Fresh off the release of his spellbinding collection of covers CANDY last month, post-punk band , featuring the iconic Lord of Lard himself RAYMOND WATTS, has announced a string of live dates in support of that album. What separates this run from his recent North American tours is that this sees the triumphant return of previous band members to the pen.  

Metal Blade Records is proud to welcome Intronaut to its worldwide roster! Currently working on the follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Direction of Last Things (2015), Intronaut plans to release their new album – and Metal Blade Records debut – in 2020.  

Buckcherry announces today the final 16 shows of their North American portion of the 2019 Warpaint Tour. The tour, which started on March 5th, will total 118 North American cities once it concludes on September 26th. Following the U.S shows, Buckcherry will perform shows in Australia, Japan, and the UK. Supporting Buckcherry on the final 8 shows of the U.S tour will be Blacktop Mojo, who will be touring in support of their 3rd album Under The Sun.  

Atlanta, GA’s metal quartet CLOAK will be supporting KHEMMIS on their upcoming North American Desolation 2019 tour. The run will kick off TOMORROW, July 11 in Memphis, TN and will conclude on July 28 in Bloomington, IL. After this run, the band will return in August for two dates in support of label-mates 1349. The full itinerary and ticket links can be found below.  

Philly’s raw entity DEVIL MASTER announce their first Mexico headline tour throughout August! The tour begins following the band’s performance at Psycho Las Vegas 2019. Additionally, DEVIL MASTER will tour with death metal legends and labelmates Obituary this Fall throughout late-September/October.  

On Saturday, November 2, 2019,  Slayer – Tom Araya/bass and vocals, Kerry King/guitars, Gary Holt/guitars, and Paul Bostaph/drums – will set off on The Final Campaign, the seventh and final leg of its farewell world tour.  This last hurrah will start at the ExploreAsheville Arena in Asheville, NC, and see the band taking its goodbye bow at the Los Angeles Forum on Saturday, November 30.  

– Continuing the fan frenzy they created last week when they released their mysterious video for brand new track ‘F***ing With My Head’, Palaye Royale have released the video for another brand new track ‘Nervous Breakdown’. Watch the video…  

ZONAL, featuring Justin Broadrick (Godflesh/Jesu/JK Flesh) and Kevin Martin (The Bug/King Midas Sound) sign to Relapse Records. To celebrate the announcement, the band has shared two tracks to prepare for their forthcoming full-length record, coming Fall 2019.  

Following the release of their universally acclaimed new album Sulphur English, Richmond’s Inter Arma have announced another string of North American tour dates in support of it.  The band will tour along the east coast in late August into September with Creeping Death in tow.   

International extreme power metal superstars DragonForce have announced new live dates in the USA, Canada, UK and Europe starting the fall of 2019/beginning of 2020. After a festival run this summer, DragonForce will kick off their North American tour on October 1st in support of their biggest release yet! Expect big announcements and new DragonForce music very soon!  

Italian Gothic Metal icons LACUNA COIL are excited to announce their new album Black Anima out on October 11th, 2019, worldwide via Century Media Records. “Black Anima is all of us. It’s you and it’s me. It’s everything we hide and fiercely expose to a world that’s halfway asleep. It is the fogged mirror we are peering into searching for the truth.  

IDW Publishing brings the lifelong rivalry between Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence out of the dojo and into comic book stores with an all-new Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues miniseries, slated for release in Fall 2019. In collaboration with Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, IDW will develop new stories set within the continuity of the YouTube Premium original series, based on iconic characters from the cultural touchstone Karate Kid film series.