Today, HELLS HEADBANGERS announces the signing of Richmond, Virginia speed metal maniacs BAT. The trio features the considerable talents of Municipal Waste's Ryan Waste, ex-D.R.I. drummer Felix Griffin, and Volture's Nick Poulos. HELLS HEADBANGERS will be doing BAT's imminent debut album on both CD and LP formats, with a 7" titled Cruel Discipline to land before that. The label will also be pressing the band's Primitive Age demo on 12"...
Today, Hells Headbangers is proud to announce the signing of UK black/death/epic metal cult Scythian. The band have signed with the label for two full-length albums, and are currently hard at work on their label debut (and second LP overall), to be recorded in November at Priory Studios in Birmingham with Esoteric's Greg Chandler, whose past clients include Grave Miasma, Adorior, and Indesinence, among others. The band will commission macabre...
At long last, Hells Headbangers is proud to release the first issue of Organ fanzine. Available in an 120-page, perfect-bound book, Organ was hand-drawn and written in an old-school cut 'n' paste style by celebrated underground artist Putrid, who's done artwork for Autopsy, Impetigo, Hooded Menace, and Acid Witch among many others.
Organ is the physical-waste deposit of two Midwest dipshits who suffer from obsessive visions of horror, visions of...
Prepare to be crushed under the tank-treads of the most brutal death-crust record ever: Mutilated Veterans' Necro Crust Warhead 12" MLP, set for international release on August 5th via Hells Headbangers. Exactly what its title says, Necro Crust Warhead is a hulking, heaving mass of utter D-beat destruction, galloping like the four horsemen of the apocalypse on the bones of the battlefield's dead. But far from being mere Discharge plagiarists,...
Today, Hells Headbangers announces August 19th as the international release date for Midnight's massively anticipated new album, No Mercy for Mayhem. Hotter than Hell in the metal/punk underworld, Midnight's debut album, Satanic Royalty, became an instant classic upon its release in 2011. Now, with anticipation at a fever pitch, the hooded demons return with the even better No Mercy for Mayhem. Whereas Satanic Royalty was the culmination of nearly a...
Today, underground metal force Hells Headbangers present a brand-new label compilation on its Bandcamp site. Available now digitally, the compilation will be a free CD handout for orders through Hells Headbangers' webstore and at the label's Maryland Death Fest merch table; a double-LP vinyl pressing is forthcoming during the summer and will be sold at cost. Featuring brand-new/upcoming songs from Midnight, CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY, Gouge, Barbatos, Nunslaughter, Cemetery Lust, and Sacrocurse among others, the...
Today, deathrashing Norwegian maniacs announce the final dates for their upcoming North American tour. Dubbed the "North American Tormentour," the 13-date trek will be Deathhammer's first North American tour. A statement from the band reads: "Deathhammer is bursting out from the Norwegian mounds to raid North America with pounding thrash metal force! Get ready to destroy as we maniacs rip from town to town! There will also be outbreak of noise...
Today, Hells Headbangers sets June 24th as the release date for Cemetery Lust's debut for the label, Orgies of Abomination. Following on from their cult debut Screams of the Violated, to be reissued later this year by Hells Headbangers, Orgies of Abomination sees these Portland sleaze-bangers perfecting their vile, violent craft. Fittingly titled, Orgies of Abomination is a veritable smorgasbord of lyrical depravity, ably backed up by filthy, feral thrash metal that...
Australian black/death maniacs DESTRUKTOR have completed work on their second album, Opprobrium. Set to be released by HELLS HEADBANGERS later this summer, DESTRUKTOR's Opprobrium follows five years after the band's critically acclaimed debut album, Nailed, also released by HELLS HEADBANGERS. Amongst Australia's fertile black/death metal scene, DESTRUKOR are widely hailed as one of the most diehard bands around, and are now reaching nearly two decades of self-described "extreme metal shenanigans." And...
Hells Headbangers announces the signing of Chile's Atomic Aggressor. The old-school death metal legends will release their debut album, Sights of Suffering, through the label worldwide, with Rawforce Records handling the record in Chile. The band is currently recording the album at Pulsar Studios in Santiago.
“We are honored to be supported by Hells Headbangers and Rawforce Records in our largest project to date," the band comments. "It hasn't been easy, but we...
