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The 6th annual Summer Slaughter Tour is currently tearing through America till Aug. 25. This year, the trek features Cannibal Corpse, Between the Buried and Me, The Faceless, Periphery, Veil of Maya, Job for a Cowboy, Goatwhore, Exhumed and Cerebral Bore...

Over the past few years, Summer Slaughter has become one of the premiere package tours showcasing some of underground metal's finest artists. This year, Cannibal Corpse, Between the Buried and Me, The Faceless, Periphery, Veil of Maya, Job for a Cowboy, Goatwhore, Exhumed and Cerebral Bore, are all sharing the deadly bill...

Tough luck for bassist Aaron "Bubble" Patrick, who has been hospitalized with pneumonia mere days before he was to join his bandmates in DevilDriver on the Metal Alliance Tour 2012, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles reports. Patrick is undergoing tests and will miss at least the opening show -- a March 15 performance at SXSW in Austin. F...

On June 28th, The Faceless' new bassist Evan Brewer will release an all-instrumental, bass-only album via Sumerian Records. Brewer, formerly of Reflux and Animosity, has only recently joined the death metal mongers The Faceless. The bassist, who has been playing his instrument for 15 years, will showcase his skills on his debut solo album, the appropriately titled 'Alone...

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...

Here's a question for all of you, especially you heavy metal publicists out there: What's the difference between a 'break up' and an 'indefinite hiatus'? We ask because, as we reported last week, He Is Legend has called it quits. But they haven't 'broken up...

We doubt any of you watched the MTV Video Music Awards last night (unless you're girlfriend made you watch, in which case, dump that broad), because we sure as hell didn't. Given there isn't even a metal or hard rock video category, why would we...

For Winds of Plague's sophomore effort, 'The Great Stone War', the band sought out the talents of Sweden's Pär Oloffson, who also created the art for their debut on Century Media. The album's lyrical concept depict a future war on a worldwide scale, when humanity has regressed into stone-age technology and will fight to the end of civilization. "Jo...

A blog posted over at Invisible Oranges this week has us asking this question: Is it possible to love a band but hate their fans? Cosmo Lee wonders in the column if there's some sense of self-loathing involved in hating fans of a band you dig...

Our fave Swedes, In Flames, are ready to lay waste to American venues this fall. They're hitting the road in support of their latest album, 'A Sense of Purpose,' which was their first effort for E1, after stints at Nuclear Blast and Ferret...