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).  

Volbeat has announced a Spring, 2015 tour with Anthrax serving as direct support and Crobot opening the show. A pre-sale goes live on October 29 at 10AM local time in all markets, and can be accessed via the band’s web site www.volbeat.dk. On Halloween, general on-sale begins at 10AM in all markets excluding Grand Forks (9AM) and both Oshawa and Ottawa which will go-live at Noon.  

Bay Area sci-fi death battalion, RINGS OF SATURN, has invaded and decimated the nation’s rock charts, with the first week’s numbers for Lugal Ki En having landed this week.  

U.S. Doomsters APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE are proud to present the official video for “This Mania,” a track off the band’s forthcoming release Of Woe and Wounds. The album will be released November 4.  

ltOn January 13, 2015 Australian Heavy Metal Warriors CONVENT GUILT will release Guns for Hire on CD and digital formats through Shadow Kingdom Records. Pure, righteous, and incredibly catchy, this is Heavy Metal!  

Kingdom of Worms from German Death Metalists DESERTED FEAR is out today on FDA Rekotz on CD and digital formats.  

Austin-based metallers DEAD EARTH POLITICS have released the official music video for “Redneck Dragonslayer,” the lead single off their newest EP, The Queen of Steel.  

Today, California’s favorite death-laden horror hellions, EXHUMED, will take their sonic debauchery to the streets for a Fall run of US live invasions with extreme metal technicians Carcass and manic death thrashers Noisem. Set to commence in San Diego tonight at Brick By Brick, the Inked In Steel Tour 2014 will conquer nearly two dozen municipalities with additional audio infiltrations from death metal legends Obituary and Macabre on select dates. From there EXHUMED will return to Europe for further live devastation alongside Aborted, Origin and Miasmal. See confirmed shows after the break.