ABYSMAL DAWN released their new album Obsolescence earlier this month via Relapse Records.  Met with critical acclaim and some of the band’s best reviews yet, Obsolescence is a veritable beast of a record and the perfect example of what 21st century death metal should sound like.    

Living Colour, the multi-platinum rock band whose music Rolling Stone described as “an intoxicating brew of hard, grinding rock with splashes of funk, jazz, reggae and pop,” have returned to the studio to finish work on Shade, their forthcoming album.  

Two of the most prominent bands in the history of death metal are teaming up to take North America in 2015! CANNIBAL CORPSE and BEHEMOTH will join forces beginning on January 28th in New Orleans, Louisiana at the House Of Blues for a month-long winter live takeover.  

Joey Simpson – Vocals Tommy Sciro – Guitar Walter Dicristina – Guitar Mike Grippo – Bass Marco Caruso – Drums Watch the welcome video and sample the larger than life sound of KISSING CANDICE   KISSING CANDICE has signed to Victory Records.  Debut album coming in 2015.  Gore Core is coming!   In early 2012, ex-Dr. Acula keyboardist and sample mastermind, Joey Simpson, was looking to start a project that would combine metal, hardcore, industrial and electronic music, but would also placate his horror-culture addiction, and recall the cinematic energy and grimness of bands like Slipknot and Marilyn Manson.   Taking on the role of frontman, Simpson recruited guitarists Tommy... 

With the imminent release of their Strange Waste EP now less than two weeks away, today the gate keepers at Invisible Oranges hurl forth the tumultuous sounds of “Molestation Of The Arts” from Detroit punk/metal marauders, CHILD BITE.    

North Carolina crossover icons, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, will kick off a near month-long run of live tirades with Gwar tomorrow to finalize the year. Set to embark at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, British Columbia, the band will crumble the stages of twenty-six venues, coming to a close on December 13th at Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore, Maryland.  

After combing through the desert of releases out now, especially just released on Bandcamp, the slav- Staff! here at Metal Machine were asked, not forced!, to find even more $5 and under deals on that treasure trove of musical talent! Same rules will apply, it has to be $5/less or NYOP/FREE, or less than 4 in foreign currency. Simple, easy to remember, and CHEAP. Welcome to my Part 2…  

Delivering mercurial, heavily textured post-hardcore of the highest order, New Zealand-based quintet, SPOOK THE HORSES, has completed their sophomore album, Rainmaker, for a mid-Winter 2015 release. If you’ve ever sat and watched darkening clouds eclipse the sun, then you’ll be familiar with the kind of portentous intensity post-hardcore and atmospheric metal titans SPOOK THE HORSES evoke on their new album Rainmaker. Soundtracking the apocalypse since 2009, the Wellington-based act remains resoundingly heavy, but just as those clouds are eventually borne away by powerful prevailing winds, the band’s epic suites are imbued with strings, brass, synthesizers and nuanced guitar — the lineup including... 

Having released one of the most dynamic and impressive progressive crossover albums of the year with their debut album, With Haste On Its Breath, Ohio’s MAID MYRIAD continues to take these soaring, ambitious and infectious tunes to the people, booking new waves of regional touring in support of the record.  

Death metal legends OBITUARY released their Relapse debut Inked In Blood, their 9th full length LP today. Almost three decades in, Inked In Blood stands out as one of the finest moments in OBITUARY’s already godlike discography. Inked in Blood is available for now from Relapse Records. The album is available as CD/Deluxe CD/2xLP/Digital/Deluxe Digital.  

Ireland’s PRIMORDIAL are making a serious impact on German press with their latest offering, Where Greater Men Have Fallen. The album has won the soundchecks in all four major metal magazines: Metal Hammer, Rock Hard, Deaf Forever and Legacy!  

NAPALM DEATH and VOIVOD will join forces at the end of January for a North American Tour aptly titled THROUGH SPACE AND GRIND.