The Abyss (1988) André Delvaux, Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe

Italian doom metallers Black Oath started in 2006. It was A.Th who founded this formation and it’s him being the constant factor of Black Oath. With ‘Behold the Abyss’ the trio has a new album right in the starting blocks. It follows the 2015 release ‘To Below and Beyond’ and marks the band’s premiere when it comes to a collaboration with High Roller Records…

Orange Goblin, one of the cornerstones of current British Heavy Metal, are back with new album ‘Back From The Abyss’ which is one of CackBlabbath’s more highly anticipated releases of 2014; to put it mildly! ‘Back From The Abyss’ may be the title but Orange Goblin are returning off the back of the awesome ‘Eulogy For The Damned’ album and it’s star studded touring activities. Supporting Down, Clutch and Airbourne, amongst others, doesn’t exactly sound like the deep dark recesses of Hell. In fact, we were there to see most of these tours and they were fookin’ brilliant.