Minneapolis, Minnesota’s scathing grind trio, AMBASSADOR GUN, has just released two brand new tracks today, well ahead of the street date for the band’s third full-length album, Tomb Of Broken Sleep.  

Belgian label TANQUAM AEGRI SOMNIA is now officially a sub-label of KAOTOXIN, bringing more impressive, dark, intense and heavy artists to the kaosphere, including CULT OF ERINYES, MERDA MUNDI, YHDARL, and ZIFIR. KAOTOXIN will be the exclusive worldwide distributor for TANQUAM AEGRI SOMNIA, and will also be in charge of the new sub-label’s marketing and promotion.  

Long-running Argentinian death metal band Prion is back with their first new full-length album, Uncertain Process, since 2008.  

Just when you thought it was safe to be P.C. again… Tennessee death grinders Coathanger Abortion are back with an all new oozing discharge of Southern-styled brutality.  

Philadelphia’s frenzied trio known as DIE CHOKING, has completed the arduous recording sessions of the band’s debut LP, which will see release later this year.  

Oxnard, California-based STOP BREATHING will release their second LP, V, this Summer, this week confirming the album’s official street date cover art and more, as new live actions begin to come together for the months ahead.  

2K and Turtle Rock Studios released a new video feature for Evolve, the 4v1 shooter featuring four Hunters cooperatively fighting to take down a single-player controlled monster. In Behemoth Plays Behemoth, bassist and backing vocalist Orion from Metal Blade Records recording artist Behemoth, is joined by George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, lead vocalist for Metal Blade’s Cannibal Corpse, as they visit 2K Headquarters for an exclusive look at Evolve’s newest and largest playable monster character.  

U.S. Black Metallers NIHILISTINEN BARBAARISUUS have released The Child Must Die on Infernal Kommando Records.  

It’s been a long time coming, but unabashed coffee connoisseur, Anthrax’s Charlie Benante, has entered the world of entrepreneurship, announcing “Benante’s Blend.” The coffee will come in two different varieties: the ‘Be All End All’ blend which is a dark roast with a real kick, and the ‘Forever Metal’ blend, a milder coffee. “Benante’s Blend” will be available beginning today through Benante’s website, http://www.charliebenante.com/Store/ “I grew up in a large Italian family and coffee was a daily staple in our home,” said Benante. “As a kid, I loved coffee so much, my mother said that at one point, she put some coffee... 

Slayer – bassist/vocalist Tom Araya, guitarist Kerry King, and returning drummer Paul Bostaph, along with touring guitarist Gary Holt and producer Terry Date – has completed recording what is one of the most highly-anticipated albums of 2015, Slayer’s 11th studio album and the band’s first new effort since 2011’s Grammy-nominated World Painted Blood.  The currently untitled album is expected out later this year, and will be released on Slayer’s own as yet unnamed label (through Nuclear Blast).  

Following a successful, near-month-long live US takeover last month, Denver doom titans, IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS, will open for the originators of The Riff, Sleep, this Sunday as a precursor to 4/20, the unofficial national day of cannabis celebration. The following weekend, the duo will crush the weak at the Bluebird Theater where they’ll premiere new hymn, “Rendered Unto Ash“, live for the very first time. Additionally, the band will also have special limited screen-prints of the “Rendered Unto Ash” artwork by FTG Illustrations.  

Japanese extreme metal/noise icons, SIGH, will unveil their crushing tenth studio opus next month. Titled Graveward, the eclectic, ten-track offering took over two-and-a-half years to complete with each song comprising over one-hundred recording tracks exceeding 100GB of audio to select from in the final mixes. Inspired by musician/composer Fabio Frizzi, Graveward pays homage to Italian zombie and Hammer Horror classics.