TheContortionist

Indiana tech-metal specialists The Contortionist recently dropkicked us with Intrinsic, their sophomore album. For the album, the quintet collaborated with Eyal Levi (Daath, Job for a Cowboy) and Jason Suecof (Trivium, DevilDriver), a musical marriage that has clearly paid off dividends...

Featuring hard rock and metal heavyweights like High on Fire, Chickenfoot, Chimaira Black Label Society, and Hatebreed, on their roster, there's no question that the folks at eOne mean business. The New York-based record label has been busy these past couple of years signing both veteran acts and younger, developing artists, all the while never bowing down to fleeting genre trends...

Conducting From the Grave, The Contortionist, Scale the Summit, Rings of Saturn, and Volumes and Structures will embark on the Slaughter Survivors tour this summer. Each band has at least one thing in common: none of them won the Facebook fan voting competition to fill the opening slot on the fifth annual Summer Slaughter tour...