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Bring several pairs of earplugs if you plan to attend this tour. Rocky Mountain hydro grinders Cephalic Carnage will join the West Coast leg of the forthcoming Between the Buried and Me, Job For a Cowboy and the Ocean tour. Despite the band's well-documented adoration for the green stuff, they aren't suffering from the lazy syndrome that afflicts many stoners...

Cephalic Carnage are back to transform your brain into a puddle of mush -- since their name refers to a gaping head wound -- with the brand new song 'Abraxas of Filth' from the forthcoming album 'Misled By Certainty.' I am proud to report -- and you'll find out by checking out the song for yourself -- that the band's self-styled "Rocky Mountain hydro grind" style remains firmly intact...

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...

High on Fire aren't the only band writing about author David Icke's theories about an ancient reptile society that continues to rule all financial and governmental matters conducted on the earth. California tech-grind band Embryonic Devourment, it seems, are also inspired by Icke, as evidenced by their new song 'Militarized Reptoids,' which they recently posted on their MySpace along with 'Darken

On Christmas Eve, with all the stores and restaurants closed (except Chinese restaurants, of course) and all the TV channels broadcasting lame holiday specials, what could be more heartwarming than metal? Gorgoroth and Cephalic Carnage are fine, but over the next two days we recommend you check out some holiday songs recorded especially for the season...

The grinders that occupied Precious Metal's showcase floor on Monday, Aug. 3 at the Lit Lounge were just happy that people were actually watching them at a New York City show. "And they're not all in bands," proudly added Clinging to The Trees of a Forest Fire's drummer J...

Ryan Knight from The Black Dahlia Murder is currently on the road with the Rockstar Mayhem Fest. He's chimed in from the early days on the road, and now here's even more 'metal minutia' for you. Day Six Today we have to drive from Seattle, Wash...

So, a stage prop breaks your nose and knocks you on your a-- on national television. What do you do? Try to glean as much press from the incident as you can, while people still care. That seems to be Poison frontman Bret Michaels' agenda this week...

We empathize with anyone who wouldn't want to visit Mexico right now. All this talk of swine flu's got us paranoid about even leaving the office, let alone hoping on a plane bound for Cancun. Seems we're not the only ones. Its Tuesday morning, and the metal news starts now...