RINGS OF SATURN has posted a new dual-guitarist playthrough video for their technically ferocious track, “Godless Times“, hailing from last year’s flooring Lugal Ki En LP. The single take live instructional shows both Lucas Mann and Miles Dimitri Baker lightheartedly executing the brutalizing movement side-by-side, and includes a bit of info on the band’s upcoming tablature book for Lugal Ki En.  

German Post-Metal band A SECRET REVEALED will release The Bleakness April 24 on Bastardized Recordings on CD and digital formats. The Würzburg (Germany) group’s full-length debut features skillfully arranged post-metal compositions anchored in melody with equal measures of Black Metal and Hardcore influences.  

Behemoth recently joined forces with director Zev Deans (youtube.com/panoramaprogramming) to compose a video for Messe Noire from The Satanist. The Brooklyn based director brings a visually dark and surreal atmosphere to a song and album that is one of Behemoth’s most bleak. To add to the atmosphere, costumes were provided by amazing fashion designer, Sharon Toxic (toxicvision.bigcartel.com). The combination of these visual and auditory talents could not be more ideal.  

Southern California’s GOATSNAKE has just released the first single from their anxiously awaited brand new LP, Black Age Blues, with a premiere of the album’s second track, “Elevated Man“!  

Confuse & Conquer, the mammoth new full-length studio LP from Portland, Oregon’s reigning kings of punk, POISON IDEA, is today officially available worldwide via Southern Lord Recordings, and is now available for streaming in its entirety.  

Orchestrated Misery Recordings has released Inject the Worms from Indiana Death Metal Merchants PSYCHOMANCER.  

Since 2008, the art of outstanding Icelandic/German pagan metallers, ARSTIDIR LIFSINS — Icelandic for “the seasons of life” – has always radiated the spirit of Old Norse history. Boasting members of Helrunar, Kerbenok, and Carpe Noctem, the curious collective’s latest long player – the stunning Aldafǫðr Ok Munka Dróttinn (“Óðinn and the God of the Monks“) – takes an in-depth look Scandinavian history and myth over its dramatic eighty-one-minute runtime.  

Faith No More, who release their highly anticipated album Sol Invictus on May 19, return to North America for a late summer tour, kicking off on July 26 in Austin.  

Oakland-based eclectic doom unit and recent Metal Blade signees, SECRETS OF THE SKY, will support UK extreme metal duo/labelmates, Anaal Nathrakh, on their North American live takeover next month. Beginning May 11th in Sacramento, California and concluding on May 22 in Trenton, New Jersey, the trek will crush twelve cities with additional support from special guests, Incite. From there, SECRETS OF THE SKY will conquer seventeen more locales through eleven states alongside Tucson sludge ensemble, North, on select dates, with additional onstage endeavors in the plotting stages.  

Motor City thrashers Battlecross have announced that they will join Crowbar and Lord Dying on The Summer of Doom Tour, with the devastation beginning May 28th and ending July 3rd in Crowbar’s home state of Louisiana.  

Sweden has been a fertile ground for metal of all varieties for multiple decades, and there appears to be no sign that this will change anytime soon. The variety and quality of bands is staggering, and Metal Blade Records is prepared to help add The Great Discord to the list of one of Sweden’s finest new groups.  

Progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me have released a brand new song from their upcoming highly anticipated, seventh full-length album Coma Ecliptic. Fans can listen to “Memory Palace” now! The upcoming album is also now available for pre-order with special bundles and packages offered, including: CD, LP, two pre-order exclusive t-shirts, an exclusive hour long behind the scenes making-of DVD, and a “Coma Ecliptic” limited edition 27″x40″ movie poster. Coma Ecliptic will be officially released worldwide on July 7th, 2015. Grandiose, dynamic, heavy, melodic, technically challenging and more, this album delivers.