Gun Shy Assassin is glad to be able to bring you an exclusive song stream from legendary black/thrashers Necrodeath’s forthcoming album, The Age of Fear. The name of the track is “Black Magic” and the opening riff is fucking sick. Why? Because its a cover of Slayer’s classic tune. Nevertheless, the entire record’s really solid. Read More
What better way to start off June than with a song debut, am I right? And not just any song debut, but a song debut from the one and only Bulldozer — the Italian icons specializing in speedily-played black metal thrashtasticness. After the jump, you will find a stream of a song called “Unexpected Fate,” Read More
To celebrate Obliteration’s recent decision to team up with Richmond, Virginia’s Forcefield Records for the vinyl re-release of their 2009 Nekropsalms LP, after the jump, at the end of this post, you will find the Norwegian old-school death metallers’ most recent release, streaming in its entirety. I hadn’t heard the disc before we decided to stream the Read More
Gun Shy Assassin is humbled to be able to bring you an ongoing string of casual, off-the-cuff interviews with the very talented Chris Adler, drummer for the one and only Lamb of God. Chris will be checking in with Gun Shy Assassin from time to time with updates on what’s going on in his world, Read More
Today is something of a landmark for the gang here at Gun Shy Assassin. Today, we get to bring you an exclusive, full album stream from Anaal Nathrakh, a band we’ve been fans of for quite a spell. And this new Anaal album is fucking dynamic, extreme, intense, and consistently awesome. But don’t take our Read More
Today is a momentous day, folks. Why? Today, you can head to the end of this post and listen to the opening track from Ipsissimus’ new album. The song is called “The First Secret of Fatima” and it’s fucking awesome. Ipsissimus’ Metal Blade debut hits record stores on May 24. In my opinion, Ipsissimus is Read More
This, according to Zoltan Bathory — guitarist for Five Finger Death Punch and new friend of Gun Shy Assassin. Zoltan broke the news to us recently that the band’s bassist was out, and now, he’s emailed us again to tell us that those so-called flyers that went up all around Musicians Institute in California never Read More
Gun Shy Assassin is humbled and honored to be able to bring you an exclusive song stream this morning…of A Pale Horse Named Death’s song “Devil In The Closet.” It comes from the band’s forthcoming album, And Hell Will Follow Me, which we spoke to Sal Abruscato about. Who’s Sal? Only the band’s mastermind! You Read More
A while back, I contacted Five Finger Death Punch’s Zoltan Bathory, to find out whether rumors of bassist Matt Snell not being in the band anymore were true. While it took him a while to get back to us, Zoltan finally did last night. Here’s what he had to tell Gun Shy Assassin. “Yes, that Read More
Today’s a good day at Gun Shy Assassin, better than yesterday. That is because we are very proud to be bringing you an exclusive first listen to U.K.-based experimental progressive metal outfit Xerath’s forthcoming new album, II. The record drops May 3 through Candlelight Records, but you can hear a track from that effort — Read More