The cover artwork for VISCERAL BLEEDING‘s highly anticipated third full-length album, “Absorbing the Disarray“, has been posted online at this location. Aside from eleven devastating death metal tracks, the album contains two video clips as well. The full track listing is as follows:Audio portion:01. Bi-polar02. Disgust the Vile03. Despise Defined04. Perpetual Torment Commence05. Emulated Sense: […]

Displeased Records has set a November 28 release date for the reissues of the two classic ’80s thrash albums from ATROPHY — 1988’s “Socialized Hate” and 1990’s “Violent by Nature“. The CDs will be remastered, and will include bonus material, lyrics and biography.BNR Metal Pages says: Hailing from Arizona, ATROPHY fit right in with contemporaries […]

Colombian death metallers GORETRADE will release their second album, “Perception of Hate“, on November 28 via Displeased Records. The track listing for the effort is as follows:01. Impregnate with Deceit02. Perception of Hate03. Drifting Towards Extinction04. Revenge Shall be Mine05. Someone to Kill!!!06. Righteous Retribution07. Rising from Defeat08. Derogate09. Ritual of Flesh (2006 version)Audio samples […]

40 BELOW SUMMER has posted a new song, entitled “Relapse“, at www.myspace.com/crashmusicinc. “Relapse” is the single from the band’s new CD/DVD release, “The Last Dance“, which is set to hit stores October 31 via Crash Music.The “The Last Dance” CD features nine tracks of demos and never-before-released tracks. The package will also include a special […]

Veteran German hard rockers SCORPIONS are scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Monday, October 9 to begin recording their new album with songwriter/producer Desmond Child. Child, who has worked with such high-profile pop/rock artists as AEROSMITH, BON JOVI, ALICE COOPER, KISS, RICKY MARTIN, CHER, MICHAEL BOLTON and BONNIE TYLER, recently worked with Michael Beinhorn, […]

The Nirvana concert film “Live! Tonight! Sold Out!” will make its DVD debut Nov. 7 via Geffen. Originally issued on VHS in 1994, the release was conceived by Kurt Cobain as a way to anthologize Nirvana‘s quick ascent to rock superstardom but was not completed until after his 1994 suicide.The bulk of the DVD features […]

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-zone.com: What initially prompted the band to begin playing again? Rachel: “We missed our fans. We kept getting a lot of e-mails about how people wish we would get back together so they could see us. But we knew when […]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY is inviting fans to vote for the setlist for the band’s upcoming “Shot to Hell” tour. You can only vote once on each album. Voting ends October 14.To vote, visit the BLACK LABEL SOCIETY MySpace page under the “blog” section.In other news, several pictures from BLACK LABEL SOCIETY‘s September 26 concert at […]

Thom Yorke, Muse and Lily Allen were all big winners at the BT Digital Music Awards last night.The Radiohead frontman scooped the Best Artist Campaign and Best Use of Mobile awards, while Lily Allen fought off stiff competition to take the Best Pop Act award.Muse beat the likes of Hard-Fi, Kasabian and Editors to take […]

IRON MAIDEN‘s new album, “A Matter of Life and Death“, has been certified platinum in Finland for sales in excess of 30,000 copies. The CD topped the Finnish album chart for three weeks and currently stands at position No. 3.“A Matter of Life and Death” has sold 89,000 copies in the United States since its […]