Photograph: © Owain Richards
It’s the day of the first show on the UK DARK TRANQUILLITY tour and we’re sat in the subterranean venue of the Cardiff Barfly while hundreds, if not thousands, of red jerseyed rugby fans, inebriated, cheer on their team above ground. In a little green room, we take time out to chat […]

OPETH vocalist, Mikael Åkerfeldt, has returned as vocalist for Swedish death metal supergroup BLOODBATH.
The following statement was released:
“So the time has come for Bloodbath to once again poison the scene with a contagious doze of über brutal death metal. An old acquaintance in this zombified bloodline has once again re-visited his old home. We can […]

The Bloodstock team are pleased to announce that Canadian death metal legends KATAKLYSM have been added to the bill for Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival 2008.
Kataklysm formed in Montreal in late 1991, releasing a demo entitled ‘Death Gate Cycle Of Reincarnation’ the following year which secured them a deal with Germany’s Nuclear Blast records. The […]

Polish death metallers BEHEMOTH have just announced that they’re signing to Nuclear Blast Records in Europe and Metal Blade Records in North America.
We are extremely proud to announce that Behemoth has inked a North American deal with Metal Blade Records and with Nuclear Blast for European territory. The band recently finished up an extremely […]

Metal Blade have issued the following statement from Californian death metal band CATTLE DECAPITATION:
We’re pleased to inform everyone that David McGraw(ex-Sleep Terror) is our new drummer! Things went great with him on the Death By Decibels tour and we will commence writing our next album with him starting next month! Our creative juices are beginning […]

OBITUARY have added a UK date to their forthcoming European tour. The death metal pioneers will end the Xecutioner’s Return Tour with a gig at London’s ULU on 3 February 2008, with support from Germany’s HOLY MOSES and Swedish melodic death metal band AVATAR. The tour will see the three bands play thirty dates across […]