Montreal’s noise/sludge rock ringleaders THE GREAT SABATINI have just pulled the fifth official video from their Dog Years LP out of their hat, letting “The Royal We” loose into the crowd, while also declaring another new tour in support of the album.  

SINGLE BULLET THEORY have announced their first return to Texas since 2005. The “To Hell Paso and Back Tour” launches in Levittown, PA on September 20 and moves through New York, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma before invading Texas on September 30 in Fort Worth.  

ViciSolum Productions has given worldwide release to Casting Ruin, the new album from technical blackened death metal trio SOLACE OF REQUIEM.  

With their debut album ‘Written In Blood’ in stores now and hitting #59 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, San Antonio’s DARKNESS DIVIDED are teaming up with IN DYING ARMS and FOREVERMORE for a tour across the US this September.   

London’s AMULET will release their full-length debut, The First, on September 22nd in Europe and October 21st in North America (digital only) via Century Media Records. For a preview of The First, the album’s first single, “Mark Of Evil” can be heard below:  

Review of Exmortus, featuring openers Archaos and Another Texas Murder Scene, on their current tour for their newest release, Slave to the Sword, in Amarillo, Texas  

Band To Support Samhain On Select Shows New Orleans’ favorite metal legion, GOATWHORE, will embark upon another bout of live headlining invasions next month. Set to launch in Houston on September 15th, the band will trounce fourteen cities including five shows supporting death rock/horror punk legends, Samhain!  

Last week saw the release of the new album from DRAGONFORCE “Maximum Overload” their Metal Blade Records debut “Maximum Overload“.   Today the album has debuted on multiple Billboard Charts.  The album was #62 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, #10 on the Billboard Independent Music Chart, #7 on the Billboard Hard Music Chart, and #19 on the Billboard Rock Albums Chart.  

Doom legends, Pentagram, are returning to the road this October and November for select shows in the midweast and on the east coast. The confirmed list of dates is below, with a few still to be confirmed. Tickets will be on via local box offices on Friday, August 29th. For more details and to keep track of future updates, visit facebook.com/pentagramusa.  

New Orleans’ favorite metal legion, GOATWHORE, will embark upon another bout of live headlining invasions next month. Set to launch in Houston on September 15th, the band will trounce fourteen cities including five shows supporting death rock/horror punk legends, Samhain!  

Orange and Sacramento, CA and NYC-based The City Drive Entertainment Group has announced it has completed the long-awaited customized project and has begun packing and shipping the landmark Alter Bridge X Box Set, the comprehensive limited-edition collection of music, film and publishing celebrating the tenth anniversary of the groundbreaking Orlando hard rock band, to fans. The more than 2000 fans that pre-ordered the box set can expect to begin receiving their packages by the end of the month. All the pre-order customers received hand-signed posters from the band earlier in the year.  

Master sound conspirator, Tristan Shone, will bring his cacophonous manifestation of cold, mechanical doom known as AUTHOR & PUNISHER to the streets in the coming months for a clobbering run of live takeovers.