Bay Area thrashers Light This City are currently on the road, headlining the Thrash and Burn Tour, alongside labelmates The Funeral Pyre. The band has offered this update from the road: (more…)

Arch Enemy have completed work on their new album. The new disc, Rise of the Tyrant, is the follow-up to 2005’s Doomsday Machine, the band’s most successful album to date. They have once again enlisted the duties of acclaimed producer Fredrik Nordström (Dimmu Borgir, In Flames) at Sweden’s Studio Fredman, where the band recorded all of their albums through Wages of Sin (2001). Look for Rise of The Tyrant everywhere on Sept. 25 and see below for its track listing. (more…)

Divine Heresy’s debut offering, Bleed The Fifth will be released on August 28. Check out the album’s vicious title track, which has been posted (more…)

A benefit concert for Skin Kandy drummer Joey Intervallo’s son Dominic Intervallo will be held Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 at Europa in Brooklyn. The bands scheduled to play include Killing Time, Joe Coffee, Skin Kandy and more. Below (more…)

The career accomplishments of three-time Swedish Grammy Award nominated Entombed are more than extensive. Pioneering the early European death metal sound, the band has consistently delivered recordings always one ahead of their peers. Now with Serpent Saints long time fans will find an invigorated and streamlined quartet ready to carve yet another notch in already impressive career.

Serpent Saints closes a now four year gap since (more…)

Legendary Japanese iconcolasts BOREDOMS, a visionary band who has spent over twenty years pushing itself toward new frontiers, will stage the most extraordinary concert of their career on July 7, 2007. A once-in-a-lifetime performance featuring 77 drummers, and meant to be performed just once (on 7/7/07), BOREDOMS will create 77BOADRUM as a free show in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park. (more…)

On May 14, 2007, before the Swedish black metal horde Watain hit the stage at BB King’s in New York City, MetalKult sat down with singer/bassist E and drummer H to discuss the finer points of black metal cred, live performance rituals and “total death.” Check out the following clip and (more…)

To help celebrate 20 years of extreme music, on July 17th, Earache Records releases Metal: A Headbanger’s Companion, a 6-CD boxed set that highlights some of Earache’s greatest artists and songs from throughout the last 20 years. The set is going for $15. For more info check out earache.com

Metal: A Headbanger’s Companion tracklist is as follows: (more…)

Chicago-based progressive black metallers Nachtmystium signed a North American deal with Century Media Records. The group’s first offering through the label will be the Eulogy IV re-release this fall, which will be followed by an all new full-length disc next year that will also feature acclaimed drummer Tony Laureano (ex-Dimmu Borgir, Nile).

Founding member Blake Judd (vocals, guitars) says: (more…)

Megaforce Records and metal/hardcore pioneers S.O.D. will release Rise Of The Infidels, on August 21, 2007. It is an extended EP with four unreleased S.O.D. songs, plus a live concert from Seattle is included.

S.O.D. began in the mid-Eighties (more…)