Two songs from the album – “Down Spiral Depersonification” and “Der Blick hinaus” – are available for streaming at the label’s website and Facebook page.  

I guess a little background info might be necessary for those outside of the Chicago area. A week prior to the show there was a shooting at the venue, as a result the city forced Mojoes to close up shop for a week forcing them to cancel some shows and relocate others, Metalliance being one of the shows they moved, to a place called the Bada Brew. I don’t know where Mojoes is, but the Bada Brew was parked between a crappy little convenience store and the some cafe called The Broken Egg in a tiny little strip mall. Not your typical scene for a show so I didn’t know what to expect, but who cares right?      I happened to miss the first two or three bands that opened, but I did catch the last two songs of... 

Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O’Brien will fill in for Exodus’ Gary Holt when Holt leaves the Slayer European tour to play with his own band Exodus at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile on April 4.  

        LEKAMEN ILLUSIONEN KALLET: The Second Wind Out Now             After four years of silence,Sweden’s Lekamen Illusionen Kallet (LIK) returns with a collection of raw and often hypnotic occult black rock. Masterminded by multi-instrumentalist Stoif (formerly known as Graav) , The Second Wind is now available through Nordvis Produktion.  

After a very successful tour of Europe together and two sold out North American shows (one at NYC’s Madison Square Garden, the other at Montreal’s Bell Centre) in 2010, Metropolis recording artists COMBICHRIST will be joining RAMMSTEIN as direct support on their full North American tour in May.  

INCANTATION / ACHERON drummer Kyle Severn will be debuting his gore-filled horror film Afterparty Massacre tonight at Horrorhound Weekend in Indianapolis, IN. Afterparty Massacre was written and filmed by Kyle and Horrormerch.com‘s Kristoff .  

Known for scouring the globe to find some of the world’s finest death, black and thrash metal acts, Abyss Records is pleased to announced the signing of a band who brings the best of all three to the table. Hailing from Homer, Alaska, THOUSAND YEAR WAR stands tall as one of Abyss Record’s newest and most exciting acquisitions.  

Get ready for hell on earth, because for the first time since they tour together on Ozzfest 1999, Rob Zombie and Slayer are teaming up to hit the road, bringing a glorious purgatory to fans in 12 North American cities. The co-headline trek kicks off Wednesday, July 20 at the Sovereign Center in Reading, PA.   

Florida’s kings of death metal, CANNIBAL CORPSE, have landed the #17 spot on the Billboard Music Video Charts in the US and #5 on the Music Video Chart in Canada with their latest DVD release Global Evisceration, which came out March 15 via Metal Blade Records.  

Following up on the success of last year’s reissue of the classic Winter Of Sin, Abyss Records is proud to unearth yet another treasure from Norwegian black/death metal warlocks FESTER. In mid-April of 2011 Abyss will reincarnate FESTER’s 1994 masterpiece Silence on digi-CD. The reissue will come completely remixed, remastered and repackaged and will feature all nine original tracks and a live version of the song “Persecution” recorded in 1991.   

The story thus far…Izegrim recorded and released its first propaganda on tape, called ‘Most Evil Demo’ in spring 1998. The demo (featuring symphonic death metal) was generally received very positively by the media. Izegrim released the self-financed mini-CD Bird of Prey in the summer of 1999. From the start, Izegrim was received very well by both the media and audience at live-gigs.  

Fuel TV has posted footage online from Cradle Of Filth’s recent appearance on the channel’s hit show, The Daily Habit, as they perform the song, “Nymphetamine”, in front of an intimate studio audience.