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Wow talk about a serious gift, it's the 25th anniversary of Relapse Records this year and to celebrate they are giving away a free 180 (!!) track download on their bandcamp. The sampler includes 1 track from almost every artist that has released an EP or full length since the label started back in 1990.  Over the last 25 years Relapse have provided some classic albums including personal favourites like Dying Fetus "Destroy The Opposition", Neurosis "Through Silver In Blood" and Pig...

Industrial metal badasses Godflesh have announced the release of the latest EP 'Decline and Fall' which marks the first new material from JB and GCB in 13 years.  The four song EP will be released in Europe on 2nd June through Broadrick's label Avalanche.  The first track to be aired is "Ringer" which you can check out below.  Godflesh have 5 dates coming up in June:

Mon 2 June- SWG3, Glasgow w/ Loop

Tue 3 June - Cockpit, Leeds w/ Loop...

Wizard Fight are set to tear up the Saturday at this year's Desertfest on a day that will see Kvelertak headline and The Body in the UK for the first time as well as Dragged Into Sunlight, Weedeater, Anciients, Hey Collosus and tons more.  Check out the Desertfest website for full details on the entire line up - day tickets are on sale now, as well as 3 day tickets (Boris and Spirit Caravan are headlining the other days \m/).

I had the chance to catch them...

Last year when Integrity toured the UK I got to sit down with band mastermind, founder, and vocalist Dwid Hellion before they played the Camden Underworld date in London. To cut a long story short the dictaphone mysteriously vanished at home and I was gutted. Many months later during a move it was found slipped down behind the back of some drawers and so here it is...

We started off discussing the band Integrity themselves and his other projects (of which there are many!). Most underground fans should know Integrity but I ask him to sum up the band for those that aren't familiar with them, “Woah”, he laughs “Trouble I suppose, trouble makers. For the record, myself and Robert Orr, he makes all the music and drums and stuff and I do the yelling, sometimes he does...

New Jersey's Monster Magnet have today revealed the artwork, name and track listing for their upcoming and 9th studio album.  "Last Patrol" will be released on Napalm Records on October 21st and the tracklisting is as follows:

Tracklisting: 

I Live Behind the Clouds
Last Patrol
Three King Fishers
Paradise...

March 15th 2013 marked the release of Clutch's 10th studio album "Earth Rocker", a storming release that has met with critical acclaim and some of the heaviest songs since their 2004 album Pure Rock Fury.  They start a 4 date tour of England this coming Monday 8th July starting in Norwich before hitting up Nottingham, Manchester and London.  Rather than bring along another US act they have opted to support the UK scene and grabbed 2 upcoming bands in the form of...

As I'm sure you must have heard last August the band Baroness were involved in an accident when their bus crashed off a bridge whilst on their UK tour.  The band have been left with some SERIOUS medical bills and so a month later Loopy Fiasco (Baroness sound engineer), Rennie Jaffe (Manager of Relapse Records) and Nath (Baroness web dude) set out as friends of the band to do whatever they...

Swedish Death Metallers ENTRAILS have just released the first song from their upcoming third album Raging Death!

According to the Metal Blade website:

"Entrails completed the recordings for their much anticipated upcoming third album, Raging Death! The album was recorded in different studios: the drum recordings took place at the Racetrack studios while the basis recordings were done at Jimmy Lundqvist’s own The Crypt recording...

London based Pure Negative are offering up their new album for the price of.....free! That's right you can now download their album Insert [Twist] Pull from their bandcamp for the princely sum of naught pence, nada, zip, zilch!! We suggest checking it out first, and if you like the sound of it why not chuck them the price of a pint, everyone's a winner.  The album was recorded, mixed and produced by Dan Foord (of Sikth) at Lord and Manor studios, mastered by Russ Russell at Loud as Feck and features...