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...