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German thrash legends EXUMER have premiered the video to the title track of their most recent album,Fire & Damnation. It’s the band’s first ever official video clip in their 27 year-long history and was entirely filmed and edited in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during EXUMER‘s South American Damnation tour earlier this summer. The footage combines the band’s explosive live performance with the harsh conditions ... Read More »

Anticipation for Honor Found In Decay, the tenth studio album by NEUROSIS, is starting to intensify, as we count down the days until its North American release date on October 30th. Like an eclipse, a brand new NEUROSISalbum is not a frequent occurrence and when it comes around, every last moment must be savored. For this momentous event, all the forces are aligned. ... Read More »

Melodic Death/Folk Metal band Ensiferum is setting out to conquer Europe, as they tour on their new album Unsung Heroes! Along with this incredible band, Finnish groove metal band Profane Omen and Finnish melodic metal band (also known as Classic Rock of The 21st Century) Amoral are to support Ensiferum on this tour. This tour has a great amount of ... Read More »

Amoral: One of Finland’s most unique bands to ever come into the metal spotlight. Having 3 technical death metal albums, and 2 melodic albums, this band has some of the most diversity than any other metal act out there. Some people feel that Amoral is not the same band they once were. This is technically true, due to Ben Varon ... Read More »

A few years ago you may have thought that the idea of Pirates and Metal mixing into an unholy concoction of awesome would be absolutely preposterous.  Then a couple of scallywags, led by the infamous Captain Christopher Bowes, berthed Alestorm, that one band of Scottish-Irish drunkards who successfully brought the Pirate Metal scene to the mainstream.  While there are a ... Read More »

HATEBREED, WHITECHAPEL, ALL SHALL PERISH, DEEZ NUTS 09/13/12  Upstate Concert Hall – Clifton Park, NY 09/14/12  The Palladium – Worcester, MA 09/15/12  Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA 09/16/12  Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ 09/17/12  The Town Ballroom – Buffalo, NY 09/18/12  House of Blues – Cleveland, OH 09/19/12  House of Blues – Chicago, IL 09/20/12  Granada Theater – Lawrence, KS ... Read More »

Sini, our newest writer, serves as our official Finnish DMK representative.  This is her first interview for the site. Bloodred Hourglass is a thrash-metal band from Mikkeli, Finland. Band was born in 2005, and it has done for many shows with amazing attitude and energy. The band consists of five musicians: Jarkko Koukonen – vocals Jose Moilanen – bass Jarkko Tiilikainen – guitar Antti Nenonen – guitar ... Read More »

Today extreme metal’s favorite road warriors, EXHUMED, still brutalizing stages on the final nights of the Summer Slaughter tour, announce their next North American excursion supporting co-headliners Napalm Death and Municipal Waste! Presented by Amp Magazine and Hails & Horns, the convoy of brutality will commence in Springfield, Virginia on October 26 and run through December 1 in Tampa, Florida. Additional support will ... Read More »

Hello! This is Jaraad from Der Metal Krieger; a Los Angeles based metal webzine.  I’d like to take a few moments of your time for this short interview.   Your latest album, Manala, was just released and I had the opportunity of giving it a solid review.  I have to say that it’s what I’d expect from Korpiklaani, a fun ... Read More »

Ein weiteres Folk Metal-Review? Warum nicht. Diesmal geht es um eine relativ unbekannte, finnische Band namens Ensiferum. Scherz beiseite. Es ist mir eine Ehre, zu denen zu gehören, die dieses Album zuerst hören und reviewen durften. Schließlich sind Ensiferum einer der meist-bekannten Folk Metal Bands, was daran liegt das sie wissen, wie man spannende Geschichten zusammen mit epischer Musik zu einem Meisterwerk ... Read More »