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Hey, lookit that! After their last, incredibly silly video, for “Drowning in Mud,” God Dethroned have returned with a new video “Poison Fog,” that kicks all kinds of ass. It’s not just a dude running around in a field! Hoo-ray!

And just in time for their MetalSucks co-sponsored tour with Augury, Woe of Tyrants and Abigail Williams! SCORE!

God Dethroned’s Passiondale is out now on Metal Blade. It’s killer. Go check it out.

-AR

God Dethroned will be assaulting North America for the first time since 2007 on the headlining War Propaganda World Tour 2009 in support of their newest album, Passiondale (recipient of four-out-of-five horns on MetalSucks!). Vocalist/guitarist Henri Sattler and co. will embark on the coast to coast campaign starting on September 30th. Joining the MetalSucks, SMNnews.com and MetalInjection.net-sponsored march will be Abigail Williams, Augury and labelmates Woe Of Tyrants. MetalSucks and SMNnews will be giving away tickets to shows and MetalInjection will be posting video updates from God Dethroned as they tour across the US. Stay tuned for details as they become available.

Sattler comments on the tour: “The second leg of the tour [the first leg was in Europe] starts on September 30th in Tucson, Arizona with Abigail Williams, Augury and label mates Woe of Tyrants and leads us through the States up to Canada. We are really excited to tour the U.S. again and to promote our latest album “Passiondale”, which was released last April. Our last show in the U.S. was in 2007 so we can’t wait to see many of our fans again soon!

Full list of tour dates after the jump.

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A friend sent us the below clip of Demi Lovato talking about her appreciation of Job for a Cowboy, Abigail Williams and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster (go to 3:16 in the clip). Of course, I had to use Wikipedia to figure out who the fuck Demi Lovato is, and turns out she has exactly the kind of career you’d expect her to based on her appearance. Still, I guess if she can get some twelve year old girls into JFAC, it’s all good… right?

In other news, good to see that Jimmy Fallon is still a massive tool.

-AR

Hello everyone! I’m on tour now. DAATH is traveling the United States and Canada this summer on the Conquer and Curse tour which features Goatwhore, Abigail Williams, Abysmal Dawn, Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky, and us. My blog isn’t going to become a tour blog, but I do feel that its my duty to discuss amazing and fucked up things when they happen. And they do happen when you’re on the road.

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There is no news this year I have been as happy to report as this.

All of the bands on this summer’s Conquer & Curse tour – Goatwhore, Abysmal Dawn, Daath, Abigail Williams and SWWAATS (I’m way too lazy to type out their full name, even if I could have totally typed out their full name in the time it took me to write about how I’m too lazy to type out their full name) – are having a pizza party at Criminal Records in Atlanta this Wednesday, June 24, at 6 p.m.

And Goatwhore’s Ben Falgoust is the DJ.

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MetalSucks and Metal Blade Records are teaming up to give away one ticket for every stop of this summer’s Goatwhore / Daath / Abigail Williams / Abysmal Dawn and Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky tour! What we’ve heard so far of the new Goatwhore record Carving Out the Eyes of God fucking rips; that shindiggy comes out June 23rd. And we’ve made no secret about how much we love the new Daath record The Concealers; that shit is criminally good. And with the other three bands on the bill you’ve got a nice, well-rounded tour package there with a bit of something for everyone.

All you have to do to win is email goatwhoretickets [at] metalsucks.net as follows; in the subject line, write GOATWHORE TICKETS / CITY, STATE / DATE OF SHOW, filling in the details for the show you’d like to attend. In the body of the email include your FULL BIRTH NAME, as winners names will be added to Goatwhore’s guest list at the show to be claimed by presenting ID. Those who do not follow these instructions precisely will be disqualified from the contest. One winner per city will be drawn at random and contacted by a Metal Blade Records representative two days prior to the show.

The tour kicks off June 25th in Jacksonville, FL and wraps up August 9th in Amarillo, TX; check out the full list of dates after the jump, then enter for your chance to win.

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A big, big problem with bands today, metal or otherwise, is the distinction between “epic” and “long.” Yes, when taking into account the triple-LP progsters of the ’70s or glacial chord exercises of Earth and Sunn 0))), length is seemingly a prerequisite. But ending your album with a 13 minute song for the sake of a 13 minute long song doesn’t always mean said song is going to be epic. Amon Amarth’s latest is a perfect example – the longest song on that CD is under 7 minutes long, but one could not look someone in the eye and tell them that every song on that album is not fucking epic. The same goes for the need for bands to take up all of the 78+ minutes of a CD. There is a very short list of bands that can pull this feat off, and the problem with the CD era is that every band thinks they can cram 17-18 songs on an album and have it flow smoothly. The worst part, of course, is if an album falls flat, it can fall flat for an excruciating 70 minutes. Abigail Williams – the like-it-or-not forerunners of this ridiculous up-and-coming genre called black metalcore – fall flat in an epic fashion, and do so for an uncomfortable amount of time on their latest, In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns. Through 63 agonizing minutes, the band subject whomever is unlucky enough to take interest in them to an unpleasant forcefeeding of derivative black metal repackaged for the Hot Topic generation.

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There are really only two things I know about Winds of Plague:

1. Their hot chick keyboard player was briefly the hot chick keyboard player in Abigail Williams before Abigail Williams’ original hot chick keyboard player returned to that band.
2. No one can ever refer to them simply by their initials, as it is so fashionable to do these days, without risking the wrath of angry Italian metalheads everywhere.

Still, as soon as I saw Winds of Plague’s new (”Banned by MTV!”) video for “The Impaler,” I knew I had to post it; I actually think the song is decent-if-generic deathcore (and surely some of you will hate them for that alone), but the lead singer doesn’t seem to be doing the whole white-hip-hop-dude thing with any sense of irony (then again, neither are the fellas in Despised Icon and I still really like that band, so…), and, well, Vince and I really really really like watching you guys argue in our comments section. So watch the video and then weigh in below.

-AR

Here’s a dilemma: I think I finally figured out the phrase stupid people will use to describe Abigail Williams’ particular style of metal, but I’m afraid that if I share said phrase with anyone, then I’ll be the stupid person who coined it. What do I do, what do I do? Go for the cheap joke? Or be a little more dignified-like and just let you all know that “Into the Ashes,” the new song the band just debuted on their MySpace page, is awesome and totally worth your time?

Aw, fuck it. I know this is MetalSucks, but for once, I don’t wanna be the smart-ass.

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I somehow missed this story until I was browsing Metal Injection last night, but there’s been another twist in the saga that is the young band Abigail Williams. A statement on the band’s MySpace blog reads as follows:

“We’re currently working through the pre-production stage of our yet-to-be-titled full-length album due out through Candlelight Records later this year. James Murphy (Daath, Resurrection, Rise) will be producing the effort set to be tracked this Feb/March in Florida. We’re excited to announce that the drumming on this album will be handled by the legendary Trym (Emperor, Zyklon). Our previous drummer, Zach Gibson, has recently parted ways with the band and we wish him the best of luck in the future. The current lineup also features the return of original keyboard player, Ellyllon. A new pre-production demo titled ‘Floods’ has been posted on our page, which features Zach Gibson on drums, but will be re-recorded by Trym on the actual full-length release. Let us know what you think!”

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