Psycho California, the west coast’s preeminent heavy music festival which runs May 15 to 17 at The Observatory, has announced The Road To Psycho, a week of shows leading up to the three-day, fifty plus band event.  

Nomadic, apocalyptic doom cult, THE BODY, is currently embarked on its latest two-month-long crusade, reigning end-time sermons upon the masses through a barrage of incomprehensibly heavy tonal destruction. With a week of the tour already behind them, tomorrow begins the next massive phase, when the duo congregates with their cohorts in Full Of Hell for a month of travels together. THE BODY‘s terror crusade noise/powerviolence unit, Full Of Hell will blaze its clockwise mark in North America, carving a path from the Northeast and down the East Coast, through the Gulf and Southwest states, up the West Coast and back through the Midwest US with, the trek beginning and ending back in THE BODY‘s prior home... 

Greek orchestral maestro’s SEPTICFLESH will return to North America later this month as they embark on the “Conquerors of the World III” tour with support from gothic metal acts Moonspell and Deathstars. Dates can be found below – please let me know if you can make it out to a show!  

Belgian Death Metal horde DEHUMAN (feat. Laye Louhenapessy of PUTRID OFFAL) have partnered with Metal Underground for the premiere of a new video for “Crypts of Blood“.  

NYC-area hardcore collective, FULL SCALE RIOT, has just released their new Depopulation demo, the band coalescing current and former members of area bands of both local and worldwide visibility, and collectively unleashing a razor-sharp new release.  

Atlantic recording artist Shinedown has announced plans for a very special summer tour, the multi-platinum certified rock band’s first major trek in more than two years. The dates will see Shinedown visiting theatres and other intimate venues across the country, performing a unique set that will include classic hits, deep cuts, and best of all, new songs from the band’s hugely anticipated fifth studio album.  

The world’s biggest heavy music touring festival, the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL enters its eighth year with another fantastic heavy metal and hard rock line-up, featuring 13 bands performing on the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAIN STAGE and the VICTORY RECORDS STAGE.  

On the eve of their sold out North American tour, Faith No More is sharing a remix of the single “Superhero”, crafted by Einstürzende Neubauten’s Alexander Hacke.  

Today, Louisiana’s GOATWHORE announces a North American headlining tour in support of their critically-lauded full-length, Constricting Rage Of The Merciless. Following a stretch of one-off dates in Mississippi, Florida and Texas in May, the journey will officially commence in June at FreePress Summer Festival in Houston, Texas. The cross-country run will trample its way through thirty-four cities, drawing to a close on July 12th in Atlanta, Georgia. Support will come from Ringworm, Black Breath, and labelmates, Theories.  

U.S. Doomsters APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE have announced U.S. Spring Tour 2015 dates! Are they near you? Find out!  

Southern California’s GOATSNAKE has just released the first single from their anxiously awaited brand new LP, Black Age Blues, with a premiere of the album’s second track, “Elevated Man“!  

Orchestrated Misery Recordings has released Inject the Worms from Indiana Death Metal Merchants PSYCHOMANCER.