Burning the Masses

Finnish metal mavens Circle of Contempt will hit U.S. shores as part of the Over the Limit Tour with As Blood Runs Black, Oceano, Arsonists Get All the Girls, Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza, Thick as Blood, Burning the Masses and Blind Witness, with This or the Apocalypse and Son of Aurelius on select dates...

Knights of the Abyss, a thrashy death metal outfit from Glendale, Ariz., are currently working on their third album at White Lake, Mich.'s Dreadcore Studios with owner and producer Joshua Wickman (And Hell Followed With, Within the Ruins). "We are really excited to be having Josh work on this record," said bassist Griffin Kolinski...

San Diego quintet Burning the Masses will follow up 'Mind Control' with 'Offspring of Time,' due out July 20 via Mediaskare Records. The deathcore band has been compared to an amalgam of Between the Buried and Me, Cannibal Corpse and Necrophagist, so that pretty much sounds like something we'd like to damage our hearing with...

In the metal world, Suicide Silence are so hot, the individual members' body temperatures must be over 106 degrees a piece. The Orange County, Calif. deathcorists are releasing the single, 'Disengage,' on April 20 in album and remix form. The remix comes courtesy of Big Chocolate, aka Cameron Argon of Disfiguring the Goddess and Burning the Masses...