This weekend, Sunday, November 2nd, long-running NYC-based heavy groove machine, SOS will once again play live at the NYC Marathon.  

Metal, Rasta, Punk infused heavyweights (Hed)p.e. are announcing new U.S. tour dates this November as well as in December with Nonpoint. The dates with Nonpoint begin on December 4th in Cleveland, OH. A list of confirmed dates can be seen below.  

Currently leveling stages throughout the Midwest and East Coast, Michigan punk/metal eccentrics, CHILD BITE, recently dropped a brand new video for “Ancestral Ooze” upon unsuspecting masses.  

Ending two months of hard work at the farm, Lou Casse, since their massive Summer tour — including geese feeding to make Foie Gras — French rock duo, THE INSPECTOR CLUZO, heads back out on tour this weekend on their Gasconha Rocks Fall World Tour 2014.  

Cleveland, Ohio’s occult death rock conjurors, ANCIENT VVISDOM, will release their third full-length, entitled Sacrificial, later this Fall via Magic Bullet Records.  

US-based prog rock/metal outfit CORSAIR have released an trailer video for upcoming Shadow Kingdom Records release One Eyed Horse.  

Dutch necromantic death metallers AntropomorphiA have just released their new video for “Nekrovaginal Secretions” from the album “Rites ov Perversion.”  

Oakland, California-based DIMESLAND has recently completed construction of their first full-length, and, will sear the name Psychogenic Atrophy into the consciousness of thrill-seeking music fans abroad.  

The Reigning Queen of Metal LITA FORD has announced the addition of guitar player Patrick Kennison to her band. Patrick has been on the road with the band the past few weeks and is truly brining a new energy to the band.  

Rock band SLIPKNOT return to the top of the SoundScan/Billboard 200 with the explosive chart debut of their acclaimed new album. .5: The Gray Chapter – the GRAMMY® Award-winning rock juggernaut’s fifth studio album and first since 2008’s RIAA platinum certified chart-topper, All Hope Is Gone – has entered the chart at #1 with sales in excess of 131,000 albums, making it the highest debut for a rock record this year. Furthermore, the album has made a stunning impact worldwide with #1 debuts in Japan, Australia, Canada, Russia and Switzerland as well as Top 5 debuts in the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, Mexico, Denmark and Finland.  

Second single “DROPPING LIKE FLIES” hits the airwaves and the world digitally November 4th on all major digital outlets – Coming off the end of s huge success with the first single “CRY ME A RIVER,” FUNGONEWRONG is hits the road with Psychostick on a Fall run across the U.S. The North American tour is set to open October 31st in Cherry Valley, IL at the Take 20 and will run through November 23rd.  

Spanish thrashers ANGELUS APATRIDA are ready for a new attack as they are currently finishing up the last details of their anticipated new album via Century Media Records. The same creative staff that worked on the band’s previous two studio recordings, Clockwork (2010) and The Call (2012), has teamed up with them again for this new effort, entitled Hidden Evolution. The album was once again recorded in Moita, Portugal at Ultrasound Studio with producer Daniel Cardoso (ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN, ANATHEMA, etc.) and will be released on January 19th in Europe and January 27th in North America (digital only).