The mighty Iron Reagan have returned with another adrenaline-pumping album, Crossover Ministry (Relapse). From start to finish, this record is sure to keep your heart rate up and keep your attention. Continue reading
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Caricature Drops Music Video – Man Of Science, Unborn EP Out Now
Progressive Metallers Carciature have released the first music video from their brand new EP Unborn, released on December 9th. You can watch the video for ‘Man Of Science’ below:Continue reading
Caricature – Unborn
Progressive metal band Caricature are back with yet another release, this time the surprising Unborn EP. It’s tough to qualify anything surprising from this outfit and its leader Joseph Spiller, since their last release Stampede was a one track EP that was a 27 minute long song about Spiller’s cat, Parmesan. That track is epic in length and also musically, and so it begs the question: where do you go from there? Well obviously if you are Caricature you go right back to work write some of the best songs in your career.Continue reading
Video: Revocation Releases The Blackest Reaches Lyric Video
Revocation has released a lyric video for their song ‘The Blackest Reaches’. You can see the video at this link or below:
‘The Blackest Reaches’ comes off of 2014s Deathless (Relapse). Revocation is hitting the road with Cannabis Corpse, Archspire, and Black Fast.
Revocation tour dates with Cannabis Corpse, Archspire, and Black Fast:
Aug 07: Heavy Montreal – Montreal, QC
Revocation with Cannabis Corpse, Archspire, and Black Fast
Sept 03: Dusk – Providence, RI*
Sept 04: Studio @ Webster Hall – New York, NY
Sept 05: Chameleon Club – Lancaster, PA
Sept 06: Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
Sept 08: Now That’s Class – Cleveland, OH
Sept 09: Reggie’s – Chicago, IL
Sept 10: Ace Of Cups – Columbus, OH
Sept 11: Full Terror Assault Fest – Cave in Rock, IL**
Sept 12: Rail Club – Ft Worth, TX
Sept 13: Walter’s On Washington – Houston, TX
Sept 14: Dirty Dog – Austin, TX
Sept 16: Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
Sept 17: Club Red – Phoenix, AZ
Sept 18: Mystery Box – Los Angeles, CA
Sept 19: Oakland Metro – Oakland, CA
Sept 20: Analog Cafe – Portland, OR
Sept 21: Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
Sept 22: Red Room – Vancouver, BC
Sept 24: Starlite – Edmonton, CAN
Sept 25: Riddell Center – Regina, SK
Sept 26: Windsor Hotel – Winnipeg, MB
Sept 27: Skyway Theater Studio B – Minneapolis, MN
Sept 29: Shelter – Detroit, MI
Sept 30: Hard Luck – Toronto, ON***
Oct 01: Maverick’s – Ottawa, ON***
Oct 02: La Source – Quebec City, QC***
Oct 03: Great Scott – Boston, MA***
* = Revocation Only
**= Revocation & Cannabis Corpse Only
***= No Cannabis Corpse
Revocation Books Headline Tour, Names New Drummer
Revocation has announced they will be hitting the road this fall for a headline tour. Playing 26 shows in 30 days, support will come from Cannabis Corpse, Archspire and Black Fast. Starting in Rhode Island and ending with a home town show in Boston at Great Scott on October 3rd, this is the first headline tour for the band since the release of Deathless (Metal Blade) in 2014. The band is also appearing at next month’s Heavy Montreal Festival on August 7th and will also appear at September’s Full Terror Assault Festival.
Ash Pearson (3 Inches of Blood) has also been named as the bands new drummer, following the departure of founding member Phil DuBois.
Pearson commented on joining Revocation:
“I am very honoured to be joining Revocation. Phil is a good friend of mine and I feel privileged to have his blessing and to be his successor. I take seriously the challenge to keep the caliber of this band high and look forward to continuing the legacy of Revocation.
Revocation tour dates:
Aug 07: Heavy Montreal – Montreal, QC
Revocation with Cannabis Corpse, Archspire, and Black Fast
Sept 03: Dusk – Providence, RI*
Sept 04: Studio @ Webster Hall – New York, NY
Sept 05: Chameleon Club – Lancaster, PA
Sept 06: Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
Sept 08: Now That’s Class – Cleveland, OH
Sept 09: Reggie’s – Chicago, IL
Sept 10: Ace Of Cups – Columbus, OH
Sept 11: Full Terror Assault Fest – Cave in Rock, IL**
Sept 12: Rail Club – Ft Worth, TX
Sept 13: Walter’s On Washington – Houston, TX
Sept 14: Dirty Dog – Austin, TX
Sept 16: Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
Sept 17: Club Red – Phoenix, AZ
Sept 18: Mystery Box – Los Angeles, CA
Sept 19: Oakland Metro – Oakland, CA
Sept 20: Analog Cafe – Portland, OR
Sept 21: Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
Sept 22: Red Room – Vancouver, BC
Sept 24: Starlite – Edmonton, CAN
Sept 25: Riddell Center – Regina, SK
Sept 26: Windsor Hotel – Winnipeg, MB
Sept 27: Skyway Theater Studio B – Minneapolis, MN
Sept 29: Shelter – Detroit, MI
Sept 30: Hard Luck – Toronto, ON***
Oct 01: Maverick’s – Ottawa, ON***
Oct 02: La Source – Quebec City, QC***
Oct 03: Great Scott – Boston, MA***
* = Revocation Only
**= Revocation & Cannabis Corpse Only
***= No Cannabis Corpse
Six Feet Under – Crypt Of The Devil
In the twenty years since Chris Barnes first brought his Six Feet Under project to zombiefied life with the cult classic Haunted (all 6FU releases are Metal Blade) he has seen opinion of his outfit swing from much anticipated to laughing stock with the release of their Graveyard Classics series (particularly Part 2) before clawing back credibility with some decent, if unspectacular Death Metal fare, culminating in the stronger Unborn in 2013.
Since then, though, in true Six Feet Under style, line ups have altered nearly as often as Mr. Barnes has skinned up (well, probably not…), and considering his views on hailing the leaf, it is perhaps not unsurprising that his backing band for studio album number eleven (!) Crypt Of The Devil is comprised of Cannabis Corpse, with guitarist Phil Hall working closely with Barnes on the compositions, and the rest of the band laying down the rhythm tracks.
However, any thoughts that (another) new line up and writing team would be injecting anti-coagulants into the bloodstream of the lumbering cadaver that is 6FU and producing a thinner, quicker, revitalized sanguinity are churlish as it is rather the case of meet the new blood, same as the old blood, as Crypt Of The Devil churns out more serial killer rhetoric over chugging churning Death Metal.
What you get is a set of very listenable, very competent and very safe Death Metal tracks. You’ll nod along, there will be bits that will snap, and some that will bite, but in the main this is a very unobtrusive and, with the exception of ‘Broken Bottle Rape’ (are we really doing this still? Fuck sake, man), inoffensive album. ‘Open Coffin Orgy’, in particular, is catchy and ‘Gruesome’ kicks things off with twisted intent, but beyond that, the rest of the album is comprised of stock chugging and predictable tracks that merge together.
It may come as very little surprise to learn that, while nothing is particularly wrong with Crypt of the Devil, it won’t change your life, nor demand your attention enough to justify picking it up.
6.0/10
STEVE TOVEY
Six Feet Under Releasing Crypt Of The Devil On May 5th
Six Feet Under is streaming “Gruesome,” off of their upcoming full length album Crypt Of The Devil, out May 5, 2015 via Metal Blade Records here.
The new record was recorded at Phil “Landphil” Hall‘s studio in Virginia. Hall tracked rhythm and bass guitar, while his brother, Josh, tracked drums, and guitarist Brandon Ellis tracked the majority of the album’s leads. Barnes took to London Bridge Studio (Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains etc.) in his new homebase in Seattle, WA to track vocals and in fact holed himself up in the very same booth where Layne Staley captured his words. Mixing was completed by Rob Caldwell (Cannabis Corpse, Iron Reagan etc.) in Sarasota, FL and mastering was handled by Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Revocation, Torche, Skeletonwitch etc.) at West West Side in New Windsor, NY.
Stream “Stab” below.