FULL BLOWN CHAOS have joined the upcoming Santa Slaughter 2008 tour which kicks off in Hasselt, Belgium on November 28, 2008.

The Brooklyn bruisers will replace As Blood Runs Black who are unable to tour due to recent line up problems. Bury Your Dead and Emmure are the other featured bands with a bunch of others joining for different stretches of the three week jaunt... [More]

New Jersey-based quintet MUTINY WITHIN (formerly MUTINY) is scheduled to enter Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida in December with producer Jason Suecof (ALL THAT REMAINS, GOD FORBID, TRIVIUM, DEVILDRIVER) to begin recording its debut album.

The CD, which will mark the recording debut of the group's new guitarist Jeff Stewart, will be released in early 2009 via Roadruner Records... [More]

Metal Blade Records is very proud to announce the signing of the fierce UK Metal act MALEFICE!

Formed in Reading, Berkshire in 2003 MALEFICE made quite an impact with their monstrous debut album 'Entities'. Crossing the boundaries of Thrash and Death Metal, ‘Entities’ specialized in the same power groove that saw Pantera and Lamb Of God rise to legendary status in the field... [More]

In celebration of the release of Shinedown’s ‘Devour’, Nick and Barry from the band had a chat about their thoughts on the UK amongst other things in the following video blog... [More]

As I Am Ghost hit UK shores with their hard-hitting dark post-hardcore in December, they’ll also be releasing the first UK single to be lifted from recent sophomore album, Those We Leave Behind.

The crushing Bone Garden is a great representation of the album’s seamless melding of metal, melodic-hardcore and scream elements. Sweeping sing-along choruses are also integrated to startling effect... [More]

Rob Gravelle, guitarist for the Canadian Power Metal group Ivory Knight, has decided to take a sabbatical from the band to record his debut solo CD, tentatively entitled "No Plan B"... [More]

Yorkshire, UK progressive doom-death metallers THE PROPHECY have inked a deal with Code666 for the release of their brand new album titled "Into The Light"... [More]

A runaway success all across Europe, with the album "Worlds Collide" charting in the top 10 in ten different countries and over 3 million records sold worldwide, Apocalyptica have announced UK Dates In December. The video for the last single 'S.O.S.' had 50,000 hits in the first fortnight it was up, giving you some idea of the magnitude of their grassroots support.

02/12/08 Oxford, Carling Academy
03/12/08 Liverpool, Carling Academy
04/12/08 Nottingham, Rock City
05/12/08 Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall
06/12/08 Glasgow, ABC
07/12/08 Newcastle, Carling Academy
08/12/08 Bristol, Carling Academy
10/12/08 Portsmouth, The Pyramid
11/12/08 Sheffield, The Plug
12/12/08 London, The Astoria

Ragnar Vikse – Vocalist in Einherjer on the albums “Odin Owns Ye All” and “Norwegian Native Art”, has formed a new band called Spirits of the Dead. Their self titled album is just released. The band is described as a West-Norwegian-Psychedelic-Stoner-Folk-Rock Band, but it will be best to check out their music on their myspace site.

www.myspace.com/spiritsofthedeadmusic

Tampa, Florida's godfathers of death metal, CANNIBAL CORPSE have dubbed 'Evisceration Plague' as the title to the group's brand new studio album due out on January, 30 (D/A/CH/I), February, 2 (rest of Europe)... [More]

British technical metallers THE BOY WILL DROWN are currently in the studio recording their first ever album.

The band, who recently signed a multi-album, worldwide recording deal with Earache Records, are following in the footsteps of their idols DECAPITATED, having entered Hertz Studios in Bialystok, Poland to record their as-yet untitled debut album... [More]

POWER QUEST have added another show to their UK tour schedule in Manchester on December 8, 2008. The UK “Tour of Illusion”, promoting the bands highly praised ‘MASTER OF ILLUSION’ album kicks off in Birmingham a week earlier.

For the first time performing live together, POWER QUEST will introduce killer guitar duo Martongelli / Hudson, with recently recruited shredder Bill Hudson, well known from Cellador, Avian and Circle II Circle.

1st Dec - Birmingham Asylum
2nd Dec - Wakefield Strafford Arms
3rd Dec - London Purple Turtle (Thunderball Metal Night)
4th Dec - St. Albans The Horn (Fireforge Metal Night)
5th Dec - Colchester The Twist
6th Dec - Wales Hard Rock Hell Festival
7th Dec - Southampton Firehouse
8th Dec - Manchester Satan’s Hollow

The hugely successful Never Say Die! Club Tour will return this November in collaboration with Altamont Apparel in what will be the most hard-hitting tour of 2008. The line-up is as follows... [More]

British crossover thrashers SSS are preparing to head out on a UK tour with notorious hardcore punk act and NME cover stars FUCKED UP.

Having just finished a UK tour with DOOMRIDERS and TORTUGA, SSS are wasting no time in getting back out on the road again, and are due to kick off a string of UK shows with FUCKED UP this Sunday, November 9th.

Catch SSS with FUCKED UP at the following shows:

09 Nov 2008 - Birmingham, UK - Barfly
13 Nov 2008 - Stoke, UK - Sugarmill
16 Nov 2008 - Glasgow, UK - King Tuts
17 Nov 2008 - Sheffield, UK - The Corporation

Help celebrate the release of Mudvayne's highly anticipated album, "The New Game", by creating lists related to the band's unique metal sound at our friends, JamsBio.com.

Four lucky winners can choose between a pair of concert tickets to see Mudvayne on its upcoming tour or a limited edition, deluxe box set of "The New Game". The more you share, the better your chances. Visit http://jamsbio.com/contest/mudvayne to enter.

On Tuesday this week, Chicago-based Kill Hannah had a nasty wake up call – their tour manager shouting that the tour bus was on fire (see photo's).

Scrambling out half-dressed, all of Kill Hannah and their British support band My Passion managed to escape without serious injury, although all possessions inside the bus were lost... [More]

From the start, Shinedown have proven to be true road warriors, touring non-stop to bring their hard-edged rock ‘n’ roll to fans across the US. The band has performed countless headline dates, and shared stages with the likes of Seether, Van Halen, 3 Doors Down, Rob Zombie, and Godsmack.

They recently wowed UK audiences supporting Disturbed on their October Tour. They will be back in the UK early next year. Dates are... [More]

UK thrashers EVILE, who are currently thrashing up the West coast of Canada with Canadian metallers 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, have posted a tour report from the last leg of the tour.

EVILE lead guitarist OL DRAKE reports from the road... [More]

UK extreme metallers DETRIMENTUM have announced their participation on the upcoming "Cursed Trinity Tour" alongside blackmetal heavyweights HECATE ENTHRONED and all-girl death/blackmetal upstarts SEVERED HEAVEN.

DETRIMENTUM will bring their trademark brutal death metal with elements of black metal and doom, soaring melodies, ferocious aggression along with razor sharp blastbeats and guttural vocals to the stage on the following dates:

Oct 30 – UK Sunderland The Voodoo Room (w/ REVOCATION)
Oct 31 – UK Leeds Rio's (w/ NIL CARBORUNDUM, MORBID TYRANTS)
Nov 01 – UK Northampton The Racehorse (w/ REVOCATION, NEKRO DRAKO)

Known for their ability to mix a variety of heavy music from punk to hardcore, melodic death and black metal, Bleeding Through chose metal icon Devin Townsend to produce their new masterpiece, which can irrevocably be described as the breakthrough album of their 10 year long career.

Bleeding Through will be touring the UK in November supporting Bullet for my Valentine. The band will also do some headliner off dates... [More]

Earlier this year, The Hellacopters announced that they are putting an end to it. For good. 13 years of being the Rockn'Roll ministers of Sweden, the Popes of Powerpop, the Caesars of Scandinavian Rockugallia is right now ending with a final tour of sold out concerts all over the Nordics, and 2 days of pure rock at the 4 sold out gigs at Debaser Medis in Stockholm, Sweden.

And just as intensely as they have always done full throttle and stepped on the gas every single second they have been on stage - just as intensely they want to go out. And they want all their friends to join.

The Hellacopters invites all their fans and friends world wide to see their final gigs ever, streamed live on MySpace... [More]

The Bloodstock team have just announced that Swedish goth metallers KATATONIA have been added to the bill for BOA 2009 in an exclusive UK performance... [More]

Glasstone Records sign Shotgun Riot for the release of their "The Real Rock & Roll" EP

This five piece all residing from the London area, only formed late on in 2007 playing their first show in January of 2008. Since their arrival on the scene they have left a definite impression on anyone that has been lucky enough to catch them at one of their handful of shows... [More]

Gus Chambers, former vocalist of Dave Lombardo's thrash metal act, Grip, Inc., was found dead on October 13, 2008 of an apparent suicide, according to the Coventry Telegraph.

Gus, a Coventry, UK, native, also fronted a plethora of punk bands over his lifetime including Squad, 21 Guns, Sons of Damnation, and most recently Mantra Sect. His sudden alleged decision to take his own life is especially baffling, as Mantra Sect was scheduled to play a show tonight.

"I've been very lucky in my career," Gus recently told the Coventry Telegraph. "I have had the privilege of playing in front of thousands of people at festivals like Rock in Rio and the Dynamo Festival in Holland. Nothing though brings back fonder memories than playing in front of maybe 20 or 30 people in The Hand and Heart or the back room of The Swanswell."