supergroup featuring guitarist Joe Satriani, drummer Kenny Aronoff, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and frontman Sammy Hagar – are offering fans a very special free Live Concert Webcast: Chickenfoot Presents “III” on the release date of their forthcoming album Chickenfoot III, September 27th.  

The threat is real; the hype is warranted. HEMOPTYSIS’ Misanthropic Slaughter is a musically accomplished, superbly written, and utterly devastating album of thrash metal extremism! The explosive Phoenix, Arizona quartet HEMOPTYSIS self-released Misanthropic Slaughter on March 8th of this year and the critics haven’t stopped raving about it since. Don’t believe us? Check out the all the press quotes below!  

The Norwegian black metal horde known as THRONE OF KATARSIS are preparing to unleash their third full-length assault, the vile, seven-track LP bearing the title Ved Graven.  

An intensely bitter act hailing from the temperate climate of Atlanta, Georgia, DEAD IN THE DIRT have confirmed an upcoming 7″ EP release via Southern Lord for late this September, simply and aptly entitled, Fear.  

Benedictum vocalist Veronica Freeman is set to take part in this Fall’s Rockin’ Recovery Tour.     The Rockin’ Recovery Tour, a family-friendly sober event, is another exciting way for RSSS to bring awareness to the disease of addiction and celebrate recovery; a musical event that spreads HOPE for all those affected by addiction!      

Thrash titans Anthrax and Testament, who haven’t toured together in more than a decade, are set to co-headline a U.S. tour beginning Friday, October 14 in Grand Rapids, MI (itinerary below).  Anthrax will close all shows, and Death Angel will be main support for the entire tour.    

      San Diego-based deathcore band CARNIFEX is currently recording their new album, entitled Until I Feel Nothing, which is set for an Oct. 25th, 2011 release.   

One of metal’s most destructive forces, THE HORDE, are pleased to announce the first dates for their US tour in support of Thy Blackened Reign. The band’s second album, Thy Blackened Reign marries monstrous groove with fierce Viking Thrash for a sound that’s both destructive and impossible to resist. Thy Blackened Reign is set for a September release on Stormspell Records.    

Norway’s KVELERTAK will release a limited-edition, deluxe CD/DVD re-issue of their genre-defying self-titled debut via Prosthetic Records on September 27th in North America.  

Hey all you metal fans, comic book geeks and scifi nerds (we say that with love) Metal Machine is having their annual Labor Day Party September 3rd! Thats right, each year, Metal Machine puts together a bash for all those genre fans who go to our site and love all aspects of pop culture. So this year we’re holding our bash at The Koch Comics Warehouse….located in Brooklyn, NY!!!  

All survivors of Neckbreaker’s Ball and Hatefest will finally get a new chance to crush their heads: FULL OF HATE, presented by tour-promoter Rock The Nation, is a spectacular upcoming festival-tour throughout Europe, successfully started in 2009 and coming up now with a new package of bestial hordes out of the international death- and thrash-metal-elite.  

GWAR front man and lead throat thing Oderus Urungus has just been confirmed to be a featured cast member on FEARnet’s first original series “Holliston”. Oderus Urungus joins Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider as well as stars Adam Green and Joe Lynch on the offbeat multi-camera buddy comedy series created by Green.