While they take some time off from the stage this year, Germany`s leading gothic metal band CREMATORYhavedecided to release their entire Wacken show as a DVD titled “Live W:O:A 2014”. The DVD includes private backstage footage, detailed interviews, footage from their rehearsal room and three video clips from “Antiserum”!  

Bay Area natives and thrash metal band Hatchet have been working on the highly anticipated follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed Dawn Of The End (The End Records/ADA) since returning from last summer’s tour with Flotsam & Jetsam.  

Aggressive, meticulous, passionate, righteous – all distinguishing traits that have come to symbolize the fundamentals of metal/hardcore pioneers PRO-PAIN. Since their crushing 1992 NAIRD nominated debut album Foul Taste Of Freedom, PRO-PAIN have become a staple in the diets of heavy music listeners around the globe. Their successful and enviable career has perpetually prospered throughout its course, and yet they still manage to find room to improve, and more importantly, impress. Each and every PRO-PAIN album is a paragon of intensity, inspiration, honesty and unwillingness to compromise. Their latest (and 15th) studio effort entitled Voice Of Rebellion is a testament to those very same qualities.  

Today, NEUROSIS confirms the band’s invitation to perform at this year’s upcoming installment of the massive Heavy Montréal Festival, in Montréal, Quebec. NEUROSIS is one of the latest acts to be confirmed for Heavy Montréal, having just been announced alongside the likes of The Devin Townsend Project, Sanctuary, Obscura, Cattle Decapitation, Revocation, and more, joining the roster of artists already confirmed to play at this year’s event, including Slipnot, Faith No More, Korn, Lamb Of God, Iggy Pop, NOFX, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Testament, Nuclear Assault, and countless others. The open air Heavy Montréal gala will overthrow Quebec’s largest metropolis on August 7th – 9th, and NEUROSIS... 

Miami-based Progressive Metal Duo CAVE OF SWIMMERS have released new EP, Reflection.  

Gizzards & Hearts, the driving and diverse debut album from Las Vegas-based ONE TON PROJECT, is out this week through Battleground Records, as the entire album is made available for streaming.  

  Chris Barnes is a Heavy Metal vocalist who spent 26 years innovating the Rock movement. From 1988 to 1993, Barnes spent time with his band Cannibal Corpse from Buffalo New York, by which he branched off in 1993 with his current band Six Feet Under stemming from Tampa Florida.  

Currently out and shredding hearts and airwaves, the new release from Royal Thunder, Crooked Doors, is a slab of sad, heavy rock that that tells you exactly what the heart feels in its dark times. WIth copy in computer, Metal Machine brings you the review of Crooked Doors!  

West Coast crust collective, TEMPLE OF DAGON, will unleash their Revelations Of The Spirit EP this June via Black Voodoo Records.  

New Jersey tech-death monsters COGNITIVE will kick-off a string of dates leading up to next month’s ‘Brutal Grooves and Grinding Moves’ U.S. tour.  

Ohio-based hardcore/metal outfit ENABLER will be releasing a limited edition 7″/digital single titled, By Demons Denied. Available on June 2nd, the single will contain an extended version of “By Demons Denied” that will be appear on their upcoming Century Media debut full-length, Fail to Feel Safe, along with two exclusive b-sides, “The Flame” and “Some Things Are Worth Living For”. Artwork for the single was done by Christopher Smith and can be seen above.  

Today’s newest puzzle piece in the ever expanding tapestry of metal is Gizzards & Hearts by out-there noise collective, One Ton Project.