Italian progressive occult metal visionaries, VOID OF SLEEP, will release their sophomore full-length next month via Aural Music. Titled New World Order, the seven track concept album and follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed Tales Between Reality And Madness long player was captured by bassist Riccardo Pasini (Ephel Duath, The Secret) at Studio73 in Ravenna, Italy and mastered by Collin Jordan (Eyehategod, Indian, Wovenhand, Voivod et al.) at The Boiler Room in Chicago, Illinois.  

Following their recent North American expedition supporting Superjoint and King Parrot on the successful It Takes Guts tour 2015, and the following Eastbound N’ Down tour with Down, Detroit’s favorite punk/metal/noise rock eccentrics, CHILD BITE, take to the streets again for a twenty-three date tour supporting KEN mode.  

DARK BUDDHA RISING has shared the second audio excerpt, “E X O“, from their upcoming fifth album, Inversum, a two-track exercise in the black arts of psychedelia.  

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER unleash the crushing new full-length album, “Abysmal“, on the masses this week, by streaming it in its Entirety!  

Puscifer, who embark on a lengthy North American tour on Nov. 1, premiere the title track from their forthcoming album, Money Shot (Oct. 30, Puscifer Entertainment): http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tools-maynard-james-keenan-on-climate-change-ac-dc-puscifers-new-lp-20150914. “With Puscifer, we realize that the digital age is just endless possibilities, and nothing is written in stone,” Maynard James Keenan says of the band’s Fall tour in the accompanying interview. “So whatever stage show we start off with on this tour, it might change and go in a complete opposite way.” The live line-up for the Money Shot tour includes Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round, Jeff Friedl, Mahsa Zargaran... 

New York City natives Mother Feather have joined the Metal Blade Records roster! The self-described ‘pop cock rock’ band has been building a loyal following in the late night New York rock scene since their inception in 2009. This fall, fans will be able to see them live during “Pop Cock Rocktober,” the first four Fridays in October at midnight at Rockwood Music Hall, including October 16th as part of the CMJ Music Marathon. For the uninitiated, a Mother Feather recording can be heard now on teamcoco.com, and a music video can be seen now at ifc.com.  

As the album nears release via Laser’s Edge this October, the entire track listing and guest musician track-by-track breakdown for MELTED SPACE’s The Great Lie has been released. The debut album from the metal opera project created by French composer Pierre le Pape features a wide cast of internationally-revered vocalists and musicians including members of Morbid Angel, Mayhem, Sunn O))), Dark Tranquillity, Orphaned Land, Shining, Ayreon, Sirenia and many more, in addition to the work of The City of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra.  

Technical Brutal Death Metallers REPULSIVE DISSECTION will release their second full length album Church of the Five Precious Wounds on October 1 via Sevared Records. New song “Apostasy (Ideological Dysphagia)” is now streaming at this location.  

D.O.A. is back with a vengeance! It looked like Canada’s legendary punk pioneers were going to hang it up, as Joe Shithead Keithley, the godfather of “hardcore” sought political office, but that didn’t happen this time so the political world’s loss is the music world’s gain.     

Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the addition of German Thrashers ACCU§ER to its roster. ACCU§ER comments: “We are very proud and happy to announce that our new album is going to be released via Metal Blade and look forward to join forces. At Metal Blade, we feel comfortable and in good company. A large step for ACCU§ER and a big honor for us. At the moment, we are working eagerly on new songs and are totally convinced by the material. Look forward to a healthy dose of THRASH!” ACCU§ER’s roots go back to 1986 and since then the quartet has released nine albums, among others classical albums as “Who Dominates Who”, “Repent” or the latest one, “Diabolic”... 

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, prepares fans for the final home media installment of the celebrated gender-bending martial arts action comedy based on the popular manga series created by Rumiko Takahashi as it announces the release today of RANMA ½ Set 7.  

The Devil Wears Prada and Motionless in White are joining forces for a fall North American tour that kicks off October 17 at the Paramount in Huntington, NY.  Criss-crossing the continent over a five-week period, the tour will wrap up in Minneapolis on November 20.  The confirmed itinerary is below.  Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10:00AM ET; The tour follows what was a jam-packed summer for The Devil Wears Prada – Mike Hranica (vocals), Jeremy DePoyster (rhythm guitar, clean vocals), Andy Trick (bass), Daniel Williams (drums), and touring musicians Jonathan Gering (keyboards) and Kyle Sipress (lead guitar).  Over those dog days, the band played the Mayhem Festival’s Main Stage: “…the...