Texas-based rockers SCORPION CHILD have revealed the artwork and tracklisting for their upcoming self-titled album. “Scorpion Child” will be released June 21st through Nuclear Blast Records. Chris Smith Read more […]
Age of Taurus are set to unveil “Desperate Souls of Tortured Times” onto the masses on May 28th in North America. The album will be released under via Metal Blade Records/Rise Above Records and is their Read more […]
Americans thrash metal veterans, TESTAMENT have confirmed more live dates to take place over the summer season. The band are set to return to Europe after their highly successful tour in early 2013 in Read more […]
Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM have released the first song off their upcoming album, Halo Of Blood, through iTunes. Pre-order the album (including bonus track + digital booklet) and get the single, Read more […]
Norwegian psychedelic band SAHG have announced their intentions to release a brand new album in October through Indie Recordings. The CD’s first single, “Firechild”, is a doom-infused nostalgic pursuit Read more […]
Swedish metallers SOILWORK have released their video for “Spectrum Of Eternity”, which may be seen below. The song comes off the ensemble’s ninth studio album, “The Living Infinite”, which sold around Read more […]
“The Evangelist,” the new video from Swedish epic doom metallers MEMORY GARDEN, can be seen below. Comments the band: “We spent one day in February recording the video for ‘The Evangelist.’ It was all Read more […]
New York death metal legends IMMOLATION have made a lyric video for the track “Indoctrinate,” which can be viewed below. The track comes from the group’s upcoming ninth full-length album, Kingdom of Read more […]
Following the overwhelming response to the initial announcement of just four tour dates, BLACK SABBATH has now confirmed a full 20-city North American trek. Launching July 25 in Houston, Texas, the tour Read more […]
Trad metallers Holy Grail have posted the video for “Ride the Void,” the title track from their second full-length, which was released in January via Prosthetic Records. The follow-up to 2010’s Crisis Read more […]
Crossover metal legends CORROSION OF CONFORMITY posted the following update: “We took time out from writing and recording to play Chile for the first time,” said bassist/vocalist Mike Dean. “We Read more […]
Canada’s own blackened death metal band, XUL have announced they are ready to unleash their brutal assault that BEHEMOTH and DISSECTION fans will not want to miss. Hitting the road at the tail end of May, Read more […]
DOWN/ex-PANTERA vocalist and Housecore Records CEO, PHILIP ANSELMO offers advice for aspiring metal artists. Why would anyone take his advice? Anselmo hasn’t just paved his own path, he’s bulldozed it Read more […]
Not a chance. After an interview with Fuse and a series of hysterical “Is this the end of ALICE?” headlines that erupted online following the interview, Jerry Cantrell has finally cleared the air. The Read more […]
As previously reported, bassist Slawomir “Mortifer” Archangielskij of Polish extreme metal band, HATE passed away in his sleep on April 6. According to a posting on HATE’s Facebook page, the 27-year-old Read more […]
Norwegian avant-garde group SHINING have released a live clip for their blackjazz rendition of KING CRIMSON’s classic track, ’21st Century Schizoid Man’ which may be viewed below. Also to be released: Read more […]
ICED EARTH have made “Plagues Of Babylon” the title of their upcoming new album, provisionally due in October through Century Media Records. The latest effort from the Florida based metallers will be Read more […]
Recorded with Kurt Ballou (HIGH ON FIRE, CONVERGE, KVELERTAK) at GodCity Studio, Boston thrashers RAMMING SPEED will release “Doomed To Destroy, Destined To Die” in North America on June 25 via Prosthetic Read more […]
Former NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis has released the following statement: “On April 22nd in Corpus Christi, Texas, I got the very sad news of my father’s passing right before we were about to Read more […]
Former NIGHTWISH singer TARJA TURUNEN has issued the following update from Austin, Texas, where she has been working her forthcoming new album, slated to be released in August/September: “The album Read more […]
Season of Mist Records have announced the signing of GOG, the product of noise innovator Michael Bjella. GOG has toiled in the underground noise community for a decade, releasing records that have been Read more […]
Renowned Finnish folk metallers ENSIFERUM have given the last eighteen years to their music, honing the steel of their folk-infused battle metal auditory attack and to further spread the band’s music to Read more […]
Ontario, Canada’s own ANNIHILATOR recently announced dates for their upcoming ‘South American Annihilation Tour’. Two shows in addition have been added, both to take place in Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile Read more […]
Dutch metal vocalist Simone Simons of EPICA and longtime beau, keyboardist Oliver Palotai (KAMELOT, SONS OF SEASONS), are expecting their first child due around the end of Summer. To ensure the best Read more […]
Legendary doom masters PENTAGRAM has revealed that Matt Goldborough will be the band’s new permanent guitarist, after months of searching and hundreds of applicants from around the world in the process. Goldborough Read more […]
Swedish metal band CIVIL WAR featuring former SABATON members Rikard Sundén, Daniel Mullback, Daniel Mÿhr, Oskar Montelius alongside singer Patrik Johansson and bassist Stefan “Pizza” Eriksson will Read more […]
British thrash metallers EVILE have unveiled “Underworld”, a brand new song which can be streamed courtesy of Decibel Magazine here. The track comes off the band’s fourth album, “Skull”, which will Read more […]
San Francisco’s own doom rockers ORCHID have released their video for “Wizard Of War” which may be seen below. The song comes off the band’s new album, The Mouths Of Madness, which will be released on Read more […]
“Infestissumam”, the album from the mysterious Swedish band GHOST gained the #28 position on The Billboard 200 chart in it’s first week of release, selling over 14,000 copies in the United States alone. Read more […]
Australian warmongers DESTRÖYER 666 are among the first acts that have been confirmed for this year’s “Eindhoven Metal Meeting”, slated to take place December 12-14 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Confirmed Read more […]