The Best of Entombed‘, a brand new compilation, is available now from Earache Records on CD and digital download.One of the legends of the death metal genre, ENTOMBED originally formed in Sweden under the name of NIHILIST in 1987 before changing their name in 1989 and releasing their seminal debut album ‘Left Hand Path‘ in 1990 through Earache Records.  

New York City’s TOWER has just released their second single “Elegy” in advance of their self-titled debut studio album, TOWER, set for release October 28 via The End Records.  

Following the release of their smoldering second full-length, Suffer, through Unique Leader Records in July, San Diego death metal unit LORD OF WAR has been confirmed to take part in the Rise Above The Empire Europe 2016 tour this fall. Joining Vader, Hate Eternal, Threat Signal, and Apophys, the tour runs from November 4th through November 20th.  

THE CROOKED MAN, starring Michael Jai White (SPAWN), Amber Benson (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and Dina Meyer (STARSHIP TROOPERS) kicks off Syfy’s 31 Days of Halloween.  

o commemorate the 25th anniversary of the band’s landmark 1991 self-titled release, Temple of the Dog – the Seattle supergroup featuring Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, and Mike McCready, and drummer Matt Cameron (who plays drums with both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam) – today released a special 25th anniversary collection of the band’s first and only album, newly mixed by Brendan O’Brien.  

Sully Erna hit the Big Apple recently for an intimate performance of a couple of songs from his upcoming sopohmore solo release “Hometown Life”. Sully sat down with Metal Machine after his performance to talk about his new album  

As the October 21 release of KORN’s 12th studio album THE SERENITY OF SUFFERING draws near, the multi-platinum two-time Grammy-winning rock band has made available a third song from the album, “A Different World.” The new track–featuring Corey Taylor of Slipknot–can now be heard  

Two of Europe’s finest metal exports and Napalm Records recording artists the might HAMMERFALL and DELAIN have joined forces for a Co-Headline North American tour, set for spring of 2017. A complete list of dates can be found below. Tickets and VIP packages for all shows are available now at http://www.enterthevault.com.  

Jeff Lemire’s superhero comic series is getting the super treatment: Dark Horse is proud to announce that Black Hammer will have an oversized anthology issue in early 2017.  

2016—Just in time for the holiday season, legendary rock band, MÖTLEY CRÜE have something special for their fans in the form of a box set, Mötley Crüe: The End, available world-wide across physical retailers November 25 via Eleven Seven Music. Fans can pre-order the box set for $175 beginning TODAY via Pledge Music HERE. The box set will chronicle the span of their 35-year career with the inclusion of six LPs and CDs, packaged within a hardcover photo book, of Too Fast for Love (1981), Shout At The Devil (1983), Theatre of Pain (1985), Girls, Girls, Girls (1987), Dr. Feelgood (1989), Saints of Los Angeles (2008), and conclude with a live audio CD and DVD of the band’s final performance to a sold-out Los Angeles... 

Let’s get one thing straight: Insomnium is one of the most universally agreed upon melo death bands. Across their discography, Insomnium have blended traditional melo death conventions with melancholic doom metal atmospheres and furious, frostbitten black metal passages, crafting their own sound right from their early demos back in the late 90’s. Everything the band has explored in their discography seems to accumulate with Winter’s Gate, the band’s most ambitious release thus far, and one that already stands out in not just among their best work, but the greater, ever-expanding genre they’re rooted in.  

Enuff Z’nuff is the living, breathing example of what a rock/ pop group should be. In fact, the band is the very chrome-glinted definition of it.