Century Media signs Miasmal

Miasmal have officially signed with Century Media and will be heading into the studio this winter to record their sophomore album.

Miasmal leaving on tour + album repress

Swedish death metallers Miasmal are leaving tomorrow for a European tour:

05/04 - Blue Rose Saloon, Bresso (Milano) (ITA)
05/05 - Rovina HC Fest, Bologna (ITA)
05/06 - Tovarna Rog, Ljubljana (SI)
05/07 - EKH, Wien (AUS)
05/08 - Klub Lúč Trenčín (SK) 05/09 - Strefa Zero Club, Wroclaw (POL)
05/10 - Piksla Kafé, Breclav (CZ)
05/11 - 007 Strahov, Prague (CZ)
05/13 - Koma F, Berlin (GER)
05/15 - Juzi, Göttingen (GER)
05/16 - SK 2, Koblenz (GER)
05/17 - AJZ, Bielefeld (GER)
05/18 - Slow End Fest, Venlo (HOL)
05/19 - tba, Liège (BEL)
05/20 - Heretic Club, Bordeaux (FRA)
05/21 - La Dernière Chance Bar, Toulouse (FRA)
05/22 - Mogambo, Donostia (ESP)
05/23 - Arrebato, Zaragoza (ESP)
05/24 - Los Bloques, Barcelona (ESP)

Also, the band's excellent OOP self-titled album has been repressed by Agipunk, so if you're a dummy like me who missed it the first time 'round, it's available once again.

Miasmal to tour in May

Swedish death metallers Miasmal will be spending three weeks touring Europe in May: http://agrimonia.info/miasmal/livedates.htm

Sweden comes to the NW

Miasmal end-of-tour show last night here in Olympia: sick. My expectations were met and exceeded. Sanctuary in Blasphemy were really good too. Tonight: Martyrdöd in Seattle with a stacked lineup that includes Walls, No Statik, Crazy Spirit, Slowmotions and, for some reason, my own band Criminal Code. Not my doing, but it's not as if I'm gonna complain. Besides, it's always nice to be playing a show you'd be attending regardless. See you there?

Terrorizer talks to Miasmal

Miasmal is the featured band of the week in the Terrorizer Magazine blog along with a big interview: http://truecultheavymetal.com/blog1.php/2011/04/28/kat-s-band-of-the-week-miasmal

Miasmal website

Swedish death metal act Miasmal is the latest to ditch myspace for their own website: http://miasmal.net/

Martyrdöd tourdates

Confirmed US tourdates for Martyrdöd/Sanctuary In Blasphemy:

06/15 - tba, Oakland, CA (Sanctuary In Blasphemy)
06/16 - tba, Olympia, WA w/Miasmal (Sanctuary In Blasphemy)
06/17 - Black Lodge, Seattle, WA w/Slowmotions, Crazy Spirit, Criminal Code
06/18 - tba, Vancouver BC w/Unlearn
06/19 - tba, Portland, OR w/Slowmotions
06/20 - Hub, Sacramento, CA
06/21 - Knockout, San Francisco, CA w/Yadokai
06/22 - tba, Santa Barbara, CA
06/23 - tba, Long Beach, CA
06/24 - tba, Los Angeles, CA
06/25 - First Church Of The Buzzard, Oakland, CA

Expect venues to be confirmed shortly. I'm pretty sure the Oly show will probably be in someone's basement somewhere.

MP3: Miasmal - Toxic breed

I've heard a bunch of Miasmal stuff over the years and even shelled out for the ultra-limited/sought-after 12" version of the demo on Nuclear War Now, but I never felt like they lived up to the hype. Solid Swedish death, sure, but we're pretty much drowning in B-grade versions of the stuff right now. This new tune, however, totally changed my mind. If the rest of the album is as good as this, it's gonna be sick. The US tour can't happen soon enough, I just hope the boneheads in Bone Sickness don't screw things up.

Miasmal - Toxic breed

Martyrdöd in Seattle

I don't know if it's a one-off thing due to the collision of the Miasmal/Sanctuary in Blasphemy tours or what, but Martyrdöd is coming to the US and will be playing the Black Lodge in Seattle on June 17 with No Statik, Walls, Slowmotions (JPN), Crazy Spirit and my own dumb band Criminal Code. Should be pretty awesome.

Miasmal - Toxic breed

Swedish death metallers Miasmal are streaming a brand new track at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/miasmalband/music/songs/toxic-breed-79982924
The band's new album is complete and should be out in time for the band's upcoming US tour in April. And I gotta say; I was pretty tentative about these dudes before, but this new track rules.

Sanctuary in Blasphemy coming to the US

Sanctuary in Blasphemy is doing a US tour? And it's starting here in Olympia, WA? With Miasmal and Bone Sickness? See you there! (other dates tbc)

Miasmal US tour

Preliminary dates are now confirmed for Miasmal's US tour:

05/17 - Austin, TX
05/18 - Dallas, TX
05/19 - St. Louis, MO
05/20 - Chicago, IL
05/21 - Cleveland, OH
05/22 - Providence, RI 05/23 - Boston, MA
05/24 - Brooklyn, NY
05/25 - Philadelphia, PA
05/26 - Maryland Death Fest
05/27 - Maryland Death Fest
05/28 - Maryland Death Fest
05/29 - Maryland Death Fest
05/30 - North Carolina
05/31 - Atlanta,GA
06/01 - New Orleans, LA
06/02 - Chaos in Tejas
06/03 - Chaos in Tejas
06/04 - Chaos in Tejas
06/05 - Chaos in Tejas
06/06 - El Paso, TX
06/07 - Phoenix, AZ
06/08 - Los Angeles, CA
06/09 - Los Angeles, CA
06/10 - San Jose, CA
06/11 - San Francisco, CA
06/12 - Oakland, CA
06/14 - Portland, OR
06/15 - Seattle, WA
06/16 - Olympia, WA

Hatred Surge and Mammoth Grinder will support the first run up until Chaos along with Innumerable Forms on some dates and then local (to me) death dealers Bone Sickness will bring them out west.

Miasmal to debut at Kill-Town Death Fest

Swedish death metal act Miasmal will be making their long-awaited live debut at the upcoming Kill-Town Death Fest in Copenhagen on September 16. Other bands performing at said fest include Obliteration, Nominon, Ascended, Corpus Mortale, Maim, Vorum and tons more, including great non-Scandinavian acts such as Bloody Sign (FRA), Anatomia (JAP) and Dead Congregation (GRE) -- pretty much every top-level non-American death act. Full details here: http://www.killtowndeathfest.dk/

Sirius playlist week #27

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. TALK 1
02. Makthaverskan - Inside of me
03. Swedish House Mafia - One
04. Elias & the Wizzkids - Waste of time
05. TALK 2
06. The Animal Five - Dancing on my own
07. Miasmal - Creation of fire
08. The Aches - Count slowly to ten
09. Karin Ström - Reptilian brain
10. TALK 3
11. Dear Euphoria - No more time to weep
12. Delay Trees - Cassette 2012
13. Sort Sol - Marguerita
14. TALK 4
15. The Tallest Man on Earth - The wild hunt
16. Cut City - The sound and the sore
17. The Hives - Civilization's dying
18. The Nature - Din medicin
19. TALK 5
20. Kaka - Below this sun
21. The Scrags - Psycho cyclone
22. On Volcano - Ride the wolf
23. TALK 6

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Miasmal - Creation of fire

Swedish death metal act Miasmal has a new 2-track 7" coming out in two weeks via Detest Records/Me Saco Un Ojo Records and they are currently streaming one of them at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/miasmalband