Living Colour, the multi-platinum rock band whose music Rolling Stone described as “an intoxicating brew of hard, grinding rock with splashes of funk, jazz, reggae and pop,” join Aerosmith for the band’s Blue Army tour.  The dates kick off on Saturday, June 13 at the Gila River Arena in Phoenix.  

Swedish melodic Doom/Death metallers, OCTOBER TIDE, have inked a record deal with Agonia Records. The band’s as-yet-untitled new album, successor to “Tunnel Of No Light” (2013), is currently at the pre-production stage and is expected to be released in early 2016.  

This Wednesday, the sludge slingers in SONS OF TONATIUH will quake the stages of eleven venues on their latest jaunt of live debauchery. Scheduled to embark this Wednesday on their home turf of Atlanta at 529, the band will make their way North and back again, playing several locales they’ve yet to punish, with the tour coming to a close on June 27th in Raleigh. Bring ear plugs.  

As AEROSMITH gears up for their 2015 summer tour, a date has been announced for the release of Aerosmith Rocks Donington 2014.   

After much anticipation, Ohio metal band Miss May I has announced they will make their return later this summer with the release of their next studio album, Deathless, via Rise Records on August 7th. Fans can pre-order the album beginning Wednesday, June 17th at www.MissMayIMusic.com. All pre-orders will come with an instant download of the band’s new track “I.H.E.”  

The Black Queen, the Los Angeles-based trio featuring Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv, Nine Inch Nails), and Steven Alexander, preview music from their upcoming debut album, Fever Daydream with “The End Where We Start” video!  

Finnish Crossover Punks GRAVEYARD SHIFTERS have released High Heels & Broken Bones on Eternal Sound.  

Old School Swedish Death Metal legends WOMBBATH will release Downfall Rising, its first album in 22 years. The album will be released jointly in North America on Dark Descent and Pulverised August 21. Pulverised will release the album in all other territories on August 7. Downfall Rising follows 1993 classic Internal Caustic Torments.  

Texas based heavy metal outfit Immortal Guardian brought their infamous mobile Shred Sled out to last weekend’s X Games to provide some extreme musical entertainment for the extreme sports fans out at Circuit of the Americas.  

Death Metal. From Cannibal Corpse to Six Feet Under, Death to Dethklok, Kataklysm to Obituary, the genre is full of staples and go to’s. Another name to throw in the hat should be Bone Gnawer, hailing out of Florida and Sweden, and dragging the fresh and still dripping Cannibal Crematorium towards our darting eyes…..  

Deadened, the new album from Germany’s DYING HUMANITY is out today on Bastardized Recordings.  

On the advent of their newest missive from beyond the blackened curtain, Pathway, Secrets of the Sky embark upon a small set of dates in the US, culminating in the last show at the Death To False Metal fest!