New Orleans sludge masters Crowbar have announced their eleventh new LP titled The Serpent Only Lies, due out October 28, 2016. “We are so excited about our 11th studio record! The Serpent Only Lies is a powerful follow up.” says frontman and riff lord Kirk Windstein. “Eliran Kantor did a brilliant job with the artwork! Our first release, “Falling While Rising”, is Crowbar at its finest… HEAVIER THAN EVER!!!”
Acclaimed Japanese all-girl heavy metal/teen-pop phenom BABYMETAL has been confirmed as direct tour support for Red Hot Chili Peppers’ first UK tour in five years. BABYMETAL’s sophomore album Metal Resistance(released in April via Sony/RAL) made an impressive debut atop Billboard’s “World Albums” chart and iTunes’ “Top Heavy Metal Albums” chart, while simultaneously entering at #2 on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Albums” chart, #17 on Billboard’s “Top Album Sales” chart and #39 on the overall Billboard 200.
The original concept was to have four still photographers placed strategically on a Florida set while the five members of Anthrax performed their new song “Monster At The End” live. Each photographer would hold down his camera’s shutter button continuously for the near-four minute-long song, capturing a steady stream of hundreds of still images.
‘Gateways to Annihilation‘, the iconic sixth studio album from Floridian death metal legends MORBID ANGEL, is available again now on vinyl. After enjoying worldwide success with their previous five classic albums, MORBID ANGEL had established themselves as kings of the death metal genre with their revolutionary and unapologetic sound. This intensely dark and intricate sixth album is a historic masterpiece that emanates strength with its dynamic and sweeping passages and brutal lyrical content. Originally released in 2000, the long-out-of-print vinyl is available once again in a range of limited edition colours, including ‘Summoning Purple’ (limited to 300 copies) and ‘Ageless White’...
Rob Zombie is gearing up for the release of his new movie 31, set to be released in select theaters on 9/1. A trailer for the film, which can be seen here, follows the horrific story of five carnival workers who are kidnapped the night before Halloween and held hostage in a large compound. The carnies are forced to play 31, a life or death game.
Brooklyn’s musical alchemists Candiria – long-known for fusing metal, hardcore, jazz, and hip-hop in a unique, inimitable blend – will release their new album, While They Were Sleeping, via Metal Blade Records on October 7th. It was recorded at Spaceman Sound in Brooklyn by Tom Tierney and Alex Mead-Fox, and produced by Candiria. It’s the band’s first album since 2009’s Kiss the Lie.
Following another extremely successful GWAR B-Q, your Lords and Masters are GWAR pleased to announce another round of tour dates for this October. Joining them on the tour are Darkest Hour and Mutoid Man. This run kicks off October 27th in Norfolk, VA and runs through October 30th in Washington, DC.
HUNTRESS ANNOUNCES FALL U.S. TOUR DATES BAND ALSO SET TO PERFORM AT OZZFEST SEPTEMBER 24 IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA California heavy metal band HUNTRESS kicks off the fall touring season with a string of headlining dates, a coveted slot on Ozzfest (September 24 in San Bernardino, CA) and as support for Trivium and Sabaton on a U.S. run in September and October. The tour marks the band’s first full-scale tour since releasing their third album Static in 2015.
Death metal legends OBITUARY have announced Ten Thousand Ways To Die, a special two-song single containing a pair of brand new studio tracks plus a bonus live set of twelve classics and fan favorites from the band’s storied catalog. Recorded in eleven different cities during the band’s highly successful 2015 Inked In Blood world tour, the live tracks capture the incredible performances of a band that has stood atop the death metal pantheon for almost 30 years.
