Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce that Grammy Award nominated KING DIAMOND has signed a new 3 album worldwide record deal with the label.  

New Wave of British Heavy Metal Legends SATAN have recently inked a deal with France’s Listenable Records.  

SHAI HULUD’s new album, Reach Beyond the Sun, will be released in North America on February 19th, 2013. The title track for the album is streaming on-line, and is available for purchase on iTunes  

The Rolling Stones Announced as Performers at “12-12-12” at Madison Square Garden to Aid the Victims of Hurricane Sandy  

Death Metal powerhouse DYING FETUS have announced that they will be hitting the road in in January of 2013 alongside Hatebreed, Shadows Fall and The Contortionist as part of “The Divinity of Purpose Tour”. The tour will kick off January 26th in Flint, MI and will wrap up February 17th in Amityville, NY.  

Metallica announced today that they have taken ownership of all their master recordings including all music and long form videos, a move almost unprecedented for musicians signed to recording contracts.  Under provision of their renegotiated joint venture agreement with the Warner Music Group in 1994, all masters revert back to the band as of today, November 30, 2012.  

Hatebreed is pleased to announce their first official tour in support of their forthcoming new studio album, The Divinity of Purpose. The 2013 Tour is slated to kick off on January 26th in Flint, MI and run through February 17th in Amityville, NY.   Also confirmed on the tour will be special guests and label mates, Shadows Fall along with support acts, Dying Fetus and The Contortionist.  VIP meet n’ greet packages and pre-sale tickets will be available Thursday, November 29th at 10 AM PST at www.hatebreed.com/vip.  

Modern rock favorites THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH will release its first remix EP, Metamorphosiz: The End Remixes, Vol. 1, as an exlusive to digital retailers, including iTunes®, Amazon.com and others, on Dec. 4.  The EP features 5 songs from the independently released, 5-star acclaimed and No. 1 selling Billboard Hard Rock album, The End Is Where We Begin, by noted remix geniuses Steve Sidelnyk, Rob Persaud, Robbie Bronnimann, Andy Hunter and Solomon Olds.  

Inakustik will release Michael Schenker’s Temple of Rock: Live in Europe on CD, DVD, Blu-ray and Limited Deluxe Edition, on January 15, 2013 in North America. This essential live rock’n’roll release includes songs performed live in Tilburg, The Netherlands in May 2012, plus songs performed at London’s 2011 High Voltage Festival.  

For the first time in 14 years, NYC death metal squad DEHUMANIZED has unleashed an album upon the masses.  

March 26, 2013 is going to be a very good day for SEVENDUST fans.  That day brings the highly anticipated release of the band’s brand new album, their ninth studio effort, BLACK OUT THE SUN, on their 7Bros. Records label (through Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group).  The first single, “Decay,” will be released to radio and available for download at online retail outlets January 22, 2013.  

Today, NEUROSIS has made an official band statement. “As of today, after much thought and discussion, visual projections as we have presented them over the last 20 years will no longer be part of Neurosis live shows.