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Between The Buried And Me hit Billboard
2011-04-21
KONG! sign with Tribunal Records
2011-04-21
Hekate to release new album
2011-04-21
Lost Reflection sign with SG Records
2011-04-21
Shining part with guitarist
2011-04-21
Sol Invictus to release new album
2011-04-21
Judas Priest part with K.K. Downing
2011-04-21
Nunfucktirual sign with Debemur Morti
2011-04-21
Stormwarrior re-release
2011-04-21
Omega sign with Z Records
2011-04-21
Canis Dirus recording new album
2011-04-21
Jamey Jasta to release solo album
2011-04-21
MyChildren MyBride members launch company
2011-04-21
Tornado album details revealed
2011-04-21
Diamond Plate finish debut album
2011-04-21
Galar announce live debut
2011-04-17
Witchrist sign with Osmose Productions
2011-04-17
Djerv sign with Mystic Production
2011-04-17
Shining announce Finnish dates
2011-04-17
Cause For Revelation sign deal
2011-04-17
Between The Buried And Me hit Billboard
2011-04-21
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, the brand new album, from globally celebrated progressive rock / cutting-edge metal innovators BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME (aka BTBAM), soars to #54 on the Billboard Top 200 chart while landing the #5 spot on the Hard Music chart, and #8 on the Independent Albums chart in its first week of release. The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues also debuted in Canada charting at #62 on the Top 200 Current chart, #6 Hard chart, and #14 on Independent chart. The new effort was released on April 12 via Metal Blade Records. The three-song strong, 30 minute tour de force was recorded at Canada's Metalworks Studios and Rattlebox Studios and produced / engineered by the Grammy award–winning David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, King Crimson, Dream Theater, etc.) with BTBAM.

"The response to the new album has been absolutely amazing!", commented BTBAM's Tommy Rogers. "It's always a rewarding experience to hear excitement about the music we create. These days it's hard to judge what people think of new music, and the early feedback on tour and the Internet has really motivated us to create an even more badass record for the second part of 'The Parallax'. See you all on tour!"

The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues represents BTBAM's musical and conceptual masterwork; the record showcases both the quintet's vivid execution and ambitious vision. The otherworldly conceptual thread linking each of the songs is mobilized around two human characters that live in different planes of existence and are separated by millions of light years, each confronted with similar personal issues. Subsequently, both characters make decisions that will change their lives, and perhaps the course of the universe, forever. Musically, the release presents aura-rich atmospheres rife with roaring volumes, corrugated rhythms and trance-inducing intricacies. Cerebral and visceral, soft and heavy, melodic and abrasive, tender and brutal, familiar and strange and taut yet sprawling and epic, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME has crafted a sound that is musically sophisticated yet primal and a disc where every new passage leads to the culmination of an epic adventure.

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME just kicked off a full-scale North American headlining tour in support of The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues. Presented by Peter Says Denim in association with Guitar World and MetalSucks.net, the tour features support from special guests Job For A Cowboy, The Ocean and Cephalic Carnage (on select dates).

KONG! sign with Tribunal Records
2011-04-21
KONG! formed in 2008 and despite the monstrous name implications they quietly toiled around the southeast making hardly a sound. It wasn’t until 2010 with a newly solidified line-up that something special began to occur. KONG! redefined and honed their hardcore sound while beginning a more targeted offensive.

Heading into Think Sound Studios with producer Drew Fulk (Advent, To Speak Of Wolves, Decoder, Brave Young) KONG! cranked out six brand new songs that would directly appeal to fans of melodic hardcore bands like The Ghost Inside, For The Fallen Dreams and Parkway Drive. Their efforts now surface in Mind Eraser, a debut release as mighty as their KONG! moniker would suggest.

FOR FANS OF:
TERROR, THE GHOST INSIDE, PARKWAY DRIVE and THE ACACIA STRAIN

Hekate to release new album
2011-04-21
Hekate have been working even longer on their new album than Sol Invictus, but the follow-up to 2004's "Goddess" is now finally going to be released on July 12th (in North America) under the title of "Die Welt der dunklen Gärten" (engl.: "The World of Dark/Cryptic Gardens"). On their fifth studio album to date, the group – which ranks among the pioneers of the German Neofolk scene – looks back to the mystical roots of their earlier works and forges a bridge from Classical elements and Oriental rhythms to melancholic Folk.
Below you can see the expressive cover artwork (which is intended as a homage to Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's painting "Per Aspera ad Astra") as well as the tracklist of "Die Welt der dunklen Gärten":

01. Byronic Hero
02. Jardin d' Anaïs
03. In my Garden
04. Seelenreise
05. Sanctus
06. Die dunkle Wolke
07. Per Aspera ad Astra
08. Idilia Dubb
09. Oh du Welt der dunklen Gärten
10. Opportunity of Time
11. The Present Day
12. Die blaue Blume
13. House of God

Lost Reflection sign with SG Records
2011-04-21
SG Records is glad to announce that "Florida" will be published soon, it's the first full length album by the Italian band Lost Reflection. The album was recorded in 2009, at the end of the break began in 2005, when Fabrizio Fulco, voice and founding member of Lost Reflection, went to Florida accepting the Ben Jackson (Crimson Glory guitarist) invitation to become the bass player of Ben Jackson Group.
Florida is the result of the experiences gained in the USA, hard rock sounds of pure American-style. The album was recorded at Locomotore Studio in Rome and mastered by SG Records.

Shining part with guitarist
2011-04-21
The following announcement was made by SHINING front man and founder Niklas Kvarforth:

“Guitarist Fredric Gråby has left the ranks of SHINING today because he no longer felt able to continue playing. Unfortunately this means that we have been forced to cancel our appearance at the Ragnarok Festival this month as there is not enough time for a new guitarist to learn the material.

“We are also pleased to announce that Christian Larsson, who has been playing bass with the band for some time on a temporary basis, has now has joined SHINING as a permanent full-time member”.

Niklas Kvarforth
20th April 2011

Sol Invictus to release new album
2011-04-21
The waiting finally comes to an end! Six years after "The Devil's Steed" and nearly twelve months after the album's harbinger "The Bad Luck Bird," the 10th of June is going to see a new album by Neofolk's founding fathers Sol Invictus, "The Cruellest Month." On their full-length debut for Auerbach Tonträger, the musicians around Tony Wakeford and Andrew King deploy all their skills and present an angular, combative, and painful album, one of a kind you haven't heard from Sol Invictus in a long time.
Today, we proudly present Tor Lundvall's cover painting for "The Cruellest Month" (see below) and the album's tracklist:

01. Raining in April
02. To Kill all Kings
03. The Sailor's Aria
04. Fools' Ship
05. Toys
06. Edward
07. The Bad Luck Bird
08. April Rain
09. Cruel Lincoln
10. Something's Coming
11. Stella Maris
12. The Cruellest Month
13. The Blackleg Miner

Judas Priest part with K.K. Downing
2011-04-21
IT IS WITH REGRET THAT JUDAS PRIEST ANNOUNCE THAT K.K. DOWNING HAS FORMALLY RETIRED FROM THE BAND AND WILL THEREFORE NOT BE JOINING THEM ON THEIR FORTHCOMING EPITAPH TOUR.

THE BAND RESPECT HIS DECISION AND NATURALLY ALL WISH HIM WELL.

HAVING THOUGHT LONG AND HARD ABOUT HOW TO PROCEED, ROB, GLENN, IAN AND SCOTT UNANIMOUSLY AGREED THAT THEY SHOULD GO AHEAD WITH THE TOUR AND NOT LET THE FANS DOWN ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

FATE ALSO STEPPED IN AND DELIVERED THE PERFECT REPLACEMENT - 31 YEAR OLD BRITISH GUITAR PLAYER RICHIE FAULKNER - HE HAS BLENDED INTO THE BAND PERFECTLY AND IS A GREAT TALENT WHO IS GOING TO HELP SET THE STAGE ON FIRE!

THE EPITAPH TOUR WILL INCLUDE SONGS FROM EVERY PRIEST STUDIO ALBUM AND ALSO TRACKS THEY HAVE NEVER BEFORE PERFORMED ON STAGE PLUS ALL THE OLD FAVOURITES!

WITH A NEW ALBUM DUE TO BE RELEASED NEXT YEAR THE METAL GODS ARE PREPARING TO TOUR THE PLANET ONCE MORE - HEAVY METAL AT ITS BEST COMPLETE WITH LASERS, LIGHTS, BIKES AND HELLFIRE!! IT'S A SHOW NOT TO BE MISSED!!

Nunfucktirual sign with Debemur Morti
2011-04-21
Debemur Morti Productions is proud to announce the signing of NUNFUCKRITUAL, a Norwegian horde consisting of Teloch (NIDINGR, MAYHEM...), Espen T. Hangård (KILLL, NOPLACETOHIDE...), Dan Lilker (NUCLEAR ASSAULT, S.O.D., ANTHRAX...) and Andreas Johnson (TYRANT, THE BLACK). The band is currently working on the finer details of the album. Soon, the recording will be mixed and mastered by Tom Kvålsvoll (DHG) at Strype Audio studio and in the meantime, Christian Sloan Hall is drawing the front cover.

Stormwarrior re-release
2011-04-21
On April 29th the STORMWARRIOR album „Heading Northe“ will be re-released by AFM Records. This new edition will include the song “Nighte Of The Storm” (formerly available available as Japanese bonus track only) and the video clip “Heading Northe”.

Tracklist:

1. And The Horde Calleth To Oden
2. Heading Northe
3. Metal Legacy
4. The Holy Cross
5. Iron Gods
6. Ragnarök
7. The Revenge Of Asa Lande
8. Remember The Oathe
9. Lion Of The Northe
10. Into The Battle
11. And The Valkyries Ride

Bonustrack “Nighte Of The Storme”
Bonus Videoclip “Heading Northe”

Omega sign with Z Records
2011-04-21
OMEGA are a all new signing to Z Records featuring the immense vocal talents of Lee Small [Shy, Phenomena]. The bands debut will be released on September 5th.

Canis Dirus recording new album
2011-04-21
Minnesota black metal group CANIS DIRUS reveal that they are recording the follow-up to their critically acclaimed MORIBUND debut album, A Somber Wind From a Distant Shore. Entitled Anden om Norr - which loosely translates, from Swedish to English, as "The Spirit from the North" - the duo's second album for MORIBUND will again be recorded at the band's own Harsh Winter Studios and will be mastered by AGALLOCH's Jason Walton. Additionally, one of the tracks will feature Claudio Alcara of FROSTMOON ECLIPSE on guitar.

Multi-instrumentalist TMP reveals more about CANIS DIRUS' forthcoming Anden om Norr: "Once again, we will take our inspiration from our beautiful nature / surroundings in northern Minnesota. As with the last album, A Somber Wind from a Distant Shore, the overall feel / atmosphere of the record will take on a more 'depressing / melancholy' view of how human scum continously treats nature with contempt and disrespect." Unfortunately, "we recently had a flood in the studio, which did some damage to some equipment, and also in the processs we lost some of the stuff we already had recorded. I have since 're-built' the studio and added some new equipment, which will definitely contribute to a much better production this time around."

CANIS DIRUS is completed by vocalist RH. Tentative release date for Anden om Norr will likely be during the fall of this year.

Jamey Jasta to release solo album
2011-04-21
JAMEY JASTA of HATEBREED & KINGDOM OF SORROW will be releasing a solo record simply titled "JASTA" this summer on July 25th, 2011 via Century Media Records (in Europe). A record many years in the making, this is a very different project for JASTA.

A diverse variety of guest appearances can be found on this record. Tim Lambesis (AS I LAY DYING), pro skater Mike Vallely (Revolution Mother), Philip Labonte (ALL THAT REMAINS), Randy Blythe and Mark Morton (LAMB OF GOD) and guitar god ZAKK WYLDE just to name a few.

MyChildren MyBride members launch company
2011-04-21
Robert Bloomfield and Matthew Hasting of the band MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE are proud to announce the launch of their very own clothing company, VICIOUS WORLD.

“We were very picky about the designs we wanted,” comments Matthew Hasting. “We want to make people think. Question everything around you. The world we live in is full of corruption. Whether you want to be or not, we are all apart of this vicious world.”

VICIOUS WORLD started with both founders wanting another avenue of creative expression and also being upset with how shirts never fitted them correctly. As a result, you have perfectly fitted garments with killer designs and slogans such as “It’s A Vicious World After All,” and “’Til Death Do We Art.”

Creating a new and refreshing design that caters to youth culture is something that both Robert Bloomfield and Matthew Hasting aspire to

Tornado album details revealed
2011-04-21
Ladies and Gentlemen! Finally the wait is over! American/Dutch/Finnish thrash metal band TORNADO have finished recording their Listenable Records debut “Amsterdamn, Hellsinki” at Abyss Studio with Hypocrisy/Pain mainman Peter Tagtgren for a June 2011 release. Recorded and Mixed over the span of 10 days in February, “Amsterdam, Hellsinki” is 12 tracks of fist pumpin, booty shakin sleezy thrash for a new generation of Pimp’s and Ho’s.

Commented singer Superstar Joey Severance “Finally after talking so much shit over these past few months the record is finished and can speak for itself. We are all very proud of this album and cannot wait to take our rock n roll circus on to the road. We in the TORNADO gang feel that we have written a top notch metal album that is all thriller and no filler and are very anxious to unleash it to the rest of the world”

TORNADO have uploaded 4 new tracks from the album at their various social networks as well as a video clip of the band in the studio.

Tracklisting for “Amsterdamn, Hellsinki” is as follows

01. A Bold Statement
02. Hate Worldwide
03. 3 of 8
04. Massive Extinction Impact
05. Eugenics
06. Ignorance Is Thy Name
07. Noora
08. Blue
09. Priesthood Pedophilia
10. Diva
11. Tunisia Uprising
12. Rise Disciples, Rise

As well as a blistering version of the L.A. Guns song “No Mercy” which will be included as a Japanese bonus track

Diamond Plate finish debut album
2011-04-21
Chicago thrashers DIAMOND PLATE recently finished recording their debut album, titled GENERATION WHY?. The album is due to be released later this year on Earache Records.

The highly talented young thrashers recorded GENERATION WHY? with producer NEIL KERNON (JUDAS PRIEST, NEVERMORE, DEICIDE, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD) at RaxTrax Studios in the band's hometown of Chicago, Illinois.

Galar announce live debut
2011-04-17
Since the release of their second full-length album "Til Alle Heimsens Endar" last year, Norwegian Black-Folk Metallers GALAR have been recruiting live members and preparing to take the band live. With founders M. Kristiansen (screams and rhythm guitar) and A. B. Lauritzen (clean vocals and bassoon) now having been joined by Specter (GRAVDAL, AETERNUS) on lead guitar, Phobos (GRAVDAL, AETERNUS, MALSAIN) on drums and Simon Futterlieb on bass, GALAR will make its live debut on the 19th April at the legendary Elm Street Rock Cafe’ in Oslo. Also appearing will be Dark Essence Records label-mates SULPHUR and the Oslo band FORCEFED HORSEHEAD.

Starting out originally as a two-man studio Project in Bergen, GALAR used guest musicians from a variety of musical genres to record "Til Alle Heimsens Endar", an album with the sound and feel of both black metal and folk metal. The title can be translated as “Until the End of All Worlds” and is a concept album based around Snorri Sturluson's history of Norwegian kings the "Heimskringla". As well as their live drummer Phobos, other guests on the album include Ricardo Odriozola on first and second violins, Hans Gunnar Hagen on viola, Siri Hilmen on cello, Morten Nome on double bass, and Cecile Langlie on female vox.

GALAR’s live debut in their home town of Bergen will take place on the 29th April at the Ungdomsklubben Bizarre supported by one of the new generation of local upcoming Black Metal bands HADENS and Hardcore Thrashers QUAVILA. More information about GALAR can be found on the band’s MySpace page at www.myspace.com/galarmetal

Below you can hear the track “Van” from “Til Alle Heimsens Endar”

Witchrist sign with Osmose Productions
2011-04-17
Osmose Productions is proud to announce the signature of the Chaos, War and Death Metal band WITCHRIST from New Zealand. Check out the excellent "Beheaded Ouroboros" album out on Invictus Records!

Djerv sign with Mystic Production
2011-04-17
We are very proud to announce that Norwegian band Djerv has signed a deal with Mystic Production who will release their debut album.

Spawn out of Trelldom, Animal Alpha and Stonegard they pull strings from their previous bands, but Djerv is still something new. It sounds different. It's aggressive rock, borderline metal and dangerously catchy. Yet wrapped in a blackmetal veil. Genres melt together as never before these days, and so seems to be the case with Djerv as well.

Their story is short but eventful. The first demos surfaced in early 2010, two weeks later they were booked for the most important festival in Norway, the Oya festival. The band went on to tour Norway in June and played many of the bigger Norwegian festivals during the summer. In August they released the “Headstone EP”, the release of the EP generated some good press for the band several key magazines featured them as one of the bands to keep an eye out for in 2011. In addition Dimmu Borgir has helped promote Djerv when they invited Agnete to participate on no less than three songs for their latest album, “Abrahadabra”. Amongst them the lead track of the album, “Gateways” where Agnete does a stunning performance both on the track and in the video.

Djerv is currently on the Norway Rock Tour with Purified in Blood and Insense, and they are also confirmed for the Inferno Festival April 22nd. More tour dates here

Commented by Michal Wardzala, CEO of Mystic Production:

'It doesn't happen too often, however it was obvious from the beginning that
Djerv is my biggest discovery. What talent, what class and what fantastic music! Those Norwegians are the most exciting, original, soul touching and ass kicking band I have heard in years! Signing them to Mystic for Poland and Czech Republic is a huge thing for us, we are proud and happy to welcome them in to the house. Now it's time to work our asses off and make people aware that new stars have just been born. Djerv has delivered that best metal album of 2012!'

Commented by the Erlend Gjerde:

"We are very proud to sign to Mystic Production for PL and CZ. Mystic, and especially CEO Michal Wardzala has been enthusiastic and a good friend of Djerv since its very inception which makes it extra fun for us to make this reality. We are very much looking forward to our first trip to Poland during the spring to meet people in the metal scene, and of course to come and play there. Hopefully that will happen during early fall of 2011."

Shining announce Finnish dates
2011-04-17
Swedish Extreme Metallers SHINING have confirmed that they will play a four date tour of Finland, home to their label Spinefarm Records, in May of this year. The tour is set to coincide with the release of their seventh full length album “VII / Född Förlorare”, which in English means “Born Loser”, and which is scheduled for world-wide release on the 25th of May. Dates for the Finland tour as follows:

Wed 11 May - Yo-Hall, Tampere
Thur 12 May - Lutakko, Jyväskylä
Fri 13 May - Henry's Pub, Kuopio
Sat 14 May – Nosturi, Helsinki

SHINING founder and front man Niklas Kvarforth will also be featured on U.S. Community Radio this weekend in an interview with DEREK RICE for his “Raise the Dead” show on the KDVS, Davis 90.3FM station. The show will air at 12:00 a.m. PT / 09:00 a.m. Central European Time on Sat 16th April and can be streamed live at http://www.kdvs.org/ . The show will later be archived and will be available at http://www.kdvs.org/show-info/1656?date=2011-04-16

SHINING recently debuted the track “Förtvivlan, Min Arvedel”, from the long-awaited “VII / Född Förlorare”, after announcing an amicable split from Indie Recordings and a move to Spinefarm Records. Guests on the album include WATAIN’s Erik Danielsson, Chris Amott of ARCH ENEMY, Peter Bjärgö of ARCANA and Nordman, one of Sweden’s biggest pop stars. Kvarforth also confirmed that due to the growth of the band and the various plans that were being made, he wanted to concentrate all his efforts on SHINING, and, with the exception of MANIAC’s band SKITLIV, where he is the guitarist, he would no longer be involved in any other projects except for the occasional guest appearance.

Shining - Förtvivlan Min Arvedel by PATRICIA THOMAS

Cause For Revelation sign deal
2011-04-17
Milwaukee metal/hardcore outfit Cause For Revelation have officially announced their signing to the UK's Loyalty & Devotion Records.

Loyalty & Devotion will be releasing the group's latest full-length album "Resurrecting The Hostility" worldwide this spring, with a planned UK tour to follow in fall.

The album was recorded by engineer Chris Wisco, at Belle City Sound (Nonpoint, Lazarus AD, Novembers Doom), and mastered in Florida at Safehouse Productions by the legendary James Murphy (Obituary, Death, Testament).

Check out Cause For Revelation's music video for "Destroying Recollections" from their upcoming Loyalty & Devotion debut right below:

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