Tennessee’s WHITECHAPEL are set to tear across the United States next week with Australia’s Psycroptic and newly-signed Metal Blade labelmates Culture Killer. The onstage annihilation begins November 2nd in Warren, Michigan clobbering nineteen cities and drawing to a close November 21st with a home state show in Nashville.  

Long Beach, California’s RIVAL SONS have confirmed more tour dates supporting heavy metal legends BLACK SABBATH on their final world tour. Starting on January 20th, 2016, RIVAL SONS will be joining BLACK SABBATH on tour across the USA and Canada, before heading to Australia and New Zealand in April, then on to Europe in June.  Due to overwhelming demand, the two rock titans will now be returning to North America in August for another month-long stint.  

THEORIES‘ “Burnt Concrete” from their recently-issued Regression full-length will be included in TONIGHT’s episode of You’re The Worst on FXX!  

Mortiis guitarist Levi Gawron has entered into an endorsement deal with ESP Guitars.  

Nature Ganganbaigal of Mongolian Folk Metallers TENGGER CAVALRY was awarded a Bronze Medal from the Global Music Awards for the album To Where Tengger Leads Me. The album is a collection of acoustic renditions of TENGGER CAVALRY songs and can be purchased from iTunes.  

Puscifer is streaming their new album, Money Shot (Oct. 30, Puscifer Entertainment), via Pandora.  

Italy’s dynamic instrumental rock trio, STEARICA, has just issued a pro-filmed, multi-camera live video of “Geber“, the track hailing from the band’s sophomore LP, Fertile. The “Geber” video is released as the band prepares to begin a sporadic new European tour this weekend, with shows throughout Belgium, Germany, Spain and Italy planned over the upcoming month.  

Born of Osiris, the Chicago-based band who release their fifth full-length album, Soul Sphere (Sumerian Records), on Friday, are streaming the twelve-song release now in its entirety via YouTube.  

North Carolina’s IRATA has officially had to pull out of the entire tour supporting Kylesa following several delays and complications in the recovery of drummer Jason Ward following his hospitalization due to a severe, random leg infection early into the trek. While the band had hoped to re-join the tour package for the remaining dates, it is no longer an option.  

Long-running, psychedelic doom conjurers, YOB, are readying to kick off a near month-long North American headlining tour with support from San Francisco riff peddlers, Black Cobra. Set to kick off on October 22nd in Boise, Idaho and run through November 21st in Oakland, California, the trio will conquer the stages of over two dozen venues including a special performance at this year’s edition of Philip H. Anselmo’s Housecore Horror Fest in San Antonio, Texas. As an added bonus and in celebration of the record’s ten-year anniversary, fans attending the November 5th show at Bell House in Brooklyn, New York will pay witness to the band’s performance of 2005’s mammoth The Unreal Never Lived... 

Hot off their European tour, the anthemic, multi-platinum rockers Hinder are set for a U.S. tour this Fall-Winter. The band will be performing hits from their latest album, When The Smoke Clears, which debuted May 12 on digital, CD, and LP formats via The End Records/ADA. The album claimed four Top 10 chart positions, entering the Billboard 200.   

The deluxe 12″ vinyl edition of DIE CHOKING’s debut LP, III, is out this Friday via The Compound Recs, following its digital release less than two weeks ago, as the band begins to hit the West Coast on tour in support of the album.