After a fifteen year hiatus from recording together, original Morbid Angel members Trey Azagthoth and David Vincent have returned with Illud Divinum Insanus.  

Bazillion Points Books has posted a preview video of the upcoming “METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries” 744-page hardcover history/anthology by Jon Kristiansen, the “godfather of Norwegian black metal.”  

U.S. Heavy Metal powerhouse BENEDICTUM will take the stage on Saturday, June 18th at the Warriors of Metal Open Air Festival IV. The two-day (June 17-18) festival will be held at the Frontier Ranch in Kirksville, OH (about 30 miles east Columbus) and also feature Vindicator, Aska, Widow, Sacred Dawn, Shock Paris, and many others.    

Over the past three years, Tech-9 Music has staged well over a hundred shows under the branded monikers Gotham Rocks and No Mercy Metal. On Thursday, July 21, the company will celebrate its third anniversary with a gala event at Irving Plaza featuring seven bands from the New York area. The complete line-up features The August Infinity, Killcode, Charetta, Bound By Substance, Sweet Fix, Woods of Arden and Crush of Empires. The August Infinity and Charetta, alongside Sweet Fix, will be releasing CDs that week.  

Today, Warner Bros. Records releases the album to the hotly anticipated motion picture Transformers: Dark of the Moon – the third film in the Oscar-nominated summer blockbuster Transformers series, which hits theaters nationwide on June 29th.    

It’s almost impossible to find a modern day hard rock/heavy metal band that doesn’t list Thin Lizzy as an influence. So the band couldn’t have picked a better time to launch an arena tour, opening for Judas Priest on their farewell “Epitaph Tour.”  

DIR EN GREY will release their 8th studio album DUM SPIRO SPERO 2 years and 10 months after UROBOROS which garnered overwhelming support as the strongest and the maddest record resonating across the globe.  

When YELLOWCARD fans started #YellowcardIsBack on Twitter earlier this year, little did they know just how “back” they really were.  

  It’s been four long years, but hardcore heavyweights, Ringworm, have finally resurrected with their fifth assaulting and vicious album Scars, out July 19th.  Twenty years after their 1991 birth in Cleveland, Ringworm rises above with the brutal new release to remind fans why they are the pioneering visionaries of the hardcore genre known as “crossover.” The extreme hardcore veterans fiercely knock out the competition with the unleashing of their most heavy-hitting, thrash-inspired metal album yet.       

FUNimation Entertainment announced today that it has acquired rights to distribute the anime series “We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky.”  

SEVENDUST was forced to cut their current European tour short over the weekend due to circumstances beyond their control.  The trek was scheduled to conclude June 24 in Madrid.  They’re deeply apologetic to their international fans and hope to see them very soon.   

The mighty Cannibal Corpse will once again be returning to Latin America! This time, they’ll be bringing along label mates The Black Dahlia Murder as well as fellow underground heavyweights Suicide Silence to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela in December. The tour will begin on December 3rd in Sao Paulo, Brazil and will wrap up on December 13th in Mexico City, Mexico.