Today, LA’s Body Count releases the music video for their song “Point The Finger” from their highly acclaimed recent album Carnivore (March 6th, 2020). Due to the current worldwide crisis, the video was shot entirely with the band members’ cell phones in home quarantine. Watch the video, produced and edited by Jay Rodriguez for Itchy House Films, which also features guest vocalist Riley Gale from popular Texan crossover thrash outfit Power Trip  

The enigmatic Icelanders of ÁRSTÍÐIR have shared a live, acoustic performance in partnership with Club Weltenklang, a virtual venue, where you can watch videos of multi-genre artists.  

Anthrax’s Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Scott Ian and Jonathan Donais will be helming their own virtual classrooms that will offer programs in songwriting, guitar, bass, drums and Q&A sessions, all via the Topeka Live platform.  Scott will offer a “Guitar Session,” a “Songwriting Session,” and a “20 Questions Session;”  Frank will present a “Bass Clinic, ” a “Songwriting Session,” and a “20 Questions Session;” Charlie’s curriculum will encompass a “Drum Session” and a “Songwriting Clinic;” and Jonathan will present a “Guitar Clinic.”  For more information on these virtual classrooms and... 

Russian melodic death metal band DROPS OF HEART have premiered the official music video for “Modern Madness.” The song is the first single to come off the band’s upcoming second full-length album, Stargazers.  

Deathcore outfit Slaughter To Prevail have released a brutal new track ‘Demolisher’. The new track continues in the vein of their signature sonic violence exhibited on 2017’s debut full-length ‘Misery Sermon’ crossing thresholds between Deathcore, Death and Extreme Metal. Listen to ‘Demolisher’ below…  

On May 29th, Behemoth will release a new EP, A Forest, digitally worldwide (with additional physical copies available for purchase). For a preview of this 4-track collection, a video for the title track – a cover version of The Cure‘s classic “A Forest” – featuring guest vocals by Shining‘s Niklas Kvarforth, can be viewed below… Front-man Nergal comments: “Covering music outside of metal is a challenge – covering legendary music is an even greater challenge…that is what drove us throughout this process. A lot of bands try it and a lot of bands fail; subjectively, I love the outcome and it ranks amongst my favourite Behemoth covers alongside Killing Joke‘s... 

Metallica’s Lars Ulrich delivered a message of encouragement to fans on the band’s new SiriusXM’s new channel, MANDATORY METALLICA. Listen to the audio, read further about the new channel devoted to the band and how to stream it for free below.  

Gore Metal maniacs EXHUMED and Death Metal Defenders of the Old GRUESOME return for more kills and thrills with their new split, Twisted Horror, out June 5th. Listen to EXHUMED’s new song “Rot Your Brain” below…  

On June 26th, Sweden’s Falconer will release their new album, From A Dying Ember, via Metal Blade Records. For a preview of From A Dying Ember, the first single, “Desert Dreams”, can be heard at:  

King Diamond will be streaming Songs for the Dead: Live at the Fillmore in Philadelphia via Knotfest.com and King Diamond‘s social properties (see below for all links).  

California rock legends and global philanthropists Steel Panther are gearing up for another first in their long and distinguished career. The band is going to be playing their first ever, completely live around the globe, socially distance abiding (band members will be 6’ away from each other too), virtual concert that they are calling the Concert To Save The World.   

Ripping forth like a dagger from the flesh of Austin, Texas comes the self-titled debut LP from the Lone Star State’s new wreckers of civilization, SKELETON. Having plied their black-market trade for several years in grime infested underground dungeons and sub-basements, 20 Buck Spin was called forth to issue SKELETON‘s first LP, a cataclysmic expansion of the band’s unhallowed vision venturing well beyond its earlier borders.