More details on Oro: Opus Primum — the first installment of the new two-album series from Italy’s supernatural doom sorcerers, UFOMAMMUT — have this week been confirmed.  

One of the finest British rock acts to have enjoyed worldwide success over the last few decades, The Cult has wrapped up recording Choice of Weapon, the group’s first studio album in five years. The album is set for a May 22, 2012 U.S.  

Grammy nominees Mastodon have announced that they will hit the road for a spring North American tour in support of their current album The Hunter, which was released by Reprise Records in September. The tour kicks off on April 4th in Portland, ME, and visits more than 30 cities in the U.S. and Canada before wrapping up with a hometown show at Atlanta’s Masquerade Music Park on May 12th.  

Today BrooklynVegan premieres “Quest,” the latest single from Rhode Island doom dooers PILGRIM. “Quest” is the third track off the band’s forthcoming debut full-length, Misery Wizard, set for North American release on February 14, 2012.  

Having spent the better half of the last year on the road supporting acts such as OF MICE AND MEN and AS I LAY DYING, IWRESTLEDABEARONCE is proud to announce that they will be headlining their next US tour, “Road To Metal Fest”, presented by Merch Now.  

Illinois-based Vikings thrashers THE HORDE have released a video for the song “Odin’s Blood” off their latest release, Thy Blackened Reign; out now on Stormspell Records. Praised for its “aggressive, yet epic music…” by TheMetalReview.com, Thy Blackened Reign combines monstrous groove with fierce Viking Thrash for a sound that’s both destructive and impossible to resist.To check out the video for “Odin’s Blood,”  

Atlantic recording group Shinedown has announced plans to headline this year’s eagerly awaited Avalanche Tour.  The North American trek – presented by Zippo and produced by Synergy Global Entertainment, Inc. – gets underway on March 27th at The Grove in Anaheim, California and then continues through late April (see attached itinerary).  Accompanying Shinedown on the 2012 Avalanche Tour will be Adelita’s Way, with additional support from New Medicine (March 27th – April 10th) and Art of Dying (April 12th – April 25 th).  

This fall, DC Entertainment will be releasing THE JUDAS COIN, an original 94-page hardcover graphic novel written and illustrated by industry legend Walter Simonson.  

Another country, another town, another place, the greatest road warriors in rock have once again bled their sweat all over another stage. A sold-out crowd roars their approval. Here we go: Lemmy steps up to the mike… “WE ARE MOTÖRHEAD ! . . . AND WE PLAY ROCK‘N‘ROLL !”  

MPENDING DOOM has released more details surrounding their release “Baptized in Flith.” The cover art, seen above is explained by Bassist David Sittig, “Baptized in filth represents the mindless indulgance and self worship in the vile world we live in. This album is meant to scare the hell out of you!”  

Today music fans across the globe can get their first listen to some of the anticipated forthcoming collaborative album from WINO & CONNY OCHS. Entitled Heavy Kingdom, the LP is confirmed for North American release via Exile On Mainstream Records on March 13th.  

n late March/early April, Metal Mind Productions will release second live DVD by Believe – an outstanding art-rock act formed by the guitarist Mirek Gil – the former leader and composer of Polish prog-rock legend Collage. The material entitled “Seeing Is Believing” was recorded in November 2011 in Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice, Poland. During this unique evening Believe primarily presented material from their most recent studio album „World Is Round” (Metal Mind Productions, 2010).