July 20, 2009

Summer Slaughter '09

Frank Mullen gets Wired According to Suffocation frontman Frank Mullen, the Summer Slaughter tour was this year’s “death metal stimulus package.” 2009’s lineup featured around a dozen bands. On this first date of a two-night stand in New York City, the lineup slimmed down. The tour’s metalcore/deathcore bands, all with three-word names (Winds of Plague,...

Altars giveaway

Diabolical things are afoot down under. Cult death metallers Portal just got confirmed for next year’s Maryland Deathfest. Shackles put out a phenomenal album (reviewed here) earlier this year. Funeral doomsters Mournful Congregation and blackened thrashers Deströyer 666 recently released solid full-lengths (though the latter is now based all over the place). Asphyxiate Recordings remain...