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.  

Taking a page from heroes METALLICA and GUNS N’ ROSES, Los Angeles breakthrough metal act, BUTCHER BABIES, have recorded an EP of cover tunes that will surely please fans of the band, as well as fans of the artists that performed them originally.  

Before you get down to moshing in the privacy of your own home, do some serious partying in either Los Angeles or New York when Anthrax’s “Chile On Hell” live DVD is premieres on Monday, September 15, the day before its general release.  

“Unending, Everliving,” the gruesome new music video by SKELETONWITCH hits the interewebs today for all to see!!! The track — taken from 2013’s acclaimed “Serpents Unleashed” — was put to film by Cleveland, Ohio’s Turnstyle Films, with whom the band also collaborated on the promo clips for “I Am Of Death (Hell Has Arrived)” and “Serpents Unleashed.” SKELETONWITCH guitarist Nate “N8 Feet Under” Garnette says, “This video was a hell of a lot of fun to shoot and is saturated with fake blood — or is it? — as well as torture. My favorite part was getting to hose off a bloody-ass Chance (Garnette, vocals) with freezing cold... 

In addition to releasing their thirteenth full-length album, “A Skeletal Domain,” the death metal icons Cannibal Corpse will also be releasing their official autobiography, “Bible of Butchery: The Official Biography,” on September 16th.  

On September 30, Portland death metal act SEMPITERNAL DUSK will release their highly-anticipated full-length on Dark Descent Records.  

Having independently released their Self Titled debut LP (yeah, it’s named that) earlier this year, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based trio SECRET CUTTER is now set on devouring fans and unsuspecting victims in the live setting throughout the region and beyond in support of the LP.  

New wave of British heavy metal and thrash legends RAVEN have confirmed that they will be touring North America this fall as part of the “North American Extermination Tour 2014”. It was recently announced that RAVEN has signed a worldwide deal with SPV/Steamhammer and their new studio album and follow up to Walk Through Fire is set for a release in February 2015.