Severe Torture - Slaughtered (2010)

Brutal Death Metal
USA

1. Grave Condition 04:15
2. Unholy Misconception 03:39
3. Deride Jesus 03:43
4. Defective Fornication 02:53
5. Slaughtered 03:39
6. Feeding On Cadavers 04:31
7. Inferior Divinity 04:36
8. Incarnation Of Impurity 04:12
9. To Relieve The Mortal Flesh Of Pain 01:44
10. Swallowing Decay 04:33
Total playing time 37:45


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Iced Earth & Sons of Liberty Tour

Iced Earth will be doing a few North American shows with Jon Schaffer's fairly new side project Sons of Liberty.

Confirmed Dates:
09/10/10 - Washington DC - 9:30 Club
09/21/10 - Chicago IL - House of Blues
09/23/10 - New York NY - Nokia Theater Times Square
09/25/10 - West Hollywood CA - House of Blues

Las Vegas Death Fest - 2010

Holy shit, this is a fucking epic lineup. Between the two days July 16th and 17th, we got Putrid Pile, Condemned, Vulvectomy, Devourment, Septycal Gorge, Inherit Disease, Despondency, Pathology, Embryonic Devourment and Gortuary (just to name a few). This is a death metal lineup that cannot be missed!

Macabre - 2010 Australian Tour

Our favorite serial killin', extreme metallers Macabre makes their first Australian tour! It only took them 25 years!

Confirmed Dates:

07/27/10 - Arthouse, Melbourne
07/28/10 - Squaters Hotel, Adelaide
07/29/10 - Step Inn, Brisbane
07/30/10 - Live at the Wall, Sydney
07/31/10 - Corner Hotel, Melbourne
08/01/10 - National Hotel, Geelong

Initiation Of The Mislead Tour - 2010

Hour of Penance (!) will be a special guest on the Initiation Of The Mislead Tour in Europe. Other acts include Cephalic Carnage, Ion Dissonance, Dyscarnate, and Psycroptic.

Its unfortunate that Hour of Penance is so low on the set list. In my eyes they blow the other acts out of the water effortlessly and deserve to be headlining this fucking tour...

Confirmed Dates:

10.09.10 Germany Darmstadt @ Steinbruch Theater
11.09.10 Germany München @ Feierwerk
12.09.10 Belgium Aarschot @ Klinker Club
13.09.10 UK London @ Underworld
14.09.10 UK Plymouth @ White Rabbit
15.09.10 UK Manchester @ Moho Live
16.09.10 UK Colchester @ Arts Centre
17.09.10 Holland Sneek @ Bolwerk
19.09.10 France Nantes @ Le Ferrailleur
21.09.10 Spain Madrid @ Sala Live
22.09.10 Spain Badalona @ Estraperlo Club
23.09.10 France Luynes @ Le Korigan
24.09.10 Switzerland Sursee @ Kulturwerk 118
25.09.10 Italy Pinarella di Cervia @ Rockplanet Club
26.09.10 Slovenia Ljubljana @ Gala Hala
27.09.10 Austria Wien @ Arena
28.09.10 Germany Leipzig @ Theater Fabrik Sachen
29.09.10 Czech Rep Prague @ Exit Chmelnice
30.09.10 Germany Berlin @ K17
01.10.10 Holland Eindhoven @ Dynamo, Bloodshed Fest
02.10.10 Germany Oberhausen @ Death Feast Ultimate

Antraks - Spewing Wrath Blood (2010)

Brutal Death Metal
Indonesia

1. Unrelenting Carnivore Feast 03:40
2. Purulence Flesh Murderer 04:00
3. Just Frosted Twisted Existence 04:34
4. Consume Of Sorrow Defiled 03:27
5. Blistering Subconscious Mind 03:53
6. Cruelty Whisper Disgorged 03:39
7. Through A Venomous Carnage 03:27
8. Spawned Inhuman Realms 03:27
9. Resurgence Beneath The Sundown 04:12
10. Bloodbath In Solitude 03:25
Total playing time 37:44


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Grave - Burial Ground (2010)

Death Metal
Sweden

1. Liberation 03:40
2. Semblance In Black 04:20
3. Dismembered Mind 06:05
4. Ridden With Belief 04:06
5. Conquerer 04:45
6. Outcast 03:40
7. Sexual Mutilation 04:02
8. Bloodtrail 04:05
9. Burial Ground 07:23
Total playing time 42:06

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Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was...Liber I (2010)

Black Metal
France

1. Liber I 41:19
Total playing time 41:19



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Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

Ok ok ok. I know this album is not Metal by any means, BUT Anathema once were a doom metal band so it counts for them to be up here, plus the fact I fucking love this album.

Anathema is easily in my top 5 favorite bands. I love all 8 of their albums and the evolution in their styles between putting them out. They have evolved their sound a few times and Ive kept with them through each change totally diggin it. Starting from their doom phase, to their more progressive but still grasping some metal elements where the songs had some angst, heaviness, progressive or depressive themes to them. That style now merged into a now mellow atmopheric rock where the songs are about spirituality, love, and freedom and I once again love it. This new style brings to the table a new energy Anthema never expressed through music and they pull it off well. It also brings more attention, not alot, but more to newly recruited backing vocalist Lee Douglas. She was featured on the title track of the last album A Natural Disaster which I was totally stoked about because her voice is absolutely enchanting and wanted to hear more of her. All in all, this album is beautiful and uplifting and I feel is worthy of being mentioned.

I would recommend this album to any previous fan of Anathema who are open-minded to a milder change of pace or even to fans of Pink Floyd who just want to chill. This album while developing a new style of their own, still keeps elements from ealier pieces of work to appeal the fans of Anthema's previous works, if they are open to change. Anathema are showing in, We're Here Because We're Here themselves evolving towards a new style that is yet again keeping me interested and looking forward to what they will produce next.

Circle of Dead Children - Psalm of the Grand Destroyer (2010)

Death Metal/Grindcore
USA

1. Avatar of Innocence 04:21
2. Ursa Major (1998 revisited) 00:54
3. When Human Compost Stains all Earth and Repels the Messengers of Love 02:00
4. Chaos Crawls Back 00:41
5. Earth and Lye 03:10
6. We Who Move with the Graven Worms 01:47
7. Bury the Ill Flock 01:28
8. Refuse to Kill the Same Way Twice 01:43
9. Obsidian Flakes 02:15
10. Last Words and Warning Signs 01:24
11. Jaracaca 00:37
12. Torches 01:17
13. Night of Morbid Psycho 00:11
14. Germinate the Reaper Seed 05:41
15. Starve, Beg & Die a.k.a. Fuck You Kill Me 04:18
Total playing time 31:47

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Incantation - Scapegoat EP (2010)

Death Metal
USA

1. Sacrificial Sanctification 03:12
2. Scapegoat 02:37
Total playing time 05:49


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Cenotaph - Putrescent Infectious Rabidity (2010)

Brutal Death Metal
Turkey

1. Schizoid Acts Of Mental Defloration 03:22
2. Menstrual Dismemberment 02:54
3. Consumed By Embryophagy 02:46
4. Pustulation With Swarming Insectoids 03:22
5. Embalming Maggotized Aborticide 03:12
6. Gorenographic Pervert Victimology 04:15
7. Putrescent Infectious Rabidity 02:59
8. Paroxysmal Mutation 01:25
9. Embryobscure Hypnosis/Womb Of Decay 04:31
Total playing time 28:46

Short Bus Pile Up - Repulsive Display of Human Upholstery (2010)

This band came out of no where to me. I was talking to a friend about different slam/brutal death metal bands and he recommended that I listen to SBPU and I immediately thought it was going to be some boring ass deathcore bullshit along the lines of Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza or Arsonists Get All The Girls...But like they say, don't judge a book by its cover, or in this case, don't judge a band by their name. This album encompasses everything I love in the genre well. Catchy slamming brutality.

Brutal Death Metal
USA

1. Ball-Peen Beating 04:22
2. Urethral Myiasis 01:48
3. Labia Beautification 02:01
4. Necrotic Skin Stitching 02:49
5. Stench Of Her Burning Flesh 02:02
6. Fecal Matters 01:20
7. Appeasing The Butcher 02:06
8. Gagging On Dick 01:54
9. Repulsive Display Of Human Upholstery 02:59
10. Labia Beautification (EP Version) 02:11
11. Appeasing The Butcher (EP Version) 02:11
12. Fubar (Felt Up By A Retard) (Promo Version) 01:59
Total playing time 27:35


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