Florida death metal veterans, Cannibal Corpse, are getting ready to drop their new album Evisceration Plague, which will no doubt feature an abundance of technically complex riffs and beats, inhumanly growled vocals and lyrics that make Clive Barker look like children's book author Eric Carle.
The record comes out February 3 and features track titles like "Skewered From Ear to Eye," "Beheading and Burning," "Shatter Their Bones" and "Carrion Sculpted Entity." We don't have any new music to offer you quite yet, but our friends at Revolver have posted a preview of the bonus documentary DVD that will come with the CD. Click "more" to watch. Read more...
For the rest of the month, Baltimore, Maryland death metal/grindcore pugilists Misery Index will be wrapping up their North American tour with Black Dahlia Murder and Soilent Green, then they'll head over to Europe for a tour with Hate Eternal, Aeon and See You Next Tuesday which launches January 9 in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Before they head off, we'd like to toast their continued success by premiering their new video for "Traitors." The clip was directed by Dave Brodsky of MyGoodEye in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and rips like a pantleg snagged on a rusty nail. Forgive our crappy simile and click "more" to watch the vid and read the band's comments. Read more...
When he's not touring or recording with Monstrosity or Vile, vocalist Mike Hrubovcac is creating ghoulish and ghastly art work for with his company Visual Darkness and sending some of it our way for "Nightmare Visions."
This week, he emailed us some nauseating cover art he designed for Cerebral Incubation. Click "more" to view the art and read what was going on in Hrubovcac's demented mind. Read more...
In these ever-changing times, it's nice to know there are still some constants in the world. Sunday afternoon will always be reserved for football and beer, cops will always let cute girls off for speeding tickets and Six Feet Under will always deliver solid grunt-n-grumble death metal.
The band just released its eighth studio album of originals (SFU also have two cover albums), Death Rituals, which contains 12 new songs, including "Seed of Filth," the video for which we premiered yesterday. The album features the same lineup Six Feet Under have had since 1999 -- Barnes, guitarist Steve Swanson, bassist Terry Butler and drummer Greg Gall. The bulk of production was handled by Chris Carroll and drums were recorded by metal veteran bill Metoyer, who recorded the band's 1997 record Warpath. Death Rituals was mixed by Toby Wright, who has worked with everyone from Alice in Chains to Slayer.
We recently phoned up Barnes to talk to him about the title of the album, death as creative subject matter, his approach to songwriting, his interest in touring with Cannibal Corpse and the strength of the current death metal scene. Click "more" to stream or download the podcast. Read more...
Nine days ago, Poland death/black metal band, Behemoth, released the EP Ezkaton, which contains the ripping new studio track "Quadosh," covers of The Ramones' "I'm Not Jesus" and Master Hammer's "Jama Pekel," and three live songs. Check it out for sure, but first check out frontman Nergal's guest blog about music videos, Behemoth's victory at a Polish video festival and the force that kept them from winning the grand prize:
Yesterday, I was asked by some local journalist if there’s any sense in producing music videos nowadays. I said yes. I truly think there still is a massive demand within the metal genre, and especially within the extreme metal genre where theatricals play such a huge role in the whole concept. Read more...
On Halloween, Tampa death metal veterans Six Feet Under weren't wearing black ski masks and smashing windows of all the old folks in their neighborhood. They were onstage tearing through old favorites and treating fans to some songs from their new album Death Rituals. During the show, they shot a new video for the song "Seed of Filth."
"This is one of our favorite songs from the album, one we' are just really stoked on," says frontman Chris Barnes. "Once again, we worked with director Mario D. Framingheddu, who has directed our videos for 'Ghosts of the Undead' and 'Doomsday.' We're really proud of this video and how it came out."
Click "more" to watch "Seed of Filth." And come back tomorrow to check out our podcast interview with Barnes. Read more...
The sparks fly on Abysmal Dawn's new video for "Programmed to Consume" -- literally.
There's a construction worker in the background of a warehouse set sliding a whirring buzzsaw up and down a steel beam while the band delivers a sturdy barrage of death metal, frontman Charles Elliott scowling and screaming his way to oblivion. There are electric eyes, whose irises open and shut menacingly, displaying the Abysmal ones on TV monitors.
Then there's that drain pipe dripping, then spewing black fluid onto the ground. Maybe that's why the guys look so pissed. These days plumbers charge $100 just to step in the door before they even flash their ludicrous repair estimates before your face. And since you're already $100 in the hole, nine times out of ten you'll give them the job rather fork out another estimate payment to another plumber.
A word of advice to the steelworker: If you keep sawing at that beam, all the teeth on the saw are gonna fly off and you'll have a harder time intimidating the plumber into lowering his fee.
To be honest, we're not completely sure what director Gary Smithson (High on Fire, Goatwhore) was after with all the imagery -- probably something about the oppressiveness of Big Brother and greedy plumbers. Click "more" to read Elliott's play-by-play comments about the shoot, then watch the video, which will debut on-air on Saturday's "Headbangers Ball," which runs from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. on MTV2. Read more...
Impaled prepare for a night of trick or beating
To celebrate all things ghastly and ghoulish, we present Impaled's latest video for "G.O.R.E." The song comes from their 2007 album The Last Gasp. The Oakland, California band launches a tour of Canada on November 4 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Click "M.O.R.E." for "G.O.R.E." Read more...
The new album by Bleeding Through, Declaration, is an explosive blend of fiery black metal, inflammatory hardcore, and combustible thrash, so naturally, the first video for the record, "Death Anxiety," had to be filled with flames. To tackle the job, the band hired Dave Brodsky and he was more than up to the task. Here's singer Brandan Schieppati to tell us more:
The first line in 'Death Anxiety' says, "My body will be set aflame tonight." We knew we wanted something straightforward with this video, performance driven and without some storyline or whatever. We didn't want to be playing in a warehouse while some actors do something "spooky" somewhere else. With that being said, that first line in the song was too hard to resist. This video had to have fire! (Click more to read the rest of Schieppati's commentary and watch the video. "Death Anxiety" will debut on-air tonight at 10 p.m. on MTV2 as part of our 20th anniversary celebration of "Headbangers Ball.") Read more...
Visual Darkness dungeon keeper Mike Hrubovcak rocking with Vile
When denizen of the Underworld, Mike Hrubovcak, isn't fronting death metal bands Monstrosity or Vile, he's hunched over a Mac in his darkened cave creating ghastly heavy metal art to sicken the world. Recently, he's been spending a fair amount of time creating t-shirts, prints and posters of his designs to sell via his online store. But he's still found time to create some new illustrations for various groups. Click "more" to see the art work he's recently done for the new album by Rumpelstiltskin Grinder and to hear his thoughts on the images. Read more...
