It’s that time of the year again! The biggest annual North American metal touring package The Summer Slaughter Tour has began dropping hints at the lineup that is surely beginning to form behind the scenes. Judging by recent posts on The Summer Slaughter Facebook page,, it’s looking like Arch Enemy…
After years of DIY touring and lots of word of mouth, 2014 is a breakout year for Fallujah with a spot on Summer Slaughter and a well-recieved new CD. Guitarist Scott Carstairs hops on Skype to talk about writing, touring, and the band’s success after the jump. Here in the…
Summer Slaughter, the best metal package tour in the US, has finally announced its run of dates! This year’s heavied-up lineup — featuring headliners Morbid Angel and support from Dying Fetus, The Faceless, Thy Art Is Murder, Goatwhore, Origin, Decrepit Birth, Within the Ruins, and Fallujah — will kick off…
Summer Slaughter, for some reason, happens to be one of the most controversial (and successful!) tours that extreme/underground music has to offer. Sure, the trek got its start by being more of a death metal tour than anything else, but recent years have seen prog and metalcore bands joining the…
Boston’s Revocation are one of the finer exports of modern metal according to many a metalhead. Their all-encompassing, jack-of-all-trades approach delivers the goods for fans of almost any extreme subgenre out there, but never feels derivative or uninspired. Personally, I have yet to hear another band combine intensity, intelligence, skill, and emotion…
Thy Art Is Murder might be joining Rings of Saturn in opening Summer Slaughter Tour 2013 after all!
Pictured above: Tommy Rogers of Between the Buried and Me With The Summer Slaughter Tour coming to a close this week, it’s about time we unveiled our photos from the show! Resident photographer Chris Collins attended the July 25th date at the House Of Blues in Dallas, Texas. Unfortunately, Chris’…
Everybody knows that the new The Faceless record is just around the corner, and with the hype building, we finally got some more information about the album. According the Michael Keene, they have been “throwing around the title Autotheism”, he said in an interview with Peek From The Pit. Sounds cool;…
This year’s biggest metal tour now has long-awaited dates. Cannibal Corpse, Between The Buried and Me, The Faceless, Periphery, Veil of Maya, Job For A Cowboy, Goatwhore, Exhumed, and Cerebral Bore will be destroying America come July, with special guests TBA in each city such as The Contortionist, Rings of…