CONSCIOUS ROT’s Congenital Passivity (1993) and The Soil (1994) demos are being issued by Ledo Takas Records as The Years In Disgust CD.
Featuring guitarist Gary Mader of EYEHATEGOD, New Orleans-based hardcore band CLASSHOLE will release a self-titled debut full-length this month.
Century Media Records will issue MOONSORROW’s Jumalten Aika (’ The Age Of Gods’) on April 1st.
French drummer Kevin Foley (aka Creature) has left ABBATH for “personal reasons.” He is drumming in BENIGHTED.
THE RESISTANCE, a Swedish band featuring former and current members of IN FLAMES and THE HAUNTED, will release its new full-length album Coup De Grâce this month through earMUSIC.
Spanish death/thrash Metal quintet PHOBOS PREACHER will release its new LP Asfixia through Art Gates Records this month.
Spain’s THYBREATH has issued its second demo, Where The Gods Fall. The CD was recorded during the summer of 2015 in Madrid at Traste Cero Studio.
Hardcore band POISON IDEA is touring the North American west coast with an East Coast run now confirmed for February. POISON IDEA returned full-time in 2015 with the release of a new studio full-length, Confuse & Conquer, which was released by Southern Lord in April.
IZEGRIM will release a new album, called The Ferryman’s End, in June through Listenable. It was recorded at Soundlodge Studio in Germany.
Montreal, Canada-based PRONOSTIC has issued its debut full-length, An Atomic Decision, independently last month.
AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED has returned with the first in a series of four EPs entitled Arc. The band’s vocalist is Kat Katz. The EP is out this month.
Selfmadegod Records has signed Poland’s NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST for the release of its debut album next year. While NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST is writing its debut full-length, which will be recorded in early 2016, to tentatively be released during the summer months, the Mutant Inferno demo will soon be released as a split cassette through Massacre Distro, a split CD through Defense Records/Mythrone Promotion and split 12” on Devil’s Nun Records.
With new vocalist Adam ‘Greasy’ Benito of Calgary’s TRAIN BIGGER MONKEYS recently being appointed as EVILHEART‘s new vocalist, the Mexican blackened death metallers have announced they will be holding auditions for a new bassist and second guitarist to join them for touring and the creative process and the follow-up release to Quinquaginta, which was re-released this past September on Vancouver-based Test Your Metal Records.
Essence is the second mini-album by progressive and melodic thrash metal band KADAR from Kazakhstan. It is out now through Metal Scrap Records.
Test Your Metal Records is releasing an album by Kelowna, Canada’s GOMORRAH. The album is titled The Haruspex and features ten tracks. Its release date is January 15, 2016.
Art Gates Records is issuing MARTYRIUM‘s album Destiny Wore A Bondage Mask in March.
Creator-Destructor Records is ultra-stoked to announce the impending release of Critical Hits, the debut LP by California-based quartet, GYGAX.
CANNIBAL CORPSE will kick off 2016 with a month-long tour of North America in February with openers OBITUARY, as direct support, followed by Canada’s CRYPTOPSY, and Los Angeles’ ABYSMAL DAWN.
FROZEN OCEAN’s The Prowess Of Dormition album is being issued by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on February 26th.
The purported First Annual Florida Metal Fest organized by OBITUARY’s John And Donald Tardy will take place on January 30th. The concert will feature CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, TROUBLE, ATHEIST, DEICIDE and more.
The German thrash metal band EXUMER has picked The Raging Tides as the title for its fourth full-length album, which is out on January 29 through Metal Blade Records. It was recorded with producer Waldemar Soychta at Waldstreet Sound.
Agonia Records has signed Canadian power thrash metal band THREAT SIGNAL to a worldwide deal. The band has finished recording its new studio album, called Disconnect, for an early 2016 release.
Poland’s BEHEMOTH will perform its The Satanist album in its entirety on the band’s upcoming European tour. The band will also bring an exhibition concept called The Congregation on tour.
Unholy Prophecies has issued ARCHAIC THORN’s In Desolate Magnificence MCD. The death metal band hails from Germany.
Yukon, Canada’s SANKTUARY will issue a demo called Winter’s Doom. The band plays thrash metal.
Seattle death grinders THEORIES will kick off the New Year with a cross USA tour with DECAPITATED and BLACK BREATH. The tour begins January 27th.
Poland’s black and doom metal band BATUSHKA has an album called Litourgiya through Witching Hour Production.
VADER’s Future Of The Past II – Hell In The East covers album is now out through Witching Hour productions.
David Ingram (BENEDICTION and formerly of BOLT THROWER) will front Dutch death metal band HAIL OF BULLETS at the Maryland Deathfest on May 28th in Baltimore, USA.
Ashmedi, singer for MELECHESH, was recently arrested for assault in a bar fight in his home city of Jerusalem. The man is claiming self defense. The band will nonetheless play a show in Jerusalem despite the BDS movement, which is the global movement for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS ) against Israel until it complies with international laws.
Frank “Blackfire” formerly of SODOM and KREATOR has a new act called FRANK BLACKFIRE and issued a solo album called Back On Fire through Nihilistic Empire Records.
Unique Leader has issued OMNIHILITY’s third record, Dominion Of Misery.
VENOM INC., featuring two members of the original VENOM, will kick off its postponed North American tour this month. Initially scheduled to take place this past autumn, but postponed, the rescheduled tour will run from January 5th through January 28th.
The “anti-human” black metal band HOMSELVAREG will release a new album called Catastrofe in February through Sliptrick Records.
DESTRÖYER 666 has a forthcoming full-length Wildfire, which will be released on the 26th of February through Season Of Mist.
In time for its fifteenth anniversary Sweden’s DEGRADEAD will release a self-titled album on February 5th through Metalville Records.
Dutch band TRAGACANTH and Loud Rage Music have agreed to release the CD version of the band’s Anthology Of The East album. It is scheduled for the 4th of March.