![[Heavy News] MACHINE HEAD Monumental 11th Album UNATØNED Out April 25th + Release Music Video For First Single 'UNBØUND'](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739945488031-E7GJVVGL90AVYYKOW814/machineheadcover.png)
[Heavy News] MACHINE HEAD Monumental 11th Album UNATØNED Out April 25th + Release Music Video For First Single 'UNBØUND'
Bay Area metal veterans Machine Head, one of the most omnipresent bands in the heavy collective consciousness, are back with 11th LP UNATØNED, dropping April 25th! Nothing’s been spared on their official press release for it either - there’s everything here from stream and music clip for title track as first single, a whole smorgasbord of physical/digital media pre-order options, statements from the band themselves and heaps more! Machine Farkin’ Head, mate!
![[Podcast] Ep. 35: Interview with BRETT CAMPBELL of PALLBEARER.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739267843987-9CMOZ8BKRXK0XSNUAGNI/pallbearercover.jpg)
[Podcast] Ep. 35: Interview with BRETT CAMPBELL of PALLBEARER.
Renowned doom metal merchants PALLBEARER make their return to Australia in March 2025 for an electrifying tour promising to deliver their signature blend of haunting melodies and crushing riffs. Joining them on all dates will be special guests UK doom metal titans CONAN. I was fortunate enough to catch up with vocalist/guitarist Brett Campbell earlier today. Check the link for full video interview, Spotify/alternative podcast platform audio-only versions, ticket links, tour dates and more!
![[Archive Review] Nest - ‘Metempsychosis’ LP.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739088176031-QYB02RWBLAQEI35X0N0A/a2700887671_10.jpg)
[Archive Review] Nest - ‘Metempsychosis’ LP.
This post has been through the wringer! Originally posted to Overdrive Music Magazine in 2019 (many thanks to Sebastian for permission to repost) in my time as Senior Contributor, it then made it onto our old blog in December ‘24 - right as our previous website met its’ demise. This is one well worth revisiting, however, as Nest’s bludgeoning LP Metempsychosis is an abrasive, expansive sludge/death metal bruiser that clearly stood the test of time.
![[Heavy News] THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Announce August 2025 Australian Tour](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738849675088-0B1CO2DYQ2EPHFLVY4U7/dillingercover.jpg)
[Heavy News] THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Announce August 2025 Australian Tour
MASSIVE! Absolutely massive! The Dillinger Escape Plan return from their prior hiatus to provide you lucky Aussie heavy-music-enjoyers another final opportunity to see their incredible, intense live show on our shores one last time! This one cannot be missed.
![[Heavy News] XOTH Announces U.S. West Coast Tour, Launching April 4th!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738655847256-RZCKXYGGVJRNXHBJENDW/xothbandphto.jpg)
[Heavy News] XOTH Announces U.S. West Coast Tour, Launching April 4th!
Seattle (WA) - Death/thrash/black metal futurists, XOTH, are thrilled to announce their U.S. West Coast Tour, beginning on Friday, April 4th in Tacoma, WA, where the band will share the stage with the legendary 3 Inches of Blood. Along the way, XOTH will join forces with a host of killer bands, including Starcourt, Street Cleaner, and Upon Stone. Check the link for you lucky-ducks in the US - full tour dates and much more!
![[Heavy News] GATES TO HELL Announces New Album DEATH COMES TO ALL Out March 21st + New Single, 'Next To Bleed', Streaming Now + Available As 7-Inch Vinyl](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737350790114-99VQK0865MBYA209V9AW/image007.jpg)
[Heavy News] GATES TO HELL Announces New Album DEATH COMES TO ALL Out March 21st + New Single, 'Next To Bleed', Streaming Now + Available As 7-Inch Vinyl
The ground quakes, the surface fractures, and a colossal force rises from the abyss: GATES TO HELL have returned to deliver their undeniable truth—Death Comes to All. The Louisville natives charge onto the heavy music scene with their second full-length which will be released March 21st via Nuclear Blast Records. Check the link for initial single ‘First to Bleed’, preorder links, exclusive merch opportunities and more!
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[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep.21: Interview with KYLE THOMAS, Guitarist/Vocalist of EXHORDER.
Note: This is an archival repost, originally posted to our now-defunct prior website (RIP old site 31.12.2024, sniff). Check the link for our March 2024 interview with Kyle Thomas, frontman, singer and guitarist for veteran US thrash-metallers Exhorder. In the episode we cover a whole smorgasbord of topics - almost too many to mention! See also: artist links/bio details, a statement from the band regarding newest LP Defectum Omnium and more.
![[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 14 (Interview) James 'Human Furnace' Bulloch, Vocalist of RINGWORM Talks New Album, Touring, Creative Process](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1736670617984-J3063VZUA13R1BII1QGP/ringworm2023c.jpg)
[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 14 (Interview) James 'Human Furnace' Bulloch, Vocalist of RINGWORM Talks New Album, Touring, Creative Process
See here for our interview with vocalist James ‘Human Furnace’ Bulloch from 2023, from our sadly now-defunct website (RIP). On the rarest of occasions, there comes along a band that latches on and annihilates your ears with such a unique combination of sounds, you find yourself dislodged from the monotony of every-day music, and rooted firmly in the terrain of admiration. Cleveland Ohio’s Ringworm are no strangers to this concept and have been fascinating metalheads with their unorthodox melodies for over 30 years.
![[Heavy News] THE CIMMERIAN's ‘An Age Undreamed Of’... Out Now and Streaming!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1736652156847-T4JLBU015XDY0JLBP71W/bandpicfinal2024.png)
[Heavy News] THE CIMMERIAN's ‘An Age Undreamed Of’... Out Now and Streaming!
(ISC Heavy News, 13.01.25) - Los Angeles (CA) - Doom/Thrash trio THE CIMMERIAN set a crushing tone for the new year with today's release of An Age Undreamed Of..., the band's first full-length album! This rogue set conjures images of high adventure and mayhem with an aggressive mix of sludgy-based rumblings, caustic fuzz-filled riffs, and sonorous war drumming that recalls High on Fire, among others.
![[Heavy News] Open Kasket Releasing ‘Trials of Failure Album’ February 7 via Barbaric Brutality.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1736650429563-A07BSNVTP4IR7J6RLZZW/Promo+Pic.jpg)
[Heavy News] Open Kasket Releasing ‘Trials of Failure Album’ February 7 via Barbaric Brutality.
Little Rock, Arkansas Beatdown Death Metal Horde, Open Kasket, will release their debut full-length album, Trials of Failure, on February 7 on digital platforms and physical media, inc. cassette! The album comes courtesy of Barbaric Brutality Records. This news piece delivered with care of Clawhammer PR, straight to the Heavy News desk. Lots more comin’. Stay tuned.
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[Archive Review] - Cannibal Corpse: Unimagined Violence.
Archive review of Cannibal Corpse’s blazing full-length Unimaged Violence. This was originally posted to now-defunct music journalism online outlet Insert Review Here, then my own sadly-also-goner ISC.com. Check out this extreme metal bruiser of a review once more right here on the new site!
Review - Cannibal Corpse: ‘Violence unimagined’ (03.11.22).
Archival review from our sadly now-defunct isc.com prior website, and in turn reproduced from my time as a writer for the also sadly-defunct Insert Review Here. This is a review of the Cannibal Corpse LP 'Violence Unimagined.