As we previously reported, Decapitated and the Faceless will be hitting the road for this year's Summer Slaughter Tour, which launches June 17 in San Diego and runs through Aug. 23. All Shall Perish, the Red Chord, Veil of Maya, Cephalic Carnage, Decrepit Birth, Carnifex, Animals as Leaders and Vital Remains are also on the bill...
This summer, there will be a ton of festivals to keep fans drunk, sunburned and rocked, but what's the heavy metal fan who doesn't dig Korn to do? Enter the annual Summer Slaughter Tour, which always promises to be a more underground undertaking than the usual festival fair -- a tour for the more discriminating longhairs...
Following a 12-year hiatus, Dutch technical death metal veterans, Pestilence, reformed in 2006 and now they're finally making it back to North America to tour for the first time in 16 years. The band will launch a 17-date trek with Warbringer, Vital Remains, Enfold Darkness and Sacrificial Slaughter, which starts May 30 in Baltimore and runs through June 17 in New York City...
How did we live before YouTube? After all, within minutes of a major news event, you can find it on YouTube. Missed your favorite metal band in concert? It'll pop up on YouTube. You can rock out to metal animal videos, too. Yeah, all thanks to YouTube...
The Faceless will spend the fall co-headlining a tour with Dying Fetus and receiving support from Beneath the Massacre, Vital Remains, Annotations of an Autopsy and Enfold Darkness. The tour will run from November through December. Afterwards, the band will hit the European tour festival circuit through February before commencing work on their next record for Sumerian...
Reigning kings of Egyptian-themed technical death metal Nile have debuted the new track 'Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld' on their MySpace page earlier this week. The song comes from their upcoming release, 'Those Whom the Gods Detest,' scheduled for a Nov...
Here's a question for all of you, especially you heavy metal publicists out there: What's the difference between a 'break up' and an 'indefinite hiatus'? We ask because, as we reported last week, He Is Legend has called it quits. But they haven't 'broken up...
We doubt any of you watched the MTV Video Music Awards last night (unless you're girlfriend made you watch, in which case, dump that broad), because we sure as hell didn't. Given there isn't even a metal or hard rock video category, why would we...