Metallic hardcore troopers RINGWORM have some looming tour dates with fellow veterans All Out War, the buzzed about High Command and ragers Genocide Pact (who just got a killer nod from no less than Kerrang as one of the top 50 best death metal bands right now).
RINGWORM is touring in support of their 8th studio album Death Becomes My Voice, out now on CD/LP/Digital. Physical packages are available via Relapse.com HERE. Digital Downloads / Streaming Services are available HERE.
“We are excited and honored to announce this short run of shows with the legendary Ringworm, in support of our new record. We greatly respect their tenacity and uncompromising refusal to fit into a preconceived genre mold, and look forward to sharing our new material and laying waste to these stages alongside veterans of the American extreme underground” statesALL HELL‘s Jacob Curwen.
On June 7th, 2019; ALL HELL will release The Witch’s Grail, inspired by the Decadent Movement. Pre-orders for The Witch’s Grail are available now and the album will be released on all digital platforms and on CD and LP in the following limited variants: Gold Marble Wax and Clear/Black Split Wax.
See ALL HELL performing May 17th in Greenville, SC at the Flipside Arts Fest afterparty with Oakskin, Coffin Torture, and power-take-Off before hitting the road with RINGWORM in June. Dates below.
May
17 Greenville, SC @ Flipside Arts Fest (Afterparty)
June
7 Brooklyn, NY @ El Cortez
8 Richmond, VA @ Wonderland
9 Norfolk, VA @ Norfolk Taphouse
10 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
11 Atlanta, GA @ 529
Cleveland’s Ringworm are more hardcore than metal, but the ferocity of discography and consistent hard work year after year rewards them pure metal status. Not to mention, have you heard 2014’s metalcore title holder Hammer Of The Witch? Ringworm today are as angry and relevant as ever.
Madcap death metal murder dawg’s Macabre lead off the news today with announcement of a killer tour with Panzerfaust and Ringworm. The insanity of this tour cannot be denied. Every band is all kill, eat your fill. MACABRE will spread their grisly tales of terror across the country from October third through Halloween night. The trek includes participation in Philip H. Anselmo’s second annual Housecore Horror Film Fest in Austin, alongside Gwar, Voivod, Neurosis, Danzig, Samhain, Eyehategod, Vader, Corrections House, Lustmord and others. Nice to see Macabre get some love again.
There is a healing image spell used in practical Witchcraft that involves creating a wax or cloth poppet to represent the person you wish good intentions towards. You don’t represent the problem, rather the image of the solution is created. Cast a circle and light a blue candle. Sprinkle the doll with salt water. Well, the spell goes on from there with positive intent. The new Ringworm album Hammer of the Witch, on the other hand, will leave non believers as a steaming crater of human afterthought. You will need self healing from self inflicted mosh trauma after hearing tracks like the pulverizing slow death rattle of “Leave Your Skin At The Door” or “Dawn of Decay”‘s declaration of malicious intent.
13 tracks of pure ferocity showcase that Cleveland’s finest musical export (well, except for Denny Blaze) are as strong as ever. I was a bit surprised that this new album came so hot on the heels of Bleed, but none of this is rushed. If anything, Human Furnace and co. are at the top of their game. Granted, occult imagery is more rampant in metal and hardcore than ever, to the point where you can’t shake a smudge stick at a bunch of average dudes in sweatshirts who for some reason use upside down crosses or Wiccan ritual symbols on their album art. Shit, every other day a new band of 70’s throwbacks with female witch vocals comes out as well. This is not necessarily bad as “Black Hexen Rise” by Integrity or the nuanced music of Blood Ceremony proves, but sometimes it is just a bandwagon. Ringworm have never had artwork like Hammer of the Witch before, and I don’t know what it has to do with the rage fest on here that seems pretty embedded in urban reality and the brutality of the modern age, but I’m not complaining. The artwork is dope and the record kills.
Posted by longhairedpoet on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 2:22 PM (PST)
Cleveland hardcore metallers Ringworm have premiered a new track, “One of Us Is Going To Have To Die” off of their forthcoming album Hammer Of The Witch.
Hammer Of The Witch will be released on March 18 in North America.
Check out “One Of Us Is Going To Have To Die” HERE.
Posted by longhairedpoet on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 1:02 PM (PST)
Cleveland, Ohio metal punkers Ringworm have signed to Relapse Records. They will be hitting the road on March 2nd for a tour that will start in Reading, Pennsylvania and go through to end in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 8th.
You can read a comment from Ringworm’s vocalist Human Furnace and find tour dates here.
Posted by tyrusrunyan on Friday, January 4, 2013 at 10:13 AM (PST)
Cleveland hardcore band Ringworm have announced some upcoming Northeast tour dates on Facebook. The band will be kicking off the tour on March 3rd in Reading, PA and the final show will be on March 9th in Lansing, OH.
Posted by tyrusrunyan on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 10:00 AM (PST)
Cleveland hardcore act Ringworm have just released a video for the song “Used Up, Spit Out” from their album Scars. The album was released in July of 2011 on Victory Records. The bands frontman Human Furnace had the following to say about the video:
“We had this great opportunity to use this huge, open, dirty space and pretty much had a skeleton crew to do the video with 2 cameras and a giant crane. Good times! Every video we do I end up completely filthy afterwards. Guess that’s my thing, plus the rest of the band got to hurl big rocks and clumps of dirt at the back of my head for a few minutes, so I’m sure they enjoyed that. We are really happy with the way things turned out. Don Tyler and the rest of the guys did a great job on short notice and with a shoestring budget. This is just a warm-up video, we got something really awesome planned for the next one no doubt.”
There are some bands more adept at riding the chaos than others in the storied history of underground music. From noise and hardcore pioneers like Steel Pole Bathtub to Man Is The Bastard to synth/indie/post-core bands like Six Finger Satellite to numerous grindcore bands like Fuck The Facts, etc.- some groups just embody the concept of "fuck it/let's really go for it" more than others. NY's Black Mesa sits proudly in that same spirit of frenzy and ferocious inventiveness, as evidenced by their recent compilation of insanely manic live performances. Whatever sub genre they throw in the emotional blender, you are bound to enjoy a deliciously nutritious smoothie of muddy sonic punk purée.
