Metalmachine.net caught up with Cold frontman Scooter Ward recent,y in NYC. The band recent.y rejoined forces to release their latest CD Superfiction on Eleven Seven Music.  

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.  

Puddle Of Mudd’s forthcoming new album, re:(disc)overed, lands in stores and online on August 30th.  However, fans looking to hear the album prior to the release are now in luck.  Beginning August 28th Monster Energy will exclusively steam the entire new album  

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.  

Powerglove came into NYC on this years Summer Slaughter Tour. Bassil took some time to speak to Metal Machine as the band just finished their set…  

  The Black Dahlia Murder blasted by NYC with the current Summer Slaughter Tour. The band is currenly hitting the stage with the likes of Dying Fetus, Darkest Hour, Powerglove, Oceano and more.  

Chaos Records is proud to announce the signing of Swedish death metal band MALFEITOR.  The band will release the vinyl LP version of their new full-length album, entitled Dum Morior Orior,during the first quarter of 2012. More details to come!   

Eclectic and atmospheric dark metal duo TRILLION RED has become the first act to sign with upstart label badGod Music. The band’s  DIY debut EP, Two Tongues, (released earlier this year) will see distribution through the label in September and plans are in place for a full-length to see the light of day in 2012.  

From AHI News… Jani Lane, the former lead singer of the 1980’s glam metal band Warrant, has been found dead in a hotel. He was 47.  

BLACK TIDE recently stopped by Guitar Center to perform an unplugged version of “Let It Out,” a brand new song from the band’s upcoming sophomore album, Post Mortem, hitting stores everywhere August 23rd, 2011 via DGC/Interscope Records.  

Cape Fear doom kings, SOURVEIN, are excited to announce the return of original bassist, Joshua ”JC Fari” Crapo, who played with the band from 1993 – 2001 and again from 2003 – 2006. Fari held down the low-end duties on both SOURVEIN’s self-titled full-length and the He’s No Good To Me Dead compilation (featuring SOURVEIN alongside Grief, Bongzilla, Negative Reaction and Subsanity) among other compilations as well as the Will To Mangle demos. Fari also played guitar on the band’s split with Buzzov*en in 1995.