Looking back at some of my reviews of 2008 I can’t help but express how much I hate doing reviews sometimes. Sometimes you get excited for a newly released cd and love it for the first couple listens. Some are great cds with good sound but then later on you read what others stated in their reviews and second guess your own opinion. Some are great at the first listen but don’t hold a lasting effect that a good cd needs in order to make it a truly good release. Some take some time to sink in before you …read more

THE FUNERAL PYRE prepares for November tour, more releases

Southern California’s THE FUNERAL PYRE have posted an in-depth update at the band’s official blog (http://thefuneralpyre666.blogspot.com/), which includes touring plans for November with fellow Californians EARLY GRAVES on the Manifest Blasphemy Tour, as well as two new recordings of material to supplement the recent release of ‘Wounds,’ the band’s latest full-length album, which saw a late May release through Prosthetic Records. For details on the band’s upcoming recording plans, visit THE FUNERAL PYRE’s blog (http://thefuneralpyre666.blogspot.com/). Meanwhile, the tentative routing for the upcomingWest Coast tour is as follows. Anyone that can assist in …read more

From Prosthetic Press:

Southern California’s ANTAGONIST has posted “Bomb Shelter,” a new track from the band’s forthcoming record, ‘Exist,’ online at the band’s official MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/antagonist). Slated for a Sept. 30 release through Prosthetic Records, ‘Exist’ is the band’s fourth full-length among a swath collection of EPs and demos over the course of the band’s 10 year history. Pre-orders, featuring two exclusive t-shirt artwork packages, are now available here (http://www.prostheticrecords.com/antagonistsplash.html).

 
ANTAGONIST, THE FUNERAL PYRE to depart for tour in July with Sea of Treachery
Fresh upon returning from a three week tour in support of the release of the band’s new album, ‘Wounds,’ Los Angeles’ THE FUNERAL PYRE will again head out on the road in July with labelmates, and fellow Southern Californians, ANTAGONIST for a two and-a-half week tour across the Southwest and West Coast. THE FUNERAL PYRE will continue to support their May 27 release of ‘Wounds,’ while ANTAGONIST will be on tour in anticipation of the band’s Prosthetic Records debut, ‘Exist,’ due for a fall release …read more

Here is just a quick update ona  few new releases from yesterday. If I missed something or there is something significant to you that I missed that came out yesterday let me know in the comments section and I’ll update this and credit you on it. Thanks.
Kataklysm – Prevail on Nuclear Blast Records
The Funeral Pyre – Wounds on Prosthetic Records
Tiamat – Amenethes on Nuclear Blast Records
Blood Stands Still – Salvation Through Struggle on Century Media
The Best Of Strapping Young Lad ‘94-’06 – CD/DVD on Century Media
Hatchet – Awaiting Evil on Metalblade Records
Shai Hulud – Misanthropy Pure on Metalblade Records

Here are a few more free downloads for this Friday. Usually I try to get them up earlier but I didn’t get to until now. As the norm goes, right click and save as. Enjoy!
Graveworm – Fragile Side from Nuclear Blast records
Suffocation – Synthetically Revived from Relapse Records
The Funeral Pyre – Plague That Leads To Extinction From Prosthetic Records
Ultralord – Growing Under The Gallows from Dark Reign Records
Aborted – The Saw And The Damage Done from Century Media from the upcoming recording Goremageddon
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The Funeral Pyre’s ‘Wounds’ will be released on May 27th. Southern California’s The Funeral Pyre have put together a complex yet simple audio assault of melodic death/black metal sound with ‘Wounds’, the follow up to The Nature Of Betrayal. With a furious mix of guitars and heavy bass drums it has a sound that I would compare to Dissection and vocals similar to the Skeletonwitch’s Chance Garnett’s higher toned vocals or Abbath from Immortal. I said similar not ‘like’ or ‘just like’.
For ‘Wounds‘, the band has put the keyboards of the former years behind them and went with …read more

The third full length offering from Los Angeles’ THE FUNERAL PYRE is their most ambitious to date. Bringing to mind the sounds of Dissection, Dawn and earlier At The Gates, this is a blackened death metal record that is as vicious as it is melodic.
You can preorder the shirt and cd for only $15! Click the link below!
Funeral Pyre CD Preorder
Image Used with permission from Prosthetic Records

 
The Funeral Pyre, a band on the Creator-Destructor Label has posted a new song titled Black Earth. You can check it out here The Funeral Pyre’s Myspace
Image Used By Permission from Prosthetic Records

 
THE FUNERAL PYRE debuts new music from forthcoming album
Los Angeles’ THE FUNERAL PYRE has posted a track from the band’s forthcoming record, ‘Wounds,’ online at the band’s MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/thefuneralpyre), entitled “Black Earth.” Scheduled for a May 27 release through Prosthetic Records, ‘Wounds’ is the follow-up to 2006’s ‘The Nature of Betrayal,’ which saw an early 2007 re-release through a distribution deal with Creator Destructor Records.