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Butcher Babies Gearing Up For Tour Dates

Butcher Babies is gearing up to make 2014 even bigger than the breakout 2013, opening the new year as direct support for In This Moment on The Hellpop II tour.

Hellpop II is set to launch January 2nd in Portland, OR, and the the 16-city tour wraps January 25th in Cape Coral, Florida. Butcher Babies and In This Moment will be joined on the road by support acts Devour the Day and All Hail the Yeti.

Following Hellpop, Butcher Babies and In This Moment will embark on the sold-out Shiprocked cruise from January 26th - 30th, which sets sail out of Miami, FL, to Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. For more information, visit this location.

After returning to dry land, Butcher Babies will join fellow Shiprockers Sevendust for a handful of dates in Florida. The band's full listing of upcoming tour dates are as follows: More...

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Stoneburner Signs With Neurot

The Neurot Recordings family is pleased to welcome the audio devastation that is Portland's Stoneburner to their expanding roster of music. The following press release was issued about the band:

"Featuring four members with a compelling musical ancestry that winds through Buried At Sea, Buried Blood, Heathen Shrine and more, Stoneburner -- named after a subterranean weapon from the novel Dune -- spews forth a groin-churning orchestration of crust-strewn, hypnotic, sludge metal, their torrid odes glazed with pain and distress.

"The band will unleash the follow-up to their 2012 debut full-length, Sickness Will Pass, which The Sludgelord fittingly crowned, 'an ugly, visceral and truly terrifying beast of an album,' via Neurot Recordings this Spring. Titled Life Drawing, the offering promises to take their sonic crush to entirely new levels of heaviness."

Notes the Stoneburner collective on this union with Neurot: "We've been working on the material for this album for a long time now and couldn't feel better about how it's come together. We're humbled and honored that Neurot have asked to be involved. Since the band formed, we've always done our best to work with people we respect and know personally, signing to Neurot is an extension of that...another step in combining our personal and musical lives and bringing it all full circle."

Stoneburner is:

Elijah Boland - guitar
Jason Depew - guitar
Damon Kelly - bass/vocals
Jesse McKinnon drums/vocals

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Iced Earth Posts "Plagues Of Babylon" Trailer

With the release of new studio album "Plagues of Babylon" approaching, metal titans Iced Earth have launched a video teaser to preview the album and the upcoming Worldwide Plagues headlining tour. Check it out below.

"Plagues of Babylon" is set for a January 21st, 2014 release in North America (January 6th worldwide) on Century Media Records. The band will bring Sabaton and Revamp for a tour starting April 4th, with full details available here.

"This is a seriously heavy album with a seriously brutal album cover," says Jon Schaffer. "I'm sure it will go down as a classic in the epic Iced Earth catalog. We feel that the package with Sabaton and Revamp is very strong and we are very excited to tour the U.S. and Canada again and kick some major ass!" More...

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Born Of Ruin Posts Lyric Video

U.K. outfit Born of Ruin has unleashed a new lyric video for the track "Xenomechanoid," which will appear on an upcoming EP recorded, produced, and mixed by Martyn "Ginge' Ford and Matt Bond. Check it out below. Born of Ruin is:

Billy Vandross - Vocals
Johnny Asshole - Guitar
Albert Hummenstein - Guitar
Pablo Chavez - Bass
Richard Lavender Noir III - Drums

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Carcass, Gorguts To Play Decibel Magazine Tour

With two triumphant star-studded national tours under its bullet belt, Decibel Magazine is raising the (bloody) stakes for the upcoming third cross-country domination.

This spring, Decibel Magazine is proud to bring you the reanimation of death metal demigods Carcass alongside melodeath powerhouse the Black Dahlia Murder, technical death metal heroes Gorguts, and emerging death/thrash squad Noisem. Dates are available below.

Carcass will be touring in support of comeback album "Surgical Steel" (reviewed here), while Gorguts is out now with latest full-length "Colored Sands" (reviewed here). More...

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Inner Sanctum Posts Tour Video

Earlier this year Indian outfit Inner Sanctum embarked on the band's biggest venture yet, an 8 city tour of Europe, seeking to conquer new stages and win over new legions of fans across the globe.

The band was joined by European booker, Julian of JLF Promotion and friend Philipp Mertens from The Euroblast Collective.

Inner Sanctum has also released a series of tour blog episodes with footage from the tour, which includes all the craziness that went down in Europe. Check out episode 3 below, or you can find the previously posted video clip in the series at this location.

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Hecate Enthroned Streaming Full New Album

British black metal forefathers Hecate Enthroned have released new album "Virulent Rapture," and now the band has teamed up with Terrorizer.com to stream all 11 tracks online.

Give the entire album a listen below, and let us know what you think of the band's return to the metal arena in the comments sections. Our own review of the album will be coming shortly.

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Fragarak Releases "Cryptic Convulsion" Playthrough

India-based death metal band Fragarak has released a video of the band playing along to the track "Cryptic Convulsion" taken from the new record "Crypts of Dissimulation."

Check out the playthrough video below, or you can stream all of the "Crypts of Dissimulation" album at this location.

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August Streaming Demo Track "Help Me"

Hollywood progressive/power metal act August is streaming the demo track "Help Me," which was originally released in 1990. The demos will be re-issued as part of a self-titled release "August," which is set to drop on December 16th via Arkyen Streel Records as a limited CD (1000 Hand numbered copies).

All tracks are digitally remastered and the packaging contains with lyrics, unpublished pics and a band bio. It will appeal to fans of Queensryche, Heir Apparent and Lethal.

Check out "Help Me" here:

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Saxon Releases New Music Video

Saxon released a new music video for the acoustic version of the classic debut album track "Frozen Rainbow" (originally released in 1979). The song appears on the latest release "Unplugged And Strung Up," the compilation of unplugged and orchestrated versions of previously released tracks, which is available now via UDR Music.

Check out "Frozen Rainbow" here:

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Distant Past Details New Album "Utopian Void"

Swiss melodic progressive metal act Distant Past, featuring ex-Emerald members Jvo Julmy (vocals),
Andy Bächler (drums) and Adriano Troiano (bass), has announced the band's forth studio release "Utopian Void" will be issued on January 17th via Pure Steel Records.

According to the press release: "Apart from the Megadeth-like 'On the Edge,' most Songs are in the melodic Power Metal Vein, which suits Jvo so well. 'Kingdom of Shadows' maintains a very Madien-esque Bass and Guitar Groove; 'The Illusion,' 'Helpless' and 'A Day of Darkness' showcase the band in full 80’s Mode, while 'Breath – The Spell' and 'Faces' show a softer side of the band, but only in parts…. The final track 'The Hell of Verdun' is a journey into World War One. It takes the listerner through the stages of the most horrendous fights in human history.

"Due to popular demand, the first issue of 'Utopian Void' includes 2 Bonus Tracks, previously available online: 'Touched by the Gods' is a Sabbath-Style Song, written by A. Troiano in memory of the great Ronnie James Dio and 'Sings of the End,' a very catchy song, that [was] featured on the Heavy Metal Nation CD Sampler, [which] presents the best Swiss Bands every year."

1. A Day Of Darkness
2. Sceptre
3. On The Edge
4. Faces
5. Kingdom Of Shadows
6. Helpless
7. Guided By The Stars
8. Breath – The Spell
9. The Illusion
10. The Hell Of Verdun
11. Signs Of The End (Bonus Track)
12. Touched By the Gods (Bonus Track) More...

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Helldorados Releases "Changes" Music Video

German sleaze metal act Helldorados released the third video for the band's debut self-titled album, which was released in July of 2012 via Massacre Records. This video is for the track "Changes." Check out previous videos for "You Live, You Learn, You Die" and "Never Gonna Stop".

"Changes" can be viewed in the player here:

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Circle's Line Streaming New Track "A Heroic Tune"

Greek metal act Circle's Line, featuring Elwig/Nemesis vocalist Tasos Karapapazoglou (ex-Windfall) and Nemesis drummer Nikos Tsilikoudis, is streaming the new track "A Heroic Tune." The song appears on the upcoming debut self-titled album, which is set for release on December 16th via Steel Gallery Records.

Check out "A Heroic Tune" here:

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Suicidal Angels Releases New Lyric Video

Greek thrashers Suicidal Angels released a lyric video for the new track "Marching Over Blood." The song is taken from the upcoming new album "Divide & Conquer," which drops on January 10th (EU) and January 14th (North America) via NoiseArt Records.

The album marks the first studio release for new guitarist Chris Tsitsis, who replaced the outgoing Panos Spanos, who left in 2012, as well as new bassist Aggelos Lelikakis.

The track list for "Divide & Conquer" is:

1. Marching Over Blood
2. Seed Of Evil
3. Divide And Conquer
4. Control The Twisted Mind
5. In The Grave
6. Terror Is My Scream
7. Pit Of Snakes
8. Kneel To The Gun
9. Lost Dignity
10. White Wizard

Check out "Marching Over Blood" here: More...

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Interview

Impending Empire: Czar Discusses Second Album

“There are a lot of abusive relationship themes in here, many of them fictionalized accounts of people going to desperate, violent measures to gain affection, sex, or even love.” Jason Novak of Chicago-based Czar considers the band’s recently-released sophomore album title, ‘No One Is Alone If No One Is Alive,’ to be a fitting summation of the tone of the album, which succeeds and surpasses their like-minded debut release, ‘Vertical Mass Grave,’ in most ways -- and we gave that album a 4 out of 5 rating! Determined to outdo themselves with each release, the guys of Czar draw heavily from uncommon guitar harmonies and chord changes coupled with tastefully destructive drum patterns to define their sound. With that combination, it's no surprise that Fear Factory's Burton C. Bell was seen wearing a Czar shirt at a show or that Czar has already made two "Best Of 2013" lists in the press.

The last time we checked in with the guys of Czar, they filled us in on their first album and their history as musicians. This time around, the band gives us more insight into the construction of their songs, as well as discusses the controversial album art that they’re known for. ‘No One Is Alone If No One Is Alive’ amplifies what was done well on the first album and adds an exciting chapter to the story of the rise of Czar’s impending empire. Here’s what they had to say about it. More...

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