Arizona thrashers HEMOPTYSIS have released a music video for the track “M.O.D.,” taken from their latest album Misanthropic Slaughter. The video was shot earlier this month in an abandon warehouse in Vail, AZ. Production and direction came courtesy of Sean Sinerius and Robert Jaime at Big Shot Studios. To check out the video for “M.O.D.”  

Winnipeg, Canada’s ANNEX THEORY, which features in its ranks former QUO VADIS vocalist Trevor Birnie, has released the following footage taken from the band’s Eastern Canadian tour supporting LAIKA:  

The wildly-progressive German metal quartet OBSCURA has announced their first ever North American headline tour in support of their latest album Omnivium. The tour will start Nov. 4 in Wilmington, Delaware and run through Dec. 7 with support from label-mates ABYSMAL DAWN, LAST CHANCE TO REASON (select dates) and ENFOLD DARKNESS (select dates).  

DEAD are back! With more energy, intensity, brutality and morbidity than ever before, new album Hardnaked…but Dead will be released by FDA Rekotz in Germany on November 18th and worldwide on November 21st. Disgusting, emotional and sawing guitars meet blast-beats, heavy grooves and puking vocals, Hardnaked…but Dead is DEAD’s best album since their re-union and a guaranteed death metal milestone.  

OVERKILL have announced a brand new batch of dates aptly dubbed “KILLFEST 2.” Supporting will be Belphegor, Aborted, Blackguard, System Divide and Diamond Plate.  

Legendary Florida death metal behemoths OBITUARY will embark on a short East Coast run of dates this November alongside Denial Fiend! The trek will commence on November 12 in Tampa, Florida and runs through to November 20 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The band will be joined by bassist Terry Butler (Death, Six Feet Under, Massacre),  

Dark Descent Records will release the highly anticipated CD follow-up to the twice-pressed Sweet Blasphemies cassette from the East Coast’s favorite sons of filth HORRENDOUS. Entitled The Chills, the new EP is targeted for a late November/early December release and defines the kind of mucked up, motoring, and morbid Swedish/American death metal that HORRENDOUS has been delivering with malice since 2009. Don’t believe it? Consider yourself teased with this quintessentially horrendous sample track:  

Indiana black metal duo PTAHIL have disseminated a video teaser and commercial for upcoming new full-length, For His Satanic Majesty’s Glory.  Check them out at THIS LOCATION.   

 Starting today, NPR.org will be streaming San Francisco, CA HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE’s brand new album, 17th Street, in its entirety. Check out the album HERE and if you like what you hear, find copies of 17th Street available on CD and 180 gram double LP gatefold vinyl HERE.  

THROWDOWN will be playing select west coast dates on the “BRAWLOWEEN TOUR.”  

Allegaeon is preparing to enter the studio to record their second album for Metal Blade, and the follow up to the highly rated Fragments of Form and Function. This time around, the guys will be heading to San Diego to record with immensely talented up-and-coming producer, Daniel Castleman at Lambesis Studios. The band plans to record this December.  

  With more than 40 million records sold worldwide and countless sold-out tours, Rush – Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart – are not only one of the most successful and influential bands in rock history but continue to garner new fans and continue in popularity every year.