“Breathing Lightning,” the first official track from Anthrax’s upcoming album For All Kings due out February 26 (Megaforce/North America), goes to radio today.  

WARBRINGER will launch their next North American tour in New York City on Jan. 5, 2016 at The Gramercy Theatre. This co-headliner trek with Sweden’s Enforcer will be almost two months and cover the US and Canada, along with opening acts Exmortus and Cauldron. This is the first domestic tour WARBRINGER has done since the fall of 2013 when the group opened for Overkill and Kreator in support of their last album, Warbringer IV: Empires Collapse so many fans are eager to see the band live again.  

Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister, the legendary frontman of Motorhead, has passed at the ae of 70 from Cancer. Below is the official statement from www.imotorhead.com…  

10 Years will begin 2016 with a co-headlining tour alongside reggae rock outfit P.O.D. The North American trek will see the band return to the road supporting their latest full length record, From Birth To Burial, which was released in April of this year on the band’s Palehorse imprint. Joining 10 Years and P.O.D. on the tour are Australian prog-rock stalwarts Dead Letter Circus, as well as War Of Ages. A current list of tour dates can be found below, with more to be announced soon.  

Greetings to all! We’ve been working our asses off for a very long time and we are finally finished! We will begin announcing full album details, release date, tour dates and pre-order info on Tuesday January 5, 2016. We apologize for the extreme delays but we had to be sure this new album was the absolute best we could make it, so we took the time we needed! For now, here is a little behind-the-scenes footage from our upcoming video “No Tomorrow”!  

Puscifer return to the ring on March 17 as the band launches the Money $hot – Round 2 tour, kicking off at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, Calif. Additional dates will be announced in early January.  

German extreme metallers Downfall Of Gaia have announced their split with guitarist Peter Wolff.  

Revolver has premiered the savage “Internal Bleeding“, the track hailing from San Jose-based SPINEBREAKER‘s impending Ice Grave debut LP, which is set for release via Creator-Destructor Records in early January.  

Passing their three decade mark this month, NEUROSIS has confirmed that the band will be returning to Electrical Audio in Chicago with engineer Steve Albini on December 27th to record their forthcoming brand new LP, their follow up to 2012’s Honor Found In Decay. Additional details on the album and its approximate release in 2016 will be revealed in the early months of the year.  

North Carolina Death Thrashers SUPPRESSIVE FIRE have released the exclusive premiere of the title track from upcoming album Bedlam. Stream it HERE!  

New York City coven, TELOCH VOVIN, commemorates the Winter Solstice with the release of “Psalms Ov Khaos — Orobas Invocato“, the first in the Psalms Ov Khaos recordings set to see release from the band in the coming months.  

Hailing from the Willamette “Valley Of Death” amongst the woods of Eugene, Oregon, technical death metal outfit OMNIHILITY returns with their third offering of audio carnage entitled Dominion Of Misery.