BLATANT DISARRAY is now streaming its MEGADETH cover of “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due” which is to be released on March 6th as part of Tribunal Records 100: Cover To Cover. You can pre-order CD quality audio via our Bandcamp page HERE

It features 21 cover songs from Tribunal Records (and a few Divebomb Records) artists both past and present to help us celebrate crossing the threshold of 100 releases in the label’s existance.  We have been going strong since 1999 and have no plans of ever slowing down.

Tribunal Records is excited to announce the release of new Swedish thrash/crossover act, Dr. Living Dead’s self titled new album.  Working in conjuction with High Roller Records, Tribunal Records will be handling North and South American territories as well as digital distribution worldwide on February 14th, 2012.

Dr. Living Dead live and breathe old school crossover thrash metal and have come an extremely long way in a short amount of time.  The band has two independently released demos (“Thrashing The Law” and “Thrash After Death”) under their belts and has already done a DIY Brazilian tour and supported Slayer.  The new album was recorded by death metal master, Fred Estby, who helped the band finally reach their full sonic potential on tracks such as “Slime From Above,” “Kindergarten Cop,” “Gremlins Night” and the now classic “UFO Attack.”

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Here are some of my favorite reissues I purchased this year.  PLEASE NOTE that the specific reissue may have not been released in 2011, but regardless I bought it and have enjoyed the hell out of it this year.  No order other than how I typed it out.

PANTERA – Cowboys From Hell (3CD)
RAINBOW – Rising (2CD)
CONTROL DENIED – The Fragile Art Of Existence (2CD)
BLACKSMITH – Strike While The Iron’s Hot
QUIET RIOT – QR
DEATH – Human (2CD)
BLACK SABBATH – The Eternal Idol (2CD)
CHAPTERHOUSE – Whirlpool
FRANKE & THE KNOCKOUTS – Sweetheart: Anniversary Edition
HEAVENS EDGE – Heavens Edge
CATHERINE WHEEL – Ferment
LONE STAR – Firing On All Six
WARLOCK – Triumph & Agony
TENSION – Epitaph
HADES – Resisting Success

Well, we hit some rough road in 2011 that seriously set us back but we are now moving forward full steam ahead to bring you the following releases in 2012:

DR. LIVING DEAD – Dr. Living Dead
DEATHWISH – Demon Preacher
CONFESSOR – Uncontrolled (CD/DVD)
FLY MACHINE – Come Metamorphosis (members of CONFESSOR/LOINCLOTH)
IRONCHRIST – Getting The Most Out Of Your Extinction
SOLSTICE – Pray For The Sentencing (2 CD set of first two albums and remixed version of “Pray”)
EPIDEMIC – Demo collection
CYCLONE TEMPLE – My Friend Lonely (Deluxe Edition)
HARD KNOX – Psyco’s R Us
NIGHT IN  GALES – Rarities collection

This is just for starters.  We hope to have even more to present later in the year.

FOR THE LOVE OF hailed from New Brunswick, NJ and were one of the seminal Ferret Records recording artists during the 1990′s.  Their brief return in 2004 at Hellfest and subsequent random reunion shows since have helped to ease our pain, but we still miss them immensely. I mean sh**… they brought a sledgehammer, pitchforks, an anvil and a gong on stage with them. Sparks flew.  So we are ecstatic to bring their previously self-released and final recordings (for now) circa 2008, Not On My Watch, to the digital world. Preview “Beastman” in our Audio Player now.

Indisputably New Jersey’s most advanced metallic hardcore band to emerge from possibly the most underrated regional scene of the 90′s, FOR THE LOVE OF have been quietly on the prowl again with new vocalist Mike Olender of Burnt By The Sun infamy. To say that this rejuvenated lineup begged to be immortalized on record would be criminally understated, and the Not On My Watch EP (released in 2009) finally makes aging scenesters’ dreams a reality. It would take paragraphs upon paragraphs to list all the bands who owe their existence, whether consciously or not, to these Jersey pioneers.  It’s better than “not bad for a bunch of guys in their mid-30s.” It’s as good as evil, East Coast crossover hardcore can get.

(Additional text courtesy of Hardtimes.ca)

ANACRUSIS “Reason” album is the latest inductee into the hallowed halls of Decibel’s Hall Of Fame.  Featured in their Thrash Metal special edition issue AVAILABLE NOW.   Hindsight: Suffering Hour & Reason (Revisited) ORDER NOW

We originally signed DAYLIGHT DIES in 2000 and immediately caused quite a stir within Tribunal Records’ fledging and predominantly metalcore fan base.   DAYLIGHT DIES were the first true metal band on our roster and we couldn’t have been happier to welcome them aboard all those years ago.  Now 11 years later, DAYLIGHT DIES has achieved worldwide success and released numerous critically acclaimed albums via Relapse Records and Candlelight Records.  They have toured with Katatonia, Moonspell, Lacuna Coil and were main support for Emperor during two capacity crowd reunion shows in New York City.  They have come a long way since the initial release of Idle in 2000 and we couldn’t be more proud of them.

Idle has been out of print for nearly 10 years and unavailable digitally.  So we here at Divebomb are excited to present a newly remastered digital special edition of the EP with special bonus track available via all our normal digital re-sellers.  Preview “Unending Waves” in our Audio Player now.