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1349 guitarist Archaon has contributed leads to the upcoming third album by Italian melodic black metal band Nefarium, 'Ad Discipulum,' which is scheduled for release on May 11 on Agonia Records. The disc features new drummer Garghuf (ex-Gorgoroth, Enthroned) and also includes guest vocals by Mortuary Drape frontman Wildness Perversion...

Florida-based death metal pioneers, Cannibal Corpse have announced their first headline shows since they played the Hot Topic stage on 2009's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. The tour will launch April 20 in Orlando, Fla. and run through May 16 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla...

Black metal rising to prominence isn't something that the members of 1349 spend time worrying about. The homogeny and outgrowth of the genre -- which praises all things blasphemously evil and Jesus-hating -- doesn't scare the band, whereas many black metal acts spend their moments trying to keep their genre out of the light and firmly entrenched in the dark...

Not one. Not two. But three -- three! -- tours are in the works for 1349. While our count off may have sounded a bit like the Count from 'Sesame Street,' it's a celebratory notion, to think that Norwegian hell raisers 1349 will cover U.S. soil with their black metal maelstrom this year...

1349 are pumping the black metal brakes on their latest, 'Demonoir,' due out on Prosthetic Records on April 27. "'Demonoir' is an incredibly dense album," drummer Frost, who has been with the band for a decade and who is perhaps best known for his other gig behind the kit in Satyricon, told Noiscreep...

Having toured pretty much nonstop since the February 2009 release of their latest album, 'Evisceration Plague,' Cannibal Corpse are taking a well-deserved rest when they return from their current South American tour on Feb. 21. Then they'll start working on some new songs for their next record, and before you know it, they'll be back on another North American headline tour...

Sworn Enemy - 'Total World Domination' - Century Media I think of hardcore and metal in a cage match and this album was the end result. It carries the old school hardcore resonance, and then out of nowhere comes in some double pedal bass drum...

By now, everyone has heard about last month's Scion Rock Fest - the stacked (and I mean STACKED) lineup, the various stages, the suspiciously green-tinted air during High on Fire's set, the unexpected blizzard that left tons of attendees and bands stranded...