If there was a ever a tour destined to follow quickly in Taake and King Dude's footsteps this year, it was the Watain / Destroyer 666 trek that recently started making its way across North America...
Swedish black metal greats Watain will release their sixth album, Trident Wolf Eclipse, on January 5 via Century Media, their followup to 2013's The Wild Hunt. The lead single is the creepy, ripping "Nuclear Alchemy," and you can watch the video...
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Australian/European thrash crew Destroyer 666 are heading over to North America for some dates this spring. In addition to playing Maryland Deathfest, they'll be in NYC for a show...
Maryland Deathfest 2016 already announced two rounds of bands, and today they added a bunch more. Additions include Testament, Discharge, Repulsion, Paradise Lost, Ringworm, Severed Head of State (who also play NYC soon), Buzzov'en, World Burns to Death, Tragedy, Satan, DOOM, Crypt Sermon, Claudio Simonetti's Goblin, Horrendous, Infest, Nuclear Assault (who are supposedly breaking up soon), Weedeater...
Annual metalhead destination Maryland Deathfest announced its initial 2016 lineup last week, and today the festival revealed its second round of ba...
The 2015 Maryland Deathfest is behind us (read our review), and now the initial lineup for 2016 is already announced. Next year happens from May 26-29 in the usual locations of Edison Lot, Rams Head Live, and Baltimore Soundstage, and so far the lineup looks like this: There's Venom (whose only US show of 2015 is FFF Fest) and the back-in-action Bongzilla, plus Samael (performing Ceremony of Opposites), Exciter, Sinister, Hail of Bullets, The Haunted, Destroyer 666, Wormed, Gruesome, Jungle Ro...
Behemoth at Irving Plaza, 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)
Behemoth frontman Nergal is kind of a badass -- he's an extremely gifted musician and a live-performance powerhouse who's played an important role in putting the potent Polish metal scene on the international map over the past 20 years...
New Pornographer... thats kinda metal right? Destroyer vs Destroyer 666
With New Pornographer Dan Bejar's ninth Destroyer LP Kaputt due at the end of this month, he has announced a show at Webster Hall on April 3rd as part of what looks like a North American tour with The War on Drugs...
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