MAJESTIC DOWNFALL are set to release their upcoming new album via   Chaos Records in the Americas !!!  

Atlantic recording group Shinedown has announced details of their forthcoming live, multi-disc CD/DVD collection.  “SOMEWHERE IN THE STRATOSPHERE” will arrive in stores and at all DSPs on May 3rd.  

Metal Mind Productions is proud to announce a new record deal signed with a young but very promising Polish band J.D. Overdrive. Their debut album entitled “Sex, Whiskey & Southern Blood” will be released in Europe on 6th June and in USA on 12th July (via MVD).  

BioWare™, a division of leading video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and FUNimation® Entertainment, the leading distributor of Japanese animation in North America, announced today an agreement to create an anime feature film adapted from one of the video game industry’s most revered franchises, Mass Effect™.  

Columbia, SC rockers Crossfade have signed with Eleven Seven Music.  Home to some of today’s most influential rock groups such as Motley Crue, Papa Roach, Drowning Pool, Buckcherry and more, Crossfade are scheduled to release their latest effort, We All Bleed in June 2011.  

Critically acclaimed atmospheric rock band Anathema are set to release the highly anticipated We’re Here Because We’re Here on June 7th on The End Records.  The album’s release coincides with the band’s first ever North American tour. Dates in support of Blackfield kick off on May 18th in Washington, DC.  

Monsterworks Release Video for “God” / Gear Up For New Albums   Monsterworks’ The God Album Released Today in the U.S. UK Supermetallers MONSTERWORKS have just completed a new DIY video for “God,” the title track from The God Album, released on February 28th through Casket Music. Check it out at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsZjWCEISIU    The song itself is a general commentary on religion and puts the god of the Old Testament in a philosophical headlock.  However, if you find that too deep, just enjoy the METAL.  Most of the lyrics are lost in the screaming and roaring anyway!  

Previously released on vinyl in 2010 by Contagion Releasing and now sold out, Tutti Il Colori Del Buio by Washington, D.C. death crusters ILSA now sees release on CD through Dark Descent Records. Named one of Fenriz’s bands of the week, ILSA deliver nine tracks of blown out, severely down-tuned, crust-injected death-doom.  This rotten slab of vile, crusty filth is now brought to you in a six-panel, UV gloss digipak. HazMat suit not included.    

 “Foresting Wounds”, the debut solo album by Nera, the vocalist of the Polish metal band Darzamat, will be released under the moniker NeraNature.  

  Bazillion Points Books is proud to reveal that legendary Norwegian black metal pioneer Fenriz of DARKTHRONE has contributed a foreword to the upcoming 744-page hardcover book METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries, by Jon Kristiansen. Fenriz’s connection to Slayer Mag dates to the 1980s, when he was just beginning to play music and Kristiansen was already a respected figure in the Scandinavian underground scene.  

International superstars Volbeat release their latest smash hit video “16 Dollars”  

Sun Goodbye’, which is scheduled for a May 17th release. The band is also about to hit the road with crunkcore titans Brokencyde and are now excited to unveil plans to hit the road with alternative icons AIDEN this spring as well.