Cinders Fall!

Shaping up brutally this Autumn are Essex Bruisers Cinders Fall, who have just finished in the studio, are about the record their first full length video and are also about to embark on one truly exhaustive tour with Burning Skies...Check out http://www.myspace.com/cindersfall for more tour details!

Reth grind for Britain!!!

Upping the ante here at Anticulture are new grind rookies Reth! After obliterating this year's Obscene Extreme festival, we've been thoroughly looking forward to the upcoming October release of their critically acclaimed EP Precursors to Extinction! These guys gig relentlessly but their first official UK tour is due to take place in early 09. So keep your eyes peeled and your face to the (ahem) grindstone for info!

http://www.myspace.com/reth
http://www.anticulture.co.uk

Nailed - THE Only British Death Metal Contenders?!

...and so to kneel at the alters of madness! The death metal pantheon will be jostling for position with the arrival of Nailed onto Anticulture's books! And with an album like Hatred, Failure and the Extinction of Mankind, your taste for brutality will be much sated and we're quite sure it'll ruffle a few iconic feathers to boot! Have a gander at their album art, it certainly leads you down the left hand path! Set for early November release!

http://www.myspace.com/naileddeathmetal

USA Anticulture PODCAST!!!

Out October 13th Available at all good record store and online!

Anticulture's two hour extravaganza that exploded onto the American airwaves yesterday afternoon can be listened to here -

www.podomatic.com and look for Sensi or Anticulture, also check -
http://dj-sensi.podomatic.com/entry/2008-09-28T23_28_00-07_00

It's amazing to hear all our artists played back to back and it all sounds so brutal! We're very happy! Thank you JFL and DJ Sensi!

Featured bands - Nailed, The Grieving Process, Gutworm, Gloomy Grim, Evisorax, Tangaroa, Corporation 187, Infected Malignity!

Watch out for the last Sunday of every month on JFLmetal as it's Anticulture time!!! 3-5pm! http://www.jflmetal.com http://www.anticulture.co.uk
Coming soon - Reth and Cinders Fall!!!

Tangaroa and Evisorax - WARNING! INCREDIBLE TOUR!

Finally a British tour to get your teeth into, that won't cost you an arm and a leg! Or compromise other essential body parts (unless you really want it to?!)
Anticulture titans Tangaroa will be touring the UK with main support from new Anticulture upstarts Evisorax this October! These two bands will tear British Metal a new one!!! Come share the savagery at the following venues!






Friday 24th - TBC
Sat 25th - Tudor house, Wigan.
Sunday 26th - The Turks head, Lincoln.
Mon 27th - Purple Turtle, Camden.
Tues 28th - TBC
Wed 29th - South Wales TBC
Thurs 30th - Racehorse, Northampton.
Friday 31st - The Borough, Sunderland

For tour updates and info please visit http://www.myspace.com/uglypeoplebreedfast http://www.myspace.com/evisorax

Tangaroa's first full length album, One Hand for the Knife, One Hand for the Throat is released Oct 13th! Evisorax's brand new EP, Enclave, will be available on tour! Miss it and miss out!

SLIT annihilate the UK!!!

The time is nearly upon us! Maltese metal maniacs SLIT will be tearing Blighty a new one with their imminent October tour!!!
Come witness the carnage at the following venues!


2nd October - The Racehorse, Northampton w/ Hang The Bastard + Held Beneath + Black Skull Squadron
3rd October - TBA
4th October - Meltdown Festival @ The Asylum, Birmingham w/ Godsize + Taint + more
5th October - The Rising Sun, Reading

http://www.myspace.com/slitnoise http://www.anticulture.co.uk

Tangaroa's first full length studio album, One hand for the knife, one hand for the throat, will be hitting the shelves on October 13th! The clamouring of the metal hordes is reaching it's zenith as they've been gnashing at their collective bits during the band's three year sabbatical, hotly anticipating their new release...

And as if this delectable album wasn't enough, fans get to double their pleasure with the chance to see them headlining their first UK tour at the following venues -



24th Oct - Star & Garter, Manchester
25th Oct - The Tudor House, Wigan
26th Oct - The Fenton, Leeds
27th Oct - The Purple Turtle, Camden town
28th 0ct - Nottingham - TBA
29th Oct - TBA
30th Oct - The Racehorse, Northampton
31th oct - The Borough, Sunderland

Please check their respective sites for tour info and details - http://www.myspace.com/uglypeoplebreedfast, http://www.myspace.com/evisorax and http://www.anticulture.co.uk

Gloomy Grim blackens the summer!!!

After the release of their latest album, Under The Spell Of The Unlight, through Anticulture Records, Gloomy Grim has parted ways with original guitarist Mörgöth. His replacement is axeman occultist, Father Umbra Sol.

The founder of Gloomy Grim has stated the following: " Problems have existed
for a long time. Working with Mörgöth has been difficult day to day, but recently it has become impossible. This decision wasn't easy, but has
absolutely been the right one. It has cleared the air in a very positive way.
This had to be done, otherwise the band would have been dead, finished. We
didn..t come out of this as friends. The reason was not musical
differences or anything like that. To me, Mörgoth is DEAD!"

Witness the Unlight this summer at the following shows!!!!

Baltic Invasion 2008 mini tour & Ferrum Rust Fest!!! Featuring the evil likes of HATE (Pol) + RASTA (Blr) + GLOOMY GRIM (Fin) + GRENOUER (Rus) +>
ILLIDIANCE (Rus)

14.8 Brutal Assault Festival http://brutalassault.edgedesig..n.cz/
05.09 - Tallinn(Estonia) "TBA"
06.09 - Vilnius (Lithuania) "FERRUM RUST FEST"
07.09 - Riga (Latvia) "Mielna Piektdiena"


Please note: the views of the artist are not necessarily the views of the label.

RETH at Obscene Extreme Festival!!!

Next weekend heralds one of Europe's most heavy and uncompromising open air events, that of the mighty Obscene Extreme festival in the Czech republic!

If you're lucky enough to be going, Anticulture's very own explosive grindsters RETH will be hitting the stage Saturday 12th July at 2.15pm with their Herculean performance so don't miss it!!!

New Tangaroa track uploaded!!

Tangaroa are coming, and their fucking up your head!

The congregation of extreme bands formed each year, all hoping to catch the attention of the discerning metalhead, are more often than not ignored in a sea of cliché riffs and tired arrangements. But every now and again, a band stands out amongst the masses. One that turns heads and garners nods of approval.

That band is Tangaroa.

Formed in 1998 in the north of England, they tore their way through several EP releases and it is the time for them to unleash their bastardized form of prog-grind-jazz-metal in the guise of a full length release; One hand for the knife, One hand for the throat.

Coming to you on 09/09/08 'One Hand For The Knife, One Hand For The Throat' takes everything done before, puts it in the barrel of a gun, and blows your face off! The track 'D'ya Hear That Wolf' is now available here with the only description being.. indescribable! One has to listen to this aural madness to at least attempt to define it, let alone understand it. With virtuosity well on display throughout Tangaroa truly match their 'progressive' tag, rather than some to who a few flashy guitar runs is enough.

Tangaroas previous 'creations' have been well received with Kerrang awarding 'Day' a 4/5 review describing the release as a 'Warped musical head-fuck' and 'Unlike anything you've heard before' and this tradition is brought forward to 'One Hand For The Knife, One Hand For The Throat. '

Tangaroa's myspace page (found here) contains the aforementioned new track, as well as artwork preview for 'One Hand For The Knife, One Hand For The Throat'.

Make sure you experience the new tune!

!!!GUTWORM, THE GRIEVING PROCESS & EVISORAX TOUR!!!

Do not miss out on this awesome tour! Catch Gutworm, The Grieving Process & Evisorax on tour across the country at the following dates:

Weds 18 June - Junktion 7, Nottingham
Thurs 19 June - The Racehorse, Northampton - with The Atrocity Exhibit
Friday 20 June - The Giffard Arms, Wolverhampton
Sat 21 June - The Attik, Rushden - Evisorax not at this show
Sunday 22 June - Leeds, Rios
Monday 23 June - The Voodoo Rooms, Sunderland - with Dawn of Chaos

!!!SUPPORT YOUR SCENE!!!

www.myspace.com/gutworm www.myspace.com/thegrievingprocess www.myspace.com/evisorax

!!!Tangaroa new full length album!!!

!!! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE !!!

TANGAROA ALBUM RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED!!

Finally...the wait is nearly over! If you were crying over how deliciously short "Day" was, then Tangaroa's first full length album, mastered by WellerHill Productions, "One Hand for the Knife, One Hand for the Throat" will be released through Anticulture Records on September 8th 2008! It will blow your mind! A progressive colossus of a record, it's uncompromising demeanor is beautiful in its construct and trust us, the term crushingly heavy doesn't even come close! Here's what guitarist Baldi had to say!

"When you finally get your hands on this album it will be dripping with blood sweat and tears! We could have given up so many times but the simple fact that we are so proud of what we have achieved on this album kept us going. Tangaroa, bouncing back!!”

Taking their name from a Polynesian sea-god, Tangaroa are a truly unique hybrid of experimental extreme metal and progressive grind. An abhorrent amalgamation of virtuoso technical abilities and incendiary metal riffs that combine a wealth of styles from black metal, grindcore, hardcore and jazz, and push back the boundaries and concepts of song structures, offering a defiant middle finger response to the current wave of tech-metal pretenders to the throne.

"...a warped musical head-fuck that's certainly metal but quite unlike any you've heard before" - Kerrang!

"Drumming that keeps a solid and often unconventional beat, bipolar vocals that scream and growl as hard as they can, disjointed songs in which structures are played with to the extreme, and utterly staggering guitar work" - Edinburgh Metal Scene.

You can find more information about Tangaroa, and about 'One Hand For The Knife, One Hand For The Throat' then you can check them out on Myspace here!
or on the websites below.

www.tangaroa.org.uk www.anticulture.co.uk

Anticulture Records sign RETH!!!

ANTICULTURE RECORDS SIGN RETH


Get your face to the grindstone, RETH are coming...! "Precursors to Extinction" 9 tracks of out n out grind - released Autumn 2008!


'Reth are dead pleased to be joining forces with Anticulture. We're looking forward to the official release of 'Precursors to Extinction' and to making more ridiculous grind!" bassist Paulie P, Reth.


"Everyone's been excited about Reth and their particular brand of northern grind for ages. I'm really looking forward to working with them on this record - cant wait for the album!' - Jaz, Anticulture Records

Check em out here! and at the Obscene Extreme Festival

here!

'Reth are one of the best, if not the best grind band about today and this release will be heralded as a classic in the future'
Born in Blood Zine

'Supreme Musical Ugliness from Yorkshire Grinders!'
Kerrang!

'As subtle as a jar of hydrochloric acid flung into a child's face. Reth are a true UK force to be reckoned with on the worldwide scene.'
Load of Noise Zine

'the soundtrack to a firework party in a bomb factory.'
Deranged Epidemic

"Wow...I thought Meat Sandwich by Gwar was sh*t but this makes it look like f*cking Metallica... ... I feel sorry for their next door neighbours" - Kornography, Download forum 18 April 08


Check em out...
31st May - Wakefield The Jockey - FREE GIG.
10 Jun 2008 - ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OLIVER'S BAR
12 Jul 2008 - OBSCENE EXTREME FESTIVAL! TRUTNOV, CZECH REPUBLIC w/ Macabre, ENT, CBT, Agathocles, Splitter, Isacaarum + many more - http://www.obsceneextreme.com
26 Jul 2008 - DAVEFEST, NORTH YORKSHIRE - w/ Madman is Absolute http://www.myspace.com/davefestuk
9 Aug 2008 - ESSEXFEST SOUTHEND, THE RAILWAY
23 Aug 2008 - DERBY, FIRST FLOOR CLUB
20 Sep 2008 - BLASTONBURY FESTIVAL - NEWCASTLE THE COOPERAGE -
5 Oct 2008 - ROTTINGHAM FESTIVAL, NOTTINGHAM, OLD ANGEL - w/ Ted Maul,
4-12 April 2009 - UK Tour with My Cross To Bare.

The New Heavy! New signings Evisorax tear up the Anticulture camp!

Wow!

You think you're ready for the heavy?! then check out Anticulture's new signings, Evisorax, who grind it to a whole new level!...a boot stamping on the human face forever would be a blessing against this mighty colossus of a band!

Music to make your face melt! Check em out

here

Check out awesome new video from Corporation 187!

"My Sickness", the exhilarating brand new video

Cinders Fall sign to Anticulture!!!

We at Anticulture Records are very proud to announce that Cinders Fall, the UK metalcore behemoths, have signed with us!!!

Whilst we eagerly await the arrival of their blistering new album, recorded by Stampin Ground's musical genius Scott Atkins, check them out here!

Just so as you don't miss out on some incredible metal, check out the following gig dates to witness their colossal live performances!

10 April 08 - The Black Horse, Birmingham
11 April 08 - Chinnery's, Southend on Sea
16 April 08 - The Shed, Leicester w/Sylosis
17 April 08 - Bar Acardemy, Islington, London w/Sylosis
18 April 08 - The Park, Peterborough w/Sylosis
19 April 08 - Queen Charlotte, Norwich w/Sylosis
20 April 08 - Barfly, Cambridge, w/Sylosis
21 April 08 - The Twist, Colchester, w/Sylosis
25 April 08 - The Square, Harlow
21 May 08 - UK Tour with Malefice - venues tba
5 June 08 - Rock City, Nottingham

SLIT EURO TOUR

Ultra Brutal Sludge Machine, SLIT, is back for a new EUROPEAN TOUR. See the band live in April including Festivals and Headline gigs. "Ode to silence" is still available on Anticulture records. See the band video clip here : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=q0yXCcJP05Y 

EURO TOUR 2008 

18 avr. Remedy- Peaceville (Malta) 

25 avr. La Crypta - Ourense (ES) 

26 avr. SWR barroselas metalfest XI (Portugal) 

27 avr. Barracudas Club-Madrid (ES) 

30 avr. Hotel de la musique 4 - Marseille (FR) 

1 mai .TBA -Torino (IT) 2 mai .Tomasini Club-Lenzburg (CH) 

3 mai .Fuck The Commerce Festival-Altes Lager (DE) 

4 mai .De Baroeg-Rotterdam (NL)

www.myspace.com/slitnoise

Corporation 187's almighty album released today!!!

Today heralds the release of Corporation 187's brand new album "Newcomers of Sin" on Anticulture Records,signaling a new and dark dawn as it cuts a melodic death swath through the global metal scene, with its creeping infection of slow, heavy, dark, hard-edged death/thrash that'd cause Carnal Forge or The Haunted to spend a long hour cuddling a cushion, dribbling and rocking back and forth!
Check it out here!!!

Corporation 187 : KERRANG Review!

KKKK
"Band names don't come much worse than Corporation 187.  Fortunately for them, Swedish melodic death metal doesn't come much better either.  Discarding some of the more traditional approaches to the genre, Newcomers of Sin terrorises and explodes with near perfect execution.  Impeccable drumming throughout impresses, but what really steals the show is the infusion of Tool-esque riffs and dynamics to their thrash/death metal blueprint.  It's an exhilarating and frequently brutal concoction that gets better with every listen"

The Grieving Process annilhilating Europe!

The Grieving Process will be annihilating Europe this summer, sledge-hammering the following venues...

8 June - Paris Death Feast @ La Locomotive
12 June - 14 June - Deathfeast Open Air Festival, Hunxe, Germany
15 June - Vapeur w/Dying Fetus, Dijon, France.
16 June - Secret place w/Dying Fetus, Montpellier, France.

More dates to come so check them out here!

Gloomy Grim to play Brutal Assault Festival!

The evil beast that is Gloomy Grim will be casting it's devastating shadow over this year's mighty Brutal Assault Festival in the Czech Republic! Miss it and miss out! Check them out here!


Also playing Despised Icon, Mayhem, Cradle of Filth, Entombed, Carcass and many more! Check them out here!

Gloomy Grim reveals album name & cover!

Horror Black Metal Monsters are back with a new album out in May 2008.

This is the return of the satanic messiah Agathon and his legion of doom!

"Under the Spell of the Unlight" will bring the band to a new level.

Check new demo songs and full cover at www.myspace.com/agathon666 

The Grieving Process: More gigs in Europe!

US Death Metal Assault will support DYING FETUS in France on June 2008.

See The Grieving Process live in Europe this summer:

Euro Tour:
12 Jun 2008 DEATH FEAST OPEN AIR Hünxe, GERMANY
13 Jun 2008 DEATH FEAST OPEN AIR Hünxe, GERMANY
14 Jun 2008 DEATH FEAST OPEN AIR Hünxe, GERMANY

15 Jun 2008 Dijon - Vapeur - France + DYING FETUS

16 Jun 2008 Montpellier - Secret Place - France + DYING FETUS

NAILED Signs With ANTICULTURE RECORDS

Anticulture Records has announce the signing of Yorkshire, UK's
very own "Florida-esque" metal machine NAILED. The group's new
album, entitled "Hatred, Failure & The Extinction of Mankind", is scheduled for release in May.

Commented the band: "To say we're we're pleased to join forces with
Anticulture would be a huge understatement. We've made an album
that we're hugely proud of in 'Hatred, Failure & The Extinction of
Mankind' and Anticulture can get it to people and places that we
never could have hoped for. When it's released prepare for
destruction the world over, because we won't be slouching on this
one folks!"

Upcoming NAILED shows:
Feb. 29 - The Brief, Croydon
Mar. 08 - Snooty Fox Fest, Wakefield
Apr. 19 - Voodoo Lounge, Dublin (w/ SUFFOCATION)
Apr. 20 - An Cruiscin Lan, Cork (w/ SUFFOCATION)

www.myspace.com/naileddeathmetal

Machinochrist Albums Streaming From Last FM

All of the back catalogue is now available either to download (free ep's) or as full length track previews ("Escape from Woolwich Arsenal") from Last.fm. Click the title of this post for a taste of the aural madness that is Machinochrist!

The Grieving Process news

Amercian bad ass, The grieving Process from New-Jersey, will be on the road again to mosh and destroy everyone.

USA tour part 2:
1 Mar 2008LOG CABIN Manchester, New Jersey
5 Mar 2008Championship bar and grill Trenton, New Jersey
8 Mar 2008The Local Highrise Baltimore, Maryland
9 Mar 2008The Pit lynichburg, Virginia
10 Mar 2008 LUCKYS PUB,WILMINGTON, North Carolina
14 Mar 2008 Bora Bora Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
15 Mar 2008 Indian Rock Lodge. Salina, Kansas
20 Mar 2008 Rockos Bar and Grill Manchester, New Hampshire
22 Mar 2008 Side Street Lounge Ozone Park, Queens, New York

more TBA

Euro Tour:
12 Jun 2008 DEATH FEAST OPEN AIR Hünxe, GERMANY
13 Jun 2008 DEATH FEAST OPEN AIR Hünxe, GERMANY
14 Jun 2008 DEATH FEAST OPEN AIR Hünxe, GERMANY

more TBA

SLIT - New drummer - New Tour

After almost 10 years SLIT and founding member drummer Gerald have parted ways on amicable terms ...Gerald's contribution to Slit has been of tremendous importance throughout these years both on a musical and a personal level. Slit would like to take this opportunity to wish Gerald best of luck in life and for his future

Meanwhile the band officially announces the new drummer Steve 'Cannibal' Muscat (Club Murder, ex-Lynch/GreenPiece)

The Next live show will be on March 16th at Poxxbar with German thrash giants DEW SCENTED

Corporation 187 to release a new video clip!

Message from the band!!

"Saturday, february 9th, 2008 we filmed for what is going to become our next video for the song "My sickness". Anders Carlborg - Explosiv Film andErrol Tanriverdi - ETmedia directed and filmed our moves and violent features. We have uploaded some pics from the videoshoot on our myspace (www.myspace.com/corporation187swe).
The video will be online in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned!"

Corporation 187 Release party & 1st review!

CORPORATION 187

Release Party for the new Corporation 187 album is March 8th in Linköping (Sweden).
Listen to one new track from "Newcomers of sin" at www.myspace.com/corporation187swe

1st review of the album available from BW&BK Magazine.

"A strange and unexpected brew, this. Almost entirely forgotten thanks to an over-populated scene and a dash of label neglect, Corporation187 have moved to aspirant UK indie Anticulture and produced by far their strongest album to date. Eschewing the overtly Slayer-ized melodic death tones of their first two full-lengths, the Swedes are showing their blackened roots a little more here, cooking up a hybrid assault that has as much in common with latter-day Marduk as it does with Carnal Forge. That means a greater emphasis on slower riffs and layers of menacing discord, with the expected bursts of brutal velocity used sparingly, ensuring maximum impact and devastation.There's even a touch of Enslaved-like anti-riff minimalism on the stately, atmospheric 'Procession'. It all marks a smart evolutionary step for these underdogs. On tracks like the restrained mid-tempo grind of 'Suffer As One', the scattershot dynamics of the title track and the wild and vicious 'Virus Nation', Corporation 187 sound like a band whose time has come."
DOM LAWSON [8.5] @ BW&BK Magazine

Malefice on Radio 1!!

Malefice on Radio 1!! Remember a few weeks ago, Malefice rampaged their way round Malta only to receive adoration from the locals as well as those who had travelled far and wide themselves, just to see the Reading metal-meisters in action?

Well, not only were the locals lucky enough to get to see the show, but Radio 1's very own Roving Rock Reporter, Katie P, joined Malefice for the ride. Last night's Radio 1 Rock show (click here!) included a feature on the gig, the band, the delights of Malta, and what everyone thought of the show (they loved it by the way!) then rounded the whole thing off nicely with a rousing rendition (OK, album version) of 'Risen Through The Ashes'!

It was so good we couldn't not give you all the link to listen again, so here it is! More proof again that UK metal band Malefice not only travel well, but they do it in style and in damn good company.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!

If that whets you appetite then you need not wait long before catching Malefice in the real-and-right-in-front-of-you flesh! December 18th sees that start of the Kerrang! Most Wanted Tour, with Malefice and Darkest Hour! Here's where to catch them:

January 18th - Aberdeen Barfly
January 19th - Glasgow Barfly
January 20th - York Fibbers
January 21st - Birmingham Barfly
January 22nd - Cardiff Barfly
January 23rd - Cambridge Barfly
January 24th - Brighton Barfly
January 25th - Camden Barfly, London

And they don't stop there!! Catch them on these dates for their headline slot with Cinders Fall:

January 30th - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
January 31st - Nottingham Rock City
February 7th - Plymouth, The White Rabbit
February 8th - Pontypridd, Toms Bar
February 9th - Swindon, The Furnace
February 15th - Peterborough, The Park

So, there's no excuse to go and see them because they're playing pretty much everything in the next few weeks!!

Visit their Myspace site for more info on the band, the Radio 1 Rock Show to listen again to the Malta special, and here to bag (buy) yourself a CD. It won't leave your stereo, it's THAT good 8)

Until our next rant....

Newcomers of Sin to be released 31st March!

Sweden's finest, Corporation 187 have confirmed that their hotly anticipated third album, 'Newcomers of Sin', will be released through Anticulture Records on 31st March 2008! Previews of the album have been uploaded to the bands Myspace page - click here to check it out!