MERIDIAN’s debut album, ‘The Awful Truth’, is released today and to celebrate, the band have released the video for the single “Everything That Kept Me Moving”.  

The masked mutants in GHOUL are preparing to terrorize the US next month on a live intrusion supporting blackened thrash headliners, Skeletonwitch, and black metal tyrants, Black Anvil! The caravan of chaos will begin September 5th in Chicago and sully nearly two dozen municipalities before coming to a mutinous close on September 24th, 2014 in San Francisco.  

Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of Philadelphia, PA heavy psych quartet ECSTATIC VISION (Doug Sabolick – Guitars / B3 / Vox, Michael Field Connor – bass, Jordan Crouse – Drums / Percussion, Muffinman – Percussion). Formed earlier this year, the group has quickly made a name for themselves in Philly, having already played numerous high profile shows.  

Oh wow! I dropped the ball on this date! Sorry guys, here you go!: This September, two years after leveling the expectations of critics and listeners alike with Atma, doom trio powerhouse, YOB, will unveil Clearing The Path To Ascend, an aptly titled album for what will undoubtedly be the crowning achievement for a band whose journey now nears two decades of creating music as commanding as it is cathartic.  

Faith No More, who reunited in 2009 for a series of sold out performances and international festivals, is currently recording their first full-length album since 1997’s Album of the Year.  

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!