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Horse Latitudes 'Awakening' CD/2xLP 2012
Anyone Familiar with Horse Latitudes genre defying masterpiece “Gathering” from 2010 will already have a good idea what to of what to expect here. Twin bass attack with no guitars and clear vocals…
The latest full length titled “Awakening” ... Read More... »
It’s satisfying to know that over the past couple of years traditional heavy metal has been re-valued by the mainstream metal world. This has allowed Natur to sign to the high-profile Earache and reach an audience craving for the ... Read More... »
Dopefight / GURT - Split 7"/DD 2012
My fellow tube train passengers are not impressed. It's 8.30am on a wet, windy Monday morning and we're temporarily stuck between stations on London's busiest underground network. A range of moods meet my glance about the carriage. There's the ... Read More... »
Coffinworm 'Great Bringer Of Night' LP 2012
There are few bands that’ll take you to as vile a place as America’s sludge specialists Coffinworm. Formed back in 2007, it’s easy to imagine that their plan was simply to decimate the ears of doomsters by making the ... Read More... »
Pigs 'You Ruin Everything' LP 2012
I feel compelled to start with a resounding ‘thank you’ here. This goes out to Dave Curran, Jim Paradise and Andrew Schneider for basically putting together the kind of album that reminded me of my halcyon days at university, ... Read More... »
Pike 'To Cross The Great Divide' CD/DD 2012
Something smells a bit fishy around here. There must be something in the water. We're gunna need a bigger boat... Sorry, I just need to gut myself of all the awful fish puns that I could possibly slip into ... Read More... »
In these tragic days of the disposable digital download, artists have to come up with increasingly novel ways to get people to pay attention to their physical product. As such we have seen a resurgence in vinyl offerings and ... Read More... »
The name Cortez may not be hugely familiar within the stoner rock scene. I remember the debut EP, “Thunder In A forgotten Town”, released in 2007 on Belgium’s Buzzville Records being a decent if unremarkable release. When guitarist Tony ... Read More... »
Melvins 'Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls And The Bees' Digital EP 2012
What do Melvins records and buses have in common? Wait for one and two show up at the same time. Also they're both massive, they're both slow and would both crush you if you got in their way. The ... Read More... »
Uaral 'Lamentos A Poema Muerto' CD 2007
The act of mixing genres, once regarded as blasphemy, has become really common nowadays. Two styles of music used particularly often in such a fusion of different worlds are folk and metal. One could describe Uaral (to my knowledge ... Read More... »
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Horse Latitudes ‘Awakening’ CD/2xLP 2012
19th May 2012 at 9:04 am
Anyone Familiar with Horse Latitudes genre defying masterpiece “Gathering” from 2010 will already have a good idea what to of what to expect here. Twin bass attack with no guitars and clear vocals… The latest full length titled “Awakening” released…
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Tags: 2012, Awakening, CD, Doom, Doomentia Records, Dual Bass, Heavy, Horse Latitudes, Jas Murray, LP, Review
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Superhot Sessions 001: Stubb ‘Hard Hearted Woman’ Video Now Unleashed
18th May 2012 at 1:32 pm
In March 2012 Superhot Records invited resolvefilm to come and film Stubb performing a live and slightly reworked take of Hard Hearted Woman. This is the first of the Superhot Sessions. Every now and then we’re going to invite one…
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Tags: Hard Hearted Woman, New Video, News, resolvefilm, Stubb, Superhot Records, Superhot Sessions
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ENABLER: Band’s Southern Lord Debut Confirmed For July Release
18th May 2012 at 10:24 am
The details on the anticipated new album from Milwaukee-based extreme hardcore/metal crossover killers ENABLER are in. The band’s first release for Southern Lord Recordings, All Hail the Void is at the pressing plant being prepared for a July 17th street…
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Tags: All Hail The Void, Black Breath, Burning Love, Enabler, Martyrdöd, New Album Details, News, Southern Lord, Southern Lord Tour 2012, US Tour 2012
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RELAPSE RECORDS: May 2012 Podcast Now Available
18th May 2012 at 9:53 am
The fourth RELAPSE RECORDS podcast of 2012 is now available at MetalInjection.net. This is the 20th installment of the official label podcast that is posted each month highlighting brand new songs from Relapse artists, exclusive interviews, and classic Relapse tracks. This…
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Tags: Baroness, Dying Fetus, Horseback, Mantas, Maryland Death Fest, Maryland Death Fest Podcast Special, News, Podcast, Podcast May 2012, Primate, Relapse Records, Royal Thunder
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Natur ‘Head Of Death’ CD 2012
18th May 2012 at 9:17 am
It’s satisfying to know that over the past couple of years traditional heavy metal has been re-valued by the mainstream metal world. This has allowed Natur to sign to the high-profile Earache and reach an audience craving for the same…
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Tags: 2012, Alex Varley, CD, Earache Records, Head Of Death, Heavy Metal, Natur, NWOBHM, Review, Thrash
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SONIC TITANS: UK Compilation Download Now Available, Limited CD Available Next Month
17th May 2012 at 11:01 am
SONIC TITANS is a compilation of hard rock from some of the UK finest hard rockin’ bands. SONIC TITANS takes you on a journey through an eclectic mix of hard rock styles including heavy blues, a slice of doom, with…
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Tags: Alex von Wieding, Dopefight, Enos, Goaf Leaf, Grifter, Neon Tigers, New Compilation Details, News, Slabdragger, Sonic Titans, Sons Of Alpha Centuari, Stargun Music, Steak, Stubb, The Bad Channels, Trippy Wicked, Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight, XII Boar
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Soggy Bog 76 – Featuring Entire Pike Album + New Alaskan, Royal Thunder, Black Moth & More
17th May 2012 at 9:31 am
The latest Soggy Bog Podcast, number 76 is now available and this week features the entire Pike album ‘To Cross the Great Divide’, Pete’s review for which you can read here, there’s also new tracks by Black Moth, Sun Preachers,…
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Tags: Alaskan, Black Capricorn, Black Moth, Carol Ann, Eyehategod, Godflesh, Julie Christmas, Neurosis, News, Pike, Podcast, Royal Thunder, Slomatics, Soggy Bog, Soggy Bog 76, Sun Preachers, The Sword
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Dopefight / GURT – Split 7″/DD 2012
17th May 2012 at 9:01 am
My fellow tube train passengers are not impressed. It’s 8.30am on a wet, windy Monday morning and we’re temporarily stuck between stations on London’s busiest underground network. A range of moods meet my glance about the carriage. There’s the “I’m…
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Tags: 2012, 7", DD, Digital Download, Doom, Dopefight, Gurt, Gurt / Dopefight Split, Heavy, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Sludge
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Announcing The Electric, Full Band-Six Organs Of Admittance Experience; New Album ‘Ascent’ Out August 20th On Drag City
16th May 2012 at 3:44 pm
Six Organs of Admittance as an electric entity is not without precedent. Ben Chasny regularly performs with a full, electric band, often cascades an electric guitar solo in the middle of an acoustic jam, and has recorded entire sides of…
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Tags: Ascent, Ben Chasny, Drag City, New Album Details, News, Six Organs Of Admittance, The Electric Full Band-Six Organs Of Admittance Experience, Waswasa
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The Obelisk Now Streaming STONEBURNER’s “Marriage”
16th May 2012 at 2:52 pm
Heavy riff lifters The Obelisk have just premiered a brand-new track off of STONEBURNER’s upcoming Seventh Rule debut. Sickness Shall Pass drops next week, and features the seven-minute long progressive sludge crusher that the site’s H.P. Taskmaster calls “a killer…
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Tags: Audio Stream, Marriage, New Album Details, News, Seventh Rule Recordings, Sickness Will Pass, Stoneburner, The Obelisk