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As previously announced, Australian funeral doom icons MOURNFUL CONGREGATION have signed with 20 Buck Spin for the North American release of two full-length releases. The first of the pair, a compilation of out-of-print tracks entitled The Unspoken Hymns, acts as a prologue for the band’s newly completed, monumental, brand new full-length album, The Book Of Kings.  

THROWDOWN will headline the first annual “BRAWLOWEEN,” a brand new tour event which will stretch across the West Coast with support from CARNIFEX, FIRST BLOOD and SUFFOKATE.  

Thrice has announced that they will be slowly streaming the full Major/Minor starting today for all fans! Available today, Sept. 7th, will be “Yellow Belly”, “Promises”, and newly added “Blinded”. Each weekday from now until the release, September 20th  

So, with all the hype surrounding the up coming Avengers movie in 2012, we look at the effects of having Ultimate Avengers Nick Fury or classic Marvel staple Nicholas J. Fury.  

Five Finger Death Punch recently unveiled the artwork for their forthcoming studio album, American Capitalist. The album is the band’s third studio album and follow up to the hugely successful War is the Answer, which was released in 2009.  

Philadelphia’s resident rage-makers, Single Bullet Theory, have just entered their second decade of existence with a vengeance. Re-energized by a new lineup which consists of three of metal’s finest musicians, Single Bullet Theory founder/guitarist/vocalist Matt DiFabio has produced his most powerful effort to date in IV, a gargantuan slab of concrete that draws energy from many areas within metal’s wide spectrum.  

Mastodon has released a new viral video for the track, “Spectrelight”. Once again, Mastodon is proud to feature vocal assistance on this track from their dear friend, Scott Kelly of Neurosis who had this to say about this long-standing tradition:  

   Alt-metallers Allele have set September 27th as the street date for their latest slab of molten modern rock, Next To Parallel. The album is being released by Goomba Music and is currently available for pre-order  

Following the release of Evinta earlier this year, in which the band marked 20 years of existence with a release of symphonic compositions re-imagining past My Dying Bride themes, the UK doom legend now presents its latest chapter in the form of new EP, ‘The Barghest O’ Whitby,’ to be released November 7th through Peaceville Records on CD and limited vinyl.  

  supergroup featuring guitarist Joe Satriani, drummer Kenny Aronoff, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and frontman Sammy Hagar – are offering fans a very special free Live Concert Webcast: Chickenfoot Presents “III” on the release date of their forthcoming album Chickenfoot III, September 27th.  

The threat is real; the hype is warranted. HEMOPTYSIS’ Misanthropic Slaughter is a musically accomplished, superbly written, and utterly devastating album of thrash metal extremism! The explosive Phoenix, Arizona quartet HEMOPTYSIS self-released Misanthropic Slaughter on March 8th of this year and the critics haven’t stopped raving about it since. Don’t believe us? Check out the all the press quotes below!