Extreme II: Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale) first came out on A&M Records in August 1990, the follow-up to the band’s 1989 debut. The album is considered, according to the newly penned liner notes by Metal Hammer’s Malcolm Dome contained in the accompanying booklet, as the “definitive album” of the band’s career.  

San Diego, CA’s Cattle Decapitation have spent the last two years promoting what has become the most well received and critically acclaimed record of their career. “Monolith of Inhumanity” earned rave reviews and debuted at #177 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, which is no small feat for such a heavy act. To follow up the album, Cattle Decapitation will be returning to Dave Otero’s Flatline Audio studio in Colorado.  

Of course you don’t need to attach more importance to this piece of news than it necessarily has, but it certainly deserves to be mentioned: for the first time in more than 20 years, one of the most British rock bands in music history has recorded a studio album in their native country. Their latest offering is entitled A Conspiracy Of Stars, was cut by rock legend UFO and breathes that typically British easy-going confidence for which this band has been known for over 45 years.  

On January 13, Dark Descent Records will release The Deathmass Cloak, the debut full-length from San Diego-based death metal band GHOULGOTHA.  

San Diego, CA’s Cattle Decapitation have spent the last two years promoting what has become the most well received and critically acclaimed record of their career. “Monolith of Inhumanity” earned rave reviews and debuted at #177 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, which is no small feat for such a heavy act. To follow up the album, Cattle Decapitation will be returning to Dave Otero’s Flatline Audio studio in Colorado. Otero was at the helm for both of the band’s previous albums, and the collaboration promises to compound on the exercises in melodic extremity that have vaulted Cattle Decapitation to the top of the extreme metal heap. The band is giving fans one final chance to see them live,... 

Shadow Kingdom Records has released More Victims: Demo 2014 on limited edition cassette (100 copies) from Finland’s VIOLENT HAMMER.  

U.S. warmongers & death merchants INVASION are back and are gearing up to hit the studio to record their fourth CD titled Destroyer of Mankind.  

Los Angeles sludgecore malefactors, COLOMBIAN NECKTIE, are readying to close out the year with a brutal trio of live infiltrations next weekend. Set to commence on Friday, the band will raze Tucson, Twenty Nine Palms and Los Angeles performing material off their smoldering Twilight Upon Us full-length self-released earlier this year.  

Texas scorchers DEAD EARTH POLITICS, who have twice been voted “Best Metal Band” by the Austin Chronicle, have announced the March 2015 release of Men Become Gods, the second in a three EP series that began with last year’s acclaimed The Queen of Steel.  

The Italian thrash-death-killing-machine METHEDRAS are making their way through Europe on the EVIL INVADERS TOUR with SHADY GLIMPSE. See after the jump for tour dates!  

The Belgian Speed/Thrash Metallers EVIL INVADERS prefer it “Fast, Loud ‘n’ Rude”, especially when it comes to their new record Pulses Of Pleasure! This exceptional debut will entice fans of both the Speed and Thrash Metal Genres.  The album is out March 2nd in the UK & March 10th US/CAN (Napalm Records) and is already considered a masterpiece!  

Bristolian alt-rockers TURBOWOLF will release their second album, Two Hands, on April 7 via Universal Music as the first band announced under the