Montreal’s noise/sludge rock ringleaders THE GREAT SABATINI have just pulled the fifth official video from their Dog Years LP out of their hat, letting “The Royal We” loose into the crowd, while also declaring another new tour in support of the album.  

SINGLE BULLET THEORY have announced their first return to Texas since 2005. The “To Hell Paso and Back Tour” launches in Levittown, PA on September 20 and moves through New York, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma before invading Texas on September 30 in Fort Worth.  

Review of Exmortus, featuring openers Archaos and Another Texas Murder Scene, on their current tour for their newest release, Slave to the Sword, in Amarillo, Texas  

New Orleans’ favorite metal legion, GOATWHORE, will embark upon another bout of live headlining invasions next month. Set to launch in Houston on September 15th, the band will trounce fourteen cities including five shows supporting death rock/horror punk legends, Samhain!  

Master sound conspirator, Tristan Shone, will bring his cacophonous manifestation of cold, mechanical doom known as AUTHOR & PUNISHER to the streets in the coming months for a clobbering run of live takeovers.  

In addition to releasing their thirteenth full-length album, “A Skeletal Domain,” the death metal icons Cannibal Corpse will also be releasing their official autobiography, “Bible of Butchery: The Official Biography,” on September 16th.  

Having independently released their Self Titled debut LP (yeah, it’s named that) earlier this year, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based trio SECRET CUTTER is now set on devouring fans and unsuspecting victims in the live setting throughout the region and beyond in support of the LP.  

In just days, the 2014 installment of the annual gathering known as TNT Fest will overthrow Hartford, Connecticut, with four days of punk/oi/hardcore bands confirmed to perform at the largest edition of the festival to date.  

This past weekend, the 4B Wild West Biker Rally to Fuck Cancer 2014 happened! Along with several sketchy vendors, bike shops, sketchier attendees, and several more sex toys than one would think out in the open, Metal Machine was pleased to witness the stage stylings of Warrant (fronted by Robert Mason), LA Guns, Drowning Pool, and some band with the Redneck Nation in the title. It was Texas Country, so no loss. On to the review!!!!!  

Top 10 Billboard charting metal legion, WHITECHAPEL, will be returning to the road this Fall! In their interview with Phil Bozeman, Alternative Press declares, “WHITECHAPEL put in a lot of blood and sweat to maintain their furious reputation,” and that work will continue on October 10th when their next North American headlining tour commences.  

Last night, when Anthrax headlined the Rock Al Parquet 2014 Festival in Bogota, Colombia, the band’s drummer Charlie Benate took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – in front of more than 140,000 screaming fans.  

This past March, pummeling instrumental noise/punk/metal duo FOSSILS released their second full-length album, the merciless and deeply entertaining Flesh Hammer. At the subsequent shows during the Spring and Summer, the band’s crushing riff machine handed out severe sonic punches, not at least at Denmark’s biggest metal festival Copenhell, where FOSSILS opened the festivities in front of several thousand entertained metalheads.