Steve Vai will stage two weekly question and answer sessions with his global fan base via Facebook Live. The series “Alien Guitar Secrets Live: Music and You” will focus on the guitar, music, his career and the business aiming to offer insights that enlighten perspectives for their own worlds. He will also be breaking down various songs from his catalog to show techniques, and will also be discussing anything from writing, recording, publishing, promoting, and touring. The second, “Under It All: Hard Questions” will enable Vai to engage in more esoteric life principles and topics where no question is off limits.  

Topeka, Kansas brutal death metal horde UNMERCIFUL and New Noise Magazine have unleashed the music video for the title track to the band’s upcoming new album, Wrath Encompassed.  

The many KNOTFEST events worldwide – KNOTFEST Festivals, KNOTFEST Roadshow Tours, and KNOTFEST At Sea – have one purpose, which is to celebrate our community of loud music, art, and culture – together. When we are unable to physically come together to do this, for the sake of the common health and safety of all – KNOTFEST is going to keep the celebration going.  

OKKULTOKRATI is keeping their fire alive with their new album La Ilden Lyse, which translates roughly to “Keep The Fire Burning,” now announced for release through Southern Lord Recordings in May. The lead single from the LP, “Kiss Of Death” is now streaming.  

Swedish death metal veterans DERANGED post advance stream of new album, “Deeds Of Ruthless Violence”, due out March 27th via Agonia Records. Listen to the album below…  

Mutants have conquered death, but who investigates when they don’t come back? All all-new team of detectives comes together to solve mutant murders across the globe in the X-Factor #1 trailer, featuring writer Leah Williams, Senior Editor Jordan D. White, and Assistant Editor Annalise Bissa!  

Hard rock foursome Ravenscroft drops its latest album, See Through, on all streaming outlets via Pavement Entertainment. See Through follows Ravenscroft’s 2018 Rebel EP. The seasoned music veterans’ latest offering delivers on pounding metal riffs along with melodic ballads that captivates audiences and leaves them wanting more.  

Polish black metal battalion MEDICO PESTE  

In SEAL Team Six: No More – A New Flame, Randall “Flame” O’Donnell is called upon by a Navy admiral on a very personal mission. A 16-year old American boy has been lured into a warzone in the Middle East, and the team is asked to bring him home safely, even if it’s against his wishes.  

O Zorn!, the Long Beach, Calif.-based post-sludge trio who release Your Killer on March 20 via Seeing Red Records, have debuted a second song from the forthcoming album, streaming “Secret Santa”  

(Stockholm, Sweden – January 24, 2020) – LUCIFER announce the release of their first single “Ghosts” today. The track is off the band’s forthcoming full-length album  

California’s Central Valley post-hardcore/sludge collective HORSENECK — featuring within its ranks current and past members of Will Haven and Chelsea Wolfe — will release their anticipated second full-length, Fever Dream, next month.