-- Former SOIL member's dirge

KOCH Records has changed into E1 Music, and Dirge changed their name to Dirge Within. Now it seems the right time to release the debut record of ex-Soil guitarist Shaun Glass' new band. Scheduled to be on the shelves & mp3 stores on September 1st, Force Fed Lies is described as a "no bullshittin'" album by the axeman himself.
click here to download the title track in zip format now!!
and check out Dirge Within @ myspace for more news: www.myspace.com/dirgewithin

-- video stills from new Shadows Fall video

As the countdown for the new Shadows Fall records still goes on and on. It is just announced that the first video of the album for the song Still I Rise is ready to premiere on August 11th at myspace. Until that day we have some video stills of the shoot.

-- Municipal Waste in Color

Municipal Waste's Massive Aggressive is being released in various cool-like-hell formats for die-hard thrashers.
click on the pic below to view the goodies in full.

-- ladies & gentleman : "Ov Fire and The Void"

Behemoth's new video we've been longing for is finally premiered!!

Behemoth "Ov Fire And The Void" from Metal Blade Records on Vimeo.

-- Virginia's finest set the controls for the new album

Born in Virginia, raised by death metal forefathers, Arsis is ready to record the fourth studio album of their career. So far we'll be hearing the new tunez at most early in 2010. The recording sessions will start in late 2009 with Chris "Zeuss" Harris (of Hatebreed & Municipal Waste production credits). The cover artwork is going to be designed to perfection by none other than Mark Riddick.
The possible album title is set to "Starve For The Devil" for now. The founding member sticksman Michael Van Dyne is back in the gang. "The new Arsis record is coming along great. We have eleven new original songs nearly completed, as well as a cover song which will probably be used as a bonus track. Recording this album should be a blast, and the fact that we'll be working with one of the world's top metal producers will only make the experience that much cooler." states Van Dyne.
Arsis @ myspace : www.myspace.com/arsis

-- True Metallers Zandelle unleashes a brand new video

www.myspace.com/zandelle

Dark Nemesis - Zandelle Music Video

-- A Taste Of Extreme Divinity final track list confirmed!

Hypocrisy is back! And the final track list has just been announced by Nuclear Blast headquarters. The official release date of the new Hypocrisy soon-to-be-heard masterpiece is October 23rd.
for more updates: www.myspace.com/hypocrisy


traclist will be as follows:
01. Valley Of The Damned
02. Hang Him High
03. Solar Empire
04. Weed Out The Week
05. No Tomorrow
06. Global Domination
07. Taste The Extreme Divinitiy
08. Alive
09. The Quest
10. Tamed "Filled With Fear"
11. Sky Is Falling Down

-- The "making of..." Sonata Arctica's new video

SONATA ARCTICA - Flag In The Ground - MAKING OF

-- Kerrang! awards 2009

On a very British evening of August 3th the annual Kerrang! magazine award ceremony took place. The event was hosted none other than Scott Ian of Anthrax and Corey Taylor of Slipknot/Stone Sour. here are the winners:
Best British Newcomer - In Case Of Fire
Best International Newcomer - The Gaslight Anthem
Best Single - The Prodigy, Omen (pictured)
Best Video - Mastodon w/ Oblivion video
Classic Songwriter - Linkin Park
Spirit Of Independence - The Wildhearts
Kerrang! Icon - Alice In Chains
Best Album - Death Magnetic by Metallica
Best Live Band - Slipknot
Kerrang! Inspiration - Machine Head
Hall Of Fame - Limp Bizkit
Best British Band - Bullet For My Valentine
Best International Band - Slipknot

click here for more cool stuff from the awards ceremony.

5to1: 5 Q&A with Greek newcomers Celestial Immunity

[of violence] keeps coming across some fine metal from all over the world with the help of myspace. This time we are presenting an interview of Celestial Immunity, a fresh Greek band worthy of receiving some more attention. George Stoiloudis, responsible for band's vocal duties and lyrical concept, was the victim of [of violence]'s 5 questions. Here we go!1 Celestial Immunity was formed in 2006 but it seems it took awhile until February '09 for you guys to settle down and record a demo.. didn't want to rush things?
- Yes it took us 3 years to be ready for our first demo. In fact we had a few changes in the line up and our drummer had military duties. So thats why it took us so long to prepare the songs. Of course we want rush things but if you force things you probably do something wrong, we want the time to be in our side not against us! :D The time has come and we recorded our demo and we are very happy.

2 Could you give us more info about 5-track demo "...Lost In Shades" which is limited to 500 copies only ?
- Our demo was recorded between February and April 2009. At the end of April we finished the recordings and we begun mix/mastering with our sound engineer Doukas Siskopoulos. The recordings took place at Music Temple Studio at Alexandroupolis/Greece.The demo includes 5 songs and the artwork/layout made by Dimitris Polymeridis. We decide to release only 500 copies just for the beginning to see how it goes and if we need more copies its easy to be created. All music written by our guitarist Simos and Celestial Immunity. All lyrics written by me. Produced by Doukas Siskopoulos owner of Music Temple Studios and Celestial Immunity. The title of the demo is "...Lost In Shades" and our lyrics discourse subjects about the human feelings and souls, about the failure and how we ruin our lives and overall about sad and depressed themes.
3 How's the reactions you've received about the demo? Both from Greek scene and international audience?
- We are very happy because we hear only good criticism about our songs and the audience here in Greece is very excited about our music. This is the feedback we received and you know we are out here especially me i go to all gigs to the northern Greece and i hear very good comments about our music. We havent received any criticism by a zine or major metal magazine because we send our 5-track demo recently. So we wait for the criticism of major magazines and zines with great impatience. We have our site in myspace and the comments are very good. The feedback is that keep us chained together as a band and give us strength to go on.4 It's kind of a tradition to ask a newcomer band about their inspirations, reasons to form a band and write songs.. so what are yours? [of violence] would like to know about your all time favorite albums too..
- Heeh thats an easy question. Inspirations? The darkness, sadness, failure, the hope, all the human feelings even fanatsy themes like our song called Angels Cry. All the sad situations we ever lived, our unfulfilled dreams everything is possible to insipre us. We formed Celestial Immunity because we want to express all our feelings, thoughts through the music. We do reahersals we go out and drink beers you know its the whole package i think that lead us to form the band. We love what we do and we have faith to Celestial Immunity. Many bands insipred us but i think the most important with the most effectiveness are Dark Tranquillity/At The Gates/Amon Amarth/In Flames/Rotting Christ/Septic Flesh and our favourite albums are Damage done or the last of DT/ With odin on our side of Amon Amarth The jester Race of In Flames, Triarchy of the lost lovers of RC and the list goes on.
5 Whats next for Celestial Immunity? i guess booking live shows is top priority for the moment, right?
- Right! We wanna play live shows all over the Greece and we recently confirm some shows with Septic Flesh/Overgarven/Crossover at Northern Greece during September. We will play live to the following months. We planning to send more copies of our demo to magazines for reviews.Next year we will prepare the music for our debut full-lenght album and we will search for a deal. I would like to say Celestial Immunity will participate in the compilation cd of the metal magazine RockHard Greece with title Greek Power V1. We parcticipate with the last song of our demo named "The dream fades". I wanna thank you for the interview i will remember this interview cause it is our first haha! Thank you very much keep deathin!!

Celestial Immunity @ myspace: www.myspace.com/celestialimmunityband

-- listen Shadows Fall's King Of Nothing now!

Shadows Fall is finally back in action!!
Check out their myspace to listen to the new sounds from the these Springfield now-veterans. www.myspace.com/shadowsfall

You can also download the new track "King Of Nothing" from this location: www.myspace.com/windows

-- Download Eminence's new track now!

After 2008's The God of all Mistakes, Brazillan metallers are about to records a new full-length with an addition of a new vocalist. Bruno became a member of the band in January '09 after the departure of Wallace Parreiras.
click here to download the rerecorded version of The God Of All Mistakes with Bruno Paraguay on vocals directly from Eminence website.
for further details about the upcoming release & European tour dates check out Eminence official website