Whenever CORROSION OF CONFORMITY releases a new album, folks take notice. But their latest is a true event. It’s been a dozen years since CORROSION OF CONFORMITY recorded new material with vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan at the helm.  

101one WJRR, Orlando’s Rock Station, announced today its Earthday Birthday 25 music festival, taking place on Saturday, April 21 at the Central Florida Fairgrounds.  

WHITECHAPEL will kick off their North American headlining tour this Friday. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the band’s The Somatic Defilement release, the A Decade Of Defilement tour will run from November 10th through December 16th and find WHITECHAPEL performing select tracks from The Somatic Defilement, some of which have not been played since the album’s release. Support will be provided by Carnifex, Rings Of Saturn, Entheos, and So This Is Suffering. See below for all confirmed dates. WHITECHAPEL – A Decade Of Defilement Tour w/ Carnifex, Rings Of Saturn, Entheos, So This Is Suffering: 11/10/2017 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA 11/11/2017 State Theater – St. Petersburg, FL 11/12/2017... 

Austrian post-black metal band Harakiri For The Sky will make their awaited return in 2018 with the release of their 4th studio album, Arson, which will debut on February, 16th via AOP Records with distribution from Plastichead Distribution (Europe/North America/World) and Edel (Germany/Austria/Switzerland).  

English feel-good rockers MASSIVE WAGONS have won the first ever Hard Rock Hell Rising Stars award. Having loudly and proudly celebrated its tenth anniversary, the UK’s Hard Rock Hell festival continues to expand and evolve, with one major leap forward being the introduction of the HRH Awards, the first of which was held at Hard Rock Hell’s main arena in Pwllheli yesterday (Wednesday, 8th November).  

Canadian melodic, progressive thrash metal/melodeath act THREAT SIGNAL release advance stream of their fourth studio album “Disconnect”, which will be officially released tomorrow, November 10th worldwide via Agonia Records. Listen to the album here:  

The two-time, GRAMMY® Award-winning group EVANESCENCE will be performing in Brooklyn, NY on Friday, November 10 at King’s Theatre. The same day (November 10), the group will release their fourth and most ambitious album to date titled, SYNTHESIS. The new album is a reimagining of some of EVANESCENCE’s best-loved songs-as well as a couple of new ones–recorded with a full orchestra and electronics combined with the band and AMY LEE’s virtuoso piano and voice.  

Greenville, South Carolina-based outfit WVRM has announced a run of North American December tour dates supporting their newly unleashed EP, Can You Hear The Wind Howl.  

YOB has announced the deluxe reissue of The Great Cessation. Originally released in 2009, the trio’s 5th full-length record is a master lesson in cosmic Doom. Epic, crushing, and heavy beyond words, YOB achieved legendary status in recent years due to their unmatched aesthetic and incredible body of work.  

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions have signed zombie cult Death Metal ghouls MAUSOLEUM and are set to release the deadly double CD collection entitled Cadaveric Displays from The Funeral December 1.  

On his upcoming farewell world tour, OZZY OSBOURNE–Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy® winning singer and songwriter–will celebrate more than five decades as a performer (both as a solo artist and as lead singer of Black Sabbath which formed in 1968). This tour, expected to take OZZY around the world with dates into 2020, will mark the end of global touring for the legendary artist, though he will continue to perform select live shows.  

Tucson, AZ based, West Coast Metal band Lethal Injektion has followed up on their highly praised sophomore LP, Judgment Night, with a stunning reinterpretation and music video of the Imagine Dragons hit single, “Believer.” “We chose ‘Believer’ because we respected the concept and message. We are on a mission to make believers out of the industry with our music and unique sound.”