Feel The Pain was formed in June of 2006 with the intention of creating an aggressive and dark sound inspired by hatred and anger. The band’s intense and driving music comes from the desire to express the inner violence that exists in each member’s soul. These are feelings that dwell inside all of us, yet few possess the ability to recognize or harness those emotions.  

Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated Papa Roach have announced plans for their new album, Time For Annihilation…On the Road and On the Record on August 31st and their move to Top Independent Rock label, Eleven Seven Music.    

Between extensive tours of Europe, Kylesa will enter the studio on May 31 to begin recording the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed album “Static Tensions.” The new album is the band’s debut for Season of Mist Records.  

Virgin Records will release Saving Abel’s MISS AMERICA on June 8, 2010. The follow-up to the band’s breakthrough debut has reached critical mass via strong support at radio, adds at key video channels, widespread positioning at retail, and a world tour that has been underway for three months.  

The claymation video for Killswitch Engage’s latest song off their self-titled album finds the band in an alien encounter! Directed by Jim Starace, the video for “Save Me” is guitarist Adam D.’s “favorite video shoot EVER!”  

ENDER has released a new track “Fakes And Thieves”, off their upcoming Eulogy Recordings release “This Is Revenge” which will be available July 20th.  

On January 9 and 10, 2010, Dir En Grey took flight into the Nippon Budokan and played to thousands of their fans from all over the world. Capturing every angle from this sold out, two night event, UROBOROS -with the proof in the name of living… – AT NIPPON BUDOKAN (available today digitally, in stores on June 22 on The End Records),  

Metalhit.com has launched a music service to support qualified bands that want to go the independent route. Metalhit seeks to launch new emerging talent as well as established artists that desire more control over their music and income as a band.  

  Lordi will release their highly anticipated fifth studio album on September 14, 2010 in the US on The End Records. The new album is titled Babez For Breakfast and will be released simultaneously in Europe, Japan and the USA. The first single, “This Is Heavy Metal,” will be released on August 6, 2010.  

The Sacto, CA rockers release their 6th studio album and maintain their beautifully violent style.  

Legendary death metal act DIABOLIC will release its first full-length album since 2003’s Infinity Through Purification on June 8, 2010 through Deathgasm Records. Entitled Excisions of Exorcisms, the new album is a nuclear explosion of Satanic death metal performed at reckless speeds and inclusive of the band’s most dynamic songwriting to date.  

  The “Big Four”, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax are bringing their historic European tour to the global stage by beaming the event via satellite to movie theaters around the world in a special HD cinematic event. These four legendary acts broke out of the underground thrash movement in the 1980’s to dominate the metal world, selling millions of records and packing arenas across the globe.