Sol Invictus, Faith No More’s highly anticipated follow-up to Album of the Year, arrives on May 19 via Reclamation Recordings/Ipecac Recordings give lift to the sleeping fallen angel of metal. “What I can say is that I think through our experience as musicians over the years, I think what we’re doing reflects where we’ve gone since we made our last record as Faith No More. I think this kicks things up a notch,” explained Bill Gould in a recent Rolling Stone interview. “And I think there’s parts that are very powerful and there’s parts that have a lot of “space.” Everything we do, with our chemistry, the way we play; it’s always going to sound like us. It’s just... 

SHAWN JAMES & THE SHAPESHIFTERS will perform upcoming album The Gospel According to Shawn James & The Shapeshifters for the first time on February 14 at The Smoke & Barrel Tavern in Fayetteville, AR. Joining them will be Denver, CO’s IN THE WHALE.  

All Them Witches, the Nashville band Native Magazine said “concoct a potent brew of dark, shrieking Delta blues that crackle with mystical psychedelic energy,” release the latest in an ongoing series of live albums with At The Garage, released independently on Feb. 10.  

Los Angeles, California’s GOATSNAKE has announced further live dates in Europe, kicking off at the end of May with their set at Temples Festival, and taking the band through territories new to them. This news comes alongside the completion of the recording of the band’s new album, which will see release on Southern Lord this Summer.  

It’s that time of the month, when the EOLIAN mob unleashes its antagonistic impulses on the public for their own amusement.  

New York industrial/noise/power electronics entity, THEOLOGIAN, has penned several new live actions for the coming months, beginning with a performance at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar this Thursday, January 29th supporting British sound experimentalists and Crucial Blast labelmates, Ramleh.  

Tierra Y Libertad, the anxiously awaited third LP from Pomona, California’s XIBALBA, is out this week on Southern Lord Recordings, officially unleashed in Europe today and striking the US tomorrow.  

San Antonio blackened death horde, HOD, is pleased to officially induct bassist, ZVS Gastelum, into their infernal ranks. Gastelum comes by way of Texas black metal legion, Plutonian Shore, as well as Gnostic, and replaced longtime HOD comrade, Robert “Trans AM” Coleman.  

Germany’s Downfall of Gaia will be back in the US this winter touring in support of their latest album, “Aeon Unveils The Thrones Of Decay.” The album delivers what metal.de calls “Anger, hatred, despair, but also catharsis” and promises to be a powerful live experience. The tour kicks off next week Thursday in Beacon, NY, and continues through February 13th with the final show at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, NY.  

Between the Buried and Me have been writing, rehearsing, and compiling ideas for their eighth full length album over the last several months. Finally, they have begun tracking with producer Jamie King in North Carolina. The band’s latest release, The Parallax II: Future Sequence, earned the band their highest Billboard Top 200 chart debut of their career at #22, and was widely heralded as one of the best progressive albums of 2012. With album number eight, the band promises to continue to challenge themselves and expand on the elements that makes them one of the finest progressive bands operating today.  

With the addition of new full-time members, the project forged as SCOTT KELLY AND THE ROAD HOME — orchestrated by Neurosis’ founding guitarist/vocalist, Scott Kelly — has since taken a new form as simply, THE ROAD HOME.  

Israeli metal outfit FERIUM will be supporting OTEP on its European headlining tour in March with THE AGONIST.