Pestilence

LIVE! | 70,000 Tons of Metal: Day 3

by Chris A. Staff Writer — A Trip to Hell: The 70,000 Tons Of Metal Day 3 The Cayman Islands On Wednesday, the heavy metal sailors woke up to find the ship slipping into its anchoring position off the coast of the Grand Cayman Islands. Small tenders soon shuttled several hundred black-clad [...]

LIVE! | 70,000 Tons of Metal: Day 2

by Chris A. Staff Writer — A Sea of Blood: The 70,000 Tons Of Metal Day 2 Steaming toward the southwest, with the coast of Cuba visible on the horizon, Day 2 of 70000 Tons of Metal resumed with abandon. For the next 18 hours, there would be a nonstop assault of metal on the ship’s three [...]

Pestilence | Doctrine

by Trevor Portz Staff Writer Following their welcome reformation in 2008 (and fittingly titled album, Resurrection Macabre), death metallers Pestilence are back with another new batch of morbid tracks, this time in the form of Doctrine. Reuniting front-man Patrick Mameli with classic-era bassist [...]

Patrick Mameli of Pestilence

by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer Patrick Mameli, the frontman of Dutch cult death metal Pestilence, and the self-described lost child of the genre, has been interviewed by Hardrock Haven minutes before the start of the band’s London show on Easter Sunday. Resurrected from the annals of metal [...]

Pestilence Resurrection Macabre

by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer Pestilence’s first original studio album in 15 years marks the start of a resurrection of the cult technical death metal band after their split in mid-Nineties amidst internal disagreements and general disappointment with the state of the metal scene. [...]