Brooklyn, NY’s Tombs have announced that they will be entering the studio today to begin recording their follow-up to 2011’s critically acclaimed Path of Totality. The band will be working with famed producer Erik Rutan (Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal) over the next two weeks at his Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida. Stay tuned for updates from the studio!  

Andrew W.K. will be celebrating the holidays this year by embarking on The Party Hard Holiday Solo Tour. In what has become a tradition over recent years, the king of partying will celebrate the merriest of time of the season with a series of intimate solo shows. What first began as just an east coast run has now been expanded to include west coast dates as well. Up-close, intense, and partier than ever, these cozy bars and clubs will be packed to the rafters with good cheer! Following the solo shows, W.K. will ring in the New Year with a full-band concert on December 31st, performing the entirety of his classic album, I Get Wet, at New York’s Irving Plaza. Complete dates for W.K.’s Party Hard Holiday Tour can be... 

Metal titans ICED EARTH make their triumphant return with the January 21, 2014 release of new studio album ‘PLAGUES OF BABYLON’ on Century Media Records. The band will bring the new album to their North America homeland when their headlining WORLDWIDE PLAGUES TOUR hits our shores April 4 for a six-week run with SABATON and REVAMP in support. See complete tour dates below.  

Over a year since the dominating release of their tenth studio LP, Honor Found In Decay, the unstoppable NEUROSIS has locked down two new performances in their ongoing, sporadic live ceremonies in support of the album.  

After releasing re-issues for The Secrets of the Black Arts, Vobiscum Satanas, and In the Sign… yesterday in North America, Swedish black metal masters DARK FUNERAL have now announced the street date for their second batch of re-issues: Diabolis Interium, Attera Totus Sanctus, Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus. Due out November 25th in Europe and North America, these new editions have been expanded with previously unseen photos from Lord Ahriman’s personal archive, extensive liner notes by Olivier “Zoltar” Badin (Terrorizer / Iron Fist), bonus material and revamped layouts. See below for each album’s track-listing and details.  

Modern rock favorites THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH will independently release its first remix CD, Metamorphosiz II The End Remixes Vol. 1 & 2, on Nov. 19 global distribution through Fuel Music Distribution. The full-length album combines two earlier released, digital-only EPs to include 11 songs from the independently released, 5-star acclaimed and No. 1 selling Billboard Hard Rock album, The End Is Where We Begin, by noted remix talent Steve Sidelnyk, Rob Persaud, Robbie Bronnimann, Andy Hunter, Solomon Olds, Rui Da Silva and Joshua Silverberg.  

Think you’re strong enough to play this game? BUCKCHERRY fulfill the need to be broken in “Wrath,” the third music video from their current studio release ‘Confessions’.  

Chicago’s filthiest trio marches out of the sewers of hell with twelve freshly-severed slabs of death metal sleaze! BONES is back with Sons of Sleaze, the follow up to their 2011 self-titled release. Recorded with famed producer Sanford Parker (Lair of the Minotaur, Nachtmystium), Sons of Sleaze will be out November 8 on Planet Metal.  

The critically adored new SKELETONWITCH offering, Serpents Unleashed, debuted on this week’s Billboard 200 at #62, marking the highest chart position of the band’s career! The record’s first-week sales marked a 68% jump from those of its 2011 predecessor, Forever Abomination.  

Guitarist Kim Thayil of Soundgarden has weighed in as one of the first readers to behold Sub Pop Records cofounder Bruce Pavitt‘s highly anticipated debut book EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Grunge in Europe, 1989. This eight-day travelogue across Italy, Switzerland, France, and England tracks unknown Seattle bands Nirvana, Tad, and Mudhoney as they venture out of the Pacific Northwest and woo the fickle crowds of underground Europe.  

Gothic-doom metallers PARADISE LOST have released their 25th anniversary compilation, Tragic Illusion 25 (The Rarities), today in North America! To purchase Tragic Illusion 25 (The Rarities), please visit iTunes for a digital copy or CM Distro for a mint green 10″ vinyl (USA exclusive color; limited to 300 copies) with a CD insert.  

SOiL will join All That Remains and Motionless In White for a US tour Beginning November 26 in Reno, NV and carrying through to December 15 in Albany, NY. This tour will continue in support of SOiL’s 6th studio album “Whole” which was released August 20 and features the return of original Vocalist Ryan McCombs.