MORBID ANGEL TO CELEBRATE "COVENANT" 'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY

Morbid Angel will play a very special show on December 14th to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the "Covenant" album. Support bands will be Benediction and Unfathomable Ruination.

VOIVOD & NAPALM DEATH TO START NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN 2015

Canadian metal legends Voivod and grind/ death masters Napalm Death will start a North American tour in January 2015. Support bands are Exhumed, Iron Reagan and Black Crown Initiate. Check the dates below:

USNEA STREAMS NEW ALBUM

Black doom metal band from Portland, Oregon, Usnea, are streaming their new album (check the stream below) entitled "Random Cosmic Violence", that will be released on November 7th. The album will be released through Relapse Records and is the follow up to the band´s debut album "Usnea" released in 2013 and the split with Ruins.  "Random Cosmic Violence" will feature the following tracks:

1.  Lying in Ruin   

2.  Healing Through Death  

3.  Random Cosmic Violence 

4.  Detritus

ARCH ENEMY + ABORTED + INSOMNIUM CONFIRMED FOR OUT & LOUD FESTIVAL

BEHEMOTH ANNOUNCES UK TOUR WITH DECAPITATED, GRAND MAGUS AND WINTERFYLLETH

Polish black death metal band Behemoth have announced a UK tour. Here is the band´s statement:

"UK FANS! BEHEMOTH! will be touring with Grand Magus, Decapitated and Winterfylleth this December. Have you ordered your tickets? Buy here: http://bit.ly/BehemothTour

Dec 9th – London, Forum

Dec 10th – Glasgow, O2 ABC

Dec 11th – Dublin, Academy

Dec 12th – Birmingham, O2 Academy

Dec 13th – Manchester, Academy

D.R.I + CONFUSED + PANTEON + DAGORA + NERVE DAMAGE + MORE LIVE IN TEXAS

FINAL DEPRAVITY REPLACES BASS PLAYER

German thrash groove metal band Final Depravity have replaced bass player Alex Voss, who left the band recently, with Matthias Vatter. The band recently released a lyric video for the track "Garden Hate" (check it below). Regarding the bass player change, the band issued the following statement:

"Please welcome our new Bass player Matthias Vatter! / Bitte begrüßt unseren neuen Bassisten Matthias Vatter!
Yes, we have a new bass player!You have probably noticed a new face on our live pics and in our videos in the past months. Today's the time to officially introduce our new bass player to you: please welcome Matthias Vatter to the Final Depravity family!

Although Alex Voss is no longer in our band, we are still friends and that's why we wish him all the best for his future!"

NAPALM DEATH ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM RELEASE

British Grindcore death metal legends, Napalm Death, will release their new album entitled "Apex Predator - Easy Meat", on January 26th in Europe and January 27th in North America. The album will be the 15th in the band´s career and the follow up to the EP "Our Pain is the Power", released in April 2014. Vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway has released the following statement:

"Sometimes you have to ponder long and hard for an album title, but following the Rana Plaza disaster of last year (collapse of a textile sweatshop building in Bangladesh), it spurred me on to try and craft an expose slave labour in the modern world (and the surrounding conditions propping it up). 

Some in power like to declare that slavery is consigned to the history books. But if you look beneath the surface it is alive and well in many different forms - it just has a different face now, and exists in ways that may seem ethically ambiguous. Using the terminology of evolution particularly interests us, so in this case the 'Apex Predator' represents those who bring the slavery to bear (and capitalise from it), and the 'Easy Meat' is of therefore those who feel they have no option but to comply.

Fittingly, the music on 'Apex Predator - Easy Meat' is punishing. We feel it's more ambient, more expansive, more unsettlingly discordant than ever, and importantly, still extremely rampant at excessive speed. We hope in every respect - both musically and lyrically - this album will make your eyes burn with the harsh sonics and harsh visions of the dumping ground of globalisation."

BEHEMOTH + ENSLAVED + BLOODBATH + MY DYING BRIDE + ENSIFERUM CONFIRMED FOR INFERNO FESTIVAL 2015

BLOODBATH STREAMS "GRAND MORBID FUNERAL" TRACK

Sweden´s death metal masters Bloodbath are streaming the title track from their new album "Grand Morbid Funeral". "Grand Morbid Funeral" will be released on November 17th through Peaceville Records. This album is the follow up to the band´s 2008 opus "The Fathomless Mastery" and is the first one to feature Paradise Lost´s Nick Holmes on vocals replacing Opeth´s vocalist Mikael Akerfeld.