Arsis

We love Joe Satriani and Tony Iommi too, but let's hear it for some other guitarists for once.

Both bands have 2018 albums on the horizon.

Arsis have just announced Unwelcome as the title of their upcoming fifth full-length album. The follow up to the Virginia-based tech-death metallers' 2010 release Starve for the Devil, will be released on April 30 via Nuclear Blast records...

Arsis has announced Shawn Priest as the full-time replacement for recently departed drummer, Mike VanDyne. Priest, who has toured with Arsis in the past, will be behind the kit for the Virginia melodic death metallers' upcoming fifth studio album...

Thanks to the folks at The Daily Swarm, Noisecreep just found out about a hilarious video clip from last year (Yeah, we know we're late on this). Johnny Orlando Jr's Antibiotic Resistant Metal Show ripped a page out of the Howard Stern/Stuttering John book of interviewing...

It's time to rejoice, since Nuclear Blast Records is launching its 'Rock Band' Network for all 'Rock Band' XBox 360 network users -- aka gaming nerds -- that love metal, and there is no shame in that. Music from the Bay Area factors heavily into this first round of songs, including Testament, Death Angel and Exodus...

On May 6, grind-prone death metallers Dying Fetus will launch a headlining tour in their native state of Maryland. The Metalsucks-sponsored Facemelter Tour will launch in Baltimore, with Misery Index and Arsis providing direct support to Fetus, whose sixth studio set, 'Descend into Depravity,' dropped last summer...

In an era where fans are downloading music off the Internet without paying for it, Nuclear Blast Records and Amazon are teaming up to make downloaders feel less like the criminals they're portrayed to be by the RIAA. The companies have assembled the 'Sinister Spring Sampler,' a collection of 11 songs by Nuclear Blast artists, and they've put it online...

Relapse has made another addition to its already impressive roster with Dallas' Kill the Client. The band has been an entity since 2004, but if you haven't yet had your senses assaulted by KTC, they were more than happy to give us a reference point...

Last week was a healthy week for metal in stores. HIM debuted at the top spot on the Hard Rock charts, with 26,000 copies scanned in a 'hearty' – get it?- debut. Fear Factory landed at 6 on the Hard Rock chart, with 10,300 in sales for their first album with Dino Cazares back in the lineup. 4,00...