Tank, the legendary British Heavy Metal Band, plan to record their first live DVD. The band featuring Mick Tucker and Cliff Evans on guitar alongside ex-Rainbow/Yngwie Malmsteen frontman Doogie White, ex-Bruce Dickinson bassist Chris Dale and ex-Helloween/Firewind drummer Mark Cross will record their show on March, 9th 2012 in Stodola Club in Warsaw (Poland).  

The night kicked off with Rex Brown’s new band Kill Devil Hill, a Southern Metal band with Rex on bass, Vinny Appice on drums, Mark Zavon playing guitar & not much known is about their singer,  Dewey Bragg, but he resembled Layne Staley vocal wise, but with a much better beard.  

After various splits, demos and EPs it’s finally time for the first full length from obscure death metal masters OMINOUS CRUCIFIX! Hailing from the crypts of Mexico, OMINOUS CRUCIFIX offers the world The Spell of Damnation, eight new tracks of crawling, rancid and occult death metal that will tear the ribs out of your putrid body.  

Sewage death metal vets Funerus will be joining Goreaphobia, Acheron and Mutant Supremacy tomorrow night (12/17/2011) when they step in as a last minute replacement for Funebrarum at Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn, NY.  

Goregrind overlords EXHUMED are pleased to announce four Brazilian shows this Winter with Aborted. This will mark the band’s first time ever in the country. The short but epic run will commence on February 17, 2012 and hit Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, Curitiba and Porto Alegre.  

IRON SAVIOR, currently one of the most popular German heavy/power metal bands return with their new album this January. Following their acclaimed Megatropolis album over four years ago, the Hamburg-based are ready to douse fans with their scorching classic metal thunder once again with the release of their new opus, The Landing, with a confirmed North American street date of January 17, 2012 via AFM Records.  

French death /black metal band SVART CROWN will hit the road accross Europe with  ULCERATE in February 2012 on “The Burning Winter Tour 2012”.  

  San Diego area brutal death metal/slam band Pathology will be embarking on a 2-week headlining west coast headlining tour in January. The quintet is touring in support of their latest album, Awaken to the Suffering, released in September on Victory.   

Having just completed a massive thirty-six date North American tour supporting Mayhem, the ABIGAIL WIILIAMS  touring machine will continue on the road this week for six headlining dates, beginning in Wilmington, Delaware tonight. Taking only a few weeks off after this run of dates, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS hit the road on another set of headlining performances on their way to provide direct support for Dark Funeral’s North American assault engulfing all of February, immediately followed by a full tour with Deicide through the end of March! A full list of tour dates is posted below.  

Pioneers of the Swedish d-beat/crust movement, WOLFBRIGADE have signed with Southern Lord Recordings for the release of their next three crushing full-length releases of malevolent darkness, the first being finalized to strike in the first few months of 2012.  

The Best Buy Theater in Times Square began to fill up on Tuesday night as up and coming band For Today opened up the show.  

Metallica celebrated its 30th anniversary as a band last week, performing four shows at the Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco, CA, exclusively for members of their fan club, the Metallica Club.