San Diego based (by way of Australia) band CREATIONS has debuted the music video for their track “The Wolf, The Clothes” on their official Facebook page located here http://www.facebook.com/creationshc. The song comes from the band’s upcoming album ‘The Gospel‘, which will hit stores and digital retailers on August 16th through Rite of Passage Records.  

70000TONS OF METAL, The World’s Biggest Floating Heavy Metal Festival has arrived at the biggest port in Scandinavia and Sweden’s gateway to the West: Göteborg. Time to let the HAMMERFALL! Will they stay in this city of long maritime tradition or will they sail onwards? You shall know soon!  

After damning us all to hell with their exclusive premier of “Golgotha 33 A.D.,” The Metal Observer has once again teamed up with Clawhammer PR and Chaos Records to torch the moral fabric of society with another track from TURBOCHARGED’s AntiXtian. This latest track, “Wake Up And Smell The Christian,”  

Originally self-released on CD by the band in 2008 (limited to 666 copies), Mitochondrion’s Archaeaeon will see an official release in late August by Dark Descent Records. Archaeaeon has been remastered by Colin Martson and will be released with an eight-page layout printed on heavy matte card stock.  

Universal Republic Records has announced a July 26 street date for the deluxe edition release of  Volbeat’s Beyond Hell / Above Heaven.  The title will feature the original album, with a new DVD titled Return To Tilburg.   

Tank, the legendary British Heavy Metal Band, kicks off their European ‘War Machine’ tour in early August. They start with a couple of shows in England, then they move to Poland to be a part of Metal Hammer Festival (along with Judas Priest, Morbid Angel, Exodus, Vader to name a few) and later they visit countries like Norway, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Holland and Belgium.  

Fresh off the Avalanche tour, Canadian rockers Art of Dying head back on the road for the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival starting August 26, and have announced a contest today to win a pair of tickets for each show on the tour.   

–> Atlantic recording group Staind has announced details of their hugely anticipated new album.  “STAIND” – which marks the iconic hard rock band’s seventh studio album and first full-length release in three years – arrives in stores and at all digital retailers on September 13th.  

Dark Descent Records is pleased to announcing the addition of Finland’s CRYPTBORN to its hallowed roster. Entitled Into the Grasp of the Starving Dead, the seven-song, 28-minute EP  

Canadian death metal act, Kataklysm, is presently wrapping up its highly successful world tour that has brought the band to the four corners of the world. The Heaven’s Venom mania will continue this summer with the band’s appearance at the famous Wacken Open Air this August. The band will also perform and headline Brutal Assault festival in Czech Republic, Metal Mean Open Air in Belgium and the very anticipated 20th anniversary show at the Summer Breeze Open Air in Germany to an already sold out 30,000 + fans!  

When something spectacular emerges in the form of music, it is almost too simple to differentiate between what is here to stay and what is just a passing fad.   

West Coast extreme heavy metal act, All Shall Perish, has launched a special iTunes pre-order for the band’s forthcoming record, This is Where it Ends. Head over to: http://bit.ly/asptiwie to pre-order a digital copy of This is Where it Ends today for just $7.99.