Our BEST OF 2018 readers poll is over. If you’re curious who made this year’s top ten, check out the surprising results! Thanks to everyone who sent us their list again this year. The winners of TOUGH RIFF MAGAZINE # 6 have already been informed via email. Congratulations!
Swedish old school Black Metallers WAN have just released a new five track mini album entitled "Gammal Är Äldst" via Carnal Records. It is the follow up to the band’s third full-length "Wan Way to Hell" which was released last year. A full EP stream is available at this location. To celebrate their 10th anniversary […]
Belgian Death Metallers CARNATION will kick off their European tour as support to SCHIRENC PLAYS PUNGENT STENCH in Salzburg (Austria) tomorrow. The tour will end on January 05, 2019 in Graz, Austria. Other acts on the bill are Austrian Black / Death Metallers THEOTOXIN and Austrian Black Metallers IRDORATH. A full stream of CARNATION’s debut full-length "Chapel […]
Rochester, New York based progressive Death Metallers CONTRARIAN have just premiered a song from their forthcoming album "Their Worm Never Dies". You can stream ‘Exorcism’ at this location. The album was recorded at Watchmen Studios, Lockport, New York and Burnt Orange Studios in Brandenton, Florida. It was produced, mixed and mastered by George Bokos at […]
NOCTURNAL GRAVES will be touring in Australia and New Zealand as support of WATAIN in February 2019. The tour kicks off in Melbourne, Australia on February 22, 2019 and ends in Auckland, New Zealand on February 27, 2019. The band issued the following comments about the tour: "It has been some time since we desecrated […]
Brazilian Black Metallers MYSTIFIER have just released a first track of their new full-length "Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia". You can check out ‘Weighing Heart Ceremony’ at this location. The band commented on the track as follows: "After 17 years of hiatus, MYSTIFIER return with a new album demonstrating all devotion to the underground Black Metal […]
ROTTING CHRIST have just released another track of their upcoming new album "The Heretics". The song ‘Heaven And Hell And Fire’ is now streaming as a lyric video right here. The band’s frontman Sakis Tolis commented on the track as follows: "Dear friends, we are in the pleasant position to present you another creation from […]
Italian Thrashers VIOLENTOR have been signed by Inferno Records for the release of their fourth full-length album, which is scheduled to be released in early 2019 on LP, CD and cassette. For all additional VIOLENTOR information visit www.facebook.com/violentor666
Bay Area based old school Death / Thrashers LACERATION will release a compilation entitled "Remnants" via Unspeakable Axe Records on February 08, 2019. It compiles the "Realms Of The Unconscious" demo from 2010, the tracks from the 2013 split with TINNITUS and the "Consuming Reality" EP from 2009. You can check out the track ‘Exhausted […]
At the end of December 2018 a special 25th anniversary edition of HEADHUNTER D.C.‘s 1993 album "Punishment At Dawn" will be released on CD / DVD via Cogumelo / Mutilation Records (Brazil) and Greyhaze Records (USA). The album will come as a deluxe 3 panel digipak and will feature 4 bonus tracks including the SEPULTURA […]