The Faceless

Once again, The Faceless is Michael Keene all alone. Today, all three members besides Michael Keene posted Facebook statuses confirming that they left the band. Not only has Ken Sorceron left the band after a two year run, but so have drummer Bryce Butler and rhythm guitarist Justin McKinney, leaving Keene as the only member [...]

On a cold February night, Californian tech death masters The Faceless, have finally gotten around to Madrid, to present their most recent work “In Becoming A Ghost”. Accompanying them on this Euro adventure is the Portuguese group The Voynich Code. For the first half of the evening, we had an energetic performance by The Voynich [...]

“Aqua Vitae” is The Voynich Code ‘s latest album, released in 2017. Portuguese The Voynich Code will be supporting tech-death The Faceless on their European tour. 10-Feb Paris (FR) at Backstage 11-Feb Bordaux (FR) at BT59 12-Feb Madrid (ES) at Caracol 13-Feb Barcelona (ES) at Razz3 14-Feb Lyon (FR) at Warm Audio 15-Feb Brescia (IT) [...]

After publishing our staff’s lists for the best albums of 2017, we have come to a final decision. So here is The Black Planet zine’s official top albums list for the past year! 1 – Septicflesh – Codex Omega 2 – Akercocke – Renaissance in Extremis 3 – Mastodon – Emperor of Sand 4 – [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

The band has been announced for this year’s edition of ‘The Summer Slaughter Tour‘. The Faceless release new song “Black Star”. This comes almost 2 years after the release of the previous single “The Spiraling Void”. The new album, supposedly called “In Becoming A Ghost”, is thought to have now been completed with release details [...]

Trepid Elucidation is a technical death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal who recently released their debut album “Upcoming Reality” through the label Mosher Records. We sat down with the guys and talked about the band. Upcoming Reality by Trepid Elucidation TBP: Tell us a little bit of the band’s history. We started back in 2012, [...]

The Faceless has officially announced the return of former bassist Brandon Griffin. Guitarist Michael Keene commented: “I am so extremely excited to announce Brandon Giffin on our new record. For those who don’t know, Brandon is the original bassist of The Faceless and played on ‘Akeldama’ and ‘Planetary Duality’ and then took some time off [...]

A few hours ago, the highly acclaimed drummer has announced that he will leave The Faceless to continue working on other endeavors. You can check a video of the band performing with Alex below. [...]