Chrome Division, who include Dimmu Borgir frontman Shagrath on guitar, release their debut album in August. It’s called ‘Doomsday Rock ‘N’ Roll’ and is on the Nuclear Blast label.

Veteran British metalheads Xentrix and Onslaught are to headline a bill being dubbed ‘A Night Of British Thrash’, This happens at Bradford Rio’s on June 3, with the rest of the line-up being young bands Evile, Pitiful Reign and Headless Cross.

Atheist guitarist/vocalist Kelly Shaefer will be performing the Atheist classic ‘Piece Of Time’ with Australian metalers Alarum on Wednesday, May 24th in St. Petersburg, Florida at the State Theatre. This will be the very first time Kelly has performed this song live since 1993.

The Dillinger Escape Plan are to release their download only EP on June 13. Available through iTunes, it will feature new versions of old DEP songs ‘Unretrofied’ and ‘The Perfect Design’, plus covers of ‘Wish’ (Nine Inch Nails), ‘Angel’ (Massive Attack), ‘Jesus Christ Pose’ (Soundgarden) and ‘Like I Love You’ (Justin Timberlake).

Fireball Ministry will support Finland’s H.I.M. at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA on June 11th. This will be H.I.M.’s final U.S. performance of the summer, and the groups’ first West Coast show together. (They performed five concerts along the East Coast late last year as part of Bam Margera‘s inaugural Viva La Bands […]

A new interview with Danish rockers D-A-D is currently available online at this location.D-A-D released a new live DVD/CD package, entitled Scare Yourself Alive, on May 8th via EMI. The group’s latest studio album, Scare Yourself, was released in Europe via Noise/Sanctuary on May 23rd, 2005.

‘The Smoke’, the second single from the Eclipse album by progressive metallers Amorphis, is scheduled for release in Finland on June 7th. Included on the CD is the video clip for ‘House Of Sleep’.

Hatesphere have updated their website with new batch of live photos. Check them out at this location.As previously reported, Hatesphere‘s The Sickness Within album will be released in the U.S. on September 12th through SPV/Steamhammer.

Relapse Records has announced the signing of Poland’s Antigama. The Warsaw-based, progressive grindcore quartet is comprised of Lukasz Myszkowski (vocals), Sebastian Rokicki (guitar), Michal Pietrasik (bass) and Krzysztof Bentkowski (drums).

The premiere of the Beastie Boys’ new documentary ‘Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That’ is to feature in a series of music movies to be shown at London’s National Film Theatre.The Beastie Boys movie premiere will be screened on July 7, with full details to be confirmed in the near future. Directed by the band’s Adam […]