Tag Archives: Misery Index

Show Review: Misery Index Grinds Through Philadelphia

Posted by on April 24, 2018

I was lucky enough to catch Misery Index on the recent Morbid Angel tour at the TLA in Philadelphia last week. Misery Index is a band I always catch live and it actually has nothing to do with the fact that both bassist/vocalist Jason Netherton and vocalist/guitarist Mark Kloeppel happen to be academics who I’ve […]

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Morbid Angel announces U.S tour dates

Posted by on March 9, 2018

Morbid Angel have announced spring U.S headlining tour dates. The run begins on April 16th in North Carolina and will conclude on May 17th in Houston, TX. Dreaming Dead, Hate Storm Annihilation and Misery Index will provide direct support from April 16th through April 25th and Origin will support for the remainder of the run. […]

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New & Noteworthy: January 6th

Posted by on January 6, 2017

Albeit a terrible year high profile celebrity deaths, 2016 was quite an excellent one for music releases. 2017 looks to have a lot of potential, with the first week of the year bringing new Nightwish, Halestorm, and Chasing Safety as well as an Ice Nine Kills re-release, and a handful of vinyl releases. It’s not […]

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Hate Eternal have a new drummer for tour

Posted by on October 26, 2015

Drummer Chason Westmoreland has left Hate Eternal due to ” family matters,” and Hannes Grossmann, formerly of Obscura, and Necrophagist will be filling in for the band. Westmoreland has been with the band since 2013, when he replaced Jade Simonetto. The news comes just days before Hate Eternal hits the road with Misery Index, Beyond Creation, and Rivers of […]

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Handshake Inc. goes up for sale

Posted by on October 16, 2015

When not directing memorable videos for the likes of Misery Index and Today is the Day (to name just a few), David Hall was also putting out music under the Handshake Inc. banner. In operation since 2006, Handshake has put out albums with Fuck the Facts, Pyrrhon, Couchslut, Blacklisters, and many more over the years. As of today Hall […]

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Misery Index present a mighty harrowing video

Posted by on May 1, 2015

Misery Index released The Killing Gods about a year ago, and today they release a music video for, “The Harrowing,” the second music video taken from that album. The new clip is directed by David Hall of Handshake Inc., who also directed the band’s previous video for, “The Calling.” Vocalist / bassist Jason Netherton spoke about the latest album […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/18: Can we get a Hellyeah?

Posted by on June 18, 2014

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. There are a lot of great debuts this week from a lot of great bands. Oh, there’s a few odd ones here and there (Tesla and Night Ranger? What year is this?), but otherwise […]

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Misery Index are ‘Calling’ you with new video

Posted by on June 16, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/7laptOuaSDk[/youtube] Misery Index recently released their fifth full-length album, The Killing Gods, back in May. The Baltimore-based  band have just put out a video for it, however. “The Calling” is a starkly-shot black and white video that marries vaguely satanic and disturbing imagery with performance  that’s tightly cropped, showing the band’s instruments only (and Jason Netherton’s […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/12: The charts get f*cked up

Posted by on June 12, 2014

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As the late great George Carlin once explained, no word is more versatile in its usage than the word “fuck”. It’s funny to think that there was a time when the usage of any […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/4: A KISS-torical week of sales

Posted by on June 4, 2014

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Ah, now that’s more like it. We’ve got a nice hefty list of debuts this week, and topping them all off is…yet another KISS compilation album. I mean, I love KISS as much as […]

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