Roundup From The Compound - June 10th, 2018
 
TOMB MOLD: Decibel Magazine Streams Manor Of Infinite Forms LP; Album Out NOW Via 20 Buck Spin + Tour With Of Feather And Bone Begins This Week - As Toronto death henchmen TOMB MOLD present the gore of their bizarre Manor Of Infinite Forms LP via 20 Buck Spin, the album has been disentombed through a stream at Decibel Magazine. The album strikes as the horde prepares to head out on tour with Of Feather And Bone. [ MORE ]
 
JUDICIARY: Closed Casket Activities Signs Texas Hardcore Outfit; Debut LP Due This Fall - Upstate New York-based Closed Casket Activates has signed Lubbock, Texas-based metallic hardcore outfit JUDICIARY, for impending release of the band's debut full-length album. The new JUDICIARY album was tracked and produced by Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio in Van Nuys, California, and mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk at Solomon's Gate in Philadelphia. Watch for further details on the album to be released in the weeks ahead, and the album to follow late this fall. [ MORE ]
 
REVOCATION Announces North American Headlining Tour With Exhumed, Rivers Of Nihil, And Yautja - This fall, REVOCATION will head out on the road for their first North American headlining tour in several years. The trek will begin September 17th and run through October 20th. Support will be provided by Exhumed, Rivers Of Nihil, and Yautja. See confirmed dates below. [ MORE ]
 
NEUROSIS Issues Trailer For North American West Coast Tour With Converge, Amenra, And Birds In Row - NEUROSIS has issued a trailer for their impending West Coast North American tour dates with Converge, Amenra, and Birds In Row in July. The tour will begin on July 6th in Seattle and run through Vancouver, Portland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San Diego, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, Lawrence, Dallas, ending in Austin on July 21st. Amenra provides opening support for the early part of the tour, and Birds In Row will open the final six shows. [ MORE ]
 
TRANSIENT With Bastard Noise: Six Weeks Records To Release Sources Of Human Satisfaction LP By Portland Grind Act Featuring Infamous Noise Artist; Tour Dates Confirmed - Portland, Oregon-based grindcore squad TRANSIENT - featuring members of Landmine Marathon, Endorphins Lost, and more - will re-emerge this summer with their second LP, Sources Of Human Satisfaction, set for release via Six Weeks Records in August. The album sees the quartet joined by infamous noise architect Eric Wood of Bastard Noise. [ MORE ]
 
LESSER GLOW: Boston Post-Metal/Doom Unit Featuring Former Members Of Black Elm, Irepress, And The Proselyte Streams Ruined Full-Length Via Svbterranean; Record Out NOW Via Pelagic + US Tour Nears - "...these guys are doing something worth paying attention to. The eerie hollowness of their songs is a massive differentiator for them, along with their massive walls of sound and the energy that oozes from every track. As far as debuts go, you'll be hard-pressed to hear anything better." -- Itdjents Svbterranean is currently streaming Ruined, the impending debut full-length from Boston's LESSER GLOW, in its entirety. Featuring within its ranks former members of Black Elm, Irepress, and The Proselyte, LESSER GLOW rips open a massively wide and confident blend of traditional doom and melodic metal, paired with hardcore, noise, post-rock, and beyond. Molding all these into one cohesive mix, LESSER GLOW stands out as a refreshing and unapologetically brutal take on heavy music. [ MORE ]
 
RICARDA COMETA: South American Improv Duo Begins European Tour This Week; Ricarda Cometa 2 Out NOW Via Nefarious Industries - Argentine-Peruvian improvisational instrumental duo RICARDA COMETA is on their way to Europe to kick off their latest tour, and their first tour supporting their Ricarda Cometa 2 album, released last week through Nefarious Industries. The tour kicks off this Saturday, June 9th in Oslo, Norway. The tour runs through July 2nd, ending in Berlin, Germany. [ MORE ]
 
CHRCH To Kick Off Mini-Tour + West Coast Fall Shows With Yob And Acid King Confirmed; Light Will Consume Us All Out Now Via Neurot - Sacramento's favorite doom practitioners CHRCH will kick off a short run of live dates next week. Set to commence on June 11th in Fullerton, California and run through June 21st in Reno, Nevada, the journey includes performances with Body Void, Trapped Within Burning Machinery, Ugly, Hist, Bird Violence, and The Ditch And The Delta on select shows, as well as a stop at Austin Terror Fest June 16th with Exhorder, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Come To Grief, Cough, and many more. CHRCH's latest journey follows a recent European jaunt with Fister. Additionally, the bandwill take on a week-long west coast trek supporting Yob and Acid King this September. See all confirmed dates below. [ MORE ]
 
DEATHGRAVE Announces Pacific Northwest Tour In Support Of The Impending So Real, It's Now Debut; Record To See Release Via Tankcrimes Later This Month - Deathgrind/punk collective DEATHGRAVE - featuring members of Brainoil and Amber Asylum among others - will play a special record release show June 28th in support of the impending So Real, It's Now debut. Set to take place at The Ritz in their home city of San Jose, the band will be joined by labelmates Connoisseur and Mortuous as well as ColdClaw. The following month, DEATHGAVE will take to the streets on a mini Pacific Northwest tour. The nine-date journey will commence on July 5th and run through July 14th with east coast dates in the plotting stages. See all confirmed shows below. [MORE]
 
SUNN O))) Releases Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 Limited Edition LP - SUNN O))) has unleashed the earliest recording of the band's monolithic tones, revamped for a limited edition pressing via Southern Lord Recordings, as the label celebrates its twentieth anniversary, as a split label release together with Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ imprint. The Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 dates back to the earliest rehearsals during the genesis of the SUNN O))) project. The source is a C60 cassette tape recorded on a boombox, and the result is essentially an extremely raw noise/drone record. It was taped in the band's early practice space at Downtown Rehearsal (RIP), Los Angeles, in a practice room which the band shared with The Melvins and Goatsnake at the time. The LP sees SUNN O))) founders Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley on guitars and stacks of amps, the original cassette was mastered by Brad Boatright February 2018. [ MORE ]
 
STONE DEAF: "Buzzards" Video Premiered Via New Noise; Royal Burnout Full-Length Out Now - Colorado doom/rock outfit STONE DEAF has released an official video for "Buzzards," which hails from the band's recently-released second full-length, Royal Burnout. The video has been issued through a premiere at New Noise Magazine. Created by Lindsey Brown, edited from a multi-camera shoot of the band's recent show at the Mesa Theater in Grand Junction, Colorado, the video showcases both the band's slick songwriting and smooth live delivery. [ MORE ]
 
IMMORTAL BIRD: Blackened Death Grind Kicks Off US Tour With Glacial Tomb - Chicago-based death grind unit IMMORTAL BIRD will kick off US mini tour alongside Denver blackened death outfit Glacial Tomb (Khemmis, ex-Abigail Williams) later this week. Set to commence on June 7th and pillage ten venues through June 16th, the trek includes performances with Occultist, Dreadnought, Pyrrhon, God Root, and Night Vapor on select dates. See confirmed shows below. [ MORE ]
 
SURMISER: Svbterranean Now Streaming Hold The Static By Upstate New York Punk/Grunge Trio; EP Out NOW - As upstate New York punk/grunge trio SURMISER independently releases their new EP, Hold The Static, Svbterranean is streaming the record early alongside a track-by-track summation of its four unhinged tracks. Influences from a wide array of punk, grunge, rock, metal, and alternative acts can be felt in SURMISER's sarcastic attack, with notes of TAD, Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, the Melvins, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, and more forcing their way through. [ MORE]
 
WHITECHAPEL Kicks Off North American Co-Headlining Tour With The Black Dahlia Murder; Band To Play This Is Exile In Its Entirety - WHITECHAPEL kicked off their anticipated North American co-headlining tour with labelmates The Black Dahlia Murder this week. Set to run through July 14th, the tour will find WHITECHAPEL playing their classic This Is Exile full-length in its entirety in commemoration of the record's ten-year anniversary. Support on the tour will be provided by Fleshgod Apocalypse, Aversions Crown, and Shadow Of Intent. See all confirmed dates below. [ MORE ]
 
ABSTRACTER: Oakland-Based Apocalyptic Metal Outfit To Releases Cinereus Incarnate LP; Album Streaming At Cvlt Nation - Oakland, California-based apocalyptic/blackened sludge metal act, ABSTRACTER, issues their third full-length album, Cinereus Incarnate. Cvlt Nation is streaming the entire tumultuous album early; a harbinger of the bleak record's official unveiling. Recorded and mixed by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios in Oakland and mastered at Audiosiege in Portland by Brad Boatright, Cinereus Incarnate features haunting dark ambient soundscapes and noise contributions by Sutekh Hexen's visual/noise luminary Kevin Gan Yuen -- who also curated the album's grandiose art - as well as dark industrial musician Only Now. [ MORE ]
 
GRUESOME: SickDrummer Premieres "A Waste Of Life" Drum Playthrough; Twisted Prayers Full-Length Out NOW On Relapse Records - SickDrummer is pleased to unveil GRUESOME drummer Gus Rios' bludgeoning playthrough video for the track "A Waste Of Life." The tune comes by way of the band's Twisted Prayers full-length, released last week via Relapse Records. [ MORE ]
 
ISENORDAL: Split With Void Omnia Streaming At Cvlt Nation; US Tour Underway - Seattle-based blackened funeral doom/neofolk ensemble ISENORDAL has teamed up withOakland-based cosmic black metal heathens Void Omnia for a split release set for official unveiling this weekend. Cvlt Nation is currently streaming the split noting of ISENORDAL's contribution, "ISENORDAL packs in a staggering fifteen minutes of shapeshifting folk-tinged black doom into a single track - summoning grandiose and desolate soundscapes that conjure the same melancholy and majesty of bands like Agalloch, My Dying Bride, Greyceon, Subrosa, Drudkh, Katatonia, and Panopticon. Their solemn and slow-moving dirge of blackened spleen covers much ground and makes the mind wander and lose itself as the music masterfully builds, punctuated by swirls of cellos, violas, chanted vocals, and organs set against a magmatic backdrop of miserable distortion." [ MORE ]
 
GYRE: Decibel Magazine Debuts "Come To Carry On" By New Jersey Prog Metal Outfit; Shared Visions Album Out NOW - Decibel Magazine is now playing "Come To Carry On," the newest single from New Jersey-based progressive metal outfit GYRE and their Shared Visions debut album, which sees release this week. Produced by The Dillinger Escape Plan's Kevin Antreassian, Shared Visions is an explosive and dynamic album that transcends simplistic genre categorization. [ MORE ]
 
FISTULA: Cvlt Nation Streams Track From Split With HEMDALE; Southern Desecration Tour Begins Next Week - Ohio sludgecore legion FISTULA will unleash a split seven-inch with death/grind institution and home state comrades HEMDALE. The latest installment in an ongoing split seven-inch series celebrating FISTULA's twenty years of sonic misery, the EP will drop tomorrow via PATAC Records. [ MORE ]
 
PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS: Tour With KING PARROT Rescheduled For This Fall; Tickets On Sale NOW + "Choosing Mental Illness" Video Trailer Posted - PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS will unite with Housecore labelmates KING PARROT this fall for a US live takeover. The tour, previously scheduled for the spring but postponed following Anselmo's recent back surgery, will commence September 6th in New Orleans, Louisiana and includes a stop at this year's edition of Berserker Fest September 28th in Pontiac, Michigan. See all confirmed dates below. Tickets go on sale this Saturday June 9th with additional shows to be announced soon. [ MORE ]
 
GOATWHORE Announces European Headlining Dates As Summer Tour With Dying Fetus Draws Approaches; Band To Join Arch Enemy For North American Trek This Fall - The road warriors in GOATWHORE have confirmed several European headlining dates prior to their run supporting Dying Fetus this summer. The tour, which begins July 27th and includes stops at Metaldays, Rockstadt Extreme, Into The Grave Fest, Summer Breeze Fest, and Kaltenbach Open Air, will tear its way through nearly two-dozen cities upon its conclusion on August 24th. Additional support will be provided by Carnifex, Toxic Holocaust, and Venom Prison on select shows. [ MORE ]
 
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Kicks Off European Tour This Weekend; Band Confirms Fall UK Dates + Second Leg Of North American Tour With Black Label Society And Eyehategod Nears - CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will return to Europe next week for a stretch of live dates set to commence June 9th and run through June 24th. The journey includes special performances with Converge as well as appearances at Download, Hellfest, Copenhell, and Graspop. In July, the band will return to North American stages to kick off the second leg of their tour supporting Black Label Society. Slated to begin July 15th, the tour will make its way through nearly two dozen cities upon its conclusion on August 11th. Additional support will again be provided by Eyehategod. CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will close their summer live takeover with a performance at Loud And Heavy Festin Fort Worth Texas sharing the stages with the likes ofCody Jinks and Whiskey Myers! In October, the band will take on an eight-date UK headlining tour with Orange Goblin, Fireball Ministry, and Black Moth. See all confirmed dates below. [ MORE ]
 
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