Trash Talk and Alpha & Omega Tour Dates

Trash Talk and Alpha & Omega will tour the U.S. together this fall. Here are the latest tour dates:

10/12 San Diego, CA @ Soma w/ Every Time I Die
10/13 Fresno, CA @ The Exit w/ Every Time I Die
10/14 Sacramento, CA @ The Boardwalk w/ Every Time I Die
10/15 Denver, CO @ Rock And Roll Grill
10/16 Lincoln, NE @ Box Awesome
10/17 Columbia, MO @ TBA
10/18 Peoria, IL @ The Meeting House w/ Weekend Nachos, Harms Way
10/19 Bloomington, IN @ Matts House
10/20 Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class
10/22 Latham, NY @ The Landing Zone
10/23 Boston, MA @ TBA w/ New Lows
10/24 Dix Hills, NY @ The Doghouse w/ New Lows
10/25 Edison, NJ @ Stelton Baptist Church w/ New Lows, War Hungry
10/26 Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Artspace w/ Bracewar, War Hungry, Brick
10/27 Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz w/ Bracewar, War Hungry
10/28 Johnson City, TN @ The Hideaway w/ Bracewar, Ruiner, FC5
10/29 Raleigh, NC @ The Brewery w/ Bracewar
10/30 Atlanta, GA @ The Shop w/ Bracewar, Ruiner, FC5
10/31 Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit
11/1 Miami, FL @ The Dogpound
11/2 Tampa, FL @ Transistions
11/3 Mobile, AL @ American Legion Post 33
11/4 Tupelo, MS @ Lifes Blood Skateshop
11/5 Memphis, TN @ TBA
11/6 Tulsa, OK @ The Pinkeye
11/7 Dallas, TX @ TBA w/ Power Trip
11/8 Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest (no A&O)
11/9 Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest (no A&O)
11/10 Phoenix, AZ @ The Phix
11/11 San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe w/ Rotting Out, Down Again
11/12 Riverside, CA @ The Paroahs Den w/ Violation, Rotting Out
11/13 Santa Barbara, CA @ Casa De Raza w/ Violation, Rotting Out
11/14 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman w/ Never Healed, Violation

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Gortal Signs To Pagan Records

Pagan Records has announced the signing of unholy death metallers GORTAL to a two album deal. The first album is scheluded for late October and it's entitled "Blastphemous Sindecade." The album was recorded in well known Kokszoman/Zlota Skala Studio in Warsaw, engineered by Maciej Miechowicz, a former member of Kobong. Heinrich (Vesania) performed on bass as a special guest.

The album is a 30 minutes long sonic attack divided into 8 tracks. You can check out some samples on the band's MySpace page.

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Car Bomb Posts Previously Unreleased Song

New York progressive extreme metal outfit CAR BOMB has posted a previously unreleased track entitled "Bra-c-ket" on their MySpace page. "Bra-c-ket" was recorded during the sessions for the band's latest album Centralia, but was only included on the Japanese edition of the CD.

CAR BOMB recently recorded three tracks from their debut album Centralia at Woozyfly.com's JSM studios. The session, featuring the tracks "Cielo Drive", "M^6", and "Cellophane Stilleto," is streaming online and can be accessed here on Woozyfly.

The band also announced several upcoming regional dates, following up their most recent tour with GORGEOUS FRANKENSTEIN. Here are the latest CAR BOMB tour dates:

September 27 New York, NY Ace of Clubs (w/ CHILD ABUSE, LOMF, and more)
October 4 Wilmington, DE Mojo 13 (w/ GRAVES OF VALOR, DAIMONIC GREY, and more)
October 5 Baltimore, MD Talking Head (w/ GRAVES OF VALOR, UNHOLLOWED, and more)
October 24 Allentown, PA The Sterling Hotal (w/ PSYOPUS, RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER, JUCIFER, and more)

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Psycroptic Posts New Song Online

Tasmanian tech death metal band PSYCROPTIC just put another new song online. The title track of their upcoming album, “Ob(Servant),” is now available on the band’s MySpace profile.

“Ob(Servant)” will be out on September 26th in Europe and October 14th in North America on Nuclear Blast Records.

PSYCROPTIC's third full-length album, "Symbols of Failure," was released in February 2006 via Neurotic Records. The follow-up of 2003's "The Scepter of the Ancients" marks the recording debut of the band's new vocalist Jason Peppiatt.

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Book Of Black Earth Posts New Song Online

Seattle’s BOOK OF BLACK EARTH has posted a new song, "Funeral of Peace," from the band’s forthcoming album on the band's MySpace page. Due out Oct. 14 through Prosthetic Records, "Horoskopus" is BOOK OF BLACK EARTH’s second full-length, and debut for new home Prosthetic Records. Pre-orders have also begun for the album on both vinyl and CD editions here.

"'Horoskopus' is a concept album about the hidden astrological elements of the Christian church," vocalist / guitarist T.J. Cowgill adds. "From its origins as a state sponsored religion in the fourth century to the present day, it has been guided by astrological concepts conceived centuries before Jesus Christ was mythologized as the 'Sun' of God."

BOOK OF BLACK EARTH consists of members of venerable metal underground band Teen Cthulhu, as well as drummer Joe Axler of Skarp, Splatterhouse, and Iamthethorn, among others. Having already released a self-financed demo in 2004 and a split release with underground legends Fall Of The Bastards in 2005, 2006’s "The Feast," received praise from Decibel magazine, Terrorizer magazine, and the band’s hometown newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Meanwhile the band is gearing up for the Black Metal Magic tour, featuring Swedish black metal legends Watain and new labelmates Withered, including a string of headlining dates on the way out to the first date, Oct. 3 in Toronto.

BOOK OF BLACK EARTH will also be in-studio co-hosting with the KISW Metal Shop hosts, Steve Rock and Kevin, in Seattle this Saturday, Sept. 20 from 11pm – 2am. Fans can find more information on KISW.com, including the chance to stream the broadcast live over the internet, or locally tune their dials to 99.9 FM.

Here are the latest BOOK OF BLACK EARTH tour dates: More...

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All That Remains Posts New Album Online

All That Remains has posted their entire new album, "Overcome" online. You can check it out at this location. The first single from the album is entitled "Chriron" and you can check out the video below. More...

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Amon Amarth Posts New Video Online

Amon Amarth has posted yet another video in a series of consecutive metal video releases online for streaming. This video takes you throughout the process that brought life to Amon Amarth's most recent video release "Twilight Of The Thunder God." More...

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Leng Tch'e Posts New Song Online

Belgian metallers, Leng Tch'e, issue the following update on their MySpace page:

"The first song off our split CD/7" with Fuck The Facts is now available. It is also the first recording featuring our new singer Serge and drummer Tony. The album was recorded at Korbiar Studio in Belgium and mixed and mastered by Matthew Ellard at Bubble & Squeak Studio in Boston, MA. Release is scheduled for late October through Power It Up Records, right in time for our upcoming Canadian tour with the mighty Krisiun!" More...

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The Boy Will Drown Scheduled To Enter Studio

British technical metallers The Boy Will Drown are preparing to enter the studio to begin recording of their debut album.

The Boy Will Drown, who recently signed a multi-album, worldwide recording deal with Earache Records, are set to follow in the footsteps of their idols Decapitated and enter Hertz Studios in Bialystok, Poland to record their as-yet untitled debut album. The band are set to enter the studio on October 27th and will be holed up until November 13th.

Guitarist Liam Keel comments: "We really wanted to use Hertz because of their understanding of extreme music, which they have proven with bands like Decapitated, Hate and Behemoth. We want to achieve an extreme sound so the production will match the tunes."

Having only formed in 2006, The Boy Will Drown are currently regarded as one of the most flamboyant and intense bands in the UK. Playing a vicious blend of technical and experimental music based around grindcore and death metal, the band do everything in their power to mesmerize and pulverize the listener whilst simultaneously injecting an element of humor, fun and youth into their music.

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Alestorm Announces New Guitarist Tim Shaw

Scottish metallers, Alestorm, have issued the following message welcoming their new guitarist, Tim Shaw:

"It is with great pleasure (and relief) that I announce we've found a new guitarist!"

"Enter Mr. Tim Shaw. The more eagle-eyed watchers of the underground amongst you may know him as the mastermind behind the epic black metal project FYRDSMAN, and as the guitarist of the now-departed death metal titans PREMITHON. He's a beastly good guitarist, and a great lad to boot. It's gonna be a fucking blast when we get up on stage and in the studio." More...

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Luna Mortis Posts Studio Video Online

Mary of Wisconsin female fronted metal band, Luna Mortis, issues the following update:

"If you've seen our studio footage from February, you know there's more coming...we've been down here a couple of weeks at Audiohammer studios finishing up our album and here's the first studio video blog from our September sessions for you to check out!"
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Korn Frontman Posts Solo Song Online

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis has uploaded a song entitled "Got Money" (a cover of a song by T-Pain and Li'l Wayne) online. You can check it out at this location. The song features a special guest appearance from Slipknot/Stone Sour guitarist Jim Root.

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Trivium Posts New Song Online

Trivium has uploaded another new song from their forthcoming new album, "Shogun," online. You can check out the track, "Throes Of Perdition," at this location. "Shogun" is scheduled to be released on September 30th via Roadrunner Records.

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Metallica To Tour With Scorpions?

Legendary photographer Ross Halfin has posted the following message at his website:

"It's been a Metallica weekend - kind of. Shot Metallica rehearsing new songs on the 02 stage for an hour. Then did a studio set up and got all the band to do photos. Of course Lars says while standing posing 'This isn't on the schedule.' Me: 'So?' He does what he's told. I got a lot done - I know I say this but I did, particularly of James. I gave him the new cover of Burrn! which I like (shot in LA) and Kirk was over the moon with Classic Rock's photos of him and THE SCORPIONS. He's talking to the band about doing a co-headline tour. Did some more of them warming up then shot the show. Hated the set list, found it boring - no 'Four Horsemen', 'Creeping Death', 'Damage Inc.' You get the new songs (fair enough with a new CD) but the rest of it I found a yawnfest - 'Wolf To Man', 'One' (never liked the song), 'Frantic', plus playing in the round there were so many monitors and veri-lights along the front of the stage you were looking up their noses. Walked onstage at the end and got them kicking huge black Metallica balls. I didn't get into it as I hadn't seen the show with new lights etc."

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Metallica's "Death Magnetic" A Lock To Top Charts

Billboard.com reports: A title missing from last week's Nielsen SoundScan Building charts is destined to be the next No. 1 on The Billboard 200, as Metallica's new "Death Magnetic" has a shot at a half-million copy opener.

The band's first album through Warner Bros. was absent from SoundScan's interim charts because of its off-cycle Friday street date of September 12, which was chosen in order to accommodate a global release date. SoundScan's Friday Building chart reflects sales from nine leading accounts through close of business on Thursday.

Informed sources estimate "Death Magnetic" will start in the neighborhood of 450,000-500,000 copies, with one unpredictable variable being a ticket/album bundle offered by Ticketmaster. The album was also packaged with "Guitar Hero" at Best Buy, sold through "Guitar Hero" platforms Xbox and Playstation and packaged with a Metallica-branded set of headphones by Skull Candy.

Read the full article at Billboard.com.

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Born From Pain Realeses New Album Details

Dutch hardcore band Born From Pain has revealed the front art of their upcoming new album "Survival."

Singer Rob Franssen commented about the musical content of "Survival": "We are very happy the way the album turned out. We have invested a lot of time and energy in it and we are very pleased with the result. We feel we have integrated the new vocal sound into our music pretty well and concentrated especially on developing our sound further without losing our usual musical trademarks like heaviness, aggression and groove. We feel this is our best work easily up until now."

Rob also discusses the lyrical themes of "Survival": "We've taken a step further what our critical view on the ruling power structures is concerned, and thus the state of the World of today. We feel it is important to have a voice in times like these where the people are constantly lied to by ruling powers, robbed of self-worth, pushed in the dirt and cheated out of their last lifesavings under the veil of lies. We feel it is important to look further than the 8 o' clock news, mainstream radio or the online news agencies. We are trying to be critical and create awareness that there is more than meets the eye and people should get informed and look beyond to what they tell us is obvious. We are actively pushing for a critical agenda here and are not accepting our current situation. It is time to have a voice before it's too late. Look for truth!"

Here is the "Survival" track listing:

1. Sound Of Survival State Of Mind
2. Sons Of A Dying World
3. The Wolves Are Loose
4. Never Die
5. Final Collapse
6. Endgame
7. Zeitgeist
8. The Hydra
9. Zero Hour
10. Under False Flag

"Survival" will be released the 31st of October in D/A/CH/I and the 3rd of November in the rest of Europe.

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Rival Signs With Dark Star Records

Rival, one of Chicago's original power metal bands, has signed a distribution deal with Dark Star Records. In 1991 Rival released a five song EP. In 2000 they went back into the studio and recorded their first full length CD titled "Modern World." Rival's most recent full length CD titled "State of Mind" was released in 2003 on Metal Blade Records.

Look for Rival's first two CD's, "Rival" and "Modern World," available for download on Dark Star Records, ITunes, Rhapsody, Napster, and over 100 other digital online stores worldwide on November 18, 2008.

In the meantime, you can also check out some of the band's music on their MySpace page.

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Netherbird Posts "The Blackest Breed" Music Video

Swedish melancholic black metal band NETHERBIRD has completed the music video for "The Blackest Breed," the track off their latest album, "The Ghost Collector." The song features Adrian Erlandsson of Cradle Of Filth, At The Gates and The Haunted fame on drums. More...

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Operatika Reveals New Album Details

New Jersey symphonic metal band, Operatika have moved the release date of their new album, "The Calling," to a sooner date of October 24, 2008 through Scarlet Records. Below is the list of all tracks from the album. You can now listen to song "Dark Horizon" on their Myspace page.

The tracklisting for "The Calling" is as follows:
1. Intro
2. Gladiator
3. Tears Of The Sun
4. Dark Horizon
5. Ice Queen
6. Life Saving Flame
7. No. 3/23 In A Minor
8. Mask In The Mirror
9. Secrets Of The Past
10. The Storm
11. The Calling
12. Last Quest More...

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Reunited Earth Crisis Signs To Century Media

The reformation of straightedge hardcore band EARTH CRISIS, which was followed by a massive North American tour as well as a number of European shows, has now culminated in the signing of a record deal with Century Media Records.

EARTH CRISIS has crafted their most angst ridden and unrelenting offering of their career and this effort is going to serve as a much needed wake up call to the masses. The group will self produce the album and are set to begin tracking next month. The acclaimed Tue Madsen (Sick Of It All, Dark Tranquillity, The Haunted) will handle mixing and mastering duties.

Scott Crouse (guitar) further comments:

"We are very excited to begin tracking our new record and even more excited that it will be released by Century Media. We have been working hard over the last year preparing new material and are scheduled to enter the studio in October. We will be producing this one ourselves and are extremely excited to have Tue Madsen mixing! The new songs are brutal and Century Media is the perfect label to handle them."

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Carnal Lust Tour Dates Announced

CARNAL LUST will tour September/October 2008 with ASMODEE and REVERENCE to promote their new album, "Dawn of the Hatred." Here are the latest tour dates:

20 Sept : PARIS @ Black Dog / Meet and greet party with the band
21 Sept : PARIS @ Espace B w/ FOETUR and VOLTURYON
26 Oct : LYON @ Warmaudio w/ ASMODEE and REVERENCE
28 Oct : SAINT PIERRE DES CORPS @ Atelier de creation experimentale w/ ASMODEE and REVERENCE
29 Oct : NANTES @ Floride w/ ASMODEE and REVERENCE
30 Oct : RENNES @ Mondo Bizarro w/ ASMODEE and REVERENCE

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16 Completes New Album

Legendary sludge misanthropes 16 have completed recording their new album. The new full-length, "Bridges To Burn," will see a January 20, 2009 release (January 26th internationally) through Relapse Records. Extensive photos from the recording sessions can be viewed via the band's official MySpace page in the photos section.

16, who have reformed with the original "Drop Out" line-up of Cris Jerue – vocals, Tony Baumeister– bass, Bobby Ferry – guitar, and Jason Corley– drums, have also announced an upcoming Los Angeles, CA show where they will perform all new songs taken from "Bridges To Burn." The show will take place on December 16th at the Relax Bar.

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