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PILGRIM – Kick Off Short US Tour Tonight

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Rhode Island’s doom-doers PILGRIM will kick off a short but punishing run of tour dates tonight with Calgary’s metallic sludgesters Mares Of Thrace and Brooklyn metallic hardcore outfit Primitive Weapons. The festivities will commence in Boston and plunder its way through the Northeastern and Midwest US.

Comments PILGRIM guitarist/vocalist The Wizard “Getting back out on the road excites us in ways no voluptuous wench or black grimoire of spells ever could. The time has come to quest the Eastern roads and spread our misery once again, to places familiar and new. Astaroth be praised.”

In addition, PILGRIM will be headlining this year’s edition of The Stoner Hands of Doom Fest, one of the premier annual gatherings for underground heavy/stoner/doom music in North America...

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WINTERFYLLETH – New Album Releasing In September

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Candlelight Records today confirms September 25 as the North American release date for The Threnody of Triumph, the third full-length album from England ’s WINTERFYLLETH. Recorded in Wales with producer Chris Fielding (Primordial, Electric Wizard), the album delivers ten new conceptual compositions from the black metal quartet.

LurkersPath.com already notes, “The Threnody of Triumph takes the blueprint laid down by The Ghost of Heritage and The Mercian Sphere and builds a monument of utter brilliance upon an already superlative foundation. Riffs pummel from all angles. The majestic scale of the thing is so inspiring that a palpable feeling of grandeur becomes the dominant subtext, each section swelling into an impossibly emotive crescendo.”

Vocalist/guitarist C...

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KISS – “Monster” Album Artwork And Track Listing Revealed

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KISS reveals “MONSTER” album cover artwork and track listing! Rock legends KISS return with Monster, the 20th studio album in their historic career, set for release in October through Universal Music Enterprises. The 12-track, straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll album features collaborations among all four members-including co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and longtime members guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer-in an album that shows the band at the top of its game. And that’s saying something, considering their illustrious, 40-plus year history-28 US gold albums, the most gold records for any American rock band, 40 million sales in the US, and a total exceeding 100 million worldwide.

Monster is the group’s first studio album since the band’s 2009 smash success, Son...

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WITCHCRAFT – New Single Streaming Online

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Swedish psychedelic rockers, WITCHCRAFT, have made the first single off the band’s upcoming album, Legend, available for streaming on their official Facebook profile. Surf on over to http://www.facebook.com/witchcraft and check out “It’s Not Because Of You.“

The single will be made available for purchase on August 17 digitally via iTunes (http://www.itunes.com/witchcraft).

Legend will be released September 21 (Europe) and September 25, 2012 (North America) via Nuclear Blast. The follow up to 2007′s The Alchemist was produced by the renowned Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (KREATOR, OPETH, AMON AMARTH, PARADISE LOST, KATATONIA).

Source: Metal Rules

http://www.facebook.com/witchcraft

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PRIMITIVE WEAPONS – US Tour Kicks Off

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Brooklyn metallic hardcore outfit PRIMITIVE WEAPONS are prepared to embark on their next tour in support of their debut LP The Shadow Gallery. The tour kicks off tomorrow evening in Boston and will pillage its way through the Northeastern and Upper Midwest US states for eleven dates. PRIMITIVE WEAPONS will co-headline the trek with Calgary’s metallic sludgesters Mares Of Thrace and Providence’s doom troupe Pilgrim. Following this set of dates PW will branch off for two newly booked shows in Minneapolis and Fargo alongside Gay Witch Abortion, Blackthorne. The band have also been confirmed to support Long Island hardcore heroes Vision Of Disorder at a Brooklyn gig in November, and will continue to announce more live appearances in the coming weeks.

The seven churning, expansive tracks ...

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PRIMATE – Confirm Record Release Show This Week

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Atlanta’s PRIMATE have just confirmed a local release show to unleash the beast to their local hordes. The quintet will antagonize Atlanta’s most raging metallians this Friday, August 3rd at an in-store performance at local indie shop Criminal Records. Doors for this FREE SHOW are at 7pm; Be there, or suffer the consequences… of missing a seriously sick show. The members of PRIMATE will be available to sign records and meet fans following their set. Full info for the event is posted HERE.

Stream Draw Back A Stump in its entirety at PRIMATE’S BANDCAMP PAGE.

PRIMATE’s grind-infused hardcore punk ruckus brings the relentless spirit of the genre’s pioneers like Poison Idea, Doom, Bad Brains, Napalm Death and Discharge into the modern age with super slick and thunderous production and a...

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GOJIRA – Book More Shows

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GOJIRA has booked two more shows in the wake of the recent cancellation of their planned summer tour with Lamb Of God and Dethklok. The band are expected to play a handful of shows around their scheduled appearances at this summers “Heavy T.O.“, “Heavy MTL” and “Knotfest” appearances.

Here’s how the groups immediate schedule currently shapes up:

08/09 New York, NY – Santos Party House
08/11 Toronto, ON – Heavy T.O. Festival
08/12 Montreal, QC – Heavy MTL Festival
08/13 Worcester, MA – The Palladium
08/14 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall Of Williamsburg
08/18 Somerset, WI – Knotfest
08/20 Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s

Source: The PRP

http://www.gojira-music.com/

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MARYLAND DEATHFEST 2013 – More Bands Announced

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Den Headz, eight more bands have been confirmed for MDF XI, which is to take place Memorial Day weekend, May 23-26, 2013. Here are the latest bands confirmed:

REPULSION
PAGAN ALTAR (UK) – Exclusive US show!
BROKEN HOPE
PIG DESTROYER
VINTERLAND (Sweden) – Exclusive US show!
WEEDEATER
GRIDE (Czech Republic)
LOSS

An updated list of confirmed bands up to now can be found below:

!T.O.O.H.! (Czech Republic) – Exclusive US show
AHUMADO GRANUJO (Czech Republic)
ANTAEUS (France) – Exclusive US show
AOSOTH (France) – Exclusive US show
BROKEN HOPE
CARCASS (UK) – Exclusive US show
CONVULSE (Finland) – Exclusive US show
GRIDE (Czech Republic)
INGROWING (Czech Republic)
INTEGRITY
KOMMANDANT
LOSS
MANILLA ROAD
MIDNIGHT
MORGION
PAGAN ALTAR (UK)
PELICAN
PENTAGRAM
PIG DESTROYER
REPULSION
RIGHTEOUS PIGS –...

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CITY OF FIRE – Release New Song Online

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City Of Fire – the Vancouver-based hard rock/metal band featuring Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory and Byron Stroud (ex-Strapping Young Lad, ex-Fear Factory) have released a new track from their forthcoming second album, Trial Through Fire.

The track, titled “Deliver Me,” features a stomping triplet groove and lush, ambient production. It’s the second track to be released from album number two: the band released “Bad Motivator” through Metal Hammer magazine in January. Bell is currently committed to Fear Factory but the album is expected to be released this fall or winter in the U.S. The album was partially funded by a campaign on Pledge Music.

City of Fire traces its roots back to Caustic Thought, an underground thrash band that at one point included Devin Townsend on guitar...

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CASTLE – Signs With PROSTHETIC RECORDS

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Thrash-inspired Doom Metaller’s Castle will release their second album “Blacklands” on September 11th on their new North American label Prosthetic Records. The band commented as follows: “We are proud to announce that Castle’s dark vision has found a home with Prosthetic Records in North America. They are a label that looms large in metal and are as diverse and committed as we are to bringing original great music to legions of metal fans everywhere. With their help we look forward to doing just that with ‘Blacklands’.”

The album artwork was done by Russian symbolist painter Denis Forkas Kostromitin (Horseback, Wrathprayer, Dead Reptile Shrine)...

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