Die! Once more, Die!

Our friends Die, from Denmark, are planning to hit the studio for their second album in fall of 2011. If you ask me, this is absolutely great news. Their debut album, Rise Of The Rotten, didn’t just get a very positive review from me, it was definitely one of the greatest Death Metal albums of 2010.

To quote myself from that very review, I said that “I can’t wait to hear what these guys have planned for their second album” and it seems like I’m about to find out next year. Read this following press-release for more info:

“DIE is currently working on their second album which has yet to be named.
They are planning on entering the studio in the fall of 2011 and are aiming for a spring/summer 2012 release.
Just as their last effort ‘Rise of the Rotten’ the album will be released by legendary brutal death metal label Unique Leader Records.
The band will be handling all recording themselves and a producer is yet to be decided upon.

As recordings begin a video diary will be filmed so stay tuned for more brutality.”

Sounds great to me. Now, if you tell me that you aren’t familiar with Die, shame on you! Read our interview with Die’s vocalist Søren Christensen, get Rise Of The Rotten, bang your fucking head and prepare to look forward to this upcoming, second album as much as I do.

Pestilence frontman an articulate man

The mainman of Dutch Death Metallers Pestilence, Patrick Mameli, was recently interviewed by Blistering.com.

Some of the excerpts of the interview can be found over at Blabbermouth. Patrick talked about some really interesting stuff regarding the band (zzzzz), but the only thing that’s going to make headlines is that he expressed his wish that he could beat up ‘any fucking person on Blabbermouth’.

Nice bloke.

Pestilence‘s new album, Doctrine, is being released in North America on July 19 via Mascot Records.

Yes… it’s that time… Headlines!

Is ‘Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?’ an album you really enjoy?  If so, go over to AOL and stream the remastered version. I’ve listen to a few of the remastered songs and they sound great! If you don’t own the album, I suggest buying it because a) it rules and b) you can’t go wrong with a lot of bonus tracks!

Jag Panzer lost a guitar player. No, not the one that we interviewed earlier this year – it was the other dude. Christian Lasegue (pictured above) left the band for “college studies.” ‘The Scourage of the Light‘ is one of the best albums of 2011, so it sucks when a band as good as Jag Panzer doesn’t sell much. Oh well, that happens a lot in the metal world.

Fair To Midland posted an acoustic three song set. One of the songs can be viewed it here. My apologies for posting this.

Puscifer recently debuted their new single ‘Man Overboard’ from their upcoming new album, ‘Conditions of My Parole‘, over at Spin. Come on, Maynard! Enough of this Puscifer junk!  No one likes this project. Be kind to your fans and release new Tool or A Perfect Circle albums.

Photo credit: U. Bechstein

Review: Masada – Suffer Mental Decay

It’s been a while since we’ve last posted a review, so I decided to tackle a really long album this time. I’m only kidding. Masada’s first demo, Suffer Mental Decay, only has two songs but why would that hold me back from reviewing it? Two awesome songs can be better than twenty awful songs, right? Is this the case with this demo? Make the jump to find out.

(And don’t bitch. Short intros for short demos. That’s how it works.)

Today’s Dose of Metal: Pantera

Remember this? I decided I’m gonna post, from time to time, a song from one of the bands mentioned in that day’s news.

DThis time it’s Pantera‘s turn, because of that awkward Phil interview below. Don’t be fooled by the Kiss thumbnail, it’s really Panfuckingtera.

Anyway, I love this song. I’m not a Reinventing The Steel fan at all, but this song kicks ass. Just listen to the riffs. Linkin Park would have made two albums out of the amount of riffs played in this single song.

The video is pretty funny, too. Albeit a bit cheesy, but that small Dimebag kid always puts a smile on my face (not in that way, sickos!).