From Metal Blade Records: “GWAR and Slave Pit Inc. would like to thank the fans and friends for the outpouring of love after the passing of our dear friend Dave Brockie. Our intention is to honor Dave, preserve his legacy and continue to share his brilliant works with the world. With that being said, GWAR and Slave Pit Inc. are proud to announce the creation of The Dave Brockie Foundation.  

Today, New Orleans’ favorite musical miscreants, EYEHATEGOD, announce their most extensive US tour in years. Scheduled to commence in Atlanta, Georgia on May 28th, the day after the official North American release of their long-awaited new full-length, the trek will punish twenty-six cities, coming to a close on June 22nd in Tampa, Florida. Support will come from metallic hardcore legends, Ringworm, and morose punk metal perpetrators, Enabler.  

Scream Park is a retro slasher horror flick in the Hatchet vein starring Hellraiser’s Doug Bradley and co-starring Nivek Ogre from the band Skinny Puppy.  

CORRECTIONS HOUSE — the bastard sound manipulations of Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), Sanford Parker (Minsk) and their minister of propaganda, Seward Fairbury — are currently in Tilburg readying to trounce the main stage of Roadburn. From there, they’ll traumatize Het Patronaat (also in Tilburg) before heading to the UK for their London debut with Consumer Electronics and Necro Deathmort.  

Unique Leader Records is pleased to welcome long-running New York-based death metal legion, INTERNAL BLEEDING, to their expanding roster of audio severity. For over twenty years, INTERNAL BLEEDING has been at the forefront of the underground death metal scene, boasting a relentless DIY work ethic, consistently intense live performances and a commitment to composing some of the heaviest music possible, their breakdown-laden approach directly responsible for the establishment of an entire subgenre of death metal, aptly titled “slam” (a term they began using as early as 1992).  

In remembrance of the twenty-year anniversary of the death of legendary Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, we invite you to share with your readers the teaser trailer for the docudrama SOAKED IN BLEACH; a film that offers the definitive examination of the artist’s death from a yet unseen perspective.  

Finnish Funeral Doom Metal band TYRANNY have signed with Dark Descent Records for the release of the band’s long-awaited follow up to 2005’s Tides of Awakening. The as-of-yet-untitled album is scheduled for release later this year.  

The Veer Union will release the Deluxe Edition of Divide “The Blackened Sky” which includes three new songs and re-mastered tracks. The album will be released on June 10, 2014 through Pavement Entertainment and distributed by MRI/Sony RED.  

UNEARTH have announced “The Oncoming Storm” tenth anniversary tour with Texas In July, Cruel Hand and Armed for Apocalypse. The band is celebrating ten years since the release of their highly successful LP The Oncoming Storm and will be performing the album in its entirety each night. “That record created a lot of opportunities for us,” says frontman Trevor Phipps, “we’ve decided to honor our fans by playing it in it’s entirety for the first time ever.”  

Today the cloaked criminals in GHOUL take their sleezy, gore-soaked show out on the road! Prepare to attend a city that is slated for a massacre by the burlap laden monstrocities headlining the Weapons of Mosh Destruction II Tour, premiering their newest offering along th eway to the darkest blood gods, Hang Ten!  

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.