Posted by Zenae Zukowski on December 6, 2022
Igorrr have announced the rescheduled tour dates w/Melt Banana for their North American Tour. Initially supposed to kick off in early 2022 with Vowws, the tour was postponed due to visa issues. Due to scheduling conflicts, Otto Von Schirach will support the rescheduled run replacing Vowws, which now kicks off on September 8, 2023, […]
Posted by Mark Zapata on February 7, 2022
Igorrr’s North American tour this month with Melt Banana and Vowws has been postponed. In a statement issued on Friday (4th), Igorrr commented: “Once again, we are deeply sorry to announce that our upcoming North American tour is postponed. The work visa of one of our band members won’t be delivered in time, despite […]
Posted by Chris Annunziata on January 14, 2020
The 2020 ‘Oblivion Access’ Festival, formerly known as the “Austin Terror Fest,” has announced more bands to the massive bill, which features of 50 bands. The festival will take place June 05th-07th across several venues, The Barracuda, Empire Control Room & Garage, and Mohawk venues in Austin, TX. The festival has expanded into new genres and sounds […]
Posted by Matt Brown on December 7, 2016
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We now come to the time of year on Metal By Numbers where list of debuts grows very small. This week feels particularly bare after Metallica’s album sales were revealed last week. But we’ve […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on October 27, 2016
Although there’s starting to be a bit of a backlash against Record Store Day, it’s still essentially Christmas for independent record stores and a great way to pick up unique vinyl or stuff that had been long out of print elsewhere. As we know, there’s a second Record Store Day on Black Friday, and there’s […]
Posted by Seth Werkheiser on March 26, 2015
Torche offer up a pretty somber, dystopian music video for their song “Annihilation Affair,” taken from their latest album, Restarter, available now on Relapse Records. The video is based around the video game that was made to promote the new record; Torche vs. Robots: Annihilation Affair. It’s a side-scrolling, 16-bit looking adventure game that the band put out […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 16, 2015
Have you heard Torche’s Restarter yet? It’s a pretty damn solid album, and the band’s Relapse debut (and fourth album overall) is their most successful yet. They’ve been touring in support of the album, and began the year on the road with Clutch, but they’re going to keep touring. In fact, a midwest, west coast and […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on July 16, 2014
If it seems like only a month and a half ago that Baltimore was the destination for extreme metal fans and bands from around the world, that’s because it was. But the Maryland Deathfest has wasted no time in announcing the first round of bands for the 2015 incarnation of the fest. Neurosis is playing, and so it Triptykon, […]
Posted by Matt Brown on October 9, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You may have heard of something called the “loudness war”, a term applied to albums that are mixed in a manner to make it sound…well, louder. This isn’t exactly a new thing, but it’s […]
