In support of their latest masterpiece, Erebos, Polish extremists HATE are set to take North America by storm with a massive tour that kicks off next week (March 9th) at Jaxx in Springfield, VA. For the first leg of the tour, HATE will team up with Rotting Christ, Melechesh, Abigail Williams and Lecherous Nocturne for 30 shows.  

Atlantic recording group Skillet has announced the release of a new digital EP. The “AWAKE AND REMIXED” EP will arrive at all DSPs on March 22nd.  

Goes Cube will be playing this month at the world famous Webster Hall, with The Austerity program, Rosetta and Naam.  

On the Trivmvirat MCD, Mexico’s WARFIELD brings it fast, brings it black, and wraps it up in poisoned black metal atmosphere. The follow-up to 2009 full length Conquering the Black Horde includes three new non-album tracks, three bonus live cuts, and a bonus rehearsal cut.  

Already making their mark in the states, Irish rock trio Kopek (Shane Cooney- drums, Brad Kinsella – Bass and Daniel Jordan – vocals/guitar) are looking forward to their US debut release, White Collar Lies set to hit stores on March 1 on Religion Music via SIN/SonyMusic Independent Network.  

After a massively successful tour with Avenged Sevenfold, A&M/Octone recording group Hollywood Undead will return to the road to headline the Revolt Tour. Kicking off in Boston on April 6th the tour will feature special guests 10 Years, Drive A and New Medicine. On April 5th, the band returns with their second album: American Tragedy. The album is the follow up to their controversial but massively successful gold debut, Swan Songs, which spent 53 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart. Hollywood Undead’s first single from the album, “Hear Me Now” is already Top 30 on the modern rock charts.  

The year 2010 saw Soundgarden – Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron – reuniting after a 13-year absence to a thunderous roar. As promised, the band have now announced that they’ll be releasing their first-ever collection of live tracks on March 22, 2011 through UMe.  

In 2010 Mexico’s legendary ZOMBIEFICATION crawled out the grave with disgust and finally released their long awaited debut album Midnight Stench on CD through Asphyxiate Recordings. Playing a rotten style of death metal that crosses the early Stockholm sound with Mexico’s own proud tradition of ancient cult death metal, you can now experience Midnight Stench on vinyl, the way it was always meant to be experienced.  

Bazillion Points Books has revealed the final cover artwork for METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries, a mammoth 744-page hardcover journey into black metal, death metal, and beyond by Norway’s metal godfather Jon Kristiansen. “The greatest heavy metal story ever told” will be available June 6, 2011, wherever books are sold, and is available for preorder now with two bonus limited patches at this location:  

The title, artwork and full tracklisting of INFESTUS’ forthcoming third album are finally disclosed. Mastered at Necromorbus Studio, “E x | I s t” is an examination of the emptiness, numbness and futility of life.  

OMISION’s In the Shadow of the Cross iscrushing death metal from Tijuana, Mexico that features past and present members of Sadistic Intent and Infinitum Obscure.  

What would timeless songs like “New York, New York,” “Lady Is A Tramp,” and “Fly Me To The Moon,” sound like cranked out of Marshall stacks, crooned by members of Cheap Trick, Twisted Sister, Deep Purple, Anthrax, Mr. Big, or Queensrÿche?