Demo:listen: Praecognitvm
February 10, 2017 Dutch Pearce
On this week’s Demo:listen, we explore the remote and radiant dreamrealm evoked by Chile’s Praecognitvm.
Track Premiere: Condemned – ‘Legion’
February 9, 2017 Emily Bellino
Condemned faced a number of lineup changes, but His Divine Shadow has a fuller, more improved sound that can be heard on songs like “Legion.”
Hall of Fame Countdown: Saxon’s Wheels of Steel
February 9, 2017 Greg Pratt
To celebrate our recent induction of Saxon’s NWOBHM classic Wheels of Steel into our Hall of Fame, we ranked each song on the album from least this-rules to most this-rules.
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Brewery Profile: TRVE
February 9, 2017 Adem Tepedelen
Get to you know your Decibel Metal & Beer Fest breweries. We interview Denver’s deadliest, TRVE Brewing Company.
Track Premiere: In the Company of Serpents – ‘Limitless Light’
February 8, 2017 Emily Bellino
In the Company of Serpents explore their softer side while also delving deeper into their heavy side on the first single from their full-length.
Full Album Stream: Cranial Engorgement – ‘Horrific Existence’
February 8, 2017 Emily Bellino
Cranial Engorgement have created a monster of a brutal death metal album with Horrific Existence.
Death in the Machine: Miserist full album stream
February 8, 2017 Dutch Pearce
Australian experimental death/industrial amalgamation Miserist is primed to unleash calculated and cold destruction with their self-titled debut.
Track Premiere: Oozepus – ‘Farmers’
February 8, 2017 Emily Bellino
Oozepus (members of Coffins and Linekraft) craft noisy death-doom on “Farmers,” from their upcoming debut EP, Your Limit.
NEMESIS RECORDS MEMORIALIZED IN ESSENTIAL NEW BOOK; PIT-WORTHY PLAYLIST BREAKS OUT
February 8, 2017 Shawn Macomber
The paradigm-smashing creative churn in hardcore as the eighties gave way to the nineties was an amazing thing to behold. And few label rosters represented that wondrous, multidimensional, beauty and the beast evolution-through-revolution moment than Nemesis Records — a legendary 1988-1993 run which, along with Nemesis founder Big Frank Harrison, at long last receives a fitting tribute via Reaper Records founder Patrick Kitzel’s scrappy, enlightening, no-holds-barred, lovingly assembled The History of Nemesis Records, featuring release-by-release commentary from Harrison as well as reminiscences courtesy such scene luminaries as Mike Hartsfield (Outspoken), Issac Golub (A Chorus Of Disapproval), Andrew Kline (Strife), Ron Martinez (Final Conflict), Jon Bunch (Sense Field), Dave Franklin (Vision), and others.
Track Premiere: Hellkeeper – ‘Drown’
February 8, 2017 Emily Bellino
Hellkeeper aren’t holding back on their debut album if “Drown” is any indicator.