Lord Mantis haven’t released an album since 2014’s Death Mask, after which vocalist Charlie Fell left the band and joined Cobalt, who released the great Slow Forever with him fronting the band.

There’s been a lot of shake-up in the Chicago extreme metal scene lately. A hot-spot for often great, always brutal, sometimes controversial extreme music, a bunch of central bands have undergone a ...

Despite founding drummer, and sole original member, Bill Bumgardner's untimely death in 2016, Chicago blackened sludge vets Lord Mantis are carrying along as the band is currently in the studio ...

Coming to lord over some mantises once more. Lord Mantis was a band between 2005 and 2017, though they broke up a little after the suicide of founding drummer Bill Bumgardner in late 2016. While the ...