Hannover, Germany’s Cripper have debuted their brand new song, “Tourniquet,” along with the cover art for their upcoming album “Hyëna,” at metalblade.com/cripper. The album will be released on CD and digitally in North America on November 25th. In Europe, “Hyëna” will be available as a limited CD+DVD Digipak as well as on vinyl in different colours. The bonus DVD features the entire Cripper show from Metaldays Open Air 2014, plus a lot more. More details on the bonus DVD will be revealed shortly!  

Michigan-based melodic death metal behemoths, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, are ready to quake stages on a Blackcraft-sponsored heavy metal campaign across North America with co-headliners SUICIDE SILENCE. Set to embark tomorrow in Chicago, the tour will rampage its way through twenty-four cities and includes a Knot Fest pre-party performance. Additional support will come from Alterbeast and Chelsea Grin.  

U.S. Doomsters APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE have released a new song from upcoming album Of Woe and Wounds. You can stream “Whore’s Wings” now  

French extreme music label Kaotoxin Records has announced the first ever Kaotoxin Fest, an annual showcase of the label’s diversified roster.  

Legendary sludge ragebeasts EYEHATEGOD, having released their newest self titled, Eyehategod, have been on weeks of touring in support of this massive slab of pure dirty metal. Hailing from New Orleans, the crown of the swampy south, EYEHATEGOD have been terrorizing venues and fans for a couple of heavy, hard decades. The album, dubbed ‘the record that EHG fans have been waiting for; a stomping and venomous set of eleven tracks that reignite the band’s amazing propensity for down-trodden, electric blues and with their late drummer LaCaze behind the kit,” by Vice Magazine, has already grabbed everyone by the throat, and held them down whilst it pummeled them into submission! EYEHATEGOD is now kicking off... 

After a busy year with intense studio sessions as well as incessant international touring activities, UK Grindcore legends NAPALM DEATH have checked in with an update in regards to their much anticipated next album release. Vocalist Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway had the following to say:  

Sean Danielsen, guitarist/vocalist of veteran hard rock band, Smile Empty Soul, has announced a new solo EP ‘Food Chain’ to be released on November 4. Unlike Danielsen’s previous solo EP ‘Enjoy the Process,’ which released in 2013 and featured six acoustic tracks, ‘Food Chain’ will consist of five full-band songs recorded at Babyland Studios in Van Nuys, Calif.  

ANTARCTICA – 1st October 2014 – The Scumdogs of the Universe are sharpening their axes and stoking the fires of their great war engines in preparation for the fall 2014 GWAR Eternal Tour. Global leaders had hoped the bouts of terror accompanying GWAR‘s annual rampages would finally come to an end with the passing of the group’s monstrous captain, Oderus Urungus. But tonight politicians, religious leaders, and citizens around the world are asking, “Why?! Why won’t GWAR just leave the Earth in peace?” The band’s toothsome guitarist, BalSac the Jaws of Death had this to say: “Something is wrong, unspeakably wrong. It feels as if the very fabric of reality has been... 

Dublin’s finest metal exports, PRIMORDIAL, will release their long-anticipated new studio album, Where Greater Men Have Fallen, later this Fall via Metal Blade Records.  

No, No this isn’t the Tessereact that everyone is hunting for in THE AVENGERS, this is the awesome band from the U.K. Kscope is thrilled to announce that the U.K.’s master of modern progressive heaviness, TesseracT, will be joining the family.  

The self-titled debut from Portland, Oregon’s SEMPITERNAL DUSK is out today on Dark Descent Records. Experience this crushing symphony of doom-laden death metal  

UK-based masters of everything heavy, depressive and oppressive, EYE OF SOLITUDE have announced a string of dates with gothic-tinged death/doom metallers SATURNUS and MARCHE FUNEBRE. The min-tour, dubbed the ‘March of Solitude 2015,’ is set for March of next year and will mark EYE OF SOLITUDE‘s first time in Germany.