Lord Belial To Enter The Studio In March

Swedish black/death metallers LORD BELIAL will enter Deadline Studios on March 3 with producer Valle Adzic to begin recording their new album, entitled "The Black Curse". The CD is tentatively expected this summer via Regain Records.

LORD BELIAL has been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany.

LORD BELIAL's seventh full-length album, "Revelation", was recorded at Los Angered studio (owned by KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque) outside Gothenburg. It is out now on Regain Records.

Cryptopsy South America Tour

Cryptopsy will embark on their first-ever tour of South America and Mexico in March and April. The dates are as follows and more to come (venue details to be confirmed):

SOUTH AMERICA
February 29th: Nicaragua - Managua
March 1st: Venezuela - Maracay
March 4th: Colombia - Pereira
March 5th: Colombia - Bogota
March 11th: Chile – Concepcion
March 12th: Chile – Santiago
March 13th: Chile - Antofagasta
March 15th: Mexico –TBA
March 16th: Mexico – TBA

MEXICO
Apr. 03 - Saltillo
Apr. 04 - Tampico
Apr. 05 - Monterrey
Apr. 06 - San Luis Potosi
Apr. 10 - Toluca
Apr. 11 - Guadalajara
Apr. 12 - Leon
Apr. 13 - Mexico City

INSISION needs your help to grind at Sweden Rock Festival 2008! - Vote for us today!

INSISION needs your help to grind at Sweden Rock Festival 2008!

Please go to http://www.swedenrock.com/index.cfm?pageID=397 , and vote for Insision! Just write Insision and click "Skicka" (send).

Thank you for the support!


Brutal regards,

Insision Horde

CEPHALIC CARNAGE: Announce U.S. Tour With DARKEST HOUR

Denver avant-grinders CEPHALIC CARNAGE has announced a four-week U.S. tour with DARKEST HOUR, WHITECHAPEL, and EMMURE.

The U.S. tour, CEPHALIC CARNAGE’s third in support of their critically-acclaimed new full-length Xenosapien, kicks of on January 31st in Richmond, VA. A complete listing of tour dates can be found below. This tour follows the band’s recent U.S. run with DYING FETUS as well as their first Australian tour and Mexican headlining tour.

CEPHALIC CARNAGE recently debuted the first video from Xenosapien, for the track “Endless Cycle of Violence”. The video was shot with director and producer Soren (HIGH ON FIRE, UNEARTH) and can be seen here. The video is also currently in rotation on MTV2’s “Headbanger’s Ball”.

Updated CEPHALIC CARNAGE news / tour information will be made available via the Relapse Records website: www.RELAPSE.com, the CEPHALIC CARNAGE website: www.CephalicCarnage.net and MySpace: www.myspace.com/CephalicCarnage.


CEPHALIC CARNAGE Tour Dates:

***All Dates from January 31 thru March 1 w/ DARKEST HOUR, WHITECHAPEL, EMMURE***

January 31 Richmond, VA Alley Katz
February 1 Wilmington, NC Soapbox Laundrolounge
February 2 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
February 3 Nashville, TN The Anchor
February 4 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabitts
February 5 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
February 6 Orlando, FL The Social
February 8 Houston, TX Java Jazz
February 9 Dallas, TX The Door
February 10 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit
February 12 Tempe, AZ The Clubhouse
February 13 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
February 14 Pomona, CA The Glass House
February 15 San Diego, CA Soma
February 16 Oakland, CA Oakland Metro
February 17 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
February 18 Seattle, WA El Corazon
February 20 Denver, CO Marquis Theater
February 21 Lawrence, KS Bottleneck
February 22 Iowa City, IA The Picador
February 23 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock
February 24 Chicago, IL Reggies
February 25 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
February 26 Cleveland, OH Peabody’s
February 27 Lemoyne, PA Championship Records
February 28 Pompton Lakes, NJ Mainstage
February 29 New York, NY Blender Theatre @ Gramercy
March 1 Washington, DC 9:30 Club

HELLHAMMER Reveals Details: Demon Entrails Album(Remastered)

HELLHAMMER Reveals Details Surrounding The Demon Entrails Album;
Remastered Versions of Legendary Demos

With the release of Demon Entrails on February 26th in the U.S. the days of numerous sub-standard bootlegs of the classic HELLHAMMER demos Death Fiend, Triumph of Death and Satanic Rites are finally over!

Demon Entrails has been specially re-mastered from copies of the original master tapes under the supervision of Tom Gabriel Fischer, and the demos now represent HELLHAMMER exactly as the band sounded when recording these songs in June and December of 1983. Drawing from a wealth of previously unknown historical liner-notes material and artwork as well as plenty of unreleased HELLHAMMER photos from 1982 to 1984, Demon Entrails features all lyrics and essays detailing the individual demo recording sessions.

Currently also working on a book dealing with the history of HELLHAMMER, Tom Gabriel Fischer points out the importance of this release: "The release of these demos is very significant to both Martin Eric Ain and me. No matter how one looks at HELLHAMMER, this was our first recorded music so many years ago, and it represents the radicalness of our own lives at the time. These demos became the foundation to everything we later created in CELTIC FROST. Hell reigned on earth."

Demon Entrails will be available as an opulent oversized double CD media-book packaging and as a gatefold triple vinyl album. Both versions will feature a lavish booklet and a poster. There will also be a third, bare-bones lower-price CD version. To check out the artwork and some rare HELLHAMMER photos as well as discover more info on this release, visit the following official HELLHAMMER website at www.hellhammer.org or go to www.myspace.com/hellhammerband for further details!
Here is the tracklisting information for the CD formats of the release:
Hellhammer – Demon Entrails 2-CD Tracklisting:

CD 1: Satanic Rites Demo, December 2/3/4/7, 1983 (45:57)
1. Intro (0:58)
2. Messiah (4:18)
3. The Third Of The Storms (Evoked Damnation) (3:02)
4. Buried And Forgotten (6:01)
5. Maniac [re-recorded version] (3:46)
6. Eurynomos (3:10)
7. Triumph Of Death [re-recorded version] (6:58)
8. Revelations Of Doom (3:03)
9. Reaper [re-recorded version] (2:28)
10. Satanic Rites (7:18)
11. Crucifixion [re-recorded version] (2:45)
12. Outro (2:01)

CD 2: Death Fiend & Triumph Of Death Demos, June 10/11, 1983 (56:18)
1. Crucifixion (3:04)
2. Maniac (4:01)
3. (Execution) When Hell's Near (2:38)
4. Decapitator (2:07)
5. Blood Insanity (4:22)
6. Power Of Satan (4:11)
7. Reaper (2:06)
8. Death Fiend (2:35)
9. Triumph Of Death (5:15)
10. Metallic Storm (2:19)
11. Ready For Slaughter (3:36)
12. Dark Warriors (3:03)
13. Hammerhead (2:48)
14. Angel Of Destruction (2:58)
15. Bloody Pussies (4:59)
16. Chainsaw (3:58)
17. Sweet Torment (2:09)

Warbringer Interview

Interview with John Laux from "Warbringer".

I am John Laux and ive been writing music for the band since we started. had a blast working on it.


1.- Hey how are you guys? You have a great Old School sound, who are your main influences?
-Thrash wise Artillery, Violence, Stone, Sacrifice, Demolition Hammer. There's also to lots of Death and Black Metal like Dissection, Carcass, Death... everything that rocks. Our taste is very ecliptic and We each have spent years of our lives digging up and listening to underground metal acts.

2.- What do you think about this recently boom of Thrash Metal bands all over the World, maybe this is the beginning of a golden era like the 80..s?
-For many of us thrashes glory from the 80's seems like it was cut short. If all these bands new bands want to push thrash further than the legends before us, certainly. if enough bands come out with an inspired original thrash sound, its not rehashed era worship, its fucking HEAVY METAL.

3.- Could you talk to us a little about your history?
-Well Warbringer really kicked off when John Kevill and I started writing music in 2004. Shortly we found Adam Carroll from Ventura to fill in on drum duties. Our first real line up also included Emilio Hoschet on Guitar and Brother Andy Laux on bass duties. We Just naturally fell into the thrash metal circuit in LA playing every few weeks with then local legends Merciless Death and Fueled by Fire. We had a few line up changes and a little drama after each of our 2 EP's and now our lineup had Adam Carroll switch to guitar and the drummer from his band Zombie; Ryan Bates. Since the One by one the wicked fall ep, everything took off for us! And with our new lineup were feeling unstoppable.

4.- How is the energy in gig of you? Because your music is violent as hell!
-Our live act is VERY important to us. I think thrash creates a truly energetic live atmosphere. If the audience sees the band raging, there going to get in to it and everyone's gonna have a blast!

5.- Generally, how is the process of composition?
-Jamming and parting all day and all night, I always try to make sure the song were writing sounds inspired, it can take us anywhere from a day to weeks to finish a song. Vocals usually come in last.

6..- Tell us about your EP "One by One the Wicked Fall", this EP was the catapult to signs with Century Media?
-Yea, we tracked, mixed, and mastered that at Love Juice Labs in Orange County and finished that thing in about 32 hours. Our goal was to record the most bone crunching, speedy thrash record we could at the time.

7.- By the way, how is be signed with a fuckin monster label in the Metal Music like Century Media?
-Fucking Awesome. I have plenty of there shirts and cds, and now our music is going to be sold With the same production value as the stuff I grew up on. It's overwhelming. We made music video for Combat Shock, and were completely psyched about it. It's fucking thrashing.

8.-Now you have this excellent album "War without End", how was the experience recording with Bill Metoyer, is a demanding dude?
-Hardly. I think he even liked us a bit because we were all patient hard working kids. If not working as hard as us he would be working harder
To make sure the record would sound as flawless as possible for us. I would defiantly enjoy working with him again.

9.- In the States exist a lot of places for play or just a few?
-In California, in LA, I couldn't even count. There are a handful of shows every week with new, young and hungry bands
playing out of the old school sound. The gigs can sometimes round out to sold out shows with thrashers that aren't even
21 yet.

10.- Which has been your best gig at this moment?
-Probably playing in san Fran with a band Like Suffocation, or opening right before Exodus at the whiskey

11.- Exodus or Metallica?
-Well, when I started listening to metal, it was Megadeth. So fucking Exodus easy, they just get heavier and heavier.

12.- Have you suffered any kind of misfortune on stage?
-Broken strings has almost become a regular occurrence for me, they never last more than one show.

13.- Plans for touring soon?
-Tons, the best part about CM is they can put us out on the road with the right bands Jan-Feb with Exodus, Arsis, and Goatwhore.

WACKEN OPEN AIR!

And we have a few more that are on the drawing orld.

14.- Would you like come to play in Mexico?
-The last time we were there with Exodus we had a fucking great time! there was such a strong reaction from the audience that i don't think ive felt anywhere else.

15.- For last, anything to say?
-Thrash or be thrashed fuckers! Thanks for any support, just checking out our tunes is great!

Dew - Scented Interview

This is the nterview with Dew - Scented.

1.- Hello guys, how are you? What was your motivation for create ”Dew – Scented”, i mean you have in your country bands like Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, Darkness, Tankard, Living Death… so they was a motivation for you?

D-S: Hola, que tal? Por aqui todo bien ;-) Well, tough question to start with, really!? What were our original motivations when we started out the band? I guess we wanted to have a good time with the music we most enjoyed listening to and we also wanted to be a more direct and more active part of the scene by forming this band, I guess. I guess all the bands that we were / are into in a way contributed to inspire us to begin as musicians as well in some way. Some of the ones you named belong to our faves, yes, and it’s certainly amazing to see that we managed to add our very own feel and flavour of Thrash Metal into the mixed throughout these last years…

2.- In your experience, how was the search for a studio or label for record your demotape “Symbolization”, it was hard, easy or just the right moment?

D-S: It was both challenging and exciting back in those days. I remember we were super happy with how the demo tape came out and started to spread it and of course also to sell it at shows. The good response from the media and from the people who care about our style of music was very positive and encouraging at the same time, so we simply continued to work hard and grow at the same time. I guess the “hype” for extreme Thrash Metal wasn’t very strong around those days 92 – 94 as it seemed that gothic metal or black metal plus of course extreme death metal were taking over the spotlights. So actually it wasn’t all too easy with the style we were playing but since it was the only way for us, we were happy to see some labels being interested in working with D-S right after the one and only demo tape release and from there ion things started to snowball, I guess.

3.- Immortelle is a great album, killer debut, how was the process of composition for that album, maybe a special inspiration?

D-S: Thanks for the nice words, but I am not really sure if I would agree 100% with you. I guess “Immortelle” is what it is because it was our first album and we couldn’t compare it with anything previous, so we tried our best. All in all, I believe we could have done a lot of things differently and better for that debut, but that’s the past. I think we worked hard to get the right amount of ideas and songs together before entering studios, but we also re-recorded all 6 tracks from the demo tape for the album., so I guess it’s fair to say that we simply released all material we had available around that time as our first album. Maybe we should have waited and selected a little bit more, but we were hungry and wanted to move ahead as aggressive as possible and use time on our side, especially since it took like a full year between finishing off the recordings and seeing the album finally released. But yeah it’s in the end of the day that album that got things rolling a bit more professionally and also internationally so that we started to play out quite some live shows everywhere we could and also got into the first line-up changes struggle due to the bigger amount of activity for the band where not all the original members managed to set the time off to be part of the campaign….

4.- You played with monster like Overkill, Edge of Sanity, DEICIDE, Tankard… what was the feeling when you stayed in the stage sharing with this guys?

D-S: Actually it wasn’t all in 1999. The Edge Of Sanity tour was already in 1996 for “Immortelle” and also the first tour with Deicide was in 1998 (We later toured with them again in 2003). But yeah, all in all it was a good year because we had released “Ill-Natured”; which is probably our most technical release ever…shame about the production though, as we weren’t quite happy with it. And also a lot of touring came through that year….

5.- “Inwards” opened a lot of doors in your career… Nuclear Blast release your album and you play in North America, this was the best year in your career or one of the best years?

D-S: I would say “On of the best” as every single year has its own highlights and good things to it. But definitely there was a lot of excitement and challenge around “Inwards” as we finally received proper distribution and some better promotion internationally with this release. It was the first time ever (on the 4th album) that our release would happen domestically as well in North America and in Japan and I remember a lot of very positive press for “Inwards” because it seemed that we succeeded on making our songwriting arrangements a lot catchier and more effective, plus this was the first time we actually had a really strong sounding album. It was the first time we worked with Andi Classen at Stage One studio and it definitely helped A LOT to make the music’s approach more relentless and heaver in all ways!

6.- How was the people in Europe, in Latinamerica we are crazy as hell, fucking infernal mosh pits, but i can..t imagine how is a gig in Europe, how is the energy in your gigs?

D-S: Yeah, in the best of cases a gig would always have a lot of energy with people digging the music and moving to it…however they do it is up to them and always pretty different. I don’t think you can generally say how a certain country will exactly reply to your music and your show. I think it differs a bit from each other but not too much in the end. I mean, you can have a really good show in for example Southern Germany but also a really bad show. It always depends on the atmosphere of the night of the gig, I Guess. Yeah, I know about the crazy and very intense shows in Latinoamerica. That’s why we would certainly love to come over and play some shows sooner or later with Dew-Scented. We would be the soundtrack to Inferno…

7.- What was your best gig or tour at this time?

D-S: This is absolutely impossible to say really. We had so many great experiences at single shows or tour-events throughout the years that I would really not be able to mention any special one of them here now. Let me just say that we had our good hare of fun…

8.- Sodom or Deicide?

D-S: In what sense? That’s comparing apples to oranges. I guess both bands were very important for their own scene (Thrash and Death Metal respectively). I guess “Persecution Mania” and “Agent Orange” were my fave Sodom album and for Deicide I think their debut did it best for me. We played / toured with both bands and always had a good time with them. Sodom are also from the same German area where I live so I run into them casually…

9.- In your last album “Incinerate” we can hear excellents riffs and melodies, for you this is your best and interesting album?

D-S: I would have a hard time always repeating that our newest album has to be our best to date. I mean, in the end of the day it would certainly be more up to other people to make that call and comparison. I can only say that you always try to represent the band fairly for what it’s all about around the time of doing a new album. With “Incinerate” we had a pretty creative and determined period, so that it effected the album being pretty heavy and straight forward. I like that actually. And yes, in general precise and annihilating riffing is the core element to a good D-S song so I am happy to hear that you are digging it…

10.- How do you contacted Alexander Pahl? he is a great bassist.

D-S: Wow, this already goes like 5 years back by now. He first started to help out as a session member when our original bassist Patrick didn’t come up with enough time and energy to keep up with the touring schedule of the band. This was actually in 2002 when we had some 5 weeks touring all over Europe schedule with Cannibal Corpse. Alex did a great job and we had tons of fun together on that tour so that we eventually stayed around and still is a member of the band up to this day. At the beginning he was also still active in his former band Obscenity but nowadays he is only active with D-S as proper band.

11.- Maybe someday we can see you in Mexico?

D-S: Well yeah, I would hope so too. I am very sure that our style of music would find many friends in your country and that the shows would be a blast! We are ready to come over any minute!!! Judging from the time I spent in Mexico doing some holidays last year, I can only say that you have a wonderful country and I personally would be totally happy to come back soon to spend some more time there in the sun….

12.- What are your plans for 2008?

D-S: We have some touring in Europe scheduled for February with our friends Severe Torture (Holland) and Destinity (France); so we hope that will be a good run. Also, more shows coming up soon afterwards in different countries. %Then, we are also aiming at starting songwriting for a next album between Spring and Summer, so let’s see how that goes. There is no rush with the upcoming album though, so we will simply take it easy and make sure we come up with extremely strong material for sure….

13.- Could you talk us a little about this song “Final Warning”?

D-S: Well, I see the song musically as the “blueprint” for a D-S song, really. It reminds me a bit of the track “Inwards” in its vibe. Very straight forward fast-paced Thrash Metal attack with some technical edge to things. I like it and it’s been working out great in a live situation though. It’s one of the total fave tracks for some of the other guys in the band. Can’t say that it would be within my top 5 of the new album, but thank god it’s always a matter of taste and we like all of our songs in some certain way, hahahaha! Lyrically the song is about the very last friendly reminder that you can give someone before seeing things break down. It’s about friendship and the tragic end for those who aren’t in control of their own actions anymore…

14.- For last anything to say?

D-S: Well yeah, thanks for the time and for the support with this interview! Estamos listos para venire a Mexico y tocar para todos los metaleros por alla. U n prospero 2008 y hasta pronto!!! Keep it mercilessly heavy and till next time….check out www.myspace.com/dewscented and www.dew-scented.net for current tourdates and news about D-S! Mosh!

Toxic Holocaust Sign To Relapse Records

Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of TOXIC HOLOCAUST.

TOXIC HOLOCAUST has released two full length albums, Evil Never Dies and Hell on Earth respectively, in addition to several split releases and 7" singles since forming in '99. TOXIC HOLOCAUST's newest material will appear on the upcoming Thrashing Like A Maniac compilation due out on January 21 via Earache along with DEKAPITATOR, MUNICIPAL WASTE, and more. Brand new TOXIC HOLOCAUST tracks will also appear on the 'Speeds-N-Spikes' split 7" series, due out later this month, where the band will be paired up with BLUDWULF. The band is currently writing the follow-up album to Hell On Earth which is expected to see a Spring / Summer release via Relapse.

TOXIC HOLOCAUST has always taken the more punk rock approach to metal, embracing a D.I.Y. attitude to self-book tours of Australia, Japan, Europe, Brazil, Canada, and the full U.S. The band is currently wrapping up a brief tour of the North-West United States and has most recently been added as main support on the MUNICIPAL WASTE U.K. and European tour in February. A listing of TOXIC HOLOCAUST tour dates can be found below with more to be announced soon.

TOXIC HOLOCAUST audio samples can be heard now via the official TOXIC HOLOCAUST MySpace: www.MySpace.com/ToxicHolocaust. Stay tuned to www.RELAPSE.com for forthcoming TOXIC HOLOCAUST news / album release / tour information.


TOXIC HOLOCAUST Tour Dates:

January 4 Tacoma, WA Hell's Kitchen (w/ ZEKE)
January 5 Seattle, WA The Fun House


***All Dates from Feb. 1 thru Feb. 16 w/ MUNICIPAL WASTE***

February 1 Plymouth, U.K. White Rabbit
February 2 Brighton, U.K. Barfly
February 3 Birmingham, U.K. Academy 2
February 4 Bristol, U.K. Croft
February 5 Leeds, U.K. Josephs Well
February 6 London, U.K. Islington Academy
February 8 Stoke, U.K. Underground
February 9 Eiperfest, Belgium The Fenix
February 10 Groningen, Netherlands Vera
February 11 Tilburg, Netherlands 013
February 12 Debaser, Sweden Malmo
February 13 Gothenberg, Sweden Sticky Fingers
February 16 Copenhagen, Denmark Loppen

Brutal Truth European Tour Dates

Brutal Truth European Tourdates

BRUTAL TRUTH: Announce European Tour Dates

BRUTAL TRUTH has just announced their plans for a two week European tour in February '08. The recently reunited seminal grinders will begin this tour on February 6th in Belgium before making stops in the U.K., Netherlands, France, Spain and more. A listing of confirmed BRUTAL TRUTH tour dates can be found below with more to be announced soon.

Since reforming, BRUTAL TRUTH has also begun writing for a new full-length album. The band currently has 10 new tracks completed with many more on the way. BRUTAL TRUTH drummer Rich Hoak says of the songs; "the new songs are the most brutal bizarre grinders ever and we are totally psyched."

Additionally, BRUTAL TRUTH sees the issue of two new 'classic' shirt designs through Relapse Records and the re-issue of their Machine Parts 7" through Bones Brigade Records. For more information on this new BRUTAL TRUTH merchandise, please visit Relapse.com and BonesBrigadeRecords.com.


For more information on BRUTAL TRUTH access www.MySpace.com/BrutalFuckingTruth.


BRUTAL TRUTH Tour Dates:

February 6 Hasselt, Belgium Muziek-o-drom

February 7 London, United Kingdom Underworld

February 8 Sheffield, United Kingdom Corporation

February 9 Glasgow, Scotland Barfly

February 10 Rotterdam, Netherlands De Baroeg

February 11 Strasbourg, France Molodoi

February 12 Paris, France La Locomotive

February 13 Durango, Spain Plateruena

February 14 Corroios, Portugal Cine Teatro de Corroios

February 15 Madrid, Spain Sala Live

February 16 Barcelona, Spain Sala KGB

February 17 Plaisir, France La Clef Des Champs

Fueled By Fire European Gigs 2008

EUROPEAN DATES!!!!
GO TO OUR PROFILE TO GET THE DETAILS!!!
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4.05.08 REIGN OF THE TYRANT!!KEEP IT TRUE X!!!! GERMANY!!!!
4.06.08 TBC - LUDWIGSHAFEN - GERMANY
4.07.08 I’HIPPOCAMPE - FRANCE
4.08.08 LA RUMEUR - FRANCE
4.09.08 NEGASONIC - BELGIUM
4.10.08 ??? - TILBURG - HOLLAND 4.10.08 THE LITTLE DEVIL CAFE???? - FUELED BY FIRE - STRIKEMASTER!!! RESISTANCE
4.11.08 TBC -FUELED BY FIRE - STRIKEMASTER - RESISTANCE - IN AMSTERDAM