For the true believers among us, there's a big, gnarly NYC metal show coming up with venerable local black metal crew Profanatica (they've been around since the early 90s), absolutely punishing Philly death metal outfit Pissgrave, and local doom/death crushers Luminous Vault...
If you're sick of seeing the same names atop every publication's year-end list, you can always count on The Quietus to deliver something almost completely different...
Dead Congregation at Martyrdoom, 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)
Filthy old-school death metallers Dead Congregation will be heading to the US come October...
New Zealand's blackened death bruisers Diocletian will be touring around their appearance at Maryland Death Fest, hitting NYC on on May 28 at the Paper Box with Goat Torment, Kommandant, Manticore, a yet-to-be-revealed special guest and more...