-- Have you heard the new Gojira track?

Taken from the new EP they'll be releasing to benefit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society comes a new track titled "Of Blood And Salt" featuring Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah) and Devin Townsend.

-- Dimmu Borgir's one night only performance with Orchestra & Choir

We've been hearing about this "never-to-be-repeated" performance for quite some time. It finally took place in Oslo's Spektrum on Saturday May 28th. Here's a fully orchestrated live version of "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" from that night. For more footage from the concert click here.

-- Finntroll's Nifelvind is coming!

For more info about the new Finntroll release:
www.finntroll.net
www.myspace.com/officialfinntroll

-- Ladies & Gentlemen here comes The Kandidate!

The Kandidate's Napalm Records debut "Until We Are Outnumbered" will be out soon. The band, fronted by ex-Hatesphere singer Jacob Bredahl, have just put online a video for the song Give Up All Hope. For more tunes and info about these rocking(and rolling for sure) death metallers click here.

5to1: 5 Q&A with Hungarian black metal perfectionists 'de profundis'

Finally a brand new edition of 5 Q&A interview series.
[of violence] sincerely hopes you would enjoy this one. Hungarian duo is back in 'action' after their quite long hiatus.
By the mean time before you move on to read the rest, maybe you'd like to hear the tracks from the EP. www.myspace.com/deprofundishu

1 Let's start with the 7 year hiatus and getting back together. What were the reasons to give that kind of a break? And what you guys missed most in that period of time?

- The main reason was that I finished a long relationship and I wanted to change my life. I got a job opportunity in London, so I made the move and left Hungary. I was going to stay for a year, maximum, but at the end it turned out to be 7 long years. Meanwhile, Yzokras was focusing on his studies, got diplomas in Hungarian and German languages and literature.
Well, I think what we missed the most was the lost oppurtunity of creation, but on the other hand we got time for developing our style and the band became more sophisticated.
So, basicly after I came back we immediately started to work on de profundis, again. We were full of ideas, I managed to put together a small home studio, so there was nothing in the world at this time that could have stopped us.

-- Bonecrushing heaviness from Speedblow!

Black souled metallers Speedblow are about the release their first full length album via Trailblazer Records. They've just uploaded two brand new tracks, Blood of The Innocent and Silence Is Breaking at their Myspace page.  By the way the breathtaking cover artwork for the album was done by none other than Vance Kelly.

-- Gothminister's Freaky Intentions!

Norwegian Industrially gothic metallers have just made their new video 'Freak' available for your viewing pleasures.

--Shai Hulud's European Tour Dates!

They'll be hitting to European shores once again in February/March 2010.
here are the confirmed dates:
26/02/10 – IT - Mezzago - Bloom
27/02/10 – IT - Montecchio Maggiore (VI) - Yourban
28/02/10 – DE – Stuttgart - Juha West
01/03/10 – DE – München - Feierwerk
03/03/10 – PL - Katowice - Cogitatur
04/03/10 – DE - Berlin - Cassiopeia
06/03/10 – NL - Goes - 't Beest
07/03/10 – UK - High Wycombe - The Nags Head
08/03/10 – UK – Bristol - The Croft
09/03/10 - UK - Leeds - The Well
10/03/10 – UK - Manchester - Moho
11/03/10 - UK - London - Purple Turtle
12/03/10 – DE - Trier - Ex-Haus
13/03/10 – CH – Will - Dance of Days Festival @ Gare de Lion
14/03/10 – FR – Dijon - Les Tanneries
15/03/10 – DE - Frankfurt - O 25
16/03/10 – BE - Mechelen - JC Metteko
17/03/10 – DE - Hamburg - Hafenklang
18/03/10 – DE - Erfurt - Unikum
21/03/10 – IT - Rome - Locanda Atlantide

click here for more up to date info on tour & the band.

--So Far So Good: Confirmed line-up of Summer Breeze 2010

Here are the confirmed bands to play at next year's Summer Breeze festival:
1349
AHAB
ANATHEMA
ASPHYX
BARREN EARTH
BEHEMOTH
CALLISTO
CANNIBAL CORPSE
CUMULO NIMBUS
DARK FUNERAL
DARK TRANQUILLITY
DESPISED ICON
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER
DYING FETUS
EISBRECHER
EISREGEN
ENSIFERUM
FIDDLER'S GREEN
FREI.WILD
FEUERSCHWANZ
GORGOROTH
GWAR
HAIL OF BULLETS
HYPOCRISY
ILL NINO
INSOMNIUM
KORPIKLAANI
KYLESA
LEAVES' EYES
LETZTE INSTANZ
LONG DISTANCE CALLING
MAROON
MONO INC.
MY DYING BRIDE
NECROPHAGIST
OBITUARY
ORIGIN
ORPHANED LAND
PANTHEON I
POISONBLACK
REBELLION
SEPULTURA
SOLSTAFIR
SUBWAY TO SALLY
SWALLOW THE SUN
THE CROWN
THE DEVIL'S BLOOD
TRACEDAWN
WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH
WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER

-- Meshuggah's live CD+DVD on the way!

It's been a long wait but as we see from the previews it'll definitely worth the wait. Sweden's favorite sons finally set the release date for the live CD+DVD pack entitled "Alive". On February 5 we'll be banging heads with the Meshuggah's unique chaotic spiral riffage. Here's the trailer of the upcoming DVD:

-- Pentagramnation on the Rise!

On October 13, LA's thrashy death metallers Rise has released their 4th record. Here's the video for the title track of the album, Pentagramnation!

for more info: www.myspace.com/risedeathmetal

-- Halford's 'Get Into The Spirit'

A brand new video compiled from footage shot during the recording sessions of the metal god's latest solo effort 'Winter Songs'

-- FESTERED "Flesh Perversion" out now via Razorback records

Here's the Razorback's press release of Festered's 'Flesh Perversion' album:
Out now on Razorback Recordings! FESTERED is pure "blood and guts" DEATH METAL done the old-school American way! Imagine a mix of Death "Scream Bloody Gore", Autopsy "Mental Funeral", Master from 1985, Slaughter(Canada) "Strappado", and the morbid feeling of the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and you get an idea of what this is all about! Nothing modern here...and no triggers or polished production. This is simply dirty and raw DEATH METAL the way it should always be! Artwork was drawn by the cult underground artist Drew Elliott, who drew the classic album art for the very first Necrophagia album cover, along with cult EP covers for Goreaphobia, Amorphis, and more! Mixing and mastering once again provided by Patrick Bruss (Impetigo, Cianide, etc). Features the lead singer of Father Befouled!
for more info:
www.razorbackrecords.com

-- Another visualized sonic attack from Baroness

from Baroness's 2009 album 'Blue Record'

CANOPY - Will and Perception [2009]

Disconcert Music
2009
[7/10]

www.myspace.com/canopy

Yes, it's Swedes again. It's in their nature to dominate the European metal cycles. We hardly ever come across a mediocore band hailing from those icy shores.
Canopy has been releasing their blend of brutality meets melody type death metal since 2004. Don't let this brand new Disconcert Music release of the band entitled Will And Perception misguide you. No, it's not the same demo/EP they put out back in 2005. However, all five tracks from that demo EP are present in this new cd in their re-recorded forms. Plus, 'Common Walls' from the band's very first demo is also revised and revisited for this new installment of Will And Perception. That leaves us with only two new tracks, an experimentation of acoustic sounds overlaying electronic structures called 'Councels And Maxims' and 'Riddance'. Latter sounding more or less quite like the band has just finished studying the 'Åkerfeldt songwriting method book'.
Canopy's way of injecting brutal yet catchy death metal aesthetics of their homeland into their own riff writing and song patterns -even though still lacking some creative ideas- is well worthy of exploring. Fans of Dark Tranquillity's late 90's era stuff will also be pleased to hear Fredrik Huldtgren's guttural practices on various moments of the Will And Conception '09.
Want to hear it for yourself? click here to get the track numero uno from the CD directly via Canopy official website.

-- Highlights from the Classic Rock Magazine's Awards Ceremony

-- SadDolls' new video 'Watch Me Crawl Behind'

for more info:www.myspace.com/saddollsband

-- Amon Amarth 'Vs. The World' reissue details

Swedish viking's both critically and fan-wise praised album is now being reissued via Metal Blade on 6/7 November.
This is the statement from Metal Blade about the release:
The re-issue comes in a lavish Double-digipak with an individual three-dimensional fold-out pop-up. All four digipak reissues add up to one big picture when put together. CD 1 includes the remastered ’Versus The World’ album. CD 2 bears the same tracklist as CD 1, recorded live at the band's December 31, 2008 show as part of the ‘Bloodshed over Bochum’ concert series. Add to this a 16-page booklet with interesting liner notes.

-- Saxon documentary trailer

Here's the five-minute trailer of the Saxon documentary entitled 'Heavy Metal Thunder - The Movie'

-- Deadwalk's Scandalous intentions

Montreal sons Deadwalk has just issued a video teaser of their debut record Scandalous. Recently They've joined forced with ex-To Die For frontman Greg Kepka. Whatsmore Scandalous will also feature a guest appeareance of Stick To Your Guns's voice Jesse Barnett. The record is now scheduled for a November 24, 2009, release via Year of the Sun Records. You can hear some of Deadwalk violence @ their mypsace page.