Los Angeles based experimental/doom/rock group DEATHKINGS will release their second full length album, All That Is Beautiful, on March 18.  

Germany’s Exile On Mainstream Records is preparing for the late January release of Wer Hören Will Muss Schweigen, the magnificent sophomore LP from enigmatic singer/songwriter FRIEDEMANN. Two new videos from the album have been released, and preorders for the LP have been posted.  

2015 was a busy year for SUNN O))). Following the recent release of the triadic entity Kannon — their first full-length album since 2009’s Monoliths And Dimensions — a series of magnificent European appearances, culminating in their curation of four days at Utrecht’s Le Guess Who? festival, the band now presents the news that their live album, Dømkirke, will see dawn of day again this February.  

After a short holiday slumber, Detroit’s favorite road hounds, CHILD BITE, will take to the streets again for another round of onstage pandemonium.  

Los Angeles shredders HOLY GRAIL are back with a vengeance and ready to reassert themselves as “one of the most promising traditionally-inclined metal bands to emerge from the U.S. in the past decade” (Metal Hammer) with their third album “Times of Pride and Peril,” scheduled for release on Feb. 12 via Prosthetic Records. Recorded with Grammy-Award winning producer John Spiker (Tenacious D, Filter), the album – which encompasses the rise and fall of an empire – includes “No More Heroes,” a song the group recently debuted in concert.  

Chicago’s celebrated torchbearers of instrumental metal, PELICAN, will return to Europe for a string of dates this Spring. This marks the band’s first European tour since the successes of their innovative 2013 LP Forever Becoming and 2015’s 4-track EP, The Cliff — both released via Southern Lord — and their 2014 Arktika live 2xLP.  

Red Fang, who recently celebrated their tenth anniversary with a trio of Northwestern U.S. performances, return to the studio in February, recording the follow-up to Whales & Leeches with famed producer Ross Robinson.  

KaosKvlt, the new subdivision of Kaotoxin Records dedicated to reissuing old-school metal gems, is proud to announce that its first release will be a 25th anniversary collector cassette tape edition of kvlt French death metal veterans’ MERYCLESS‘ 1991 debut album, Abject Offerings.  

As a holiday treat to rock fans everywhere, PAPA ROACH has released the music video for “Falling Apart” the third single off the bands eighth studio album F.E.A.R. To date, their latest release has sold 150K unites globally and spawned two hits  

Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD, who recently toured Europe as part of the “Deathcrusher 2015” tour alongside Carcass, Obituary and Napalm Death, are pleased to announce the release of Post Society EP Mini-CD. This special release will be available in Digipak CD format as well as digital download on February 26th, 2016 via Century Media Records.  

UK-based metallers, VENOM INC., will kick off their long-anticipated North American tour next month. Initially scheduled to take place this past Fall but postponed, the rescheduled demolition will pillage its way through nearly two dozen cities from January 5th through January 28th.  

Barbarous hellhounds, CRADLE OF FILTH, will return to North America next year on the Inquisitional Torture Tour 2016! The debaucherous trek will run from January 26th through March 8th, leveling a total of twenty-seven cities. Support will be provided by Butcher Babies and Ne Obliviscaris. Tickets are now available at THIS LOCATION.