IMPALED NAZARENE, EMETH, and ALL GUILTY will team up for the following Canadian tour dates this Summer:

July 22 - Moncton, NB @ Manhattan Bar & Grill
July 23 - Halifax, NS @ The Pavillon
July 24 - Montreal, QC @ The Théatre Plaza
July 25 - Sherbrooke, QC @ Bar le Magog
July 26 - Quebec City, QC @ L’Anti
July 27 - Saint-Hyacinthe, QC @ Bar le Thrash
July 28 - London, ON @ The Embassy
July 29 - Toronto, ON @ The wreck Room
July 30 - Sudbury, ON @ The Serbian Center

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Japan’s COFFINS have released two tracks from their forthcoming new album, “Buried Death,” over at the group’s MySpace page. The album will be released on June 24th via 20 Buck Spin Records/Southern Lord.

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You can check out the upcoming new album, Till Death Do Us Part, from DEICIDE at the band’s MySpace page. The album will be released in the U.S. on May 13th via Earache Records.

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Swedish art-rockers CULT OF LUNA have revealed a brand new song on the band’s MySpace page. The track, titled “Eternal Kingdom”, comes off the band’s upcoming album of the same name.

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New York based former Century Media act BRAND NEW SIN is back. After almost 5 months, their hunt for a new vocalist has led them to Joe Sweet from Utica, NY. Sweet is the former singer of NINE BALL (aka-NINE STORIES HIGH) and organizer of the annual Utica Music Fest, hosting over 150 up and coming national music acts.

The band will debut their new sound at Operation Metal Siege June 14 at Peggy O’Neill’s, Coney Island, NY 

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Gnarls Barkley have announced a slew of upcoming festival performances.

Gnarls has confirmed 20 dates so far, including: the Roots Picnic in Philly; the Soco Music Experience in Denver; the Quart Festival in Norway; the Roskilde Festival in Denmark; Rock Werchter in Belgium; Eurockness in France; the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland; the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam; the Benicassim Festival in Spain; Lollapalooza in Chicago; and the ACL Festival in Austin.

More will be announced as soon as the band is allowed to disclose.

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COLDPLAY has released their first round of US and European tour dates. The tour will kick off in London on June 18 at Brixton, moving to New York at Madison Square Garden on the 23rd. Dates are currently pencilled through August 23 (Salt Lake City, UT).

Most recent schedule can be found here. ‘Violet Hill’ was made available for free download last week.

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FOO FIGHTERS mainman Dave Grohl has issued an open letter, slurping the noodle of the legends that are METALLICA:

“Hey, it’s Dave! Remember me? Yeah, I’m the guy that’s been listening to your band faithfully since 1983. I bought your first album ‘Kill ‘Em All’ from a mail order catalogue called Under The Rainbow, I think. Actually I can’t remember. It was 1983 for Christsakes! But that album changed my life and I’ve been listening to your albums ever since (even ‘St Anger’!).

“I can’t wait to hear the new shit, and no matter what you guys do I’ll always be first one at the shop waiting to hear it. I’m sure you’ll come out and blow everybody’s fuckin’ minds, because you’re fuckin’ METALLICA!

“Good luck. And don’t release it until it’s kick-ass.

“Yours, Dave Grohl.

“P.S. Are you finished recording the drums yet?”

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DIRTBALL has released his video for the tune ‘Mushroom Cloud’, featuring TECH 9NE. The track is from DIRTBALL’s forthcoming album Crook County, out next week on Suburban Noize Records:

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Mediaskare is proud to announce the addition of Queens, NY’s ENDWELL to its ever-growing roster. The first release from the band through Mediaskare will be a 5 song EP titled Revenge Is A Healthy Motive. The tracks “Mike Tyson” and “Sympathy For All Sufferers” from the EP can be listened to on the band’s MySpace.
 
The band is currently preparing to hit the road beginning May 25 as a part of the Mosh Lives Tour with EMMURE, ON BROKEN WINGS, RECON, and AFTER THE BURIAL. Following that, they will team up with MEANS for a tour through Canada.

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CLUTCH has decided to go ahead and start their own music label, named Weathermaker Music:

“We have started our own label called Weathermaker Music. Look for all future Clutch and Bakerton Group releases on Weathermaker! Look for the first release in late summer 2008. Our first live DVD and a live CD both released the same day! Exact release date to be announced soon.”

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BRUTAL TRUTH have recently announced a number of Eastern Europe tour dates and Summer festival appearances. The Eastern E.U. dates will kick-off on June 27th and will include a performance at the With Full Force Fest in Germany on July 4th. A listing of confirmed BRUTAL TRUTH tour dates can be found online here with more to be announced shortly.

BRUTAL TRUTH guitarist Danny Lilker comments on the tour: “BRUTAL TRUTH is totally psyched to play for the grindfreaks in Eastern Europe! We’ll be hitting Serbia (at Castlefest) and Slovakia for the very first time so we’ll be sure to fire up and give these people the most intense show of their lives! We also can’t wait to play the With Full Force Festival over in Germany, where we’ll be going onstage extremely late, so don’t drink too fast, stay awake for the nocturnal grind attack!!”

Drummer Rich Hoak adds: “We’ll be including many new songs in the set for our shows this summer. The new BT songs will freak people out: louder, faster, heavier and mosh pit tested!!”

Additionally, the first new material from BRUTAL TRUTH in almost ten years will appear on the upcoming compilation This Comp Kills Fascists. This Comp Kills Fascists will see its North American release on July 8th, July 14th internationally and is up for pre-order now at this location.

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Recently disbanded grinders INSECT WARFARE have posted a new song entitled “Fuck Off Part 1” over at their official MySpace page. The track comes off their upcoming “Noise Grind Power Death, Elitist Noisecore Assholes” 12″.

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New York’s ANDREW W.K. has lined up the following upcoming tour dates:

May 15 - New York, NY @ The New Museum Theater
May 25 - New York, NY @ McNally Robinson Bookstore
June 7 - Athens, OH @ Baker Center (Ohio University)

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German grinders JAPANISCHE KAMPFHÖRSPIELE have lined up the following upcoming U.S. tour dates for later this month:

May 22 - Richmond, VA @ Nara
May 25 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
May 26 - New York, NY @ Lit Lounge
May 27 - Burlington, VT @ 242 Main Street

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Chicago’s TUB RING have lined up the following upcoming tour dates:

May 31 - Spokane, WA @ Big Easy w/ Mindless Self Indulgence
June 1 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven w/ Hunab Ku
June 2 - Portland, OR @ Satyricon w/ The Days The Nights Buy
June 4 - San Francisco, CA @ Annie’s Social Club
June 6 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theater w/ Mindless Self Indulgence
June 7 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater w/ Mindless Self Indulgence
June 8 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium w/ Mindless Self Indulgence
June 9 - Kansas City, MO @ Beaumont Club w/ Mindless Self Indulgence
June 10 - Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion w/ Mindless Self Indulgence
June 12 - Des Moines, IA @ The House of Bricks
June 13 - Cedar Falls, IA @ The Reverb
June 14 - Springfield, IL @ Club Chrome w/ NIL8

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New York death metal “legends” MORTICIAN have announced the following upcoming shows:

May 18 - Brooklyn, NY @ Europa w/ Squash Bowels, Ingrowing, Goreaphobia
May 31 - Albany, NY @ Valentine’s w/ Wasteform, Tentacles
June 13 - Cortlandt Manor, NY @ Popeye’s Pub

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You can check out two new songs from CRYPTOPSY, “Silence The Tyrants” and “Worship Your Demons,” online over at their official MySpace page. The tracks come off the band’s upcoming new album, The Unspoken King, which is set to be released on June 24th via Century Media Records.

CRYPTOPSY recently shot a new video with acclaimed director David Brodsky (GWAR, SOILENT GREEN) for the album’s opening cut “Worship Your Demons.” Look for the clip to make its online debut in the coming weeks.

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GENGHIS TRON, fresh off the heels of a North American tour alongside CONVERGE and THE RED CHORD, are set to embark on their first European headlining tour in support of the recently released Board Up The House.

This two-week tour begins Friday, May 9th, in the United Kingdom and includes support from NACHTMYSTIUM. The tour will also include a performance at the Noise Festival in Paris, France for GENGHIS TRON. A listing of GENGHIS TRON tour dates can be found online here with more to be announced shortly.

Additionally, GENGHIS TRON has recently completed work on a brand new video for Board Up The House track “Things Don’t Look Good.” The video is expected to make its world premiere imminently.

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AC/DC’s official website has finally confirmed rumors that the band have got recordings for their album underway.

The band have been holed up in a Vancouver studio with producer Brendan O’Brien and longtime audio engineer Mike Fraser, cooking up their first collection of new material since the 2000 release of Stiff Upper Lip.

Fans can expect the new album sometime later this year.

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