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.  

Be sure to head over to MSN.com as the site hosts the worldwide premiere of SISTER’s upcoming album HATED, streaming in its entirety!  

Thrash metal quintet, WRETCHED, has officially announced a U.S. summer tour in support of the anniversary of their sophomore album, Beyond The Gate, bringing along two industry-veteran replacements to contribute to the band’s already superior musicianship; new vocalist, Adam Cody, whose GLASS CASKET performance was an early inspiration to the band, and new bassist, Andrew Grevey, formerly of LOCULUS.  

EGYPT CENTRAL fans have spoken.  They’ve been raving about the album on the band’s Facebook and Twitter pages since the May 31 release of the Memphis band’s highly anticipated WHITE RABBIT album.  And now, thanks to those devoted and outspoken fans, the album will make its debut on SoundScan’s “Current Hard Music Albums” chart at #5 next week.  It also debuts at #78 on Billboard’s “Top 200 Albums” chart.  

Dark Descent Records is proud to announce the CD reissue of Death Strike’s Fuckin’ Death. Active from 1984 to 1985, Fuckin’ Death represented one of death metal’s earliest recordings. Death Strike disbanded after 1985’s Fuckin’ Death demo and Paul Speckmann went    

Icon In Me puts out their third title release and pounds awe-inspiring music into the veins of their listeners, releasing an uncontrollable instinct to head bang right through the entire album. Head Break Solution provides a truly astounding definition of the metal genre and delivers the perfect amount of energy in each and every one of their songs.  

The two-man band Trillion Red releases their EP Two Tongues, and delivers some amazing music in each track. Patrick Brown and Max send the pulsating beats throughout your soul with a combination of riveting guitar playing and a profound baseline. Two Tongues clearly defines a new type of metallic rhythm with soft undertones that leave listeners head bobbing for hours.  

Universal Republic’s Volbeat has announced a Summer tour across North America that brings the band coast to coast, and in to Canada for multiple dates.  Following a near sold-out run in March and April of this year, the Danish metal band continues to sell-out larger venues with each tour of North America.