Ohio’s SKELETONWITCH will bring their brand of “blackened thrash” to NYC’s acclaimed “BLACKENED MUSIC SERIES” on November 14. The show will take place at Brooklyn’s Union Pool and will also feature Relapse’s BLACK ANVIL and is part of “THE BLACKENED WEEKEND,” which will also feature appearances from RWAKE, KRALLICE, SHRINEBUILDER and more. Previous installments in the series have featured the likes of REPULSION, PIG DESTROYER, BRUTAL TRUTH, SUNN, EARTH and PELICAN.

‘WITCH guitarist Scott Hedrick commented;
“We’re very pleased to be a part of the Blackened Music Series. Blackened is relatively new and has already put together some great shows. And we’re …read more

SKELETONWITCH’s new effort, “Breathing The Fire,” sold 3,500 copies in its first week of release, landing at number #151 on the Billboard Top 200 and #2 on the magazine’s Heatseekers Chart. The album was recorded in Seattle with acclaimed producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden, High on Fire). The band spent the last month on the road with Children of Bodom and are now supporting The Black Dahlia Murder alongside Toxic Holocaust and labelmates Trap Them. They will then head to Europe for a co-headline tour with Toxic Holocaust and Goatwhore.

Guitarist Scott Hedrick said,
“We’re completely fucking stoked! It’s always nice to …read more

SKELETONWITCH is almost ready to unleash their metal masterpiece Breathing the Fire on October 13th via Prosthetic Records.  Breathing the Fire is the follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed album, Beyond the Permafrost (Prosthetic Records, 2007). The Athens, OH based band traveled to Seattle, WA to record with producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden, High On Fire). The album was mastered by Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer.
SKELETONWITCH have been documenting the making of the album with the posting of webisodes shot during the recording of the album. The band has just posted the fourth studio webisode from the Breathing the …read more

Taiwanese metallers CHTHONIC just kicked off their United States tour in support of their new album Mirror of Retribution.  The tour features Satyricon, Bleeding Through and Toxic Holocaust and runs through October 27th in Montreal, Quebec.
Bassist Doris Yeh comments:
“After 2 years, we finally have our new album Mirror of Retribution out on Spinefarm Records, and this is our second North American tour. We’re very excited to see the fans here, and we just met the members of Bleeding Through, they’re very nice people, but including the members of the band and staff, there will be a total 15 people on …read more

Skeletonwitch have launched the first in a series of webisodes documenting the recording of their upcoming full length Breathing the Fire (October 13, Prosthetic Records) with producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, High On Fire, Toxic Holocaust). It can be viewed at prostheticrecords.com.

The band has also announced iTunes pre-order is now available for Breathing the Fire. The iTunes version includes an exclusive bonus track called, “Only No Rest for the Dead.” It can be ordered here.
Physical preorder packages for both CD and LP are still available at Prosthetic Records.
The band is currently on tour with Children of Bodom and The Black Dahlia …read more

Prosthetic Records’ Skeletonwitch will be touring Europe in November and December of this year, alongside Goatwhore and Toxic Holocaust.  The tour is a co-headlining run with bands rotating slots each night.
Here is some fan footage shot at the Starland in Sayerville, New Jersey on Sept 19, 2009:
The dates are:
11.27.09 Netherlands Nijmegen @ Doornroosje
11.2809 Belgium Gent @ Minus One
12.1.09 UK Sheffield @ Corporation
12.2.09 UK London @ Underworld
12.3.09 UK Glasgow @ Ivory Blacks
12.5.09 UK Prestatyn Sands @ Hard Rock Hell
12.9.09 Germany Hamburg @ Hafenklang
12.1109 Germany Berlin @ Cassiopeia
12.12.09 Germany Bischofswerda @ Eastclub
12.14.09 Czech Rep Prague @ 007
12.15.09 Germany München Feierwerk
12.16.09 Italy …read more

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’s brand new album Deflorate streaming in full exclusively through Revolver Magazine!

Head over to Revolver Magazine to check out the exclusive premier of THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’s brand new album Deflorate, streaming in its entirety starting today. Still riding high on waves of acclaim for their rabidly-received DVD spectacle Majesty, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER triumphantly brings you their fourth thrashing opus Deflorate. An epic expansion of the stunning pitch-black cacophony that was 2007’s Nocturnal, Deflorate boasts Black Dahlia’s brand of seamlessly-mixed Swedish influenced blackened thrash and pounding American death metal muscle, and sees one of metal’s most …read more

The Black Dahlia Murder was all set to tour with Slipknot in the coming months. As many of you know, Slipknot had to cancel the remainder of their tour, due to an unnamed illness or accident involving drummer extraordinaire Joey Jordison. Because of this, The Black Dahlia Murder has also had to cancel these dates, and made the following statement regarding the cancellation:
“We are sorry to those who were looking to see us in the next few weeks with Slipknot. Unfortunately Slipknot has canceled the tour. This has forced us to cancel our headlining shows in Pocatello, ID and Sioux …read more

Chimaira kicked off their summer tour yesterday in Columbus, OH to highlight their April release The Infection. With Hatebreed, Winds of Plague, Toxic Holocaust and Dying Fetus, I am clearing my calendar for August 22nd. Check out the tour dates and locations below.

07.22.09      Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
07.23.09     Madison, WI @ The Majestic Theatre
07.24.09     Toledo, OH @ The Zodiac
07.25.09     Louisville, KY @ Headliner’s Music Hall
07.26.09     Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
07.27.09     Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre
07.28.09     Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club
07.29.09     Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance

Hatebreed and Chimaira pair up on …read more

Hello everyone, I’m Alex, and I’m a Canadian metal fan. Scott has very kindly offered me a guest review, so I’ve taken him up on the offer. Today, I shall be writing an article on one of the most “metal” albums of 2008 – “An Overdose of Death“. Recorded by what essentially amounts to a one man act, Joel Grind’s Toxic Holocaust, “An Overdose of Death” is around thirty-five minutes of balls-out riffing, fearsome percussion, and harsh but intelligible vocals. It is definitely a formidable effort. Two-thousand-and-eight hailed the release of plenty of awesome metal albums. Judas Priest’s “Nostradamus”, …read more