• Junius’s Reports Due Out in October

    While their last record seemed to take an eternity to come out, Junius are set to release their next record, Reports from the Threshold of Death, on October 25th through Prosthetic Records. Sweet. Thematically, the record continues right where The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist left off. Cool tidbit: Reports was the first album recorded at Will Benoit‘s Radar Studios, the …

  • Circle Takes the Square’s Decompositions Gets a Release Date, Band Releasing Digital EP Next Week

    Finally - Circle Takes the Square‘s long-awaited Decompositions: Volume 1 has a release date. Due out through the band’s Gatepost Recordings, Decompositions will be released in November (okay…not a total release date, but close enough). The bigger/better news is that CTTS is releasing Rites of Initiation, the first chapter from Decompositions, as a Digital EP on August 23 …

  • Mastodon Unleash New Single, “Curl of the Burl”

    As promised, Mastodon have released “Curl of the Burl”, the single from their upcoming record, The Hunter. You can click the image above to purchase or preview the track on iTunes. My quick opinion, it sounds like a sludgy Queens of the Stone Age. I dig it. The Hunter is due out September 26th. edit: …

  • REVIEW: Vale of Pnath – The Prodigal Empire

    Vale of Pnath long ago found the niche between melodic and technical death metal as easily as Spawn of Possession did inside 2006′s Noctambulant; this is where the riff reigns supreme, and brutality is a matter of composition and careful writing. I stress that, from its opening seconds, “Legacy of Loss” has that real heft …