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This Year’s Touring Schedule Gets That Much Better With The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Job For A Cowboy Goatwhore, Volumes, and Last Chance To Reason

Jan.20, 2012

We’re barely a month into the new year and things are already looking like 2012 might just beat out 2011′s glorious year for metal. The Faceless (select dates), Dying Fetus, Job For A Cowboy (select dates) Goatwhore, Volumes, and Last Chance To Reason are touring this March out in the Eastern United States. I can’t speak on the whole lineup and how they deliver live, but you can guarantee that The Faceless and Last Chance To Reason are worth the trip out and the ticket price alone. Everything else is just a bonus.

Here are the dates featuring Dying Fetus as sole headliner, featuring Job For A Cowboy:

2/26 — Keene, NH @ Railroad Tavern
2/28 — Providence, RI @ PVD Social Club
2/29 — Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground
3/2 — Albany, NY @ Bogie’s
3/3 — Buffalo, NY @ Club Infinity

Here are the dates featuring The Faceless as co-headliners:

03/04 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
03/06 Lansing, MI – The Loft
03/07 Toledo, OH – Omni
03/08 Indianapolis, IN – Emerson Theatre
03/09 Peoria, IL – Brass Rail
03/10 Covington, KY – Bangarang’s
03/12 Evansville, IN – Boney June’s
03/13 St. Louis, MO – Fubar
03/14 Fayetteville, AR – The Rogue

Anyone going to make it out to Covington on the 10th? If so, leave a comment so we can meet up!

- JR

Tags: Dying Fetus, Goatwhore, Job For A Cowboy, Last Chance To Reason, The Faceless, Volumes

3 Inches Of Blood Announce New Album, Long Live Heavy Metal

Filed Under: General News, Upcoming releases

Jan.11, 2012

I just love 3 Inches Of Blood. I wouldn’t call myself a fan or anything, but I do get stoked when I hear them because they’re just so over the top that it’s just fucking awesome. Every time I hear ‘Deadly Sinner’, I get too into it and sing along in that Halford-esque high falsetto scream. It’s like Manowar without the overt homoeroticism; I’m talking beers, beards, and heavy metal songs ABOUT heavy metal. That’s something I can get behind.

Maybe there’s a chance they’ll make a full-blown fan of me yet with their new album Long Live Heavy Metal, which is due out March 27th on Century Media Records. Here’s what the fittingly named Cam Pipes had to say about the new record:

“When a band is releasing a new record, they often speak about it being their most important work or best album to date. Regardless of how clichéd either statement may sound, I think we would say both apply to this album. All of us have a special feeling about this one. We’re more committed than ever to the cause of real, honest, no bullshit heavy metal. No trends, no fucking around!”

Starting in late March, 3IOB will be embarking on The Metal Alliance Tour alongside Devildriver, The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Job For A Cowboy, Impending Doom, and Wretched. Dates for that can be found after the jump.

- JR

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Tags: 3 Inches Of Blood, Century Media Records, DevilDriver, Dying Fetus, Impending Doom, Job For A Cowboy, Long Live Heavy Metal, Manowar, The Faceless, Wretched

2012′s Metal Alliance Tour: Pretty Neat

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

Dec.19, 2011

I realize we’re about a week late on covering this tour announcement, but we’re (or at least I’m) getting a bit lazy this month. With a year’s worth of an average of 26 or so posts a week, cut us some slack!

Next year’s rendition of The Metal Alliance Tour is shaping up to be pretty cool, featuring the likes of DevilDriver, The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Job For A Cowboy, 3 Inches Of Blood, Impending Doom, and Wretched. I’ve seen The Faceless, JFAC, and 3IOB live before, and they all deliver. Can’t speak for the rest of the lineup, but I couldn’t imagine they’d be anything less than decent. The tour kicks off in March and makes a pretty decent run, so hopefully everyone who wants to catch this show has an opportunity.

Here are the dates:

03/15 Austin, TX – SXSW / Scoot Inn
03/16 New Orleans, LA – The Hangar
03/17 St Petersburg, FL – State Theater
03/18 Charlotte, NC – Amos’ Southend
03/20 Baltimore, MD – Sonar
03/21 New York, NY – Gramercy Theater
03/22 Danvers, MA – Palace Ballroom
03/23 Montreal, QC – Club Soda
03/24 Toronto, ON – Opera House
03/25 Columbus, OH – Alrosa Villa
03/26 Joliet, IL – Mojoe’s
03/27 St Paul, MN – Station-4
03/28 Winnipeg, MB – Garrick Centre
03/29 Regina, SK – Riddell Centre
03/30 Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Events Centre
03/31 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
04/01 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
04/03 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
04/05 Oakland, CA – The Pound
04/06 Pomona, CA – Fox Theater
04/07 Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theater
04/09 Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall
04/10 Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
04/11 Des Moines, IA – 7 Flags Event Center
04/13 Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theater
04/15 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
04/16 Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
04/19 Dallas, TX – House Of Blues
04/20 Austin, TX – Emo’s East
04/21 Houston, TX – House Of Blues

- JR

Tags: 3 Inches Of Blood, DevilDriver, Dying Fetus, Impending Doom, Job For A Cowboy, The Faceless, Wretched

Dying Fetus – History Repeats

Filed Under: Reviews

Jul.15, 2011

Dying Fetus

History Repeats

01. Fade Into Obscurity (Dehumanized cover)
02. Unchallenged Hate (Napalm Death cover)
03. Gorehog (Broken Hope cover)
04. Rohypnol
05. Unleashed Upon Mankind (Bolt Thrower cover)
06. Twisted Truth (Pestilence cover)
07. Born In A Casket (Cannibal Corpse cover)

[07/19/11]
[Relapse Records]

John Gallagher is basically a manifestation of death metal itself. Take a look at his credentials. The man has been the only founding member of Dying Fetus to stay with the band since it’s formation in 1991. He worked hard to get his group noticed, touring while they were unsigned, and because of this, they developed at devout cult following. Since signing with Relapse Records in 2000, he has released four albums. Through the bands 20 year existence, the band has gone through numerous musicians (14, to be precise). However, the band has had a stable line-up since 2007, with Sean Baisley, who has been a member for 10 years as bassist/backup vocalist, and Trey Williams, who has been their drummer since 2007, and has recorded and toured as a trio ever since. Yeah, his credentials are awesome. So when word leaked that he would release a cover EP in celebration of the bands 20 year anniversary and their upcoming stint on the Summer Slaughter tour, I immediately became interested. One of the most influential bands covering songs that influences him and his bandmates is an awesome thing that more bands should do, in my opinion.

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Tags: Bolt Thrower, Broken Hope, Cannibal Corpse, Dehumanized, Dying Fetus, John Gallagher, napalm death, Pestilence

Cerebral Bore – Maniacal Miscreation

Filed Under: Reviews

Jul.06, 2011

Cerebral Bore

Maniacal Miscreation

01. Epileptic Strobe Entrapment
02. The Bald Cadaver
03. Open Casket Priapism
04. Entombed In Butchered Bodies
05. Mangled Post Burial
06. Flesh Reflects The Madness
07. Maniacal Miscreation
08. 24 Year Party Dungeon

[06/07/11]
[Earache Records]

To even mention the gender of Cerebral Bore vocalist Simone Pluijmers is a little redundant. From the opening moments of ‘Epileptic Strobe Entrapment‘ you’re greeted by a full and throaty death growl that you’d be familiar with if you’ve listened to any brutal death metal album ever. I’m amazed that even now in 2011, people can still be surprised by the gender/ethnicity of a vocalist because as far as I was aware, it’s not a case of they can’t but more a case of they just don’t. There aren’t many women in metal – fact – but the few that are scattered about in Arch Enemy, Gallhammer, Fuck The Facts etc. all show that the fairer sex can easily hold their own.

With that elephant in the room handled we can finally get down to discussing the music. Maniacal Miscreation is the debut album from Scottish death metallers Cerebral Bore, recently picked up and reissued by none other than Earache records. It’s nice to see that Earache still has its ear to ground about great traditional acts but it means nothing if the band can’t deliver. Thankfully Cerebral Bore have delivered one of the most promising debut extreme albums I’ve heard in quite a while.

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Tags: 24 Year Party Dungeon, Arch Enemy, Cerebral Bore, Devourment, Dying Fetus, Fuck the Facts, Gallhammer, Maniacal Miscreation, The Bald Cadaver

New Cerebral Bore Video Is A Maniacal Miscreation…

Filed Under: Upcoming releases, Video

Apr.18, 2011

However, the song is pretty damn good.

My vocabulary fails me so I’ll just stick with brutal. Sounds like Dying Fetus if they still had a lot of the venom displayed on earlier releases and for those of you who couldn’t be bothered to watch the video I’ll give you a quick run down:

Man who looks like an ex-member of Combichrist finds tar monster
Man becomes tar monster
Brief cameos of Susan Boyle and Bill Oddie…

Not the worst video I’ve seen all year but it’s getting there, at least it puts a new spin on the ‘playing-in-a-warehouse’ music video by playing OUTSIDE a warehouse. Either way, they’ve recently signed to Earache Records who have released the album digitally and in Europe but the North American release won’t arrive until the 7th of June.

- DL

Tags: Cerebral Bore, Combichrist, Dying Fetus, Maniacal Miscreation

Summer Slaughter 2011: Swing and a Miss!?

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

Apr.01, 2011

Well, compared to last year’s excellent lineup, this one’s a step down. I was expecting more of a Sumerian Records influence, as they’re normally involved the most, and with The Faceless, TRAM/Animals as Leaders (presumably) having albums coming out with Born of Osiris coming off a critically acclaimed album, I was totally expecting this to be dominated by Sumerian Records. Not a single band from their roster on this year!

No doubt, Powerglove and Fleshgod Apocalypse will provide an excellent time, bit the rest is quite lacking. Oceano? As Blood Runs Black? Six Feet Under? Avoiding like the plague. I honestly have no opinion on Dying Fetus and Whitechapel are completely unoffensive to me, but I’m sure Darkest Hour and The Black Dahlia Murder no doubt putting on relatively good shows, but this is just lacking the huge power that last year’s tour had.

As of this post, they’ve yet to reveal tour dates. We’ll be sure to let you know when the word is dropped!

- JR

Tags: Animals As Leaders, As Blood Runs Black, Born of Osiris, Dying Fetus, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Oceano, Powerglove, Six Feet Under, The Faceless, TRAM

The Anachronist Teaser Via Tre Watson

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases

Mar.11, 2011

This one is kind of special. This is my project that I’ve been working on for years, and I’ve finally got a chance to record it and make it real thanks to my good friend Tre Watson, who is producing for me. I would call the genre progressive/technical death metal, but if you want to be particular, there are other influences too. Mainly Nile, Psycroptic, Gorod, and Dying Fetus, but all of them with a more progressive and melodic/epic flair. There are evil death metal riffs, sometimes using 8 strings guitars, orchestral sections, clean vocals, you name it. Hopefully it will be amazing.

I’m working on the debut release, called Desiccation. No release date yet. All songs are written and performed by me, except for a few parts, and Tre Watson does quite a bit of guest solo work.

Here’s a tentative tracklist

Desiccation

01. Tomb of Time
02. Eternal Sands
03. Ynareth the Destroyer
04. Nomad
05. Wormhole Oasis
06. The Shadow Magistrate
07. Casualties of Domination
08. Conquering Worlds

Check out the facebook page of the project to listen to “Eternal Sands” and another video, and more songs will come in the near future!

-N

Tags: Dying Fetus, gorod, nile, Psycroptic, The Anachronist, Tre Watson

So The New Six Feet Under Album Might Actually Be Good?!

Filed Under: Editorials, Upcoming releases

Mar.02, 2011

I’m sure many of you have already heard about this on the one and only MetalSucks, but if you haven’t, check this out; the mighty Six Feet Under—the perennially embarrassing yet mildly entertaining death metal group that features ex-Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes—have just upped their stock considerably by making some great offseason moves, so to speak. Since they lost half of their lineup when bassist Terry Butler and drummer Greg Gall departed last month, they have recovered fabulously by adding Kevin Talley as their new drummer (currently of Daath, ex-Chimaira, ex-Dying Fetus, ex-like 200 other bands) and adding Chimaira’s Rob Arnold on guitar. They are currently writing songs for a new album, which will hopefully be out later this year.

Now, I am not much of a Six Feet Under fan at all. My friend and I used to blast them once in awhile back in college, but it was mostly just to have a laugh, not because we were especially digging the music. And I’m sorry to say that we were often laughing at them, not with them. They eventually grew on me a bit, and I enjoy some of their tunes although they are incredibly simple and sometimes quite laughable. However, they haven’t put out a good album in years and I’ve long stopped paying attention to them—until now…

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Tags: Cannibal Corpse, Chimaira, Daath, Dying Fetus, Six Feet Under

Abysmal Dawn – Leveling The Plane of Existence

Filed Under: Reviews

Feb.04, 2011

Abysmal Dawn

Leveling The Plane Of Existence

01. The Age of Ruin
02. Pixilated Ignorance
03. In Service of Time
04. Rapture Renowned
05. Our Primitive Nature
06. Perpetual Dormancy
07. Leveling the Plane of Existence
08. Manufactured Humanity
09. My Own Savior
10. The Sleeper Awakens

[02/01/11]
[Relapse Records]

I’m rather confident that most bands don’t form to create ground-breaking music, or invent the next big genre. No, some bands have formed together to just have a shitload of fun, play shows, and maybe make a few bucks while doing so. While there is nothing wrong with that (hell, I’m in a few bands just to occupy myself cause there is NOTHING to do in KY), it generally leads to albums of less quality. And here’s where Abysmal Dawn come in.

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Tags: Abysmal Dawn, Dying Fetus