Organizatorji češkega festivala Brutal Assault sporočajo manjše spremembe v letošnjem naboru nastopajočih skupin. Zaradi razpada skupine M.O.D. bodo njihovo mesto prevzeli Dr. Living Dead, medtem ko so Evergreen Terrace, Rings Of Saturn in Cattle Decapitation odpovedali svoj nastop. Zamenjali jih bodo Pro-Pain, Horse The Band, Monuments ter Hour Of Penance. Poleg omenjenih skupin se bodo letošnji ediciji festivala na novo pridružili še Neglected Fields, poljski Outre ter švedski Victims.

Serpent Venom bodo 27. junija pri založbi The Church Within Records izdali novi album Of Things Seen & Unseen, ki ga je produciral Chris Fielding (Electric Wizard, Conan, Capricorns, Taint, Coltsblood, Bast). Po odhodu kitarista Petea Foxa bo to njihov prvi studijski izdelek, na katerem sodeluje Roland Scriver (Sloth, End Of Level Boss). Tracklista je sledeča:
The Penance You Pay
Sorrow’s Bastard
Death Throes At Dawn
The Lords Of Life
I Awake
Let Them Starve
Pilgrims Of The Sun
Burning Free
/B.B./

Tukaj lahko v celoti slišite prihajajoči album zahodnih sosedov Hour Of Penance z naslovom Regicide, ki bo izšel prihodnji teden. /P.G./

Hour Of Penance so objavili skladbo Desecrated Souls s prihajajočega albuma z naslovom Regicide, ki bo izšel sredi maja in vseboval naslednje komade:
Through the Triumphal Arch
Reforging the Crowns
Desecrated Souls
Resurgence of the Empire
Spears of Sacred Doom
Sealed into Ecstasy
Redeemer of Atrocity
Regicide
The Sun Worship
The Seas of Light
Theogony
/P.G./

Ekstremni death metalci Hour Of Penance predstavljajo, v obliki lyric videa, nov komad Resurgence of the Empire, ki se bo nahajal na prihajajočem albumu z naslovom Regicide. /Z.K./

Italijanski death metal ekstremneži Hour Of Penance bodo 12. maja pri Prosthetic Records izdali nov dolgometražni album z naslovom Regicide. /Z.K./

Založbi Prosthetic Records in Metal Blade Records ob koncu leta ponujata brezplačen download svojih kompilacij.

Prosthetic Records Winter Sampler 2012:
Holy Grail - Dark Passanger
Ancient VVisdom - Deathlike
Castle - Corpse Candles
Zodiac - A Bit Of Devil
Skeletomwitch - This Horrifying Force (The Desire To Kill)
Mutilation Rites - Fogwarning
Ambassador Gun - Wounded Knee
Black September - Rabid Hunger
Hour Of Penance - Enlightnend Submission
Dew-Scented - Sworn To Obey
Primitive Weapons - Quitters Anthem
Junius - All Shall Float
Heaven's Cry - Compass
Felix Martin - The Triangle Tune (Live)

Metal Blade Records Highlights 2012:
As I Lay Dying - Cauterize
Between The Buried And Me - Telos
Cannibal Corpse - Demented Aggression
Cattle Decapitation - A Living, Breathing Piece Of Defecating Meat
Whitechapel - Hate Creation
Job for a Cowboy - Nourishment Through Bloodshed
Gypsyhawk - Hedgeking
Goatwhore - When Steel And Bone Meet
Six Feet Under - Formaldehyde
Allegaeon - Tartessos: The Hidden Xenocryst
Aeon - Aeons Black
Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua (Live)
Abiotic - To Burgeon And Languish
Downfall Of Gaia - In The Rivers Bleak
/B.B./

High On Fire, Dream Death, Penance, Ash Borer, Fell Voices, The Atlas Moth, Psychic TV/PTV3 in Raketkanon so nove potrjene skupine za festival Roadburn 2013, ki bo potekal od 18. do 21. aprila v Tilburgu na Nizozemskem. /B.B./

Italijanska death/thrash metal zasedba Eyeconoclast, ki jo sestavljajo nekateri bivši oziroma sedanji člani Hour Of Penance in Fleshgod Apocalypse, je podpisala za založbo Prosthetic Records. Skupina bo konec prihodnjega tedna z novim vokalistom Giuseppom Di Giorgiom pričela s snemanjem novega studijskega izdelka. /B.B./

James Payne (Hiss From The Moat, Broken Heart Collage) je novi bobnar pri italijanskih death metalcih Hour Of Penance, s katerimi se bo prvič v živo predstavil že ta vikend. /B.B./

V današnjem Metal detektorju poslušamo nove plošče zasedb Horisont, Accept, 3 Inches Of Blood, Halloween, Municipal Waste, Desaster, Enthroned, Naglfar, Secrets Of The Moon, Barren Earth, Hour Of Penance in Mencea. Metal detektor je na sporedu vsak ponedeljek ob 22.00 na Radiu Študent, 89.3 MHz ali www.radiostudent.si. /M.P.C./

Hour Of Penance preko Decibelmagazine.com ekskluzivno predstavljajo skladbo Decimating The Ancestry Of The Only God s prihajajočega albuma Sedition, ki 6. aprila izide pri Prosthetic Records. /B.B./

Hour Of Penance so preko Truecultheavymetal.com premierno predstavili novo skladbo Sedition Through Scorn z novega albuma Sedition, ki bo 27. marca izšel pri Prosthetic Records. /B.B./

Zadnje potrditve za Hellfest 2012, ki se bo od 15. do 17. junija odvijal v Clissonu v Franciji, so Black Sabbath, Lynard Skynard, Machine Head, Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, Blue Öyster Cult, Children Of Bodom, Hatebreed in Lamb Of God. Poleg njih bodo letos nastopili še Aborted, Acid King, Alcest, All For Nothing, All Pigs Must Die, Alpha Tiger, Amenra, Amon Amarth, Anaal Nathrakh, Aosoth, Arcturus, Asg, August Burns Red, Avulsed, Benediction, Betraying The Martyrs, Blood Red Throne, Brain Police, Brujeria, Brutal Thruth, Channel Zero, Colour Haze, Crashdiet, Darkest Hour, Darkspace, Death Angel, Death Before Dishonor, DevilDriver, Dimmu Borgir, Disembowelment, Djerv, Do Or Die, Dog Eat Dog, Dying Fetus, Dyse, Emmure, Endstille, Enslaved, Exodus, Extinction Of A Mankind, From Ashes Rise, Gamabomb, Girlschool, Glorior Belli, H2O, Haemorrhage, Hoods, Hour Of Penance, In Extremo, Integrity, King Diamond, L'esprit Du Clan, Lizzy Borden, Madball, Merrimack, Molly Hatchet, Monkey 3, Napalm Death, Nasum, Necros Christos, Orange Goblin, Oranssi Pazuzu, Origin, Pentagram, Rompeprop, Sacred Reich, Saint Vitus, Solstafir, Spudmonsters, Strife, Suicidal Angels, Taake, The Devil's Blood, Thou, Ufomammut, Unexpect, Vanderbuyst, Victims, Vulture Industries, Walls Of Jericho, Whitechapel, Winterfylleth, Year Of No Light in YOB. /B.B./

Peti studijski izdelek italijanskih death metalcev Hour Of Penance, ki 6. aprila izide pri Prosthetic Records, se bo imenoval Sedition. Skupina se kmalu odpravlja tudi na prvo severnoameriško turnejo, kjer bodo predskupina The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile in Skeletonwitch. /B.B./