Anticipating WHILE HEAVEN WEPT live CD/DVD boxset…

Virginia’s epic doom unit WHILE HEAVEN WEPT will be releasing their first live album via  Cruz Del Sur Music, on November 20, 2010. The material on the album was pulled from a 24-track audio capture of WHILE HEAVEN WEPT‘s performance at the Hammer Of Doom Festival in Würzburg, Germany on February 6th, 2010.

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The master was synchronized to the pro-shot multi-camera footage, resulting in the band’s very first DVD. The end product, “Triumph:Tragedy:Transcendence – Live At The Hammer Of Doom Festival”, will be released as a CD/DVD set, showcasing both high quality audio and video evidence of the monumental performance. Read more “Anticipating WHILE HEAVEN WEPT live CD/DVD boxset…”

SLOUGH FEG “The Animal Spirits” finally available in Europe!


SLOUGH FEG “The Animal Spirits” is finally available in Europe on CD through Cruz Del Sur Music! San Francisco’s metal masters’ last effort is whetever you might expect from a SLOUGH FEG platter, and even more… the press has already responded enthusiastically to this new full-lenght, probably the most complete the band released to date:

The Animal Spirits will hopefully alleviate a least a little bit of these sad facts, because it’s quite simply one of, if not THE band’s best effort to date. Again, while most obsessive Slough fans have their own personal preferences—2000’s Down Amongst the Deadmen, for example—what The Animal Spirits does so wonderfully is encompass all of the band’s myriad talents into one cohesive, well-flowing album. Emotional guitar playing from Scalzi and Angelo Trigali incorporates everything from moving Irish melody—a la Thin Lizzy—to a gritty, streetwise urban vibe reminiscent of early Maiden or even Running Wild. What the album really succeeds at, however, is filtering this through some ace songwriting; a level at which Slough Feg has never truly achieved or operated on before…at least not for quite some time.” from heavymetal.about.com Read more “SLOUGH FEG “The Animal Spirits” finally available in Europe!”

ATLANTEAN KODEX makes it ROCK HARD GERMANY Record of the Month!!!

We are extremely proud to announce that ATLANTEAN KODEX “The Golden Bough” made it ROCK HARD’s Germany Record of the Month!! It is with great excitement that we announce this, and we are  very proud that one of the most influential metal magazines in Germany recognized the value and power of their own best heavy metal band!! The Bavarian combo has finally taken its own land by storm, and “The Golden Bough” is the living proof of this achievement. Click on the picture to read the full review, in German, of course. Many thanks to Michael for the scans!!

This is a scan of ROCK HARD’s soundcheck where every writer is giving the record his own vote. If you still haven’t purchased the album, the humble suggestion is to do it now, so that in a few years you will probably be able to tell your friends “I got it when it first came out and that first edition now is one of the jewels of my record collection”. Do not think twice!!