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Kreator recently announced 2 shows back-to-back in New York, but the Teutonic Thrash legends have announced a single Southern California date a few California dates a full freakin tour to continue pushing their Phantom Antichrist! But that’s not all, OVERKILL will co-headline with WARBRINGER tagging along to crush your face! Dates and Headliners: 10/30/13 Soundstage – Baltimore, MD *KREATOR headlines* ... Read More »

owdy, Paul here, following up my review of the fantastic Unwelcome, with an interview with frontman James Malone of the metal band Arsis. Arsis is a well-established band from Virginia Beach, having hit the scene with their 2004 debut, A Celebration of Guilt, playing a more technical style of melodic death metal. The band features not only one, but two ... Read More »

hen I saw that Avantasia was due to release a new album I was immediately interested in giving it a listen as I have always found Tobias Sammet to be an excellent singer, and one of the only singers I have heard to sound like Bruce Dickinson). His other band Edguy, I always thought was made up of talented musicians ... Read More »

Southern California’s own folk metal fury, Helsótt, is proud to debut their first video here on DMK.  We gave their EP Fólkvangr a solid review last year, so check it out and pick up a copy! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMrfShr55c] Formed Feb 1st 2010 Helsótt is a melding of American Thrash/Death and Pagan Metal. Very melodic and very brutal music sets the pace for a high energy ... Read More »

Swedish progressive melodic death metal icons SCAR SYMMETRY will return to the North American continent once again with November/December with “The Unseen Empire” North American Tour 2012! Commented guitarist Per Nilsson: “It is with great joy that we can finally make it official: next month we’ll return to North America for our very first North American headlining tour! No more thirty or forty minute sets; this ... Read More »

After seeing the announcement of the Lamb of God/Dethklok tour with Gojira, all of us at DMK were pretty excited.  But then of course, poor Randy Blythe had that whole fiasco in the Czech Republic resulting in Lamb of God dropping from the tour.  LoG recently announced a new tour with In Flames and Sylosis/Hellyeah but we were still wondering what ... Read More »

Swiss new wave of folk metal pioneers ELUVEITIE and Finnish epic metallers WINTERSUN, will co-headline a North American tour this Winter! The trek will commemorate ELUVEITIE’s 10th anniversary as well as serve asWINTERSUN’s introduction to North American shores. This momentous event will also include the German pagan metal band VARG. “We are very excited to tour US and Canada for the first time in November/December, ” ... Read More »

Melodic Death/Folk Metal band Ensiferum is setting out to conquer Europe, as they tour on their new album Unsung Heroes! Along with this incredible band, Finnish groove metal band Profane Omen and Finnish melodic metal band (also known as Classic Rock of The 21st Century) Amoral are to support Ensiferum on this tour. This tour has a great amount of ... Read More »

Amoral: One of Finland’s most unique bands to ever come into the metal spotlight. Having 3 technical death metal albums, and 2 melodic albums, this band has some of the most diversity than any other metal act out there. Some people feel that Amoral is not the same band they once were. This is technically true, due to Ben Varon ... Read More »

Another Folk Metal review? Why of course! However this time I’m reviewing a lesser known band.  It’s this small little group from Finland that’s just starting to get a following…Ensiferum is it?  Sarcasm aside, I was thrilled to be able to give this album a whirl.  Ensiferum is arguably the most recognized band in the Folk Metal genre, and that’s ... Read More »