Groundbreaking Japanese act SIGH entered the studio today in Japan to commence work on its seventh album, titled “Hangman’s Hymn“, due out in 2007 on The End Records. The band will be working with engineer Takamichi Osada at Studio Moopies and will produce the album themselves.About the new album, SIGH frontman/leader Mirai Kawashima says, “It’ll […]

On September 12, Roadrunner Records will be releasing a set of ultimate metal albums. These “best of” collections will pull together the best material from some of metal’s greatest artists. The first batch includes music from FEAR FACTORY, SEPULTURA, ILL NINO and TYPE O NEGATIVE.The details of the above-mentioned “best of” collections — including the […]

DEVILDRIVER‘s sophomore album, “The Fury of Our Maker’s Hand” — which originally came out in June 2005 — will be re-released on Halloween (October 31) as a special edition CD/DVD set. The new package will include three rare studio tracks and three “killer” live songs. The DVD will feature four music videos. A poster advertising […]

Finnish horror metallers DOMINATION BLACK have revealed the final track listing for their sophomore album, “Dark Legacy“, due later in the year via Poison Arrow Records.DOMINATION BLACK frontman “The Sentinel” KILLgast has described the sound of the new album as “melodic thrash-metal-meets-traditional and quite bizarre-metal!’“Dark Legacy” track listing:01. Enter The Dark Legacy (instrumental)02. Follow The […]

CALIGVLA, the one-man extreme death metal band hailing out of South Florida featuring mastermind Chris Placeres, has uploaded a track off its new album, “Bukkake Baptism“, entitled “Blasphemy In The Temple Of Caius“, at this location. All drums, vocals, guitars and bass were performed in there entirety by Chris Placeres.The artwork in question was created […]

German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR wll release a “best of” collection, entitled “Metal is Forever – The Very Best of Primal Fear“, on September 29 via Nuclear Blast Records (JVC in Japan). The album’s artwork was created by Stephan Lohrmann, who was also responsible for the cover of PRIMAL FEAR‘s “Black Sun” album. The 16-track […]

Paragon Records have posted a track, ‘The Shadow Out Of Time‘, from the upcoming EYES OF LIGEIA album, A Fever Which Would Cling To Thee Forever, at this location. The album is due out on September 9th.

New York quintet BRAND NEW SIN have returned with their anticipated new offering, “Tequila“, due on October 3 via Century Media Records. The track “Motormeth” can currently be streamed at this location. Soon after completing a six-week nationwide tour as direct support to BLACK LABEL SOCIETY last fall, BRAND NEW SIN entered Method of Groove […]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY fans can check out three clips from the band’s new DVD, The European Invasion – Doom Troopin’, which was released on August 22nd through Eagle Vision. Click the following links to check them out: ‘Stillborn’ ‘Suicide Messiah’ ‘In This River’ An e-card containing a preview clip is available here. And finally, GuitarPlayerTV.com […]

Norwegian metallers ALLFADER have posted their video for the song “We Will Go” at their official web site: Quicktime Windows Media The clip was directed by Stein Elvestad and edited by Elvestad and John Erik Andersen. The track taken comes off the group’s album “At Least We Will Die Together“, which is scheduled for release […]