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Last week I gave you an update about Amon Amarth‘s ninth studio album with just a link for one streamable song and album artwork. Now I can give you something a bit more exciting…A RELEASE DATE and PRE-ORDERS.  Oh track listing too.   This Album is set for release on June 25th worldwide via Metal Blade Records.  The band is ... Read More »

The Swedish Vikings of Amon Amarth are at it again with their NINTH studio album, Deceiver of the Gods due out later this year!  They’ve been using the power of social media to make sure EVERYONE KNOWS that the Vikings are back and here to pillage your ear drums.  Earlier this week they unveiled the EPIC ALBUM ART via their Official Reddit…yeah ... Read More »

t’s hard to think of a heavy metal band that has explored as many genres as Amorphis. These guys have done just about everything, from death metal, to melodeath, to doom, to progressive, to folk, and so on.  They never stay in the same place for too long though, and constantly strive to evolve their sound as a band, demonstrated ... Read More »

rsis is one of the few bands that does tech death right nowadays. Where many other bands go astray by overlooking the actual music and instead focusing on how complicated a song they can write, James Malone and Company consistently find a way to use their technical prowess to write music as opposed to writing music for the sake of ... Read More »

ICED EARTH’s first officially recorded DVD/Blu-Ray, Live In Ancient Kourion, will hit stores April 16 in North America (and April 15 in Europe)! For this live release, the band recorded an epic 2.5 hour show in a 6,000 year old amphitheater with an incredible, unique atmosphere. To give fans a preview of this must-have DVD, ICED EARTH has now teamed ... Read More »

ANTROPOMORPHIA’s ‘Evangelivm Nekromantia’ to be banned in Germany? Dutch Death Metallers ANTROPOMORPHIA have reacted to a letter their label Metal Blade Records received from the German BPJM (“Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons”) that included an indexing request for the band’s latest album Evangelivm Nekromantia. The letter claims the cover artwork of the album as well as the ... Read More »

Darkthrone needs no introduction; everyone knows about these guys and the tremendous impact they’ve had on extreme metal. While they are largely known as a black metal band with their early albums engraved as milestones in the Norwegian scene, many don’t give their diversity enough justice. That comes to a screeching halt on their latest work however. You just have ... Read More »

If you have been keeping up with our posts on the DMK Facebook page,  you’d know that we have been hyping up Gloryhammer, the Power/Fantasy Metal band driven by the quirky Alestorm frontman, Christopher Bowes.   Wizards, Unicorns, Scotland…need I go on? But as the time draws near to their debut release in March, we finally got our hands on ... Read More »

The forerunners of Power Metal have created another masterpiece. Stratovarius, a power metal band nearly 20 years in the making have debuted a new album and corresponding sound that will silence all critics which once hailed these legends of  metal as done for. Band: Stratovarius Album: Nemesis Genre: Power Metal Label: Armoury Release Date: February 26, 2013 Anyone familiar with the ... Read More »

Hey there fellow metalheads, Gabe here with another awesome album review!  When Holy Grail came out into the  metal scene in November of 2009 with their demo Improper Burial,  people didn’t expect to hear such an incredibly fresh and lively heavy metal sound.  Their follow-up with their first full length album Crisis in Utopia, which released in October of 2010 was a high-powered ... Read More »