SLAYER’s World Painted Blood artwork revealed

Slayer’s World Painted Blood, the band’s highly-anticipated new album set for a November 3 release (American Recordings), will initially ship with four special collector’s edition CD covers. Each of the four covers will display one-fourth of a provocative continental map illustrated with human skulls and bones; when placed together, the four images form a complete [...]

METAL MANIACS Magazine relaunches online

Metal Maniacs Magazine returns to a new online format after closing the doors to its print operation in February 2009.
Resurrected by the owner of Metalhit.com, with a site developed by Reh3 Design (www.reh3.com / www.mouthforwar.net), the new Metal Maniacs features regularly updated content and features from the latest in underground metal.
The site boasts an exhaustive [...]

KEKAL calls it quits, offers free downloads

Avant Garde metal band, KEKAL, are sadly no more. The band’s members called it quits after 14 years of existence. KEKAL started out as an extreme metal band but over the years their music progressed and diversified. Jeff and Leo, the only existing members of the band have left the band but decided to keep [...]

SLAYER reveals ‘World Painted Blood’ tracklisting

Slayer revealed track listing of their upcoming release ‘World Painted Blood‘. World Painted Blood is due out in October via American Recordings/Columbia Records and will feature the following tracks:
World Painted Blood
Unit 731
Snuff
Beauty Through Order
Hate Worldwide
Public Display Of Dismemberment
Human Strain
Americon
Psychopathy Red
Playing With Dolls
Not Of This God

GORGOROTH reveal new album cover tracklisting

Black metallers, GORGOROTH, have just revealed their ninth studio album Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt cover. The album is due in November through Regain Records.
Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt track listing:
01. Aneuthanasia
02. Prayer
03. Rebirth
04. Building a Man
05. New Breed
06. Cleansing Fire
07. Human Sacrifice
08. Satan-Prometheus
09. Introibo ad Alatare Satanas

SHRAPNEL’s debut album available for download

Bangalore based thrash metal band, SHRAPNEL, are giving away their excellent debut album ‘Intellectual Pursuit’ as free download at http://www.gimmesound.com/shrapnel

INFERNAL WRATH release debut album

Mumbai based death metal band, INFERNAL WRATH, release their debut album ‘Inside Of Me’ on Counter Culture Records. The long awaited debut release comes without much buzz or album gig trend.
The band describes the album as :
The band speaks about the path of self realization that is set to a backdrop of the events preceeding [...]

Listen to Krisiun’s Southern Storm Online

Metalkult, Guitarworld’s blog, is streaming Brazilian death metal Gods, Krisiun’s latest album, Southern Storm, online on their website. Tracklisting of the album is :

Slaying Steel (4:11)
Sentenced Morning (3:59)
Twisting Sights (4:05)
Minotaur (3:51)
Combustion Inferno (4:23)
Massacre Under The Sun (4:43)
Bleeding Offers (3:24)
Refuse / Resist (SEPULTURA cover) (3:00)
Origin Of Terror (4:05)
Contradictions Of Decay (4:08)
Sons Of Pest (4:47)
Black Wind (0:48)
Whore [...]

Heavy Metal Monk

(Photo courtesy Reuters)
Brother Cesare, a 62 year old monk from Milan hinterland, has a heart of metal and is the lead singer in a heavy metal band. The monk fell in love with metal some 15 years ago when he attended a Metallica concert. Brother Cesare, also known as Brother Metal, started playing and [...]

LOLMETAL

Similar to ICANHASCHEEZBURGER, Carlh, the author of blog the WAREHOUSE has put some funny quotes on the photos of Black / Death metal bands. Check out the photos and user submitted photos here and here