job for a cowboy

Action! PR, the full-service, boutique agency run by former Relapse PR maven Carl Schultz that represents artists like High on Fire, the Sword and a host of others, will sponsor their first official South by Southwest showcase on March 17 at The Mohawk...

The readers of Guitar World have spoken, and when it comes to 2009 in terms of extreme metal it gets no better than 'Ruination' from Job for a Cowboy. The Glendale, Ariz. band's album beat out last year's releases from Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth, Immortal and Suffocation...

San Diego deathgrinders Cattle Decapitation have themselves a new bassist, the band's third since forming in1996. They've enlisted Derek Engemann, formerly of Unmerciful, to join the fold. He replaces Rahsaan Davis and will "handle all upcoming touring duties," according to a statement from the group...

The 2010 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival enters its 12th year this spring, returning to Worcester, Mass. Taking place at The Palladium, the event will be held April 23 and April 24 -- a special kickoff party, sponsored by Atticus, will also take place on April 22...

The revelation the other day from Ozzy Osbourne that his namesake festival, Ozzfest, would be returning this summer after going dark in 2009 as a traveling festival and not a one-off destination date like 2008's installment, has metalheads talking...

On Jan. 20, Warped Tour architect Kevin Lyman and his camp confirmed what was one of the worst kept secrets of the latter half of 2009: Korn will be headlining the 2010 Rockstar Mayhem Festival, which kicks off July 10 in San Bernardino, Calif...

For Annotations of an Autopsy guitarist Jamie Sweeney, Jan. 22 marks "the start of a new era" for the British death metal act, for it is on that day that AOAA releases its sophomore LP, 'The Reign of Darkness.' The album, Sweeney tells Noisecreep, is the one he'd always envisioned AOAA writing...

"When I grew up, I was a total black metalhead." Impious drummer Michael Norén tells Noisecreep, explaining the inclusion of Gorgoroth, Dissection and, perhaps, the Black Dahlia Murder on his 'Your iPod Is Showing' list. "The people living in the small community where I was born and raised -- 72 inhabitants to this day -- miles away from civilization, were scared to death of me. Es

The rumors usually start this same time each year, and the rumors almost always end up being true. When Ozzfest was the summer's biggest rock tour, the rumors would start in the fall and run through much of the winter. But, its still early so at this stage, any suggestion of any band being on this summer's Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival should be taken with a grain of salt...

Following their successful run on this summer's Rockstar Mayhem Fest with the likes of Slayer, Black Dahlia Murder, Killswitch Engage and Job For a Cowboy, Polish blackened death metallers Behemoth will be returning to North America in early 2010 for another run of gigs both in the states and in Canada...