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• (12.31) Only a few hours left to submit your list of Favorite Albums of 2012. So please get those last submissions in. If you don't have a top 10, how bout a top 5? A top 5 list will still get you in the drawing (4 and below will be accepted but won't get you in the drawing for the gift card). Have a great new years eve and a fantastic new year of metal!
  
• (12.31) Malevolent Creation drummer Gus Rios had this to say about a new album: "We've already written two or three new songs. We'll probably release an EP and maybe re-record some songs off 'Stillborn'. And that will be out probably by March or April, I'm thinking. So, a new album, definitely coming." Personally I can't wait, Stillborn is one of my favorite albums, but it could really do with a rerecording (even by 1993s standards the production quality was lacking).
• (12.31) Vital Remains have 16 new songs written for a new album, and hope to release it in April or May of next year.
  
• (12.29) Go here to see Cryptopsy's 'Phobophile' music video using Lego.
  
• (12.27) Deranged is releasing a 5 track EP called "Morgue Orgy" in early 2013. Go here for a rough mix track from the album.
  
• (12.26) In Flames frontman Anders Fridén says their next album won't be till 2014.
  
• (12.23) Go here for the song 'Rise of the Virvum Juggernaut' off the new Deeds Of Flesh album.
  
• (12.21) Message from Trigger The Bloodshed: "HOLD TIGHT for the future of TTB, we're all a bit busy at the moment, but we will finish another album."
• (12.21) Broken Hope now has 11 new songs written for their new album to be released next year.
  
• (12.21) Exhale have just signed with Pulverized Records.
  
• (12.21) Go here and here for 2 previews of the new Hate album.
  
• (12.21) The Omega Experiment has signed with Listenable Records.
  
• (12.20) Entities new EP "Ether" will come out first of the year.
  
• (12.20) Chimaira has 12 new songs demoed and will enter the studios in Feb to record a new album. With almost all new members save the vocalist, I suppose the big question is, will it be the same Chimaira?
  
• (12.19) Voyager are writing music for their fifth album.
  
• (12.19) Visceral Bleeding is recording an EP this January.
• (12.19) Whorecore's new album will be called "Headless", go here for some music samples.
  
• (12.19) Vomitous will record their debut in February.
  
• (12.19) Saprogenic hope to have a new album out early next year.
• (12.19) The Omega Experiment is writing music for their new album.
  
• (12.19) Some Suture news: "Suture will be releasing an ep late November early December on UW records entitled "Prolific Inhuman Deformity"..It consists of of 4 tracks we recorded with Eric Park (Devourment) on drums back in 2004. Cover art will be provided once again by The mighty Toshihiro Egawa. It will be a limited pressing of 300, so once they are gone that's it..more info will be posted once we have them in stock."
• (12.19) Satariel are busy recording their new album "White Ink".
• (12.19) Suffocate Bastard are busy writing new songs for a new album.
  
• (12.19) Pyrexia are busy recording their new album.
  
• (12.19) Go here for the cover artwork to the new Devourment CD.
  
• (12.19) Sphere's new album will be called "Primordial". Go here for the cover artwork.
  
• (12.18) Disgorge are finally working on material for their new album.
  
• (12.18) Added a review to Chaos Inception's "The Abrogation" album.
• (12.18) Added a review to Arsis' "Lepers Caress" EP.
• (12.18) Devourment's new album will be called "Conceived in Sewage", and will be released Feb 19th 2013. Go here for some teaser music.
• (12.18) Some news from Pathology: "Pathology is happy to announce the return of singer Matti Way and long-time original guitarist Tim Tiszczenko. Both members Jon and Oscar are no longer with the band. Pathology would like to thank them for there time and efforts. This is now the prime Pathology lineup from the Age Of Onset, Legacy era. We are very excited for this change, We will now have the best of both worlds with a mix of the old and new. Pathology is already working on new material for a late 2013 release. The band has also completed there 3 album commitment to Victory Records and will be open to new options."
• (12.18) Added a whole ton of Facebook links to the bands page, making it easier for you to keep tabs on all your favorite bands.
  
• (12.18) An update from Obituary: "Well we made it home alive and in one piece. After a month without seeing the sun, it sure is nice to be back in Sunny Florida. I do not reccomend spending 4 weeks on a tour bus with 4 bands and 24 people but we did it and had a blast on this tour. Macabre, Psycroptic and The Amenta were all great bands and super cool dudes to tour with, are now close friends of ours and bands I would suggest you check out when you have the chance.... Thanks Guys!! Now we will enjoy our X-mas then it's time to get back to writting the new album. We are super excited about the songs we have ready to record and can't wait to start grinding out more new material for you guys. Hope you will be ready for some New Obituary in 2013......"
• (12.18) Ignite The Ibex have written all of the material for their new album.
  
• (12.18) Hate Eternal is writing new material.
• (12.18) Gorgasm is writing new material.
  
• (12.18) The new Deeds Of Flesh is in the final mixing stage.
• (12.18) Exhale have finished their new record and are deciding on what label to release it.
  
• (12.18) Deranged have almost finished recording all the instruments for their new album.
  
• (12.18) Dawn Of Azazel have started working on material for a new record.
• (12.18) Go here to listen to the new song 'Lines Of Descent' off the new Entities EP "Aether".
  
• (12.18) Behemoth will enter the studio in Feb to start working on their new album.
  
• (12.18) For the first time in twelve years, work has begun again on the 2nd Control Denied album. Guitarist Shannon Hamm and producer Jim Morris of Morrisound Recording in Tampa, Florida have been reviewing material recorded by the band before Chuck Schuldiner passed away back in 2001 from a brain tumor. Hopefully they'll find enough good material to see the album finished and released.
  
• (12.18) Anomalous have written one new song for a future album.
  
• (12.17) Dauntless are finished recording their new album.
  
• (12.17) Amagortis hope to have a new album out around May/June 2013.
• (12.16) Cannibal Corpse have issued the following update: "Next year marks our 25th year as a band and we are going to celebrate it all year long! Keep an eye out for special releases, new merch designs and announcements! For now, you can check out our 25th-anniversary logo which will appear as a sleeve print on all our merch printed in 2013. You can pre order shirts with this print now along with our 2013 calendar that features the uncensored Vince Locke art from our 12 releases and marks all of our release dates, birthdays, our favorite horror film release dates and more! Everything can be found here. We never would have made it 25 years without all you die hard fans, get your horns up and blast your Corpse records all year!"
• (12.14) Go here for a track 'As Grace Descends' of the new Suffocation album.
  
• (12.14) Devildriver have entered Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida to begin recording their upcoming sixth album for a tentative August 2013 release via Napalm Records.
• (12.13) Issue #24 of Sickdrummer magazine is out, with interviews with Flo from Cryptopsy, Trey from Dying Fetus, Arttu from Aeon, and many more.
  
• (12.12) Misery Index will release a live album, "Live In Munich", on February 19 via the French label Season Of Mist. The CD was recorded at Backstage in Munich, Germany on February 18, 2012 and it will be made available as a hand-numbered die-cut LP, strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide.
• (12.07) Added a review to Hanzel Und Gretyl's "Born To Be Heiled" album.
• (12.06) Added a review to Clutter's "Emergence" album.
• (12.05) Go here to pick up Arsis' latest EP "Lepers Caress" for free.
  
• (12.04) So apparently the session drummer for the new Carcass CD will be Daniel Wilding of Trigger The Bloodshed. And visit here to read a bunch of other news about the album from Jeff Walker.
  
• (12.01) Added the Reader's Poll for best albums of 2012 (This year, one entrant will win a $25 Gift card from iTunes!), check it out and vote!
• (12.01) Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel had this to say on the subject of a new album: "After this tour, we want to get in and start writing. We've got a couple of things for next year, but for the most part we want to get in and hopefully start recording before the end of the year next year."
• (12.01) Heaven Shall Burn have shot down as false rumors that their drummer, Matthias Voigt, is playing on the upcoming comeback album from reactivated British extreme metal legends Carcass. The band states on Facebook: "BLABBERMOUTH.NET is really cool, but sometimes rumors are just rumors. Matthias is 100% NOT playing for Carcass! Everybody in Heaven Shall Burn maintains the status as devoted Carcass fan and does not even dare to dream of being involved with this legend!"

• (11.30) Go here for the cover artwork to the new Suffocation album by artist Raymond Swanland. The album will be out Feb 15th.
  
• (11.30) Carcass are rumored to be putting the finishing touches on their first studio album in 17 years with producer Colin Richardson. The band has yet to secure a label home for the effort, which is expected in early 2013. Guitarist Michael Amott and drummer Daniel Erlandsson, who have been touring with Carcass since the band's reunion was announced in 2007, are no longer involved with the group due to scheduling conflicts with their main band, Arch Enemy. Guitarist Bill Steer and bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker are rumored to have been joined in the studio for the new CD recording sessions by drummer Matthias Voigt of German death metal and hardcore fusionists Heaven Shall Burn.
• (11.30) Otep will release their sixth full-length studio album, "Hydra", on January 22, 2013 via Victory Records.
• (11.29) Go here for Cannibal Corpse vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher talking about his huge neck.
  
• (11.28) Added a review to Devolved's "Reprisal" album.
• (11.26) Added a review to Aeon's "Aeons Black" album.
• (11.22) Deftones' new album "Koi No Yokan", sold 65,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 11 on The Billboard 2020 chart. Their last album "Diamond Eyes" opened with 62,000 units to debut at No. 6. And their album before that: "Saturday Night Wrist", opened with 76,000 units to enter the chart at No. 10.
• (11.20) Go here for an album teaser to the new Devourment album.
  
• (11.20) Added a review to Cryptopsy's "The Best Of Us Bleed" bestof album.
• (11.20) Hate's new album "Solarflesh" will be out February 5, 2013. Go here to see the cover.
• (11.20) Devin Townsend's new album "Casualties Of Cool" will have a bonus disk that should be the "Ghost II" material, which was originally going to get its own release.
  
• (11.19) Added a review to Deftones' "Koi No Yokan" album.
• (11.19) Added a review to The Omega Experiment's "The Omega Experiment" album.
• (11.19) Added a review to Tyrant Of Death's "Cyanide" album.
• (11.15) Added a review to The Reset's "Progenitor" EP.
• (11.15) Added a review to Blood Duster's "Svck" EP.
• (11.15) Guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn of Machine Head underwent successful surgery earlier on Wednesday Nov 14th at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota to repair his double inguinal hernia.
• (11.14) The new Deeds Of Flesh album will have a cover of the Gorguts classic 'Orphans of Sickness'.
• (11.13) Go here to listen to the entire new Devolved album streaming.
• (11.13) Glass Cloud got into a van wreck the morning of Nov 11th. Thankfully the band is all right and their gear was salvageable, but the van is completely totaled. Read more about it here.
  
• (11.13) Cryptopsy have a 'best of' album coming out which includes a few new tracks, go here to listen to 'Boden'. The album will be out Nov 20th.
  
• (11.11) Some news from Dino Cazares on Divine Heresy: "Hello, Divine Heresy fans. I just wanted to give you the latest news on Divine Heresy. 'Cause there are a lot of rumors out there on whats going on with Divine Heresy. Well, only I can give you the truth. I have five songs written for the new CD. It's technical, brutal and melodic. Everything you would want from a Divine Heresy CD. I'm currently on tour with Fear Factory for the rest of 2012 And part of 2013. When I'm off, I will complete the writing process and I will let you know who will be performing on the new CD. I am currently shopping for a new record company and have some surprising offers." Bassist Joe Payne quit Divine Heresy back in January 2011. Drummer Tim Yeung is no longer a member as he's now the new drummer for Morbid Angel. And vocalist Travis Neal recently joined Dirge Within. So its unclear if any of them will be performing on the new album.
  
• (11.10) Arsis have added Brandon Ellis as their new guitarist. He replaces guitarist Nick Cordle, who was recently replaced Christopher Amott in Arch Enemy.
• (11.10) Pig Destroyer have re-signed with their longtime record label Relapse.
• (11.09) The Amenta's new album "Flesh is Heir" will be out March 25th 2013.
  
• (11.09) Go here to listen to the new Deftones album streaming in its entirety.
  
• (11.08) Added a review to Devin Townsend's "Epicloud" album.
• (11.08) Vocalist / bass player David Vincent of Morbid Angel spoke a bit about how drummer Pete Sandoval is doing 2 years after his back surgery: "You know, he still has some challenges. Obviously it's our hope that he continues to get better, but at this point, Tim Yeung is the drummer of Morbid Angel and he's doing an excellent job." When asked if the band would take Pete back once he's fully recovered, Vincent said: "Well, we really haven't discussed it because that has not been the case yet."
• (11.08) Trent Reznor has stated there's likely to be some new Nine Inch Nails music in the future.
  
• (11.04) Go here to listen to audio samples from all the songs on the new Deftones album.
  
• (11.03) Jolie Carmadella, wife to Mitch Lucker of Suicide Silence (who passed away on Thursday in a motorcycle accident), has made the following statement: "He was an alcoholic, and it's a been a big battle. I tried to stop him. I was in front of him begging him not to leave the house. Begging him. 'Just seriously, for us, don't leave.' And he did. And this is what happened. It's a wake-up call. He was an amazing man. He was a wonderful father and a great husband. And now he's gonna miss out on watching [his five-year-old daughter] Kenadee grow, because he decided to drink and ride. Just don't. Just think before you guys do something stupid. Please learn from this. Please."
  
• (11.03) Classic Morbid Angel Drummer Pete Sandoval has released the following statement about his recovery from back surgery in 2010: "Just wanted to tell you that my recovery is almost 100%. I'm able to play drums, but I don't want to push it doing a tour just yet. However, I am working with Wolf and Kat on new songs for a new Terrorizer album, and I'm also recording drums for two Resistant Culture tracks that will be featured on their upcoming full-length release. Keep an eye out for it, it'll destroy!!!!"
• (11.02) "Book Burner", the fifth-full length album from Pig Destroyer, sold more than 4,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 102 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at position No. 2 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart.
• (11.01) Mitch Lucker, vocalist for Suicide Silence, has died from injuries incurred from a motorcycle accident. He was 28 years old. RIP dude, you left far too soon.
  
• (11.01) Nile will be doing a special tour early next year. To commemorate their 20th anniversary, the band will tour the states and play two long sets with a brief intermission. They hope to play a lot of material that the audience hasn't heard live before. Supporting them with be 3 local bands, different for each host city. They'll be in San Francisco at Slim's on March 24th.
  

• (10.31) For those who enjoy drama, here's Napalm Death's vocalist Barney Greenway responding to an interview head of Earache records Digby Pearson gave a few weeks ago where he slams Greenway for being hard to deal with.
  
• (10.30) Arch Enemy will be working on a new Live DVD/Bluray for next year, and will then write a brand new album for a springish 2014 release.
  
• (10.27) Suffocation vocalist Frank Mullen has made a new statement with regards to the upcoming tour, to clarify his previous statement: "I am not leaving Suffocation. Massive, one-month-long touring on my side cannot be done anymore, though. When the new album is released next year, I will be touring as much as possible to support the album as well as the following year in 2014. When I was asked that question in the interview, I was taken off guard and didn't really know what my schedule was going to look like next year and wanted to try and answer. I haven't given much thought to what our touring schedule would look like since we've been in the studio recording the new release. So I'm going to be getting out there as much as I can to support the album and get out there in front of the ones who have supported Suffocation over the years, the true fans. So we are going to be supporting this record as soon as it comes out. The rest of the band adds: "We have respected this decision that Frank has made, but by no means does this mean Suffocation will 'replace' him with new singer or stop touring. Death metal has been good to us, and we feel fortunate with the success we have achieved. For shows or tours he can't be a part of, there will be a well-respected, talented fill-in singer, so we as a band can continue to prosper and bring Suffocation to the fans. Bill Robinson (Decrepit Birth) is a good friend of ours and came through during the European tours when Frank was unable to make the shows, but he was just filling in those two times. The fill-in singer will be announced soon, and we promise that our fans will not be let down. We have been fortunate to make a great living playing music, and are willing to continue to give our fans what they want."
• (10.27) The Reset have released their EP "Progenitor" for free. Grab it here. The band is working on material for their debut album.
  
• (10.24) Suffocation vocalist Frank Mullen won't be able to make all the dates for their upcoming tour, and the band will use a replacement vocalist. Here's his words on the subject, "I can't really tour full time anymore. So when the album comes out, they'll probably set up about a month-[long] tour, or something like that, in the States. I'll only do about two weeks of it. There'll be a fill-in singer [doing the rest of the shows]. And then I'll probably do maybe a week, or a week and a half, over in Europe, and then any other touring they do for the rest of the year, wil probably have somebody else filling in [on vocals]. I mean, I'll do, like, spot shows here and there. Unfortunately, as you get older, death metal doesn't make tons of money, and I've got a good job, so… you know, you've gotta work. And that's pretty much what it is. I'm not a kid no more. At this point, you've gotta start thinking ahead in your life, you've gotta start thinking long-term goals and stuff And unfortunately, death metal, again, it's not the type of music where you're gonna make millions and where you can make a really good living on it. I mean, you can have fun with it, and some bands could have a steady life on it, but for the most part, you do it more or less for the fact that that's what you love — you love death metal and that's what you play. It's more or less that than trying to make a living." Sorry to see this happen, Frank is awesome live, but it's understandable. I wish things were different and more people could make a living from death metal.
  
• (10.24) Go here for a really good interview with reformed Broken Hope discussing why the band broke up in the first place, what led to the reformation, the new members to the band and why some older members didn't come back, and the band's future.
• (10.24) Go here to listen to the new song 'Still They Pray' from the new Aeon album.
  
• (10.23) Added a review to Pig Destroyer's "Book Burner" album.
• (10.23) Added a review to Thy Art Is Murder's "Hate" album.
• (10.22) Devin Townsend and Gojira will be on tour together this winter, and will come to San Francisco on Jan 23rd at the Fillmore.
  
• (10.17) Go here for the new song 'Embodiment' off the new Devolved album.
• (10.17) Added a review to Malignancy's "Eugenics" album.
• (10.16) Added a review to Arkaik's "Metamorphignition" album.
• (10.15) Go here to see a video of Glass Cloud's guitarist Josh Travis showing how he plays some of the more difficult bits in their song 'She Is Well and Nothing Can Be Ill'.
  
• (10.11) Broken Hope has just signed with Century Media Records, and will have a new album out in 2013.
• (10.11) Added a review to Uneven Structure's "Februus" album.
• (10.11) Go here to listen to the new track 'The Laughing Prophet Of Doom' off the new Arkaik album.
  
• (10.11) Guitarist Jon Levasseur of Cryptopsy will be forced to sit out the band's dates in support of their new, self-titled album. Filling in for him will be former Cryptopsy member Youri Raymond. No word as to why he has to sit out, whether it's due to illness, visa issues, or maybe he's quit the band again (I sure hope not, the new album is really good and he's a big part of that).
  
• (10.10) The bus Between The Buried And Me and Periphery were sharing while on tour in Europe caught fire in England. Thankfully there are no injuries and no equipment was damaged, and the incident will not affect the touring schedule.
• (10.08) Congrats to Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson and his girlfriend Stacy Riley, who got married on Oct 5th.
• (10.06) Go here for the new song 'Shadow Of Eternal Sin' by Thy Art Is Murder off their soon to be released album.
• (10.06) Go here for the cover artwork to the new Deftones album.
  
• (10.05) Go here for the full new Tesseract song 'Nocturne', featuring new vocalist Ashe O'Hara.
• (10.05) Hate have completed work on their new album, "Solarflesh", for an early 2013 release via Napalm Records.
• (10.04) The Amenta's new album "Flesh is Heir" is 100% mixed, and will be mastered this week.
• (10.04) Cryptopsy will be releasing a 2-CD best-of collection called "The Best Of Us Bleed", featuring demo and live recordings as well as three exclusive new tracks (written with Youri Raymond and Eric Langlois). It will be out November 20 via Century Media. Go here for a track listing.
• (10.04) Go here to listen to another new track, 'Tempest', off the new Deftones album.
  
• (10.03) Guitarist/vocalist Patrick Mameli of Pestilence has issued the following update: "We are working our asses of to finish composing the last two songs for 'Obsideo'. Dave is making vids for the songs and we are looking at recording drums in February. We also will do some old-school shows with songs just from the first three albums!!!! Including songs like 'Twisted Truth' and 'Commandments'!!!!!"
• (10.02) Added a review to Elitist's "Reshape Reason" album.
• (10.02) Added a review to Pathology's "The Time Of Great Purification" album.
• (10.01) Ressurection will record a new album in 2013.

• (09.28) Go here for a teaser from the new Man Must Die album.
  
• (09.28) Added a review to Obscenity's "Atrophied In Anguish" album.
  
• (09.28) Nile drummer George Kolias' new instructional DVD "Intense Metal Drumming 2" will be out Oct 16th on Hudson Music.
  
• (09.28) Arsis are putting the finishing touches on the mixes for their fifth full-length album, "Unwelcome", tentatively due in early 2013 via Nuclear Blast Records.
• (09.26) An update from Deeds Of Flesh: "We are pleased to announce that Ivan Munguia (Arkaik, Braindrill) will be taking over bass duties for Deeds of Flesh. Ivans abilities on bass are regarded as one of the elite in the scene today and we are stoked to his addition to the band. Many thanx go out to Erlend Caspersen for his incredible work on "Of What's to Come"."
• (09.25) Aeon's new album will be called "Aeons Black", and will be released November 20 via Metal Blade Records. Go here for the album cover artwork. Go here for the title track.
  
• (09.25) Go here for the new song 'Reign Of Darkness' by Thy Art Is Murder off their soon to be released album.
• (09.25) Hanzel Und Gretyl's new album "Born To Be Heiled" will be out Nov 27th. Go here for the cover artwork.
  
• (09.25) Go here for a trailer to the new Tesseract song 'Nocturne', featuring new vocalist Ashe O'Hara.
• (09.25) Anthrax's album "Worship Music" has just passed the 100,000 albums sold mark in the US.
  
• (09.25) Here's a new song, 'Square and Compass', off the new Elitist album that has been released today.
• (09.24) Added a review to Cryptopsy's "Cryptopsy" album. Also go here for a recent interview with vocalist Matt McGachy about the new album.
  
• (09.21) Suffocation's new album "The Pinnacle Of Bedlam" is now due due in February/March 2013 via Nuclear Blast Records.
• (09.21) Former Synthetic Breed vocalist Callan Hughes has rejoined the band. They plan on recording a new album in 2013.
• (09.20) Added a review to Hour Of Penance's "Sedition" album.
• (09.20) Go here for the official trailer to Nile drummer George Kollias' new instructional DVD, "Intense Metal Drumming 2", which will be released later this month through Hudson Music.
• (09.20) Go here to listen to the new track 'Leathers' off the new Deftones album.
  
• (09.19) Go here for some high quality video of Vile playing in Holland Sept 14th 2012. Click through his other videos for other songs from the show.
• (09.19) Go here for an interesting interview with Chuck Billy of Testament discussing how he beat his cancer. Not sure I believe the whole story, but certainly makes for an interesting point of view.
  
• (09.18) Go here to watch a video for the new song 'Tyrannical Decay' off the new Pathology CD.
  
• (09.18) Suffocation's new album will be called "The Pinnacle of Bedlam", it will be released in 2013 with a bonus DVD.
  
• (09.14) Thy Art Is Murder's new album will be called "Hate", and will be out Oct 19th.
  
• (09.14) Sphere have announced on their Facebook page that their vocalist Jon Bergan has left the band. They have already recruited Isak Haugan to replace him. Furthermore, they have uploaded three updated tracks with the new vocalist to their SoundCloud page.
• (09.13) Correction, Cryptopsy's new album is out now in both digital and CD formats. Check it out here.
  
• (09.11) Go here to see a performance clip of Nile drummer George Kollias' new solo album. George's new instructional DVD, "Intense Metal Drumming 2", will be released later this month through Hudson Music. Kollias states, "This new DVD stands on the same concept as 'Intense Metal Drumming' did back in 2008. There is A LOT of educational stuff for beginners and more advanced players, many killer concepts and exercises that will help everyone. The quality of the new DVD is crazy; we used eight video cameras, 26 audio channels and there is a lot of bonus material that everyone will enjoy!"
• (09.11) Follow these links to see several live songs from recently "reunited" Broken Hope, including 'Swamped In Gore', 'Pitbull Grin', 'Felching Vampires' and 'Remember My Members'.
  
• (09.08) Go here to listen to a new track 'True North' off the new Devin Townsend record "Epicloud".
  
• (09.07) News from Tesseract: “We have found our new singer. He fits our vision for the stage and studio perfectly. Thank you for your patience over the last few months, but as the new single will attest, we feel it was worth the wait. The new single, entitled ‘Nocturne’ will be released through Century Media Records on October 12th."
• (09.06) Release of Cryptopsy's new album has been pushed back to Nov 20th.
• (09.06) A Des Moines doctor has been charged with eight counts of involuntary manslaughter for allegedly prescribing large amounts of narcotic painkillers to patients who later died of overdoses, including Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, who died May 24, 2010.
• (09.04) Added a review to Stealing Axion's "Moments" album.
• (09.02) Go here for a new track, 'Unto The Sun', off the forthcoming Elitist album "Reshape Reason".
  
• (09.02) Drummer Kerim "Krimh" Lechner has left Decapitated. He explained in a statement, "Too many personal differences and other difficulties made me decide like this." He added, "I appreciate the good times we had together and what we could achieve in more than two and a half years. Even if our ways are dividing, I wish the band to keep going. However, it's time for me to move on. I don't know what will be next, but I would like to stay in this business. I love to write and play music for you guys. This is my life and this is what I want to continue." Decapitated has reportedly recruited former Vader drummer Pawel Jaroszewicz as Lechner's replacement.
• (09.02) Go here to listen to a new track 'Type Zero Civilization' off the new Malignancy album. The album will be Out Oct 8th.
  

• (08.31) Pig Destroyer's new album Book Burner will contain 19 songs, and will come in regular and Deluxe versions. The Deluxe version n comes with a 2nd CD that contains a bunch of punk covers, and a short story, titled "The Atheist", written by front man JR Hayes.
• (08.31) Go here for audio samples of all the songs off the new Devolved album.
  
• (08.30) Deftones' new album will be called "Koi No Yokan" and will be out Nov 13th.
  
• (08.30) The Reset's new EP "Progenitor" will be out September 16th.
  
• (08.27) Added a review to Disentomb's "Promo 2012" promo.
• (08.27) Go here to get a new track called 'Exaggerated Torment' from band Insision. The song should be oon their new album due in 2013.
  
• (08.27) Go here for a discussion with Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci and keyboardist Jordan Rudess about their recent live show in Argentina that was recorded for a forthcoming live DVD.
  
• (08.26) Anders Friden from In Flames had this to say about new album plans: ""We'll probably continue touring for whole next year, and then we're gonna think about what we're gonna do. I mean, we already have some stuff in our heads, but the actual writing process is something that we do when we get off the road; we need to focus on that."
• (08.25) Here's the cover artwork off the new Between The Buried And Me album "The Parallax II: Future Sequence".
• (08.24) Go here to get a free copy of the latest Disentomb promo. Fans of Disgorge should check these guys out.
  
• (08.24) Vader will start working on their new album next year, and it is tentatively called "Straight To Hell".
  
• (08.23) Added a review to Belligerent Intent's "Seven Are They" album.
• (08.23) Devin Townsend has stated on his twitter feed that he may not complete "Ghost II", and instead take the best parts and incorporate them into "Ziltoid 2". Here's the full tweet: "I tried to finish Ghost 2 the other day, but it's not solid enough. Doesn't engage. Going to use the best bits and art for elements of Z2."
• (08.23) Go here to listen to another track, 'The Golden Square Mile', off the new Cryptopsy album, now due on Sept 14th. Really impressive song, this release is getting better and better.
  
• (08.17) Added a review to The Faceless' "Autotheism" album.
• (08.17) Go here for a statement from Chimaira frontman Mark Hunter on all of the changes the band has undergone in the past year, and the future direction of the band.
  
• (08.16) George Kollias, drummer for Nile, is featured on the cover of the latest issue of DRUM! magazine. In his extensive interview, he discusses Nile's "At The Gate Of Sethu" release, his solo album, his new instructional DVD, and his early influences, among various other topics.
• (08.16) Immolation have finished recording their new album.
  
• (08.16) Go here to listen to 2 new tracks from Cryptopsy, 'Two Pound Torch' and 'Red-Skinned Scapegoat'. Sounds really impressive (very "And Then You'll Beg"), nice to have songwriter/guitarist Jon Levasseur back in the band. The album should be out sometime around Sept 11th.
  
• (08.15) Otep should have a new album out January 2013.
  
• (08.14) Volumes is writing a new album.
• (08.14) Go here for a guitar playthrough video of Sphere's new song 'Shock And Awe', which will be on their new album due later this year.
• (08.14) Go here for a new song from Humanity's Last Breath called 'Animal', which will be on their new album to be released next year.
  
• (08.13) Added a review to Devin Townsend Project's "By A Thread" Live 11 Disc set.
• (08.13) Added a review to Reflections' "The Fantasy Effect" EP.
• (08.09) Pig Destroyer have set "Book Burner" as the title of their fifth-full length album, due on October 23 via Relapse Records.
• (08.09) "Dark Roots Of Earth", the new album from Testament, sold more than 20,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No, 12 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on July 31 via Nuclear Blast Records. Testament's previous studio album, "The Formation of Damnation", opened with 11,400 units back in May 2008 to debut at position No. 59.
• (08.08) Go here to listen to a preview of a track off the new Obscenity album.
  
• (08.08) And go here for the cover art to Arkaik's new album.
  
• (08.07) Go here to listen to the new track 'Soliloquies Of The War Machine' off the new Arkaik album.
  
• (08.04) Go here for 4 minutes of clips from the new Devin Townsend's album "Epicloud".
• (08.03) Added a review to Shattered Skies' "Reanimation" EP.
• (08.02) Added a review to Testament's "Dark Roots Of Earth" album.
• (08.02) Go here for the new song 'Supremacy Enforced ' off the new Devolved album.
  
• (08.02) Apparently that EP of covers by Anthrax won't be an EP, but instead the songs will be used as bonus songs on rereleased albums and tribute CDs.

• (07.28) Arsis have set "Unwelcome" as the title of their fifth full-length album, due in the fall via Nuclear Blast Records.
• (07.28) Go here for the cover artwork to Devin Townsend's new album "Epicloud".
  
• (07.27) Patrick Mameli of the band Pestilence has issued the following update: "We are very pleased that we can officially announce that David Haley (Psycroptic) will replace Tim Yeung for the upcoming Pestilence album and upcoming shows. Bassist Stefan Fimmers (ex-Necrophagist) already joined Pestilence for the new album, 'Obsideo', and live performances. Although Tim was really excited to join Pestilence, it was because of his conflicting tour schedules with Morbid Angel (and other projects), that made it nearly impossible for Tim to tour with Pestilence. But we (guitarist Patrick Uterwijk, Fimmers and Mameli) weren't really too disappointed by this unfortunate development because of our talks with David soon after. The new material will fit David perfectly. He is such an amazing drummer and a really cool guy as well!!! We all welcome him into the Pestilence camp."
• (07.27) Periphery's drummer is seen here playing the track 'Ji' off the new album. Impressive stuff and well filmed.
  
• (07.26) Added a review to Glass Cloud's "The Royal Thousand" album.
• (07.26) Added a review to Gojira's "L'Enfant Sauvage" album.
• (07.25) Added a review to Periphery's "Periphery II" album.
• (07.25) Added a review to Reach (Us)' "We Seek the Means to Escape This Light, Intrusive" EP.
• (07.25) Go here for a good article with Karl Sanders from Nile on their new album and performing live.
  
• (07.24) A message from Deeds Of Flesh founding member Erik Lindmark: "As many know, a couple years back we did a drastic member change where I decided to go from doing both vocals and guitar to just guitar and backing vocals and adding Corey Athos (Flesh Consumed) to the lineup. Corey was going to take over, basically, all of the vocal duties, allowing me to concentrate more on just playing guitar and doing some backups here and there. We thought this would be a good move, allowing the vocals to be more aggressive and in-your-face, like on our last release, 'Of What's To Come'. We made the decision while writing this album, which is why you hear the progression in both vocals and guitar work from our previous releases. This would also allow myself to get a bit more technical and crazy on the guitar work as you hear with the added leads and over writing on 'Of What's To Come'. Unfortunately, the years of playing has taken its toll on my left or fret arm and I have been diagnosed with a severe level of tendonitis. Recording is not an issue, because songs are broken up into small sections and I am still recording on the new release, 'Portals To Canaan', but live is an issue. If I play for more then about two minutes straight, I get an overwhelming amount of pain in my fret arm and can no longer put any pressure on the neck and have to stop. This, in turn, live would leave nothing for me to do if Corey is doing vocals and I need to be replaced on guitar. So what we have decided is I will be doing all vocals live, but not playing guitar. Might be a bit weird, but it's either that or quit, which I do not want to do. On future releases I will still contribute to the writing process and recording, so I won't be completely out of the loop as far as guitar work goes. Inevitably, this means Corey will not be part of the current lineup. He put in a tremendous amount of effort on the lyrics for 'Portals To Canaan' and will get writing credits in the release. We wish him the best with Flesh Consumed and all other future projects. This was a very difficult decision for me, but I feel it is the only decision to move forward with Deeds Of Flesh. I am trying to remedy the situation, but we are planning on touring for the new release next year and didn't want this to be a surprise, so thought this should be brought on now rather then later."
• (07.24) Go here for a new track off the new Between The Buried And Me album.
  
• (07.23) Devin Townsend has told his twitter followers that he'll be working on one new album, "Casualties Of Cool", before working again on "Ziltoid 2".
• (07.22) Malignancy will release their new album, "Eugenics" on October 9 via Willowtip. Go here for the cover artwork.
  
• (07.22) Go here to see the cover artwork to the new Devolved album.
  
• (07.19) Obituary, Broken Hope, Decrepit Birth, Junglerot and Encrust wil be at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco on Septemer 26th.
• (07.18) Krisiun have re-signed with Century Media Records.
• (07.17) Go here for the cover artwork to the new The Faceless album.
  
• (07.17) The next Between The Buried And Me album will be called "The Parallax II: Future Sequence", and will be out Oct 9th.
  
• (07.17) The Faceless' new album "Autotheism" will be out Aug 14th 2012.
  
• (07.15) Obituary are going to finish recording a 3 song EP after their current tour. And hope to have a new full length album out by January.
  
• (07.14) Go here to watch a clip from Pete Sandoval's upcoming DVD.
  
• (07.14) Go here to watch a 3 minute trailer for the new Cryptopsy album. Thankfully, no singing, lets hope it stays that way for the whole album.
  
• (07.13) The new Devolved will be called "Reprisal" and as previously reported, should be out Nov 20th.
  
• (07.13) Added a review to Nile's "At The Gate Of Sethu" album.
• (07.13) Go here to listen to another new track, 'Native Blood', off Testament's "Dark Roots Of Earth".
  
• (07.12) Broken Hope are reuniting, and will celebrate their return by joining forces with Obituary on the Carnival Of Death tour! Since the bands former vocalist Joe Ptacek passed away in 2010, Damian Leski of Gorgasm will be on vocal duties. Lets hope we get a new album from the band next year!
• (07.12) Cryptopsy's new album should be out in September.
  
• (07.12) "Periphery II: This Time It's Personal", the 2nd album from Periphery, sold nearly 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 44 on The Billboard 200 chart.
• (07.12) "At The Gate Of Sethu", the seventh full-length album from Nile, sold 3,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 131 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at position No. 2 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart. Nile's previous album, "Those Whom The Gods Detest", opened with 3,500 units back in 2009 to enter The Billboard 200 chart at No. 160.
• (07.11) 19 years since their last appearance on stage, the "Screams Of Anguish" lineup of Brutality (Scott Reigel, Jeff Acres, Don Gates and Jay Fernandez, as well as our new addition Earl "Maddog" Zambella on
  drums) will reunite for an October 13 performance at the Brass Mug in Tampa. This is the annual Metal Meowlisha show (the charity operated by Obituary drummer Donald Tardy and his wife Heather) where all proceeds go to benefit our friendly felines. Commented Brutality: "It's an honor to have this show as our comeback event and we look forward to everyone's support for such a great cause. We as well will have merchandise to auction off for the benefit. Please show your support by coming out and having a great time. This is guaranteed to be a night for all to remember."
  
• (07.10) Added a review to Dying Fetus' "Reign Supreme" album.
• (07.10) Pig Destroyer have entered the studio to record their fifth full-length album. A late 2012 release via Relapse Records is expected.
• (07.08) Go here for a really good interview with Karl Sanders of Nile about the new album.
  
• (07.07) Deeds Of Flesh's new album "Portals to Canaan" will be out January 29th, 2013.
• (07.07) Hate have entered Sound Division Studio in Warsaw to begin recording their new album, "Solarflesh", for a January 2013 release via Napalm Records.
• (07.07) Ytsejam Records, the independent label that was responsible for releasing numerous live shows and demos from Dream Theater, is very much alive. With drummer Mike Portnoy's departure, who was the main person behind the record label, it's existence was questionable, but apparently vocalist James LaBrie has taken over and promises there will be future releases on the label.
  
• (07.06) Dream Theater's August 19 and August 20 concerts at Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina will be professionally filmed and recorded for the band's next live DVD, to be released sometime next year.
• (07.06) Pathology will release their new album, "The Time Of Great Purification", on September 25 via Victory Records. Go here for the cover artwork.
  
• (07.05) Obscenity will release their eigth studio album, "Atrophied In Anguish" on September 14 as a digipak and as a digital download via Apostasy Records. Go here for the album cover.
  
• (07.05) "L'Enfant Sauvage", the fifth album from Gojira, sold almost 11,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 34 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "The Way Of All Flesh", opened with 4,200 units back in 2008 to land at No. 138.
• (07.01) Deftones has set a tentative October 9 release date for its seventh album.

• (06.30) Arkaik's new album "Metamorphignition" will be out Oct 9th. Go here for an album teaser.
  
• (06.29) Recent message from Devolved: "All tracking for the new DEVOLVED Album is done! Mixing and Mastering will be completed in the next few weeks. CD title, Artwork and Tracklisting to be announced soon. Album in stores World-wide Nov 20th!"
• (06.29) Go here for an interview with Dream Theater bassist John Myung.
  
• (06.29) Adam 'Nolly' Getgood has joined Periphery as their new fulltime bassist.
  
• (06.28) Andrew Haug, the former host of Triple J Australia's "The Racket" radio show, has just unveiled plans to launch Australia's first-ever dedicated 24/7 rock and metal online radio station via AndrewHaug.com.
• (06.28) Go here for an interview with former Divine Heresy vocalist Tommy Vext where he discusses his split with the band all those years ago.
• (06.28) Go here for an interview where Dino from Fear Factory defends his use of a drum machine on the new album.
  
• (06.28) Devildriver have signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records. The band's next album is tentatively scheduled for a release in 2013.
• (06.28) "Reign Supreme", the new album from Dying Fetus, sold around 3,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 186 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at position No. 5 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart. Their last album "Descend Into Depravity", opened with around 2,700 units to land at No. 166.
• (06.28) "Mnemesis", the fifth studio album from Mnemic, sold around 800 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 38 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart. Their fourth studio album, "Sons Of The System", opened with around 600 units in Janaury 2010 to enter the Top New Artist Albums chart at No. 64.
• (06.28) The new self-titled fourth album from Whitechapel sold around 9,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 47 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "A New Era Of Corruption", opened with around 10,600 units back in June 2010 to land at No. 43.
• (06.27) Go here to listen to the new track 'New American Hate' from Testament.
  
• (06.26) Go here to listen to Glass Cloud's new album streaming in its entirety.
  
• (06.23) Reformed Massacre will be releasing a new 7" later this summer, followed by their 3rd full length album early next year.
  
• (06.22) Added a review to Whitechapel's "Whitechapel" album.
• (06.22) Added a review to The Rotted's "Ad Nauseam" album.
• (06.21) Added a review to Mnemic's "Mnemesis" album.
• (06.21) Anthrax will release an EP of cover songs in September. According the drummer Charlie Benante: "It started out as what I call 'The '70s EP'. It's made up of some cover songs from our favorite bands — consisting of Rush, Thin Lizzy, Boston, Journey … We're still working on it now, but I think it's gonna be really cool."
• (06.20) Devourment has entered the studio to record their new album and first for new label, Relapse Records. The album will be recorded at Mana Recordings in St. Petersburg, FL with Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel). The album should be out early 2013.
• (06.20) Go here to listen to the new Gojira album "L'Enfant Sauvage", streaming in its entirety. The CD will be released on June 26 via Roadrunner Records.
• (06.20) Go here to listen to the 2nd new track, 'The Inevitable Degradation of Flesh', off the new Nile album.
• (06.19) Deftones bassist Chi Cheng is showing signs of improvement after being diagnosed with pneumonia, according to a post by his family at the One Love For Chi web site.
• (06.19) Go here to listen to the new track 'If He Dies, He Dies' off the new Glass Cloud album.
  
• (06.17) Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who has been in a semi-concious state for the past 3 years since a car accident, has contracted pneumonia. He's currently in Intensive Care )can't this guy ever catch a break?)
  
• (06.16) Suture are back after a long hiatus, and have plans to re-record their 2002 debut full-length, "Carnivorous Urge To Kill", for release later this year.
• (06.15) Go here for a preview of the new Mnemic song 'Junkies On The Storm'.
  
• (06.14) Release of Glass Cloud's new album has been pushed back to July 10th.
• (06.14) Release of the new Mnemic album has been pushed till June 19th
  
• (06.14) Added a review to Volumes' "Via" album.
• (06.14) "The Industrialist", the new album from Fear Factory, sold 9,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 38 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Mechanize", opened with 10,000 units back in February 2010 to land at No. 72. Fear Factory's 2005 CD, "Transgression", registered a first-week tally of 19,000 back in August 2005 to enter the chart at No. 45. "Archetype" sold 32,000 copies back in April 2004 to debut on the Billboard chart at No. 30.
• (06.14) Arsis entered Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida on June 7 with producer Mark Lewis to begin recording their fifth full-length album for a fall release via Nuclear Blast Records.
• (06.13) Tesseract have parted ways with vocalist Elliot Coleman less than a year after he joined the band as the replacement for Dan Tompkins. He leaves on good terms, as the band describes, he just wasn't a good fit.
  
• (06.12) Decapitated are seeking a new bassist. Interested parties can contact the band at decapitatedband@gmail.com.
• (06.12) Go here to listen to clips of all the songs off the new Periphery album.
  
• (06.09) Go here to see the cover artwork to Cryptopsy's new self-titled album.
  
• (06.07) Go here for an interview with Fear Factory on the new record, including some discussion on their decision to use a drum machine.
  
• (06.06) Added a review to Fear Factory's "The Industrialist" album.
• (06.06) Added a review to Synthetic Breed's "Zero Degrees Freedom" EP.
• (06.06) Drummer Sean Reinert (Cynic, Death) suffered a ruptured achilles tendon several days ago while training for the "Death To All Tour 2012". He is rehabilitating and hopes to still play the tour, although he may get more drumming help from other drummers scheduled to make appearances like Gene Hoglan and Danny Walker.
• (06.05) Go here to listen to the new Periphery track "Make Total Destroy" off their new album.
• (06.05) Go here to listen to the new Fear Factory album in its entirety.
  

• (05.31) Periphery's new album will be called "Periphery II: This Time It's Personal", and will be out July 3rd 2012 on Sumerian Records.
• (05.31) "Undead", the new album from Six Feet Under, sold around 2,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 183 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at position No. 5 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart.
• (05.30) Slipknot are putting together demos for their next album, which they hope to record next year.
  
• (05.28) Go here to watch quality footage of Fear Factory's entire Sacremento show on May 21st 2012.
  
• (05.27) Guitarist player "Big" Steeve Hurdle (Ex-Gorguts, Ex-Negativa) passed away on May 20th after post-surgical complications. He was a big part in the sound of Gorguts' third album, "Obscura", a pretty revolutionary and experimental death  metal album, even by today's standards. I remember when I lived back in Montreal, a buddy who worked at Rock En Stock (the local death metal cd shop) told me he had heard the new Gorguts album, and it was going to revolutionize the genre. I thought to myself "Really? I mean, they're a good band, but they don't seem like the type to do that." Then I heard "Obscura", and was like "What the hell? This CD is insane!" It was possibly a little too far out there for my tastes, but as time went on, I kept coming back to that album again and again, because there was something fresh and new there. And over time, I came to respect the album greatly, and agreed that it did indeed revolutionize the genre, not because it has been well copied and imitated since, but because it was something so different that it helped show the audience what the style could do, all you needed was to be brave enough to step outside the box. Steeve will be greatly missed.
  
• (05.26) Synthetic Breed will release a new 5 song EP, "Zero Degrees Freedom", on May 29 via Rogue Records America. The digital-only release will be available for purchase through Amazon, Bandcamp, and other digital retailers.
• (05.25) Go here to listen to the new Nile track 'The Fiends Who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased'.
• (05.24) Go here to listen to audio previews of all the songs off the new Mnemic album "Mnemesis".
• (05.24) Added a review to Cattle Decapitation's "Monolith of Inhumanity" album.
• (05.24) Added a review to Shadows Fall's "Fire From The Sky" album.
• (05.24) Nile's new album "At The Gate Of Sethu" will have a digipack version that will contain two bonus tracks, instrumental versions of songs off the album.
  
• (05.24) "Fire From The Sky", the new album from Shadows Fall, sold around 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 38 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Retribution", opened with 13,000 units in September 2009 to land at No. 35.
• (05.23) Added a review to Six Feet Under's "Undead" album.
• (05.23) Devin Townsend's new "By A Thread" Live CD/DVD boxset will be out June 19th 2012.
  
• (05.21) Here's an update on the band Martyr, who have been pretty inactive these past few years. "After 14 years of great musical adventures, drummer Pat Hamelin has decided to leave the band Martyr due to personal reasons. We all wish him well. The remaining members of Martyr are unsure about the future of the band, as there has been a lot of undergoing tensions through the last years that was not taken care of, thus resulting in a frustrating negative vibe that would stagnate creativity and motivation. Martyr is on hold for now. More news to come later. Thanks for your support over all these years!!"
• (05.20) Visit Amazon to listen to audio samples from the new Fear Factory album.
  
• (05.19) Go here to see a trailer for Devin Townsend's new "By A Thread" Live CD/DVD boxset.
  
• (05.16) The new Testament album will come in a regular version, and a Deluxe CD/DVD that contains 3 extra cover songs and an extended version of one of the album's tracks.
  
• (05.15) Go here to see the cover artwork to the new Testament album, due out July 27, 2012 (Europe) and July 31, 2012 (North America) via Nuclear Blast Records.
• (05.15) Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci has contributed a guest guitar solo to the forthcoming Periphery album, which should be out July 3rd 2012 on Sumerian Records.
• (05.11) Behemoth will release a new album in 2013. They've already started writing a few riffs and other bits and pieces.
  
• (05.10) Glass Cloud's debut album "The Royal Thousand" will be out on Basick Records July 2nd in Europe and one day later in North America.
  
• (05.09) Devolved continues to record their new album for release later this year.
• (05.09) Man Must Die are recording their new album.
  
• (05.09) After a hiatus, Koldborn are back working on their 3rd album.
  
• (05.08) Go here to listen to another new track ('Divide And Conquer') off the forthcoming Shadows Fall album "Fire From The Sky".
• (05.07) Added a review to Prong's "Carved Into Stone" album.
• (05.04) Go here for an interview with Burton from Fear Factory on a number of subjects, including their new album and also the recent lineup changes.
• (05.04) Go here for the song 'I've Been You' off the new Mnemic album.
  
• (05.03) Cryptopsy's new album will be self titled. And here's a live performance of a track off the album, but note, the sound quality is horrible, so it's probably not worth watching.
• (05.03) Prong's new album, "Carved Into Stone", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 13 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart.
• (05.02) Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman will sit out the band's European tour to continue his recovery after an almost fatal spider bite last year. Exodus' Gary Holt will fill in.
• (05.01) Whitechapel's new self-titled album will be out June 19th. Go here to listen to their first single, 'Hate Creation'.
  

• (04.28) Obscenity have finished recording their eighth full-length album, "Atrophied In Anguish", for an August release via Apostasy Records.
• (04.28) The title track from Gojira's new album "L'Enfant Sauvage" is available for streaming at Pitchfork.com.
• (04.27) Go here to see the cover artwork too Nile's new album.
  
• (04.26) Go here to listen to another new track ('The Unknown') off the forthcoming Shadows Fall album "Fire From The Sky".
  
• (04.25) Dream Theater have started writing music for a new album.
  
• (04.25) Here's what Trevor Perez of Obituary had to say about new album plans: "It's pure Obituary, you know. It's what every fan would expect from us — fast, slow, in between, brutal… John Tardy going [imitating growling sound]. He added, "We're actually in the middle of writing new stuff now. We've been, actually, writing for probably a year. We've got a bunch of songs. When we get home from this trip, we're gonna record three songs, and we're probably gonna release a seven-inch two songs, and then one song is probably gonna be digital release only, through our web site. We're talking to Century Media about possibly doing a deal with them. That's still in the works. Hopefully by the end of the year we'll have the full-length album out."
• (04.25) The Amenta will release a new EP called "Chokehold" mid-May via Listenable Records. The EP features two brand new songs from the band, the title track "Chokehold" and a cover of the Godflesh track "Christbait Rising". The EP also features two live tracks taken from the bands 2011 "V01D" Australian tour as well as a remix of the track "V01D".
• (04.25) Go here to get a preview of a new Fear Factory track off the new album "The Industrialist".
• (04.25) Nile will release their new album "At The Gate Of Sethu" on July 3 via Nuclear Blast Records.
• (04.24) Gojira will release a new DVD/Blu-ray, "The Flesh Alive", in Europe on June 4 via Mascot. The three-disc set (including one CD) will chronicle the making of the band's 2008 album, "The Way Of All Flesh", and the touring activity that followed the CD's release.
• (04.23) Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake is featured on the cover of Drum! magazine's May 2012 issue #191.
• (04.20) Fear Factory will use Mike Heller (Malignancy, System Divide) as their new touring drummer.
• (04.20) Slayer will release a 3 or 4 song EP of new music before they go in to record their next full length album.
  
• (04.19) Added a review to Enochian Theory's "Life... And All It Entails" album.
• (04.19) Added a review to Job For A Cowboy's "Demonocracy" album.
• (04.19) Go here to see the cover artwork to Gojira's new album "L'Enfant Sauvage".
  
• (04.19) "Demonocracy", the new album from Job For A Cowboy, sold 4,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 87 on The Billboard 200 chart.
• (04.19) Behemoth is slowly working on new material, but they state it's still very early on.
• (04.19) Mnemic's new album will be out June 8th in Europe.
  
• (04.16) Devin Townsend's new album "Epicloud" will tentatively be released Sept 24th.
  
• (04.14) Go here to see the cover artwork to the new Tesseract EP.
  
• (04.14) Dream Theater will be performing at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on July 1st.
  
• (04.13) Vocalist / guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) has left Bloodbath. The band has a new as yet unnamed vocalist. Here's Mikael's statement: "Bloodbath, for me, was never a serious project, it was just something I did for fun. We did a few songs on the last North American tour, we did two songs at the very last show because we were touring with Katatonia, so the whole Bloodbath band was there. It's still fun, you know? But I think that some of the other guys in Bloodbath want to take it to the next level, which I don't really want to do because I'm so busy anyways. He added, "It doesn't really have to do with anything with my screaming vocals, it's just that it's not a progressive project for me. It's just paying tribute to death metal and I've done it for such a long time. And when it stops being fun, I don't really want to participate. We do things so rarely it's always been fun. The shows we've done have been fun, but I don't feel the need to do it."
• (04.12) Go here to listen to the song 'Ammunition' off the new Prong CD.
  
• (04.09) Go here to listen to the new Dying Fetus track 'Subjected To A Beating'.
• (04.07) Arsis have recruited Shawn Priest as the full-time replacement for recently departed drummer Mike VanDyne. Priest, who has toured with the band in the past, will be behind the kit for the band's upcoming fifth studio album.
• (04.07) Go here to listen to the new Job For A Cowboy album streaming in its entirety.
  
• (04.06) Added a review to Meshuggah's "Koloss" album.
• (04.06) Jim Marshall, who invented the Marshall amplifier, has died at the age of 88. So many metal artists owe him a debt of gratitude, as a Marshall owner myself, I can't say enough great things about his amplifiers. His contribution to the metal world is huge, and he will be missed.
  
• (04.06) The new Deftones album is now scheduled for an Oct release.
  
• (04.05) Gojira have set "L'Enfant Sauvage" as the title of their fifth album, due on June 26 via Roadrunner Records. That's french for "Savage Child".
• (04.05) Mike Van Dyne, drummer and founding member of Arsis will be leaving the band. He's decided to focus on his career fulltime.
• (04.05) "Koloss", the new album Meshuggah, sold 18,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 17 on The Billboard 200 chart. Their last CD "obZen" opened with 11,400 units to debut at No. 59. And "Catch 33" sold 7,000 copies in its first week of release to enter the charts at 170.
• (04.02) Buy the latest issue (#226) of Total Guitar for an interview with Dream Theater's John Petrucci and Periphery's Misha Mansoor about each other's music, and their Wembley Arena show in London.
• (04.01) The Deftones will enter the studio July 9th, and hope to have their new album out by the end of the year.

• (03.31) Tesseract's "Perspective" EP will be out in Europe May 21st.
  
• (03.30) Go here to see the cover artwork to the new Fear Factory album.
• (03.30) New song 'Fire From The Sky' off the new Shadows Fall album is available sttreaming here.
  
• (03.27) The new Shadows Fall album has been pushed back to May 15th. Go here for the cover artwork.
  
• (03.27) Go here to see the cover artwork to Dying Fetus' new album "Reign Supreme", and here for a 1 minute teaser for the album. It will be released June 17th.
  
• (03.24) Go here to listen to an interview with drummer Dave Culross about his return to Suffocation.
  
• (03.24) "Incurso", the third full-length album from Spawn Of Possession, sold around 700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD debuted at position No. 63 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart.
• (03.23) Added a review to Spawn Of Possession's "Incurso" album.
• (03.23) "Torture", the twelfth studio album from Cannibal Corpse, sold 9,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 38 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Evisceration Plague", also opened with 9,600 units to land at No. 66. That was more than 50 percent higher than the opening tally of their 2006 CD, "Kill", which entered the chart at No. 170 after shifting more than 6,000 copies.
• (03.23) Go here to see the cover artwork to Devin Townsend's new DVD.
• (03.22) Added a review to Coldworker's "The Doomsayer's Call" album.
• (03.22) Glass Cloud have just released 2 tracks off their debut album on iTunes. Go here for more info. They hope to release the full album this summer. Fans of Periphery may want to check these guys out (with mild shades of deathcore).
  
• (03.21) The current working title for the new The Faceless album is "Autotheism", and should be out by summer.
• (03.21) Go here to listen to another new track, 'I Am Colossus', off the new Meshuggah album.
  
• (03.20) Go here to listen to the new Job For A Cowboy song 'Black Discharge'.
• (03.20) Tool drummer Danny Carey said that the band hopes to enter the studio in June/July to begin recording its new album.
• (03.20) Devildriver is currently looking for a new label while they continue to work on their 6th album.
• (03.20) Go here to listen to a demo of a new Arsis song: 'Choking On Sand'.
• (03.19) Added a review to Cannibal Corpse's "Torture" album.
• (03.16) Coming to a city near you, the "DEATH To All" Tour, a tribute to the late Chuck Schuldiner, featuring just about every musician Chuck worked with including Gene Hoglan, Sean Reinert, Steve DiGiorgio, Scott Clendenin, Paul Masvidal, Shannon Hamm and Bobby Koelble. Go here for more info.
  
• (03.14) Go here to read an interview with Mike Smith about leaving Suffocation. He seems pretty pissed off.
  
• (03.13) Mnemic have set "Mnemesis" as the title of their fifth album, due later in the year via Nuclear Blast Records. See the cover artwork here.
  
• (03.12) Go here to listen to the entire new Spawn Of Possession album streaming for your listening pleasure.
  
• (03.11) Vital Remains have written 20 songs, and will record a new album this year.
  
• (03.10) Gene Hoglan will not be playing drums on the new Fear Factory tour. No reason has been given.
  
• (03.08) Nile have set "At The Gate Of Sethu" as the title of their new album, due in late spring/early summer via Nuclear Blast Records.
• (03.08) "Utilitarian", the 14th studio album from Napalm Death, sold around 2,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD debuted at No. 14 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart. Their previous album 2009's "Time Waits For No Slave", opened with around 1,800 units to land at No. 19 on the Heatseekers chart.
• (03.07) Go here to see some high quality live footage from this year's Neurotic Deathfest, including songs by Suffocation, Origin and Gorguts.
  
• (03.06) Guitarist Christopher Amott has left Arch Enemy. He leaves on goood terms, he's just decided to focus on his solo career. He will be replaced with Nick Cordle from Arsis. Christopher's brother, guitarist and founder of Arch Enemy Michael Amott, remains in the band.
  
• (03.05) The Faceless have parted ways with guitarist Steve Jones and replaced him with Wes Hauch. This is the second person leaving in recent history, they parted ways with vocalist Derek Rydquist in May 2011 and replaced him with Geoff Ficco.
• (03.03) Rob Zombie will begin work on a new studio album in June.
• (03.01) Bolt Thrower will play a very special 25th-anniversary show, Boltfest, on Saturday, April 7 (Easter Bank Holiday weekend) at the HMV Forum in London, England. Joining them will be Autopsy, Discharge, Benediction and Vallenfyre.
• (03.01) Fear Factory's new album "The Industrialist" will be out June 5th in North America.

• (02.29) Added a review to Napalm Death's "Utilitarian" album.
• (02.29) Thy Art Is Murder is busy writing their new album. Click here to listen to a demo from the album of the song 'In|Finite Forms'.
  
• (02.29) Go here for a demo version of a new Devolved song called 'Systematic Avenger'.
• (02.28) Go here for some more info on Mike Smith leaving Suffocation. The long story short, Dave Culross is the new permanent drummer for the band. I'll miss Mike, but I've seen Dave perform with Suffocation several times and he is fantastic, not to mention he was the drummer on their EP "Despise The Sun". So I'm sure he'll do a great job now that he's back.
• (02.28) Go here to listen to audio samples from every track on the new Meshuggah album.
  
• (02.28) Job For A Cowboy will release their new album "Demonocracy" on April 10 via Metal Blade Records. Go here to see the cover artwork.
  
• (02.25) Nile have finished recording their new album and are scheduled to begin mixing it this weekend.
• (02.25) "Utilitarian", the new album from Napalm Death, is available for streaming in its entirety at CMDistro.de.
• (02.24) Go here to listen to the track 'Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion' off the new Meshuggah album (must have a Facebook account).
  
• (02.23) Added a review to Goatwhore's "Blood For The Master" album. The album sold around 3,100 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at No. 4 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart. The band's previous album, 2009's "Carving Out The Eyes Of God", opened with around 2,700 units to land at No. 16 on the Heatseekers chart.
• (02.23) Patrick Mameli of Pestilence has released the following statement to Blabbermouth.net: "Recently, bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling and drummer Yuma van Eekelen have decided to work more intensively on their main projects.Therefore, bassist Stephan Fimmers (Necrophagist) and drummer Tim Yeung (Morbid Angel, Devine Heresy, Hate Eternal) will join Pestilence for the upcoming new album, 'Obsideo', and live performances. [I] would like to thank Jeroen Paul Thesseling and Yuma van Eekelen for their hard work and great musicianship on the 'Doctrine' album and live shows and we wish them both good luck in the future with their projects."
• (02.23) Suffocation have reportedly parted ways with drummer Mike Smith. Although his exit from the group has not yet been officially confirmed, the band played a couple of East Coast shows this past weekend with former member Dave Culross once again sitting behind the kit. Also Mike wrote a rather cryptic message on his Facebook page on the subject.
  
• (02.22) Added a review to Psycroptic's "The Inherited Repression" album.
• (02.22) Added a review to Beneath The Massacre's "Incongruous" album.
• (02.21) Release of Coldworker's new album "The Doomsayer's Call" has been pushed back to March 13th 2012.
• (02.21) Man Must Die has announced the addition of drummer Todd Hansen (The Berzerker) to the group's ranks. The band is currently seeking a new label home following its split with Relapse Records, which released the group last album "No Tolerance For Imperfection".
• (02.18) The new Devin Townsend DVD Live set called "By A Thread" will apparently have 10 discs. In Devin's words: "We're going to do the four DVDs, four audio discs, one of bonus footage, and because the shows are too long to fit the encores on the audio discs, we have a disc of just the encores. . . There's bonus material from 'Ghosts' and 'Deconstruction'. We did a bunch of Punky Bruster stuff and for "Addicted" we did a bunch of old catalog stuff, just to flesh it out." Devin is already working on his next album "Epicloud", which "goes between melodic hard rock to schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff".
• (02.18) 'Do Not Look Down', a brand new song from Meshuggah, can be streamed here.
• (02.18) Shadows Fall's new album will be called "Fire From The Sky", and will be released on May 8 via Razor & Tie.
• (02.17) Nasum, as part of their farewell tour (reported on a few month ago), will be in Oakland California at the Oakland Metro May 28th (with Exhumed).
  
• (02.16) Go here for a Polish news report (with video) on Adrian "Covan" Kowanek, former vocalist for the band Decapitated, who has been left terribly injured after a bus crash 4 years ago. Click on the CC button to get english subtitles. Seeing him in this state is just so sad, my heart really goes out for the guy. If you have any extra cash around, I highly recommend supporting the band or the family directly, for info and links, see the description of the youtube clip, or visit www.wakeupcovan.com.
• (02.16) The new Devin Townsend 4 DVD Live set will be called "By A Thread", and should be out this summer.
  
• (02.14) Fear Factory have announced that Matt DeVries (Chimaira, Six Feet Under) has joined the group as their new bass player.
• (02.14) Go here to listen to the new track 'Bodiless Sleeper' by Spawn Of Possession from their new album.
  
• (02.13) Cryptopsy continues to work on their new album.
  
• (02.12) Gortuary have a new song 'Dieties Of Disease' on their myspace. No idea if this is from a new album or just a demo.
  
• (02.12) Vile is seeking a bassist and lead guitarist for future shows in California and eventually a European tour.
• (02.11) Fear Factory have finished recording their new album, "The Industrialist".
• (02.10) Cannibal Corpse's new album will be out March 13th.
  
• (02.10) Prong's new album will be out April 24th. Here's the cover artwork.
  
• (02.09) An update on Blabbermouth on Deftones bassist Chi's condition: "According to The Pulse Of Radio, Deftones bassist Chi Cheng is showing more signs of emerging from a semi-comatose state to a semi-conscious state, over three years since he was gravely injured in a November 2008 car crash. Cheng is now able to move his leg on command (see video below), but is still otherwise unable to move or speak aside from grunting noises that he began making in October. Cheng required surgery after the car accident to remove part of his brain, but his recovery was strong enough that he was taken off life support seven months later. Over the course of the past two years, Cheng has emerged from his coma for brief intervals. He opens his eyes and apparently can see and hear things going on around him, but cannot respond verbally. Nevertheless, Cheng's family is running out of money. He is staying in a special facility in New Jersey and lost his insurance just months after the accident. His family reportedly has just $17,000 out of the total $250,000 needed for his full course of treatment and recovery."
• (02.09) Mnemic are now in the studio recording their new album.
  
• (02.08) Devin Townsend's "Deconstruction" album has been nominated for a Juno award (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy's).
  
• (02.07) Slayer hope to enter the studio in March to record their new album.
• (02.07) Go here to listen to a second track off the new Cannibal Corpse album.
  
• (02.06) Monstrosity will release their "Live Apocalypse" DVD on March 13. The DVD includes their performance at the Brutal Assault festival in Josefov Czech Republic.
• (02.05) Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante's mother passed away yesterday. Our thoughts go out to him and the entire Benante family.
  
• (02.05) Shadows Fall have finished recording their seventh album.
• (02.03) Vocalist Chuck Billy of Testament, when asked about Gene Hoglan who is currently the band's tour drummer, and whether he'd become the band's new permanent drummer, said: "We'd like him to be, but I think right now we're just taking it tour by tour. We don't know yet. We just kind of unexpected had to do this tour before the record came out, so we haven't really thought about it yet."
• (02.02) "Global Flatline", the seventh studio album from Aborted, sold around 1,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 27 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart.

• (01.27) Added a review to Aborted's "Global Flatline" album.
• (01.26) Whitechapel have enetered the studio to work on their 4th album.
• (01.26) Fear Factory's new album will be called "The Industrialist" and will be out this year in Europe via AFM Records and in the U.S. through Candlelight.
• (01.25) Tesseract are working on an acoustic EP, tentatively titled "Perspective", for a spring release via Century Media Records. The album will contain reworked versions of tracks from the band's debut album, "One", plus "a very special" cover version. Once they're done, they'll continue writing their next full length album.
  
• (01.24) Go here to listen to the song 'Collapse In Eternal Worth' from the new Goatwhore album.
  
• (01.18) In a recent interview, Gojira guitarist/vocalist Joe Duplantier said that the long awaited "Sea Shepherd" EP will get finished shortly after they finish recording their new album.
• (01.18) Go here to see the cover artwork to Meshuggah's new album.
  
• (01.18) Go here to listen to a new track 'Where Angels Go Demons Follow' from the new Spawn Of Possession CD.
  
• (01.17) Bassist Olivier Pinard (Neuraxis) has officially joined Cryptopsy.
• (01.17) Go here for the cover artwork to Cannibal Corpse's new album, and here for the track 'Demented Aggression' off the album.
  
• (01.14) Lost Soul have announced the addition of drummer Paul Jaroszewicz (Christ Agony, ex-Vader) and guitarist Marek Golas (Sammath Naur) to the group.
• (01.14) According to the webstore of Nuclear Blast Records, Meshuggah have set "Koloss" as the title of their new album.
• (01.13) Suffocation are working on material for their new album, tentatively due this summer via Nuclear Blast Records.
• (01.12) Cannibal Corpse will release their twelfth studio album, titled "Torture", in March via Metal Blade Records.
• (01.12) Beneath The Massacre will release their new album, "Incongruous", in the U.S. on February 14, in the U.K. on February 20, in mainland Europe on February 24 and in Canada on February 28 via Prosthetic Records. Go here to listen to the song 'Symptoms', and here to listen to the song 'Left Hand'.
  
• (01.11) Prong have set "Carved Into Stone" as the title of their new album, due later in the year via Long Branch Records/SPV.
• (01.08) Obscenity have inked a deal with Apostasy Records. The band is preparing to enter Soundlodge Studio in Rhauderfehn, Germany to begin recording its eighth album, tentatively titled "Atrophied In Anguish", for a June release.
• (01.07) Go here to listen to a new track off the soon to be released Napalm Death album.
  
• (01.05) Meshuggah's new album should be out March 27th.
  
• (01.04) Added a review to Devin Townsend's "Contain Us" boxset.
• (01.04) See what were my Favorite Albums Of 2011!
• (01.02) Go here to see the cover artwork to the new Deeds Of Flesh album.
• (01.02) Devin Townsend's recent 4 concert event in London, where he played all 4 of his recent albums live, was recorded and will surface as a 4 DVD set coming this July.