Batillus
stream Tombs' new 'All Empires Fall' EP & read an interview
We spoke to founding member and guitarist/vocalist Mike Hill about adding Fade Kainer of Brooklyn industrial metal band Batillus to the Tombs line-up for this release, working with Sanford Parker, how “All Empires Fall” relates to this year’s US elections and more. Read the interview & stream the band’s new EP.
The Heavy Lowdown: new Lord Mantis music, Misery Index announces new LP, weekend shows +++ more
Full of Hell at Saint Vitus, 2013 (more by Fred Pessaro)
Welcome to this week’s HLD! There’s a shitload of cool live stuff going on this weekend, so let’s get that all out of the way first:
Tonight (2/28): Three good options to choose from…
updated Nothing Changes schedule +++ new videos/streams from Natural Assembly, Batillus, Andy Stott & more
England’s industrial dark wave specialists Natural Assembly released a music video for their new song “When We Two Parted,” and it’s a good’un…
Decibel Magazine's Top 40 Albums of 2013
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…
Batillus made a video "Concrete" (watch it)
Batillus at Public Assembly, April 2013 (more by Lukas Hodge)
Batillus‘s Concrete Sustain was released in March and is still holding up as a solid LP in 2013…
Inter Arma & Earthling announce East Coast dates, add Batillus record release show
Batillus at the InvisibleOranges day party, SXSW 2013 (more by Greg Cristman)
After finishing up a string of Invisible Oranges-sponsored dates with Mutilation Rites (who play with Black Breath this weekend), sludgy-doom crew Inter Arma will head back out on the road for a set of dates with thrashy Richmond crew, Earthling…
Skeletonwitch, Trash Talk, Pallbearer and more played Pitchfork's Show No Mercy SXSW showcase (pics, video)
was one of several Vans shows at Mohawk that week, encompassing two stages of heavy music that ran the gamut from crusty hardcore to thrash to 70s-style hard rock to Pinkish Black‘s unclassifiable oddness (a compliment, if there ever was one)…
Pitchfork SXSW show lineups & set times
Pitchfork will be returning to Austin for a number of SXSW events, including two at Mohawk and two at 1100 Warehouse (1100 E 5th St.).
They’ve got a SXSW Interactive Official Showcase on Tuesday (3/12) at Mohawk at 8 PM with John Talabot, Cloud Nothings, Marnie Stern, Hundred Waters, Torres, and more; and a Show No Mercy metal show on Wednesday (3/13) at Mohawk at noon with Skeletonwitch, Trash Talk, Pallbearer, Royal Thunder, Pinkish Black, and m…
BrooklynVegan free SXSW 2013 Friday day party lineup (Polyphonic Spree, Thermals, Akron/Family, Shout Out Louds, Diamond Rings, TOY, Half Moon Run & more)
As you know, BrooklynVegan is returning to Austin for SXSW this year and throwing four days of day parties at The Main & The Jr aka 603 Red River Street at the corner of 6th aka the old Emo’s location…
Invisible Oranges Presents a SXSW Day Party (at BV venue) w/ Today is the Day, Pallbearer & more PLUS: Heavy Dicks!
Today is the Day at Maryland Deathfest 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
Invisible Oranges, in association with BrooklynVegan and my forthcoming Noisey video show Heavy Dicks, are proud to present the first annual Invisible Oranges day party during SXSW 2013…
