Tag: metal

Phinehas goes full on riffing in this new behind the scenes video clip. The band is currently writing for their new album which will hopefully drop later this year. The band plays at the So What? Music Festival in Texas tomorrow. … Continued →

I’m excited to bring you this little IVM exclusive unboxing of the deluxe edition “Outlive” set that our writer Lee Brown just filmed. I have uploaded it to the IVM YouTube page so please check it out below and feel free to comment. Thanks Lee! … Continued →

Check out the lineup for the annual Vans Warped Tour, below. There are several artists we cover here playing this year’s edition of the tour. … Continued →

Welcome to our third edition of throwback reviews. I know it has been a couple weeks since the last one, so I hope you’re ready for a good one. Today’s feature is The Dawn Retreat, who have recently reunited with a new single. While the new single shows a progression in sound and lyrical maturity, I invite you to follow me back to 2011 to the release of their first album. Royalty is 11 tracks (well, 12 if you have the CD with the acoustic bonus track) of late-teen, mid-to-late 2000s angst.… Continued →

Detroit rock/punk outfit American Arson has announced a new EP, Waymaker, slated for a Mar. 31 release date, as well as an accompanying tour with with North Winds. Check out the full announcement and tour dates below. Waymaker is the first release of the band not included in the Origins Trilogy, and it’s sure to bring more of what we’ve grown to love about the duo. … Continued →

Read this review of Dire's "Volume 1"

No I’m not going to share this song with anyone BUT I do want to share the lyrics. This is a powerful Demon Hunter song both musically and lyrically. Bringing back that classic HEAVY Demon Hunter sound along with guitar solos and banging, hard charging percussion. I’m loving this song. You can still pre-order this insane new album right here and get ready for the return of Demon Hunter in just a few weeks.… Continued →

Introducing Embers of Earth, a metalcore solo project of Luke Carlisle from Northern Ireland. This new ep is available for name your price download on Bandcamp, listen to it below. Pretty good for a solo act. … Continued →

Matt & friends, of the band Spoken have been in the studio for the past few weeks laying down tracks for their 9th studio album. No new tracks yet but as soon as they are released, we’ll link to them. Get excited! … Continued →

Please read the following press release and consider picking up this compilation to support Dale’s family: Thursday February 9, 2017 the Christian Metal Community lost one of its most valuable players. Dale Huffman owner of Metal Pulse Radio succumbed to the cancer he had bravely been fighting the past couple of years. Dale was a family man, a great father, grandfather and husband to his wonderful family, as well as a great friend and supporter of many in the Christian Metal Community. Those friends and supporters truly showed their love of Dale when called upon for a very special tribute to him.… Continued →

Thumper Punk Records has released a special benefit compilation for Grave Robber singer and Rottweiler Records founder, Shawn Browning, to raise money for his medical expenses. The compilation titled “Kill The Ill” is a really cool one that features 80 tracks and spanning nearly 4 hours. Indie Vision Music is proud to have 3 songs on this compilation: Light The Way “BRKN”, Josiah “This Is The New War” (2017 Remaster), and Dismissed “Hard Day” (2017 Remaster). Check it all out below. … Continued →

Rottweiler Records has announced their first or three new bands. The band is called Thirteen Minutes. The band is from Tulsa, OK and formed in 2016. The band has a free song download and lyric video at HM Magazine. Go check these guys out and keep an eye out for the other two bands that Rottweiler will be announcing here soon. I believe the label will be announcing the second band tomorrow and the next on Saturday.… Continued →

This is Part 3 of the “Seth Hecox interviews Jason Wisdom” interview series. *Links to Parts 1 and Deux at the end of the interview.   Seth Jason, you’ve done a great job of telling us about your new project and album in the first 2 parts of our interview. Now we begin Part 3, for the wonderful online community at indievisionmusic and I’ve collected a few questions from members of that community and I’ll start off with one of their questions: Scott asks “I would like to know how he got into heavy Christian music.… Continued →

Heavy metal band, The Showdown, have recently joined Instagram (@theshowdownmetal) and have been posting throwback pics for the past few weeks. Are they hinting at a possible “reunion” and end to their hiatus? Is it a vinyl reissue of “Temptation Come My Way” (2007) with bonus tracks? Vinyl reissue of “A Chorus of Obliteration”? Something else entirely? Drop your guesses below.… Continued →

Death Therapy have released another song from their upcoming album “The Storm Before the Calm” which is to be released on February 24. You can watch the video for it below.… Continued →

Long time experimental and avant garde metal artists Kekal have launched upon us “Root of All Evil” as a free download. With a hefty 6:27 track time, this is showing us promise that their next album in 2018 will continue to blow us away with more innovation and creativity we’ve come to expect from this unique outfit. The album is entitled “Deeper Underground” and I personally can’t wait to hear more. Listen below and share your comments.… Continued →

In September of 2016, power metal band Signum Regis announced they would be releasing an EP this year. Well, they were in such a groove recording those initial 7 tracks that they decided not to ruin the mood and moved forward to make a full album. They’ve entered the studio and recorded 3 more songs to bring it to a total of 10 tracks clocking in at 46 minutes. This will be their 5th album overall. It is titled Decennium Primum and it will be released on March 17.… Continued →

It has been announced that Ohio’s prog/death band, BioGenesis, will release their long awaited 3rd album in March of this year. The album will be titled “A Decadence Divine” and will be released on Roxx Records. Their new song “Tears of God” can be heard below. Let us know what you think in the comments below and if you plan on picking this one up.… Continued →

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The Brazilian groove metal band Doomsday Hymn have started to work on a new album or EP. The band has been around 2012 with Vocalist Gil Lopes (ex-Delohim) and Drummer Jarlisson Jaty (ex-Survive) and have released an EP and a studio album, released via Rottweiler Records. The band has been hinting that something is coming since late 2016 and now they have made it official. Be on the lookout for this incredible band. Just a heads up, there are no English lyrics so it’s kind of hard to understand.… Continued →

Fleshkiller has announced that they have a new vocalist. The band started last year as a supergroup with members Ole Børud (Extol, Schaliach) and Peter Dalbakk (Vardoger, Schaliach) started the project and later added on Drummer Andreas Skorpe Sjøen. On January 10, 2017, Børud went to Facebook with a video of good news and bad news. Dalbakk is no longer apart of the band, as he is busy with life, but the band announced his replacement. The band has announced that Elisha Mullins of The Burial will be taking over vocals.… Continued →

On January 12, Solid State Records posted a cryptic video to their Facebook page which indicated that they’ll be signing another band this Thursday (January 19). They also posted a similar video earlier today. Check out both of the videos below and take a guess at which band they’ll be signing in the comments section. … Continued →

Spoken are busy at it once again and have begun tracking their new album. This will be the follow up to “Breathe Again” which released in 2015. Unfortunately recent guitarist/songwriter Scoop Roberts will be stepping away from the band after they record this new album. You can watch a video below detailing why. I think they need to bring back Jef Cunningham and go out on tour playing hits from their earlier 4 albums from 2000-2007. That’d be sweet!… Continued →

Matty Mullins, front man for the band Memphis May Fire, has indeed signed to BEC Recordings. He has released his new song titled “Unstoppable” (Feat. Jordan Feliz) which is getting radio play on Air 1 Radio Stations across the country. It doesn’t look like you can stream the song anywhere yet but if you have radio, tune in to Air1. A brand new solo album will release on the label this spring.… Continued →

Nashville-based metalcore/alternative metal act The Persuaded brings a heavy-yet-radio-friendly sound with overtly Christ-centered lyrics. Fans of Disciple, Project 86, and Spoken should definitely take a listen.

How common is metal in Asia? Does anyone know? The genre of metal is a rare one to say the least, especially over in Asia. Final Surrender is one of the pioneers of the genre there. The Progressive metalcore act has been working hard on this album. Their debut album, Empty Graves, was released 4 years ago. The album begins with the single “Nothing But Void”. The track brings elements of techno music, Progressive metalcore, and thrash metal. There is plenty of work going on with the drums and percussion.… Continued →

Thrash/metal legends Deliverance are back with a new album in 2017 and have just launched a crowd funding campaign via IndieGoGo for it. Check out the campaign here and contribute to make this project a reality. Deliverance 2017 features longtime lead vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Jimmy P Brown with Jim Chaffin (The Blamed, The Crucified, Fasedown) on Drums, and Victor Macias (Torniquet) on Bass. This projects promises to be “fast and heavy” and bring the thrash sound they’ve become world renown for. Find out more at this link.… Continued →

Settle the Sky has announced a reunion show AND is in the process of writing new songs. Keep an eye on their Facebook for more updates. For those unfamiliar with the band, check out one of their eponymous tracks below.

In 2016, I saw my tastes in music grow a bit more. This would account for why you’ll see some albums make an appearance on this list that, if you know me, you wouldn’t normally expect to see here. Overall, I thought it was a pretty good year for music, but a number of times some of the albums I was most excited about lost something after numerous listen throughs. This could account for why some albums (if you know me) you’d expect to see on my list are noticeably absent.… Continued →

Check out this new lyric video from Oh Sleeper called “Oxygen”! It’s been a while since we last heard from these guys! What do you guys think??  … Continued →