Norwegian Occult Heavy Metal band MAGISTER TEMPLI have released the exclusive stream of “Slaying Apophis“, as well as an in-depth interview. Get it all at this location!  

Following their recent North American expedition supporting Superjoint and King Parrot on the successful It Takes Guts tour 2015, Detroit’s favorite punk/metal/noise rock eccentrics, CHILD BITE, take to the streets again later this week for a short run of live abrasions supporting Down! Preparing for liftoff this Thursday August 6th in Louisville, Kentucky the band will antagonize ten locales including a performance at Dirt Fest in Birch Run, Michigan and Gwar B-Q in Richmond, Virginia with the caravan of chaos coming to a close on August 16th in Wilmington, North Carolina. Additional support will be provided by Mountain Of Wizard.  

THE GREEN RIVER BURIAL‘s Blight is out NOW on Vinyl 7″ and digital formats through Bastardized Recordings. The two-song release showcases the German band’s movement into darker, groovier territory. The EP is the first chapter of a developing concept project that will be continued on the group’s upcoming full-length release.  

Toronto, Ontario-based death metal horde, ABYSS, begins their West Coast Anatomization, the tour set to invade ten-cities over the next week-and-a-half. Kicking off in Vancouver, British Columbia, the quartet will then bulldoze south down the coastline, storming Olympia, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco, where the tour ends on August 8th.  

Faith No More have posted a live video for the single, “Superhero” (https://youtu.be/YX1YGMu9f-U). The clip was filmed at The Fillmore in Detroit on May 8.  

An unexpected rogue force of anti-heroes has been brought here to save our world, the collective bearing the title, PSEUDO/SENTAI. The outfit has dedicated the past five years to the recording of two full-length albums which will be released upon the masses to spread and memorialize their message to humanity, the first of which is nearing release early this Fall, as Bansheeface.  

Catholic Dictatorship, the second album from Poland’s ruthless grindcore quartet, NORYLSK, is out now on Selfmadegod Records, and is streaming in its gutting entirety and available to mailorder fans internationally.  

Hamburg’s GRIM VISION will release new EP War Agony on limited edition 7″ vinyl through Bastardized Recordings August 28. A furious mix of hardcore and dark metal, the three songs of War Agony featured poem-based lyrics about the destruction, WAR and AGONY caused by humanity in the 19th and 20th centuries.  

Puscifer, the Arizona-based outfit helmed by Maynard James Keenan, return with the electro-rock band’s third full-length album, Money Shot, on Oct. 30 via Puscifer Entertainment. The group offers the first sounds and imagery from the new album with the video for “Grand Canyon” HERE.  

Agusa 2 is the newest full-length from Swedish psychedelic/prog conjurors, AGUSA. Unleashed this past Friday via prog powerhouse, Laser’s Edge, the record delivers over forty otherworldy minutes of seamlessly-executed, tranquil, trance-inducing, folk-inspired, occult rock.  

The latest barrage of live actions from the visionary metal trio known as TODAY IS THE DAY has been declared, as the outfit prepares to take their mesmerizingly insane end-time anthems back out to the streets of North America.  

IRIS DIVINE‘s Northeastern US Summer Tour begins this Thursday, as the band prepares to bring the raging anthems from their acclaimed Karma Sown debut album to the stage.