Batillus

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.

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Yob at Saint Vitus (more by Caroline Harrison) After a raucous first night with Yob at Saint Vitus (2/10), the party continued Monday (2/11) with opening appearances from Batillus and Sea of Bones...

Yob played their first of two NYC shows last night at a sold-out Saint Vitus (2/10), snagging support from Hull and Bezoar. The show is part of a BV/Invisible Oranges-sponsored short run of dates for the Portland crew, who play again at Saint Vitus tonight (2/11) with Batillus and Sea of Bones...