AS HELL RETREATS have just announced an extensive fall tour. They’ll be out with STRENGTHEN WHAT REMAINS for the first half of the dates and then they’ll join up with Strike First’s LETTER TO THE EXILES and GIDEON for the second half. AS HELL RETREATS are touring in s

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Place of Skulls – As a Dog Returns Exile on Mainstream Records – 2010 Four years after their last release, The Black Is Never Far, doomsters Place of Skulls returns with As A Dog Returns.  Victor Griffin (vocalist/guitarist), Lee Abney (bass) and Tim Tomaselli (

Hguols – Epitome Barren Meadow Recordings – 2010 I like music that is “out of bounds”. Material that does its own thing, without regard to convention or the usually arbitrary “rules” of a defined genre. I applaud artists that think outside