Skeletonwitch

Ohio death/black/thrash partiers Skeletonwitch have been ramping back up for some time after it was announced that much-loved vocalist Chance Garnett was leaving the band, to be replaced by Adam Clemans of the midwestern black-metal outfit Wolvhammer. After unveiling the Clemans-led group on the Decibel tour, and announcing an upcoming headlining tour with Iron Reagan and Oathbreaker, they’ve shared their first collection of recorded music as a new outfit….

HM-2 death metal beasts Gatecreeper (mem. Spirit Adrift) are prepping their new album Sonoran Depravation for an October 7 release on Relapse…

Ohio’s extreme metal group Skeletonwitch are headlining a newly announced fall tour called Curse of the Dead alongside Virginian punk crossover outfit Iron Reagan and Belgian hardcore band Oathbreaker, with All Hell, Gatecreeper and Homewrecker supporting on select dates…

The Decibel Mag tour with former Immortal frontman Abbath‘s new eponymous band, High on Fire, Skeletonwitch (with new singer Adam Clemans of Wolvhammer), and Tribulation hit NYC on Tuesday (4/12) at Webster Hall. We already posted a lengthy review of the San Francisco show…

Originally High on Fire was slotted to headline the tour, which would have been a bit of a coup for the trio: Decibel Tour openers are usually storied (and European) groups that achieved notoriety through word of mouth and rarely play the United States. In this sense Pike’s more other band Sleep would have been the more obvious choice, he’s been burning up asphalt as part of High on Fire long enough to inspire bands like Mastodon, and watch them eclipse his own stature. But seeing the band live, functioning as a flawless tripartite unit, especially when ripping into closer “Snakes for the Divine,” convinced me that this is Pike’s time…

As always, there’s a ton of metal and hardcore stuff happening in the NYC area. Here’s a roundup of some of the latest. As we get ready for the annual giant Decibel tour that this year features Abbath, High On Fire, Tribulation and Skeletonwitch, we recently found out that, following the sad departure of longtime Skeletonwitch frontman Chance Garnette, the new vocalist on this tour and beyond will be Adam Clemans of the great Wolvhammer…

In what is always some of the biggest metal news of the year, the 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour has been announced, and will feature the can’t-miss bill of Abbath, High On Fire, Skeletonwitch and Tribulation…

Ghoul at MDF, 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) Creepsylvanian crazies Ghoul have tacked on a few more shows to their upcoming jaunt with Black Anvil and Skeletonwitch…

We’ve had no lack of posts about Black Anvil‘s new album Hail Death that they’ll be playing in its entirety at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn this Sunday (7/20), and earlier today we did a big KISS roundup that included news related to the Melvins and White Lung…

Boris in New York in 2013 (more by PSquared Photography) Summer in Chicago can be long and exhausting. If, by August, you feel like you can’t take any more suburban kids in neon crop tops crowding into your favorite parks, don’t worry, there’s still antidotal heavy music to be consumed in dark rooms…