New York City stoner doom trio, BLACKOUT, will bring their quaking riff rituals to Canada later this month on a four-date mini tour through Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. This will mark the band’s first time ever on Canadian soil.  

Ritualistic doom practitioners,DARK BUDDHA RISING, are Neurot Recordings‘ latest signees. Hailing from Finland and with four albums already under their belt (most recently 2013’s Dakhmandal), DARK BUDDHA RISING conjures psychedelic sprawling space jams made up of expansive yet concentrated bellows of decaying distortion and broken-signal analog bleeps, cannoning across antimatter, and presented with staggering finesse.  

Bulgarian Death Metal vets Enthrallment have released a lyric video for the song “Tool of Suicide” off the band’s recently released The Voice of Human Perversity.  

Candlelight Records today confirms June 24th as the North American release date of IX, the new album from CORROSION OF CONFORMITY. Produced by the band and long-time comrade John Custer, the album and lead single “On Your Way” will be available for preorders via iTunes, Amazon, and other popular outlets beginning May 13th.  

Poland’s Selfmadegod Records is proud to announce the upcoming third full-length release from German crust punk brigade, MIND.  

Corey Pierce of GOD FORBID reveals that he is teaming up with THY WILL BE DONE vocalist J.Costa, former ANTHRAX vocalist Dan Nelson, ex-THY WILL BE DONE bassist Eric Tavares and long-time friend Rob McElroy to form LEAD PIPE CRUELTY.  

Boston technical death metal strategists, PILLORY, will release their sophomore full-length, Evolutionary Miscarriage, later this Spring via Unique Leader Records. The follow-up to the pile driving, No Lifeguard At The Gene Pool, released in 2005, Evolutionary Miscarriage finds PILLORY expanding upon their signature intricacies.  

Roadrunner/604 recording group Theory Of A Deadman has unveiled details of their hugely anticipated new album. “SaVages” – which follows 2011’s chart-topping “THE TRUTH IS…” – arrives everywhere on July 8th. “SaVages” is heralded by the fiery new single, “Drown,” a snippet of which can be heard now in a video teaser streaming at www.theoryofadeadman.com. Produced by longtime collaborator Howard Benson (Halestorm, My Chemical Romance), the single arrives at multi-format rock radio outlets across the country on April 22nd, the same day the track goes on sale on iTunes.  

Tucson, Arizona’s GODHUNTER has confirmed an upcoming split release with their cohorts in Oakland, California’s Secrets Of The Sky, to be released in conjunction with their upcoming Western US tour together.  

In an official message from Roadburn HQ: “The Devil’s Blood’s first-ever show at Roadburn 2008 was undeniably one of the great moments in the festival’s history. After the group disbanded in early 2013, guitarist Selim Lemouchi sought to channel his considerable creative energies into a new project: SELIM LEMOUCHI & HIS ENEMIES.“  

The Warriors of Metal, Inc. non-profit organization is honored to be able to welcome back the Houston, Texas Power/Speed Metal legends of HELSTAR as the Saturday headliner for our Seventh Annual Warriors Of Metal Fest.  

New York black metallers, BLACK ANVIL, today unveil the first taste of their forthcoming album, Hail Death. An epic and simultaneously predatory number, “Eventide” writhes under the gravity of its own inexorable heaviness highlighting the separation between brutality and melodicism that lies at the very heart of BLACK ANVIL‘s sound.