In case you were already drinking on Friday when we originally posted it, we’re giving away two copies of Devourment’s Relapse Records’ debut, Conceived in Sewage. And because we go all out, we’re also throwing in an autographed 11×17″ poster of Pig Destroyer’s 2007 masterpiece Phantom Limb. You should probably be entering by leaving a comment on [...]
Monday, March 4, 2013
As we mentioned on Friday, Pig Destroyer have released a two-song EP from the Phantom Limb sessions, with the proceeds going directly towards the college fund of Pat Egan’s daughter Katie. Beloved by bands, his label, and his friends and family both in and out of the music industry, Egan died on February 18th from pneumonia-related illnesses. [...]
Friday, March 1, 2013
Dallas’ Devourment have been playing their brand of brutal death metal for nearly 20 years now. Their Relapse debut, Conceived in Sewage, is their first album in four years, and finds them doing what they do best – laying down some slamming grooves over Mike Majewski’s tortured growls. We dig the record – a lot. In [...]
Friday, March 1, 2013
As Relapse Records and the metal community at large continues to mourn the loss of the label’s director of sales Pat Egan, the compilation that was set up to benefit his family is proving to be successful. Patlapse, a 20-track compilation featuring a large segment of the label’s roster that Egan was involved with over the [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Roadrunner Records is giving away a pair of tickets to each show of Kvelertak’s upcoming tour with Cancer Bats and Black Tusk. Enter for the chance to win online. Tweet
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
When we spoke to singer Erlend Hjelvik and guitarist Vidar Landa, they revealed that a North American tour was in the works for Kvelertak. And yesterday, the Norwegian metal group announced plans to tour with Cancer Bats and Black Tusk. The April/May trek marks Kvelertak’s first tour Stateside in support of their new album Meir, [...]
Friday, February 22, 2013
Welcome to Dissident Aggression, where we sow the future, reap the present and highlight the past to bring you the underground of The Underground… Relapse Records has always been one of the champions of death metal. Whether it was the early days of the label working with bands like Mortician, Incantation, Amorphis, and of course [...]
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
In the sad and untimely wake of the passing of Relapse’s Pat Egan, details for his funeral services have been released. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you donate to his daughter’s college fund. Find information on both here. Tweet
Monday, February 18, 2013
The New York area has lost a pillar of its metal community, as Relapse Records director of retail sales and marketing Pat Egan has passed away. Egan had been in a hospital for the last several months after suffering complications from pneumonia. He’d been showing signs of improvement as recently as last week, and had [...]
Friday, January 4, 2013
One of our favorite releases of last year was Royal Thunder’s debut full length, CVI. It’s taken them a while, but the band have finally unleashed a video for one of the centerpieces of the album, the sprawling “Blue,” which is available on Pitchfork. The video is hazy, psychedelic, mystical and retro, which is also an [...]
Kylesa’s new album, Ultraviolet, is streaming online at Pitchfork. Check out the album, as well as some pretty awesome visuals, here. The album will come out on May 28 on Season of Mist.
Unsigned & Streamed vets Anciients, who’s Season of Mist debut Heart of Oak is out now, have landed the opening slot on the Lamb of God tour. They’ll be playing from May 16 – June 10. Check out the dates here.
Sinestra Studios (who very often provides Metal Insider with some killer live photos) is hosting its very first art galleria and metal show on Saturday, May 25, at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets for the event are onsale now.
Louna has premiered a new music video for the song “Business” with Crave Online. The extravagant and politically themed music video comes in support of the Russian hard rock group’s new album, Behind The Mask, available now via Red Decade Records and MEG/RED.
Unsigned & Streamed alum Pheroze has released a video for the song “Today I Belong To The Dead.” The song appears on Pheroze’s recently released EP, Ennui.
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