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Suicide Silence and Whitechapel will co-headline a U.S. tour this fall with Despised Icon, Carnifex and Oceano as support.

Canadian deathcore peddlers Despised Icon will close the file on their career with a final tour. After four full-lengths and the type of touring schedule that will make you weary just looking at it, the band will do a victory lap with on final U...

These days, there are metal bands of all kinds operating on all kinds of budgets, from barely-indie level all the way to major label productions. In Europe, though, no matter how big or small you are, a metal band can get the whole nine yards when they tour there -- a situation recently experienced by avant-grindcore band Iwrestledabearonce...

The genre of rap rock isn't new, but it isn't exactly common for an artist to make the leap from hardcore rap to metal, either. Enter singer and lyricist Richy Nix, a Detroit-area rap/metal hybrid. From humble beginnings of playing with beats and earning a name for himself around Michigan, Nix earned a coveted slot on Universal Record's talent roster...

Montreal extreme metallers Despised Icon have taken to their MySpace page to reveal some rather disheartening news: They're throwing in the proverbial towel after eight long years together. "The time has come for us to move on," reads the post...

Another week down and another week of decent sales! Story of the Year scanned 14,000 records with 'Constant,' while Carnifex moved over 3,000 units in just a week on the shelves. Brand newbians Chelsea Grin also moved 1,500 pieces in their first week, which is very healthy for a brand new buzz band on the scene...

While California's Winds of Plague recently wrapped up their aptly-named California Love Tour, there will be no rest for the wicked, as they'll hit the road in January on the Never Say Die Tour with Despised Icon and Stray From the Path. "This tour is rough, since I am a California boy to the core and I do not do well in the whole cold weather thing," vocalist Johnny Plague told Noisecr

California's Winds of Plague had no trouble rebounding from the untimely departure of keyboardist Kristen Randall earlier this year. Vocalist Johnny Plague said things are looking up for the constantly touring band, who are about to wrap up their 'California Love' trek, in the post-Randall era...

Modern day death metallers -- they don't like the 'death core' tag and they told us so when they visited our offices -- Despised Icon enlightened American metalheads about the holiday in their country. Yes, they celebrate Halloween. But they're not super duper Halloweenheads...

Massive could be an understatement when it comes to the response to metal releases this past week. Coming in with the full reports as always, the good folks at Metal Insider reported some big debuts and numbers for new albums that dropped this past week...