Sworn Enemy To Tour w/ Gloominous Doom

Following a recent month-long tour of Europe, and still riding high after last year’s release of "Total World Domination" on Century Media Records – which was co-produced by As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis and the renowned Daniel Castleman (Destroy The Runner, Winds Of Plague) – NYC hardcore/metal veterans SWORN ENEMY have returned to U.S. soil. The band has decided to hit the road in the Northeast, and to take fellow NYC metalheads, DeMilitiA (featuring Jennifer Arroyo, ex-Kittie/Suicide City), and the Ska/Metal/Surf/Thrash band from the back hills of Pennsylvania, Gloominous Doom, along for the ride.

Here are the 2010 Total World Domination tour dates:

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th - The Crazy Donkey (Farmingdale, NY) - Sworn Enemy w/ DeMilitiA & Gloominous Doom
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th - The Quarter @ Bourbon Street Ballroom (Baltimore, MD) - Sworn Enemy w/ DeMilitiA & Gloominous Doom
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th - Bogies (Albany, NY) - Sworn Enemy w/ DeMilitiA & Gloominous Doom
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th - Croc Rock Underground (Allentown, PA) - Sworn Enemy w/ Gloominous Doom
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th - Broadway Joe's (Buffalo, NY) - Sworn Enemy w/ Gloominous Doom
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th - Popeye's Pub (Cortlandt Manor, NY) - Sworn Enemy w/ Gloominous Doom
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th - Dingbatz (Clifton, NJ) - Sworn Enemy w/ Lionheart & Donnybrook
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th - Daniel Street (Milford, CT) - Sworn Enemy w/ Gloominous Doom
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th - Public Assembly (Brooklyn, NY) - Sworn Enemy w/ DeMilitiA
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th - Eleanor Rigby's (Jermyn, PA) - Sworn Enemy w/ Gloominous Doom

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Bloodthirst Announces Polish Shows

Bloodthirst has announced the upcoming Polish "Bestial Carnage Tour," which takes place in late September and early October. The band will be touring alongside Bloodwritten and Neithal. The currently announced dates are as follows:

9/28 2010 Ragnarock Lublin, Lublin, POLAND
9/29 2010 Od Zmierzchu DO Switu Rzeszów, podkarpack
9/30 2010 CK Wiatrak Zabrze, Czorny Sla, POLAND
10/1 2010 MADNES Wroclaw, Dolnoslask
10/2 2010 Klub RESET Poznan, wielkopols, POLAND
10/3 2010 KLUB NEO WARSZAWA, mazowiecki, POLAND

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Life's Decay Posts Vinyl Artwork

French experimental/industrial act Life's Decay has revealed the artwork for an upcoming as-yet-unnamed vinyl release. The vinyl album's art can be found at this location. Additional details on the release will be announced as they are made available. You can also check out sample Life's Decay tracks through the bands MySpace page.

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Unearth Updates Tour Schedule

Unearth has announced the following updated North American tour dates with All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, and Carnifex:

9/10 - Rex Theatre | Pittsburgh, PA
9/11 - Rocketown | Nashville, TN
9/12 - Diamo Ballroom | Oklahoma City, OK
9/14 - Club 101 | El Paso, TX
9/15 - Dos Amigos | Odessa, TX
9/16 - Midnight Rodeo 3 | Abilene, TX
9/17 - The Village | Little Rock, AR
9/18 - New Daisy Theatre | Memphis, TN
9/19 - Valarium | Knoxville, TN
9/20 - The Madison Theater | Covington, KY
9/21 - Orbit Room | Gra Rapids, MI
9/22 - Peabody's | Cleveland, OH
9/23 - Town Ballroom | Buffalo, NY
9/24 - Northern Lights | Clifton Park, NY
9/25 - Webster Theatre | Hartford, CT
9/26 - Imperial De Quebec | Quebec, QC
9/27 - Metropolis | Montreal, QC
9/28 - Capital Music Hall | Ottawa, ON
9/29 - Cowboys | London, ON
10/1 - Garrick Center | Winnipeg, MB
10/3 - Odeon | Saskatoon, SK
10/4 - Macewan Hall | Calgary, AB
10/5 - Edmonton Event Center | Edmonton, AB
10/7 - Vogue Theatre | Vancouver, BC
10/8 - El Corazon | Seattle, WA
10/9 - El Corazon | Seattle, WA
10/10 - Rosela Theater | Portland, OR
10/11 - Senator Theatre | Chico, CA More...

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Chainfist Reveals "Black Out Sunday" Details

Chainfist has issued the following announcement about revealing the cover artwork and track listing for the band's new album "Black Out Sunday:"

"We're very pleased to present the cover layout and track list for Black Out Sunday. After weeks of waiting, guessing how the cover would look like, we're very happy to present the cover for our debut CD 'Black Out Sunday.' The cover was made by Gustavo Sazes who also have made covers for God Forbid, Arch Enemy etc.

"We're really pleased how Gustavo took our music and lyrics and created this cover, we really think he 'read' Chainfist for what we are and how our music could be displayed in a cover. Black Out Sunday will be in stores on oct. 15th 2010 on SAOL/H'art/Zebralution/"

The album's track listing is as follows:

1. Free Me
2. Edge of the World
3. Evolution
4. Be a Man
5. Have you Ever
6. Stay
7. In Your Face
8. Show Me
9. Clown
10. Carpe Diem
11. Black Out
12. SHCHWH (Feat. Jacob Batten of Illdisposed)

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Onslaught Finishes Recording Drums And Vocals

British thrash metal legends Onslaught has announced that they have completed recording all of the drum and vocal tracks for their new studio album, "Sounds Of Violence," which is expected to be released by the beginning of next year. This will be the band's first studio album since 2007's comeback record, "Killing Peace."

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Slodust Recruits Elias Jaderberg On Guitar

Drummer Dante X-X of Swedish metal act Slodust has issued the following update regrading finding a new guitarist:

"Hey hey everybody, Dante is back once again with some good news. We are very happy to inform the world that Slodust has recruit Elias Jäderberg (ex-Last Living) on guitar! Elias have been helping us out for some time now when we write the new stuff. And the things he has contributed for the band, and all the new influences he bring into the band have helped the band to grow even more. So we say welcome to the family to Elias!

"In other news, we are not in studio yet, we are still in a good writing place in the band now (with Elias), so we have so much stuff to turn into SloMusic, so... As soon we are done with that, we go in. Stay tuned my friends. Love and respect!"

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Warpath Announces New Lead Guitarist

U.K. based metal act Warpath has checked in with the following announcement about recruiting a new lead guitar player:

"We’re extremely pleased to announce the new Warpath lead guitarist, Leigh Chambers! Leigh has shown such a high standard of playing and commitment in the last few weeks that we knew within minutes of jamming with him that he was the right guy for the band.

"We’d like to thank everyone else who auditioned and wish you all the best. We’ll now be finishing up the last few bits of writing for the second album, with recording scheduled to begin in a few weeks time. More soon!"

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Iron Maiden Tops The Chart In Two More Countries

British heavy metal veterans Iron Maiden has entered the albums chart in the United Kingdom at number one withe their new studio album, "The Final Frontier," making it their first album to reach the top spot in their native country since 1992's "Fear Of The Dark." The album has also reached the number one spot in Finland, making it the second country in Scandinavia for the album to reach such a position, after it was announced yesterday that the album had topped the Swedish album charts, going Gold in the process. "The Final Frontier" has also done well in other European countries, reaching the number three spot in the Republic Of Ireland, and the number six placement in Belgium, as well reaching the number two spot in Australia.

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Ravens Creed To Release New EP

British heavy metal outfit Ravens Creed has announced that they are planning to release a new EP, entitled "Black Bullets," as a precursor to their second studio album. A message from the band reads as follows:

"Our good friend Lukas of Doomentia records suggested to us that we do an EP first before recording second album, he's right of course, this is a great way of introducing the new line up, so - five tracks that we have already recorded for our second album (the power that dare not speak its name) will be used for the EP and the six songs we've written for the third LP will replace the ones that will be on the EP. The EP will be called Black Bullets and as mentioned will be out on Doomentia when we've finished fannying around with the artwork, then we'll start recording the second LP (also out on Doomentia)."

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Ozzy Osbourne Posts New Video Trailer Online

Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne has posted a short, behind the scenes trailer online for his forthcoming new music video, "Life Won't Wait." You can check it out below. The song comes from his latest studio alum, "Scream" and is the second song to be released as a single following, "Let Me Hear You Scream." More...

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Sunday Old School: Witchfinder General

Sometimes in the world of heavy metal and hard rock music, one band can prove to be a major influence on hundreds, if not thousands of future fans of the genre. We have already seen how this is true when we looked at Geordie noise merchants Venom and the influence they had on black metal, so now shall we see how another band from the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement would make their mark, this time on the doom metal genre. The band in question is Witchfinder General, who, like many other heavy British bands before them, including Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, came from the Midlands area of England. The group was founded in 1979 by the duo of Zeeb Parkes (vocals) and guitarist Phil Cope and settled on the name Witchfinder General, which they got from the classic Vincent Price movie. Before long the lineup was completed when the pair recruited Cope's cousin Steve Kinsell on drums and bass player Toss McCready. After writing material, the band released their first single in 1981 entitled, "Burning A Sinner" (sometimes jokingly reffered to as "Burning A Singer") through Heavy Metal Records. The next year, the group released an EP entitled, "Soviet Invasion," which while only featuring three songs (one of which was a live track,) clocked in at thirty minutes long.

The next step for the band was to release a full length album, which was finally unleashed in 1982. The album was entitled, "Death Penalty" and immediately became notorious as a result of it's album cover, which featured topless model Joanne Latham with hooded figures in the yard of a church in Enville, Staffordshire and had not been approved, nor even granted permission to be taken, by the church's reverend. Despite the controversy however, the album received positive reviews and has since gone on to be recognised as a true classic in the doom metal genre. A second album would follow the next year, in the form of "Friends Of Hell." Once again, the album contained a controversial front cover, with the band posing with semi-naked models in front of a church. However, the controversy had proved less beneficial than "Death Penalty," with some seeing it as almost a parody of themselves. The album itself received some backlash from fans for attempting to expand the group's fanbase to a more mainstream audience with the single, "Music," which ultimately failed to achieve it's primary goal. After being unable to grow the way they had wanted to and the band called it a day in 1984.

Like many New Wave Of British Heavy Metal bands however, they eventually returned to the music scene, although this time without vocalist Zeeb Parkes. They announced teir reformation in Novemeber 2006, with Cope bringing back bass player Rod Hawkes, who had played on the "Friends Of Hell"record and drummer Dermot Redmond, who had joined the band after the second album's release, along with new member in the form vocalist Gary Martin. The band's first move as a regrouped unit came the next year when they released a compilation entitled, "Buried Amongst The Ruins," which featured both the A and B-Side to the "Burning A Sinner" single, the "Soviet Invasion" EP and four live tracks, among which was a live version of a previously unreleased song entitled, "Phantasmagorical." In 2008, the band released their first album of all new material in twenty five years entitled, "Resurrected." Though the band has repeatedly stated they will not perform live again, the possibility of another album could well come true and their influence and mark on the doom metal genre cannot, and nor should it be, ignored or overlooked. More...

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Bhelliom To Support HSB In Singapore

Bhelliom will be supporting Heaven Shall Burn in Singapore as part of their upcoming Asian tour. Also on the bill is Realize.

Venue: The White Studio @ Fort Canning Park
Date: 31st August 2010
Time: 1930hrs-2200hrs

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