MOONSPELL’s Extinct, which was released last week via Napalm Records, has debuted on the Billboard Charts!  

Fayetteville, AR’s SHAWN JAMES & THE SHAPESHIFTERS are proud to announce the release of new album The Gospel According to Shawn James & The Shapeshifters.  

Following a six-year slumber, Illinois enigmatic sound conjurors, MINSK, are readying to unveil the otherworldly fruit of their long-anticipated new studio creation, The Crash & The Draw.  

Faith No More, who release their highly anticipated album Sol Invictus on May 19, return to North America for a late summer tour, kicking off on July 26 in Austin.  

Oakland-based eclectic doom unit and recent Metal Blade signees, SECRETS OF THE SKY, will support UK extreme metal duo/labelmates, Anaal Nathrakh, on their North American live takeover next month. Beginning May 11th in Sacramento, California and concluding on May 22 in Trenton, New Jersey, the trek will crush twelve cities with additional support from special guests, Incite. From there, SECRETS OF THE SKY will conquer seventeen more locales through eleven states alongside Tucson sludge ensemble, North, on select dates, with additional onstage endeavors in the plotting stages.  

The BUTCHER BABIES have just completed work on their much-anticipated sophomore full-length album with renowned producer Logan Mader (Five Finger Death Punch, Gojira). The new offering is set for a fall release through Century Media Records  

Dutch death metal practitioners, APOPHYS (ah/po/fihs) – who feature within their bestial ranks members of God Dethroned, Prostitute Disfigurement, Detonation, and Toxocara among others — are readying to release their debut full-length, Prime Incursion, this Spring via Metal Blade Records.  

Brazilian death metal trio KRISIUN will be returning to North America this fall with technical death metal giants ORIGIN for an extensive co-headlining trek. The tour will also see AEON, ALTERBEAST, SOREPTION, and INGESTED as support, making this a must-see show for all death metal maniacs! See below for upcoming dates:  

Motor City thrashers Battlecross have announced that they will join Crowbar and Lord Dying on The Summer of Doom Tour, with the devastation beginning May 28th and ending July 3rd in Crowbar’s home state of Louisiana.  

The flames of hell have did down in the corner of my office, leaving only a perfect, smoking impression in the floor. And in the middle? The new Six Feet Under album, Crypt of the Devil…. What were you thinking? Dare I open it? Read further to quench your thirst for easily answered questions!  

Akron, Ohio’s MAID MYRIAD will take their wildly infectious progressive/melodic post-hardcore tunes to American audiences everywhere on an extensive US tour this Thursday, April 9th, with a kickoff solo show in Cleveland. Directly following the solo one-off, the trio will sync up with progressive/instrumental metal trio, The Fine Constant, in Erie, Pennsylvania, beginning The Woven In Haste Tour 2015. The massive forty-one city, co-headlining run will encircle the entire country in a clockwise course for six weeks, with the final show taking place May 23rd, in MAID MYRIAD’s hometown.  

Sweden has been a fertile ground for metal of all varieties for multiple decades, and there appears to be no sign that this will change anytime soon. The variety and quality of bands is staggering, and Metal Blade Records is prepared to help add The Great Discord to the list of one of Sweden’s finest new groups.