Battlefields

As discussed in our recent interview/MP3 debut with the band, Battlefields have gone in new and impressive directions with Agassiz. The new EP (out now on INIT Records) finds the band scaling down their sludge-epics into more bite-size chunks, and the results are rewarding...

Battlefields at Union Pool (more by Brian Reilly) Let's be honest, Battlefields have never been one to keep it short and sweet. Over the course of their recording output, the Minnesota band always crafted longer, Yes-style sludge-epics with multiple movements...

, BBG East of The Wall, in full on crushing mode (by Samantha Marble) East of The Wall and Goes Cube are finally home. The pair hit the road for SXSW shortly after their 3/5 show at Union Pool and have been skipping around the US ever since, with Goes Cube tagging The End's official showcase on 3/18 and East of The Wall playing a succession of shows including Goodbye South By at Red 7 on 3/21 (pics of both below)...

Tombs at Cake Shop (more by Samantha Marble) As previously discussed, Tombs will do battle with Rosetta, Irepress, and Junius at the Studio @ Webster Hall today (Saturday, 12/12, tix here), but that isn't the only show scheduled for the Brooklyn killers/year-end list toppers...

Battlefields' Rusty, belching forth the unholiest of bellows To quote my Aunt from Pennsylvania, I was in "a pickle". French Swans-y post-metallers Overmars were touring the US for the first time ever with another favorite of mine, the criminally underrated North Dakota (...

DOWNLOAD: Saviours - "Acid Hand" (MP3) Battlefields are hitting the road (again) this time with Overmars and TWO dates in NYC. Europa gets the bands on August 16th and The Charleston gets them on Septemeber 3rd...

DOWNLOAD: Harpoon - "Frogs, Boils, Locusts..." (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Complete Failure - "Like Rainbows in Gasoline" Demo (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Complete Failure - "Brown Acid Brainwound" Demo (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Complete Failure - "Subliminal Force of Suggestive Notion" Demo (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Super Happy Fun Slide - "Fast One" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Super Happy Fun Slide - "Bohemian" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Elder - "White Walls" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Serpentcult - "The Weight Of Light" (MP3) Welcome to this week in Metal...

DOWNLOAD: Khanate - "Wings From Spine" (MP3 Excerpt) DOWNLOAD: Grey Machine - Vultures Descend (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Outlaw Order - Siege Mentality (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Millions - "Lest the Professor Catches Fire"(MP3) DOWNLOAD: Orphan - "Bogman"(MP3) Hmm...

DOWNLOAD: Bloodbath - "Slaughter The Will To Live" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Samothrace - "Slaughter The Will To Live" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: North - "Eidolon" (MP3) Attila Csihar of Mayhem, The Winterdemon (metalnorge) Highly influential black metallers Mayhem have announced that they will tour the US in spring of 2009...

DOWNLOAD: The Sword - "Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Soilent Green - "Antioxidant" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Iron Maiden - "Intro", "Aces High", & "Two Minutes To Midnight", Live in Tokyo Feb 16th, 2008 (VIDEO, WMV) Neurot Recordings have announced details for THREE Neurosis-related releases in the next two months...