Keep of Kalessin

Norwegian extreme metallers Keep of Kalessin will release their fifth album, 'Reptilian,' on June 8. Like its 2008 predecessor, 'Kolossus,' the new album was recorded at the band's studio in Trondheim, Norway. Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Behemoth, Meshuggah) mixed the album...

Right now, North Carolina's Egypt-obsessed death metal pugilists Nile are getting ready for a tour in the Down Under, which starts in Aukland, New Zealand on May 21. But the band is looking forward to returning to North America on Halloween to launch 'Those Whom the Gods Detest Tour II' in Raleigh, N...

Recording an album is an arduous, careful task. Nefarious Norwegian black metallers Keep of Kalessin are recording their next, as-yet-untitled album at two different studio locations, which guitarist Obsidian C. deems a necessary part of the process and that it does make a difference, especially since he's got his claws immersed in every aspect of the album's pot...

Yesterday, we told you that the Aug. 26 stop of the Pedal to the Metal Tour had been canceled, which, we guess, sparked rumors that the entire rest of the tour was nixed. Of course, we assumed the show's cancellation was probably due to Zakk Wylde's recent hospitalization for the treatment of a blood clot...

Ex Deo frontman Maurizio Iacono will never forget the night in 2008 when his main band, Kataklysm, played a show in Lyon, France with Aborted and Behemoth. "While Aborted was playing, the guys from Behemoth wrapped themselves in toilet paper and went onstage looking like mummies," Iacono tells Noisecreep...

Roman history concept band, Ex Deo, won't be bringing the guest vocalists from their debut album 'Romulus' -- Behemoth frontman Adam 'Nergal' Darski, Nile frontman Karl Sanders and Keep of Kalessin's Arnt Obsidian Gronbech -- with them when they tour the U...