The SUMMER BREEZE festival was forced to withdraw German Black Metallers ANCIENT CEREMONY from their line-up because the mayor of Abtsgmund threatened to cancel the complete festival if a band that supported and publicly spread satanism played on the festival. For more info check: www.summer-breeze.de and www.ancient-ceremony.de
Sorry to pollute the unholy realms of Voices with classic Heavy Metal but this billing is just too good to be true, hehe. For anybody with a faible for good old Heavy Metal the way it should be played (not like those cheap HAMMERFALL clones) the following festival should be highly interesting, especially for the […]
Here’s a litte band update from Anton Reisenegger of CRIMINAL: "I’m living in Germany now, Zac is in England and Rodrigo in Chile . But fear not! The new CRIMINAL album is on its way! The working title is "Supersonic Death", and we are working on a very cool cover idea with Claudio Bergamin, who […]
Due to personal differences ANCIENT RITES decided to end the cooperation with Jan Yrlund (ex-Lacrimosa / Prestige) during the "Generation Armageddon" Tour. www.ancientrites.be
The release of SLAYER‘s "War At The Warfield" DVD has been pushed back to July 29th. SKINLESS‘ website, www.4skinless.com, reports that the band will team up with DYING FETUS, MISERY INDEX and DIVINE EMPIRE for a US tour scheduled to run from July 19th to August 23rd. On August 22nd in Melbourne, CRYPTOPSY will headline […]
Wisconsin based Horror Death Metal act PHANTASM, who featured Matt Grassberger of DR.SHRINKER on bass for a short period of time, have an official website now. You can check it out here: http://people.freenet.de/phantasm. The band released two classic demos in 1990 ("Lycanthropy") and 1992 ("The Abominable", re-released on CD with the additional track ‘Gut Suckers’ […]
MORBID ANGEL have entered D.O.W. (Diet Of Worms) Studios in Seffner, Florida, to record their next album. In the studio are guitarist Trey Azagthoth, drummer Pete Sandoval, and bassist / vocalist Steve Tucker, along with co-producer Juan "Punchy" Gonzalez who has worked as Morbid Angel’s live front-of-house sound engineer for the past eight years. Tentatively […]
Reunited Texan Thrashers RIGOR MORTIS have re-launched their official web site at www.rigormortis.com. The group’s bassist / vocalist Casey Orr, who has spent the past few weeks playing with the reunited SPEEDEALER, has posted the following update on the band’s activities: "A lot has been happening since this site went down for reconstructive surgery, so […]
EXODUS will begin recording their new album, "Tempo Of The Damned", at the end of May with producer Andy Sneap. The release will include two of the groups older songs, ‘Death Row’ and ‘Impaler’. SLAYER have scheduled a July 8th performance at London’s Astoria. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. Also, CMH / Vitamin Records will […]
It’s been very quiet around California’s Death Metal masters INFAMY ever since their "Rape, Grind & Pillage" promo from 2001, but the band is luckily still alive and kickin’! Their actual formation includes a musician from fellow Death Metal merchants COFFIN TEXTS and a new album is almost composed. The band is currently searching for […]