USBM (United States Black Metal) entity HUMUT TABAL has released their latest genre-bending masterpiece, The Dark Emperor of the Shadow Realm, now streaming! Link after the jump!  

KING DIAMOND has confirmed what has been rumored for several weeks: a full North American tour this Fall! The long-awaited trek will commence on October 11th in Atlanta and wrap up with the previously announced performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin.  

Following the unveiling of their Relapse debut with the murderous A Presentation Of Gruesome Poetics EP in April, Washington state grinders THE DRIP continues to expand their damage path by booking new tour dates through the Summer months.  

Late this Summer, Southern Lord will exhume all material from late 1980s Seattle hardcore band, BROTHERHOOD, collecting the influential act’s demos and 7″ releases in one remastered, cohesive anthology entitled Till Death.  

American thrash metal battalion BATTLECROSS has confirmed a short run of Summer headlining dates with Canada’s Wacken Battle winners, Crimson Shadows, and New York’s IKILLYA. Set to commence on July 23rd in Columbus, Ohio, the short but ravaging trek will topple fourteen cities followed by an appearance at Michigan’s Dirt Fest as well as additional tour dates supporting Killswitch Engage.  

New York death metal icons INTERNAL BLEEDING recently completed tracking their forthcoming new full-length, Imperium.  

Ethereal doom trio IDES OF GEMINI are preparing to unveil their sophomore offering, Old World New Wave, via Neurot Recordings this Fall.  

Here’s a bit of a different speed of The NAM, so you guys don’t think I am just fukll of hate or disappointment, or anything like that. I’m not your dad, so there’s no need for this to be an awkward place for anybody. That’s between you guys. So, I thought I’d start doing genre spotlights for my favorite sub-genres of metal! Doesn’t that sound like fun??? WELL ITS GONNA BE! Now stop crying and listen up, its all about the Sludge today!  

Ok, starting off the bat, this is not my normal type of jam. No distortion, no fuzz, no gritty blues and not a single open D/C#? Hardly even music! barely even civilized. The album I speak of is the new one from Anathema, the new Distant Satellites.  

Shadow Kingdom Records have uncovered another gem from the U.S. 80’s metal era. This time it’s a remastered reissue of The Awakening from U.S. Speed/Thrash Metal group POWERLORD, which will be released on August 19.  

A cult deeply founded in the darker realms of blues rock, the darkness of humanity, and the occult, DREADLORDS will unveil their ominous debut LP later this year on Not Just Religious Music.  

In celebration of its official worldwide unveiling today, Woodfall, the latest EP from Canadian neofolk trio MUSK OX, is currently streaming in its entirety.