Greensboro, North Carolina-based IRATA has completed their latest recording, the band’s second full-length, dubbing it Sweet Loris. The album is currently being pressed to vinyl and will see release through Kylesa-founded record label, Retro Futurist, in early October. Additionally, the band will support Kylesa alongside Inter Arma and Indian Handcrafts on an Eastern US tour in conjunction with the album’s release.  

After months of silence, Swedish death metal tyrants VAMPIRE strike with the release the 4-track mini LP entitled Cimmerian Shade. Out September 25th, Cimmerian Shade will be released digitally as well as on 10″ vinyl via Century Media Records.  

Finnish funeral doom duo, TYRANNY — featuring within its ranks current and former members of Corpsessed and Wormphlegm among others — will unleash their first new studio offering in a decade this Fall via Dark Descent Records. Titled Aeons In Tectonic Interment, the record offers up five diseased psalms of slow, tortured, epically bowel-rupturing grimness.  

Last night, at the Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) music festival in northern Germany, Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) and Savatage wowed 80,000-plus attendees with a never-before-attempted music festival performance. Following a 40-minute Savatage set and a 40-minute TSO set, TSO and Savatage band members, across two of the festival’s main stages, performed a perfectly coordinated set of fan-favorites.  

Revocation continue their series of lyric videos with fellow guitarist and director/animator Nick Hipa. The latest, “The Blackest Reaches“, is live now at metalblade.com/revocation. The previously released lyric videos, “Scorched Earth Policy,” “Madness Opus” and “Labyrinth of Eyes” can also be seen in the playlist embedded on that page.  

Norwegian Occult Heavy Metal band MAGISTER TEMPLI have released the exclusive stream of “Slaying Apophis“, as well as an in-depth interview. Get it all at this location!  

eOne Music duo DARK SERMON and BLACK CROWN INITIATE have announced support dates with CATTLE DECAPITATION in September. The dates will serve in support of Dark Sermon’s new LP due out in a few weeks.  

Los Angeles based hip-hop/metal veterans Hollywood Undead will return to the road in North America this fall touring in support of their latest album Day of the Dead.  The 33-date tour will also feature Crown The Empire & I Prevail on most dates.  

Phoenix, Arizona-based death metal quintet, VEHEMENCE, is preparing to return to full-time deployment this year, with new tour dates coming together around their anxiously awaited first new album in over a decade, Forward Without Motion, confirmed for release through Battleground Records in October.  

Burn Halo has announced the Wolves Of War Tour 2015 in the likeness of their forthcoming LP. “I’ve never been more excited to go on tour,” says guitarist Joey Roxx. “I cant wait for everyone to hear the new material and see what we’re going to bring live!” The band is enlisting support from Southern California compatriots HEARTIST and newcomers COURAGE MY LOVE.  

Following their recent North American expedition supporting Superjoint and King Parrot on the successful It Takes Guts tour 2015, Detroit’s favorite punk/metal/noise rock eccentrics, CHILD BITE, take to the streets again later this week for a short run of live abrasions supporting Down! Preparing for liftoff this Thursday August 6th in Louisville, Kentucky the band will antagonize ten locales including a performance at Dirt Fest in Birch Run, Michigan and Gwar B-Q in Richmond, Virginia with the caravan of chaos coming to a close on August 16th in Wilmington, North Carolina. Additional support will be provided by Mountain Of Wizard.  

As 20 Buck Spin prepares to release Darkness Evermore, the sophomore full-length from Portland-based NIGHTFELL, the label has issued the cover art, track listing and confirmed vinyl release date for the anxiously awaited album.