When: July 13th, 2015 Where: Friendz Bar/Zombie Burger Who: Cosby, Pills, and Hash (working title) Never The Victim MOTHERFUCKING GARTHOK Cancer Bats  

Malmo, Sweden-based psychedelic/prog outfit AGUSA will unleash their sophomore full-length, Agusa 2, later this month via Laser’s Edge.  

A year after the release of their well-received debut Ethereal EP, dark metal outfit Deathwhite has returned with the Solitary Martyr EP.  

Seattle death grind legion, THEORIES, wrapped up the epically successful Poisoning North America Summer tour featuring headlining labelmates Goatwhore with Black Breath and Ringworm last night in Atlanta, Georgia. The trek pillaged its way through over three dozen venues in twenty-three cities and provinces. THEORIES will grind their way back home on four more dates with Black Breath beginning tonight in Kansas and leveling Colorado, Utah, and Idaho. The band continues to tour in support of the sadistic wares of their Regression full-length, released earlier this Spring via Metal Blade Records.  

Watershed Between Earth And Firmament, the debut recording from Italian solo outfit, THE CLEARING PATH, is out now on Avantgarde Music, the album now playing in its eviscerating, stunning entirety.  

Released on July 1, Mongol Metal is a compilation that features three Mongolian Folk Metal bands. Released by Mongol Metal, a heavy metal music organization based in Inner Mongolia, China, the album features four tracks each from TENGGER CAVALRY, EGO FALL, and NINE TREASURES.  

ANTHRAX, six-time Grammy-nominated, Platinum-selling thrash masters, and a lifetime member of The Big Four, will provide a head banging send-off for the iconic Sunset Strip House of Blues on Wednesday, July 29.  The band will headline what will be the last metal show ever to play the HOB before it shuts down on August 7 to make way for a new hotel/housing/retail complex.  Tickets go on sale today at 12NOON PT through Ticketmaster, the Live Nation app, and at the HOB Box Office.  Log on to http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09004EE9D546EA1E for more details.  

Progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me have released their new album, Coma Ecliptic, today via Metal Blade Records!  

Today, DragonForce unveil a live cut from their first ever feature length video release! In the Line of Fire…Larger Than Live is available now, and to catch a glimpse of what’s in store, head to the band’s official youtube channel to watch the live performance of “Black Winter Night“!  

CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC has announced pre-orders for the vinyl LP release of DARK QUARTERER‘s new album Ithaca. Those pre-ordering the album by August 1 will be entered in a contest for a chance to win a test pressing signed by the whole band! Only two lucky winners will have a chance to get this incredible collector’s item!  

Once described as “powerful yet fragile, devastatingly beautiful and beautifully devastating” by The Founder Magazine, UK-based quartet MIDAS FALL have carved a distinctive and captivating sound, fusing elements of electronica, post-rock, shoegaze and alternative rock with progressive and gothic undertones to create taut, shimmering soundscapes led by the hauntingly melancholic vocals of Elizabeth Heaton.  

Philadelphia’s hard-hitting power trio ON TOP have release new EP ‘Topless‘ today on Toil Records. Purchase the digital EP at this location. The CD version is forthcoming.