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Corsair Release Video Teaser for One Eyed Horse
Virginian progressive heavy rockers Corsair will release their second full-length for Shadow Kingdom Records, One Eyed Horse, in January 2015. The double-guitar four-piece toured Europe earlier this...
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Venomous Maximus Sign to Shadow Kingdom Records
Following a release of their 2012 long-player, Beg upon the Light (review here), through Napalm, Houston cult heavy rock four-piece Venomous Maximus have inked a deal to issue their follow-up,...
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Tomorrow’s Dream 2015: 90 of the Year’s Most Anticipated Releases
This is the longest list of anything I’ve ever done, and it might be the longest I ever do. The truth is, when I started keeping track of things coming out in 2015, back around October/November, I had...
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Venomous Maximus to Release Firewalker in May on Shadow Kingdom
Houston four-piece Venomous Maximus — whom I’d call VenMax if it didn’t sound like a prescription drug; maybe something for the kidney? or beard growth? — have announced the details for their...
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audiObelisk Transmission 045
Click Here to Download Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing! A real blend this time around. Some of this stuff is straight up riffs and crash, and some...
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Wino Wednesday: Lost Breed Jam with Wino, Jan. 2015
Pretty god damn clever to record in front of a green screen so you can go back and put different backgrounds in afterwards and make a video of it. Kudos to Van Nuys, California, doomers Lost Breed,...
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Quarterly Review: Leather Nun America, Corsair, Sea, The Munsens, Gondola,...
Day four. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t feeling it, but you know, that’s what caffeine is there for. If I push past the day’s quota of mental energy, fine. Hasn’t stopped me yet, and there are only...
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audiObelisk Transmission 048
Click Here to Download Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing! The second hour starts a little early this time around, and what I mean by that is when...
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Shadow Kingdom Records Announces Lineup for ‘Shadow Kingdom Riot’ Fest
In conjunction with Hells Headbangers and its Hells Headbash, Shadow Kingdom Records has announced the inaugural Shadow Kingdom Riot for Sept. 3 at the Agora in Cleveland. Night Magic, which is an...
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Temple of Void Sign to Shadow Kingdom Records
Yours truly rated Temple of Void‘s 2014 lurker Of Terror and the Supernatural (review here) as one of the best debuts of the year, so you’ll pardon me if I think it’s a good thing it’s getting another...
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Venomous Maximus, Firewalker: Fearful Symmetry
Natives of Houston, Texas’ well-populated heavy underground, the dual-guitar four-piece Venomous Maximus distinguished themselves early into their run with their first two EPs, 2010’s Give up the...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Iron Man, Black Night
Iron Man, Black Night (1993) [Please note: Shadow Kingdom reissued Black Night in 2009 and the album is available on Bandcamp here.] If you ever wanted a primer or a summary of the entire Maryland doom...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Pagan Altar, Lords of Hypocrisy
Pagan Altar, Lords of Hypocrisy (2004) I’ve been thinking of late about heavy rock in the ’80s, and just where the hell it went. By 1975, many of the bands who were slinging riffs a’plenty just four or...
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Attalla to Release Self-Titled Debut on Shadow Kingdom
Wisconsin four-piece Attalla self-released their self-titled self-debut (as in, their debut as themselves — keep up; also review here) in the midst of summer 2014. Shadow Kingdom Records, whose taste...
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Venomous Maximus Announce New Album No Warning
Hate to point it out, but for an album titled No Warning, Houston dark heavy rockers Venomous Maximus are actually giving considerable warning of its arrival. It hasn’t been recorded yet! When the band...
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Attalla Announce West Coast Tour
Wisconsin’s Attalla — not to be confused with the differently-spelled Californian outfit of the same name — have done the requisite van maintenance and are ready to hit the road once more next month....
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Hour of 13 Announce Return; Rare Tracks Compilation Coming Soon
The last time we heard from Hour of 13 was in Spring 2014, when the band issued what would be their final track in a tribute to the recently-departed Jason McCash from The Gates of Slumber. By then,...
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Hour of 13 Reveal More Details for Salt the Dead: The Rare and Unreleased
Well, we still don’t have a full tracklisting, artwork, or a solid release date, but more details have come through about the rare tracks comp, Salt the Dead: The Rare and Unreleased, that is serving...
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Condenados to Release The Tree of Death in Jan.
One can definitely hear where the PR wire is coming from with the Bathory reference below when it comes to Chilean doomers Condenados. Their new streaming track, “Sea of Fire” has plenty of that...
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Temple of Void Announce New Album Lords of Death
Hell yes. If nothing else, we can be sure Detroit’s Temple of Void know how to name a record. That was something the death-doom extremists proved with their 2014 debut, Of Terror and the Supernatural...
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