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North American grind masters PIG DESTROYER have announced that they will play some select European shows for next May and June. The band will be presenting their latest album “Book Burner”. European tour dates: 5/3 – Hasselt, Belgium – Muziekodroom 5/4 – Tilburg, The Netherlands – Neurotic Death Fest 6/22 – Essen, Germany – Turock (with MiseryIndex) [...]

French black/death metal horde SVART CROWN have recently streamed their full new “Profane “album online. This third work will be available in stores through Listenable Records on May 21st in the US, after beeing launched in Europe yesterday. You can ear the album through the link under: http://www.vs-webzine.com/InfoVS-Streaming+SVART+CROWNVS+webzine+et+Listenable+recrods+sont+heu-62344.html The band has also commented: Guys, the [...]

Doom metal legends BLACK SABBATH have streamed “God is Dead?”, the single from the upcoming album “13”, expected to be released on June 11th in the U.S. and June 10th in Europe. This is the first Black Sabbath album in 35 years to feature bassist Geeezer Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi and singer Ozzy Osbourne. The work  was [...]

Porcupine Tree are on indefinite hiatus, according to band leader Steven Wilson, and it could be another 10 years before they record together again. He wants to focus on his solo project which recently released the album “The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)”, which means Porcupine Tree and his other band Blackfield [...]

North American blackened sludge act DEAFHEAVEN have released via Facebook  a eight minute video preview of their forthcoming album “Sunbather”, that is expected in stores next June 2013. Their new effort will be available through Deathwish Inc. and you can take a glance at the video teaser below. Sunbather tracklist: 01. Dream House 02. Irresistible [...]

  Polish highly acclaimed extreme act Behemoth have recently updated the fans with some news regarding the new album. Nergal published: Every piece of art is born in pain…and so is ours. We’ve spent last couple of months on pre-production and tracking down the songs in Hertz studio. We are producing the album collectively with [...]

Canadian death metalers KATAKLYSM have announced Oli Beaudoin as their new drummer. The former Neuraxis member will sit behind the kit during the recording sessions for their new album, “Waiting For The End To Come” that should be released in late 2013/early 2014 via Nuclear Blast Records. Guitarist Jean-François Dagenais commented: Oli played with KATAKLYSM [...]

Frontman Blake Judd has published a statement in which he clarifies the band’s current situation: “Apparently, some metal news sites have reported today that Nachtmystium has either ‘broken up’ or is on ‘indefinite hiatus.’ Neither of these things are true. The band has gone through some personnel changes in the last few months and I’ve [...]

Last April 6th, Slawek “Mortifer” died during his sleep in the middle of the tour. In a recent news update, after the end of the autopsy, Hate have announced the confirmed cause of death was a cardiac arrhythmia. Here’s what the band issued about this matter: “Last night our friend’s body arrived in Warsaw. Autopsy report [...]

Portuguese band Heavenwood have parted ways with their guitarist Bruno Silva. A replacement has been found in Vitor Carvalho, known for his work in Demon Dagger. The band is currently working on their fifth album which, according to the group will be entitled “The Tarot Of The Bohemians – Part. 1”. The release date is scheduled [...]

Legendary Thrashers Sodom will soon be releasing a new album… The upcoming album will be called “Epitome Of Torture”, it is scheduled to be out in late April in Europe, and the first week of May in the USA via SPV/Steamhammer. You can listen to the song “Stigmatized” here. Tom Angelripper has provided a little insight [...]

Swedish Amon Amarth have recently leaked a song and cover which will be used as cover of their upcoming album. Entitled “Deceiver Of The Gods”, the album is already being spoken about, due to it’s beautiful artwork which was shown by the band itself: The cover depicts the last battle between the Gods and Loki [...]

Chi Cheng, Deftones bassis died last night at the age of 42. He had a car accident in November 2008 that left him in a coma. In the following years he had evolve to a semi-conscious state and there were still hopes of his recovery. However we was taken to the emergency room last night [...]

Norwegian Progressive Metal band Leprous have published the first of their upcoming album. The song is called “Chronic” and will be featured on the upcoming album entitled “Coal” and you can listen to it here. Here is what frontman Einar had to say: “‘Coal’ is a more melancholic and darker album than the more playful [...]