Following their maiden trip across the Pacific last year, Australia’s gruesome twosome, DEAD, has washed back onto US soil for another putrid invasion of our Western shores, with a month-long tour beginning this evening. In celebration of the new expedition, the band has unveiled their impressive new major budget “Nakaken” video, hailing from their latest LP, Captains Of Industry.  

King Diamond will be back on tour soon for an extra special event for fans – one not to be missed! As part of the set, the band will be performing the classic 1987 album Abigail in its entirety! The tour will begin on October 29th and runs through December 5th with legendary bay area thrash metal band Exodus as the opening act! The full list of confirmed dates is below. The general on sale for tickets begins Friday, August 7th at 10am ET.  

Virginia-based black metal trio, UNSACRED, is currently out on the road supporting Noisem on a sixteen-date run through the Southeast US, with three dates also including Homewrecker. Having already burned through Louisville, Nashville, Birmingham and Jackson, Tampa and Pensacola, the tour rages into Orlando tonight and then blazes straight up the East Coast before smoldering to a close in Baltimore on August 9th.  

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” The clip was filmed at The Fillmore in Detroit on May 8.  

With general admission tickets increasing to $70 on SATURDAY and VIP tickets completely sold out, THE SHINDIG MUSIC FESTIVAL returns “heavier than ever” Saturday, Sept. 19 to Carroll Park with rock radio staples GODSMACK and ‘90s alternative giants STONE TEMPLE PILOTS —featuring Chester Bennington of Linkin Park on vocals — anchoring the daylong, two-stage lineup in the city’s Pigtown district. Last year’s Shindig drew a record-setting 10,000 music lovers — the most ever gathered at Carroll Park for an event — and was named BEST MUSIC FESTIVAL in Baltimore by the readers of Baltimore City Paper.  

Berlin-based heavy metal blues rockers, LUCIFER, released their debut Lucifer I June 16th via Rise Above Records.   

As their thirtieth anniversary creeps ever closer late in 2015, NEUROSIS will this week embark on their most massive North American tour since before the turn of the millennium, as the sixteen-city expedition kicks off tomorrow, Friday, July 31st.  

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.  

New Jersey grinders ORGAN DEALER have issued a tour update to warn those fearful of the war machine and to welcome those joining the band in battle. First strike capability to be demonstrated at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar with Artificial Brain, Cognitive, and Skullshitter on July 30 (aka Visceral Infection Record Release Show). Bombing run and ground assault dates follow.  

The fourth installment of the annual SOUTHWEST TERROR FEST is now less than three months from once again overthrowing Tucson, Arizona with four days of live mayhem from an incredible array of artists from across the gamut of the underground scene.  

Seattle’s HE WHOSE OX IS GORED has been raising the brows of the underground masses with their eclectic, oft trance-inducing fusion of doom, prog rock, post hardcore and psychedelic shoegaze since their inception in 2009. Following the release of their critically-adored, Bleeding Light Records-issued Rumors 7″ last year, the band will undrape their highly-anticipated full-length debut, The Camel, The Lion, The Child, this Fall.