Portal

Impetuous Ritual at Rites of Darkness 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro) Australia’s Portal are one of the more surprising breakout death metal successes of recent years…

Decibel Magazine is back with its annual top 40 albums of the year list. Two of the top three (including the #1 spot) are reunion albums from death metal veterans, though many younger bands place highly as well…

The Body at The Acheron in June (more by Fred Pessaro) It’s Halloween, and there’s no shortage of fun stuff to do. Let’s get to it. Insanely loud sludge creeps The Body are playing Saint Vitus tonight (10/31) with Sandworm and Blackout, and they’ll be screening their spooky new video that came out today, “Shrouded,” at the show…

Incendiary at Knitting Factory, July 2010 (more by Meghan McInnis) Incendiary will open for the 87-demo lineup of Breakdown when the band takes the stages of Public Assembly on December 22…

by Fred Pessaro // BBG One of Europe’s best festivals dedicated to heavy music is taking their show on the road. Behold the Obscene Extreme World Tour:Since its birth in 1999, over 500 bands have played Obscene Extreme festival from almost every corner of the world, bringing with them a horde of diehard extreme music fans from across Europe and beyond to its home base in the Czech Republic…

Rorschach at The Charleston (more by Ryan Muir) While we wait for the Maryland Deathfest lineup to expand, one of those bands have slipped past the goalie…

Monarch @ Death By Audio (more by BBG) If you don’t know (((unartig))), you probably have at least watched one of his great live show videos…

, additional pics Gorguts. Portal. Krallice. Bloody Panda. On one show! Knitting Factory on Wednesday (5/26) was a bit much to comprehend, what with a stellar four band bill like that, and as expected the sold-out Blackened Music/BV show was a jawdropper…

DOWNLOAD: Bloody Panda – “Art Galleries” (MP3) Colin Marston of Gorguts, playing Europa with his other band Krallice (more here) The Gorguts / Krallice / Bloody Panda / Portal extravaganza is WEDNESDAY (5/26) at Knitting Factory…

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