musical career in 1973 when he entered as a guitarist in a cover band called Brainstorm. It was with Brainstorm that ... |
Neaera | Münster, Westphalia, summer of 2003: Tobias Buck, guitarist in the death/grind band MALZAN, forms a side project in order to pursue his interest in hardcore and Swedish death metal. The original line-... |
Ocean | "Smoothe voice, mesmerizing appeal, haunting qualities..a music sorceress!",says one review. Ocean's music spans the range from from exotic melodic through rhythmic waves to tribal infusions.... |
Paths of Possession | Started in 1999 by Randy Butman, Jay Fossen, and Richard Brunelle (ex-Morbid Angel guitarist), Paths of Possession is a solid mix of traditional heavy metal with influences of melodic Swedish death me... |
Phoenix Mourning | ... |
Primordial | The origins of Primordial go back to 1987 when a very young Ciaran Macuilliam and Pol MacAmhlaigh got together to learn their instruments and cover some songs from the likes of Slayer, DRI, Dead Kenne... |
Psyopus | From Rochester, NY, Psyopus create heart attack-inducing, grinding metal, that conjures up whirlwinds and tidal waves of absurd guitar work, harsh vocal onslaughts and hypersonic rhythm bombardment th... |
The Red Chord | The Red Chord engages a sensory onslaught with their new Metal Blade Release Prey for Eyes. A sprawling enigma, the album traverses nightmarish soundscapes with mind-bending time changes, gnashing gui... |
Six Feet Under | "I don't think I've been too pissed off - it's just the usual me," Six Feet Under main man Chris Barnes asserts with his snaggle-toothed grin. Of course he's referring to the band's latest slab of dea... |
Starwood | Leaning heavily on the decadence and brilliance of 70's rock icons like Cheap Trick, The New York Dolls, and KISS, and in the same vein as the new school era of rock like Brides of Destruction, The Da... |
Symphorce | About 8 years ago, vocalist Andy B. Franck formed SYMPHORCE, a band that has traveled a stony yet ascending road ever since. Playing modern, emotional and energy-laden songs, the band has gained an ex... |
Torture Killer | TORTURE KILLER first started out as a fun project during the spring of 2002 when the guys hung out at their rehearsal room drinking beer and playing their favorite SIX FEET UNDER and OBITUARY songs. A... |
Unearth | Hailing from Massachusetts, the virtual metal and hardcore capital of North America, Unearth bring a new sense of talent with charismatic riffs, thought provoking lyrics and pummeling breakdowns. Unea... |
