Fresh from an almost completely sold-out summer tour, Taking Back Sunday will return to the road for a nationwide headlining run this fall. The string of dates, which take the band to towns they haven’t yet visited on this album, kick off October 1 in Pharr, Texas. Arizona five-piece and Warner Bros Records label mates The Maine will support, along with Bad Rabbits.
Horror Holocaust, the anticipated sophomore release from all-star crossover thrashers Denial Fiend is now available through Ibex Moon Records. To give fans an earful of the bone-crunching pummel contained within this release, the folks at Hails & Horns have teamed up with Clawhammer PR and Ibex Moon Records to offer a full stream of Horror Holocaust.
Razor & Tie is excited to announce the addition of Man Made Machine to its expanding rock roster. The Phoenix, Arizona based band will release its full length debut album, Become, on September 27th. The album was produced by Chad Grey and Greg Tribbett of Mudvayne and HELLYEAH and was mixed by Jeremy Parker (Godsmack/Evanescence).
Following Iced Earth and Borknagar, Century Media Records is proud to welcome back another band under the family’s wings: GRAVE. One of the very first Swedish Death Metal bands alongside Nihilist, Morbid and Treblinka, the band initially released their first demo in 1986 under the bandname Corpse, before they switched to GRAVE in 1988 and throughout all these years, they haven’t changed their style very much, while other companions left the true Death Metal path along the way, to bigger or less success. But it’s GRAVE’s longevity and consistency that survived any trend since the late 80’s and established them as one of the most important Death Metal bands ‘Now and Forever’....
Fantômas, the eclectic supergroup featuring Mike Patton (Faith No More, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom), Buzz Osborne (Melvins), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, MadLove) and Melvins’ drummer Dale Crover filling in for Dave Lombardo (Slayer), release The Director’s Cut Live: A New Year’s Revolution on DVD and as a standalone audio download on Sept. 6 via Ipecac Recordings.
Abyss Records will release a very special album from Norway’s SINCERA later this autumn. The first recorded release in FESTER’s Bjørn “Tiger” Mathisen Fester was involved in 17 years will be called Cursed and Proud and will include a remastered version of the unreleased Tall and Proud demo and four live tracks, as the true essence of SINCERA is found in stage performance.
Arizona based deathmetal band, APPARITIONS, is a new project consisting of bassist Griffin Kolinski and guitarist Brian Mcnulty from KNIGHTS OF THE ABYSS (Ferret Music). “When KNIGHTS OF THE ABYSS finished our last tour with CATTLE DECAPITATION, Brian and I were toying with this side project with some friends back home.