-- Fifth album: The Eternal Return

The best non-Swedish Swedish melodic death metallers Darkest Hour is finally back with their fifth strike. Victory Records will be releasing "The Eternal Return" on June 23 while the band is currently in Europe touring with fellow acts Bleeding Through.

Darkest Hour @ myspace

-- Priest sets the world on fire Live

Defenders of The Steel and Nostradamus, British legends are gearing up to release a live album containing eleven songs. The thing about this new live set -titled A Touch Of Evil: Live- is that none of these eleven songs were available officially in live recorded format. Martin Walker and Brian Thorene are responsible for the recording process of the CD and the all of the footage was caught on tape during Judas Priest's previous two world tours. Tom Allom, who previously worked with the British Steelers in classic albums like Screaming For Vengeance and British Steel is again behind the production desk.

here is the full tracklist:
01. Judas Rising
02. Hellrider
03. Between The Hammer & The Anvil
04. Riding On The Wind
05. Death
06. Beyond The Realms Of Death
07. Dissident Aggressor
08. A Touch Of Evil
09. Eat Me Alive
10. Prophecy
11. Painkiller

-- Eyes Set To Kill unleashes a brand new video!

dual vocals? check!
trendy emo-ish haircuts? check!
brutal sounds with clean singalong hooks? check!
a hot bass player? check!
so yes this should be the new shit!

Eyes Set To Kill - Heights

-- Digital-only EP from SKYFIRE via Pivotal Records

Skyfire is back with a 4 song digital-only EP entitled Fractal which will be out in July. It can be considered as a small dose of whats coming next in september with the name of "Esoteric".
"Since we spent way too much time in the studio writing and recording and too little time giving anything back to the fans, we discussed with our label about releasing a few songs we wrote in 2005 or so. We recorded, mixed, and mastered these alongside the ‘Esoteric’ songs with new vocalist Jocke and guitarist Johan in order to make them available to our fans. We knew these songs weren't going to make our full length, because by the time we had signed a deal, we were flowing with new ideas. However, letting these songs go unreleased was always something sad for us, so it's awesome that they will be available to the fans digitally with exclusive artwork and everything.” comments bass player Martin Hanner on the band's
decision to release the EP.
here is the tracklist:
1.The Land of the Wolves
2.Bereaved in Denial
3.The Transgressor Within
4.Esoteric (‘Esoteric’ album preview track)

click here to preview the new tunez @ SKYFIRE's myspace page

-- countdown to Mystic Prophecy (again!)

Massacre Records just uploaded a trailer for heavy-to-the-bone metallers Mystic Prophecy's upcoming full-length.
here we go!

-- The Osbournes present proudly!

There seems to be a brand new documentary coming to theaters next year.
And as you can guess from the title of this post its about the mighty bat head master Ozzy. And its being produced by Jack and Sharon Osbourne. We keep our fingers crossed and hope its not anywhere near like the tv show they once been famous for. Anyway here is the first trailer made to public. (it's kind of an interesting fact that the trailer kicks off with a quote from Oscar Wilde - maybe the first rockstar ever-)

WRECKAGE OF MY PAST from MIKE PISCITELLI on Vimeo.

-- Swashbuckle - Cruise Ship Terror video

Pirate Metal is the new trend!
Yes [of violence] is pretty aware that you aleady now this fact. So here's a video from Nuclear Blast's new signings. Hailing from New Jersey -not a place famous for its piratean glory tales, i know- Swashbuckle's going to relaese their very own NB debut on july 27th.
Cruise Ship Terror


Swashbuckle @ myspace

-- Woe Of Tyrants announce fall tour dates

here are the confirmed dates for Ohio's Woe Of Tyrants' fall tour with God Dethroned, Abigail Williams and Augury

Sep. 30 - Tucson, AZ - The Rock
Oct. 01 - Phoenix, AZ - U.B.'s
Oct. 02 - Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction
Oct. 03 - San Marcos , CA - Jumping Turtle
Oct. 04 - West Hollywood, CA - Key Clb
Oct. 05 - San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside
Oct. 06 - Portland, CA - Satyricon
Oct. 08 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
Oct. 10 - St. Paul , MN - Station 4
Oct. 11 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
Oct. 12 - Cleveland, OH - Peabodys
Oct. 15 - Syracuse, NY - Lost Horizon
Oct. 16 - New York, NY - The Blender at Grammercy
Oct. 17 - Worcester, MA - Palladium
Oct. 18 - Springfield, VA - Jaxx
Oct. 19 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar
Oct. 20 - Rochester, NY - Penny Arcade

-- Vomitory's new album bonus DVD's trailer

VOMITORY 'Carnage Euphoria' bonus DVD trailer

-- Rammstein's 2009 European Tour Dates!

German speaking stars of industrial sounds have announced the confirmed dates for their upcoming tour in late 2009. The Band is currently working on their upcoming album in San Francisco.
here are the dates confirmed:
Nov. 08 - Portugal Lisbon Pavilhão Atlântico
Nov. 10 - Spain Madrid Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid
Nov. 12 - Spain Barcelona Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona
Nov. 14 - Spain Bilbao Bizkaia Arena
Nov. 16 - France Nantes Zénith Nantes Métropole
Nov. 18 - Switzerland Basel St. Jakobshalle
Nov. 19 - Switzerland Geneva Arena de Genève
Nov. 21 - Austria Vienna Stadthalle
Nov. 23 - Germany Munic Olympiahalle
Nov. 24 - Germany Leipzig Arena
Nov. 25 - Czech Republic Prague O2 Arena
Nov. 27 - Poland Katowice Spodek
Nov. 29 - Germany Cologne Lanxess Arena
Dec. 02 - France Lyon Halle Tony Garnier
Dec. 03 - France Strasbourg Zénith
Dec. 04 - Luxembourg Luxembourg Rockhal
Dec. 06 - Netherlands Arnheim GelreDome
Dec. 08 - France Paris Bercy
Dec. 09 - France Paris Bercy
Dec. 10 - Belgium Antwerp Sportpaleis
Dec. 11 - Germany Frankfurt Festhalle
Dec. 12 - Germany Stuttgart Schleyer-Halle
Dec. 14 - Germany Hamburg Color Line Arena
Dec. 15 - Denmark Copenhagen Forum
Dec. 17 - Germany Rostock HanseMesse
Dec. 18 - Germany Berlin Velodrom
Dec. 19 - Germany Berlin Velodrom