Chicago Instrumental Dark Music Band THE KAHLESS CLONE is offering a track from new EP An Endless Loop for free download.  

Once again the Metal Gods have smiled upon this woeful world, and dropped another monolithic slab of raucous heavy blues! The newest addition to the Acid King Pantheon, Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere,is here, and demands ears to listen to it’s outpourings!  

Today, Oakland metal unit, SAVIOURS, will kick off a short run of live dates. Beginning in Vancouver at The Astoria, the band will pillage through nine cities, the trek coming to a close in Fresno at Strummer’s.    

After all the hubbub of a long day, I love to throw on instrumental albums. No one is going to ask me how the hell I can listen to that noise, or how I can understand that guy yelling at me, or why is he saying FUCK so much?! Instrumental albums and bands allow for an open conversation about metal, and can really help people understand it’s all about a lot more than just defenestrating people or Satan being awesome. Today’s selection is the new S/T album from NY in 64 (or NY64, if you see that), so read further if you’re interested.  

In celebration of the release of the first-ever VAN HALEN live album with David Lee Roth, TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT, and to announce the band’s 2015 Summer/Fall North American Tour, VAN HALEN performed a special concert for Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, March 30, on Hollywood Boulevard, performing some of the band’s essential rock and roll classics. Portions of the concert aired last night on the late night talk show, with additional concert footage airing tonight. Jimmy Kimmel Live airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. / 10:35 p.m. Central time on ABC.  

Like Death Metal? Like Death Metal you can understand, but still be brutal AF? Look no further than th enew album from Psychomancer, Inject the Worms! This slab of throwback death metal makes the blood-caked hairs on my arms shiver, so check the review after the break!  

Hot Lunch, the San Francisco-based band whose music was described by Thrasher as “a blast of ‘60s acid rock seemingly unearthed after decades of rock ’n’ roll mediocrity,” release the Slappy Sunday EP today via Scion Audio Visual  

From the intertwined throng of musicians who hail from New York acts Grey Skies Fallen, Buckshot Facelift, and others, a brand new musical entity is born with BRAVE THE WATERS, as the duo completes their debut EP for independent release this Spring.  

ABORTED will return to North America for a co-headlining tour with FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY.  Support will be from Archspire, Entheos & Dark Sermon.  The tour will kick off in Albany, NY on May 8th.  Tickets will go on sale this Monday, March 30th! Here are the dates:  

New York hardcore pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT are set to release their new album The American Dream Diedone week from today in North America on Nuclear Blast.  Beginning today and running through this Sunday, The American Dream Died is streaming in its entirety.  Listen to the full album HERE, courtesy of Metal Hammer UK.  

Danish speed metallers ENCYRCLE will release their self-titled debut album June 2 on Unspeakable Axe Records.  

UK straightedge hardcore quintet, VIOLENT REACTION, proudly releases their sophomore LP, Marching On, through Revelation Records tomorrow, as their third US tour begins, alongside countrymates Arms Race. With several new updates to the tour routing just in, VIOLENT REACTION has also been officially added to the Damaged City Fest on April 11th in Washington, DC, closing down the eleven-city tour alongside The Mob, United Mutilation, Night Fever, No Tolerance, Career Suicide, Government Warning, Excruciating Terror, The Flex, Coke Bust, and dozens more.