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Chi Cheng, Deftones bassis died last night at the age of 42. He had a car accident in November 2008 that left him in a coma. In the following years he had evolve to a semi-conscious state and there were still hopes of his recovery. However we was taken to the emergency room last night [...]

Norwegian Progressive Metal band Leprous have published the first of their upcoming album. The song is called “Chronic” and will be featured on the upcoming album entitled “Coal” and you can listen to it here. Here is what frontman Einar had to say: “‘Coal’ is a more melancholic and darker album than the more playful [...]

Norwegian Melodic Black Metal act Keep Of Kalessin have released a brand new EP entitled “Introspection”. It is available via all digital music services, including iTunes, Spotify and WiMP. You can watch the single video below. Obsidian C. commented: “The new digital era opens some opportunities for bands and releasing digital EP’s makes it possible [...]

Portuguese Death Metal band Daemogorgon have parted ways with their vocalist Francisco and are currently seeking a someone to fill the vocal duties. Here’s the statement published by the band: It was a long journey we made together, but it is time to trace different ways from now on. We wish Xico the best luck [...]

The  “Halo of Blood over Europe” tour is to promote the band’s upcoming release “Halo of Blood”. The new record is set to come out on the 7th of June. The tour dates announced so far are the following: Oct. 26 – Razzmatazz 1, Barcelona (SPA) Oct. 27 – La Riviera, Madrid (SPA) Oct. 29 [...]

The mysterious Swedish band Ghost have leaked a new song from their highly awaited upcoming album “Infestissumam”. “Monstrance Clock” is the name of the track, featured on their second album, due to be released on April 16 via Loma Vista Recordings. “Infestissumam” track listing: 01. Infestissumam 02. Per Aspera Ad Inferi 03. Secular Haze 04. [...]

Black Sabbath have revealed the artwork for their upcoming album 13. The album is set to be released in June. They have also announced the dates for an European tour. Nov 20: Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland Nov 22: Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden Nov 24: Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway Nov 26: Forum, Denmark, Copenhagen Nov 28: [...]

Slawek ‘Mortifer’ Archangielskij of Polish death metal giants Hate has suddenly passed away. The band issued the following statement: “At night 5th/6th April near a German town of Munchberg, our friend, best comrade and longtime bass player unexpectedly passed away. After the show in Stuttgart last night he went to sleep and never woke up. [...]

Once more, the Vagos Open Air organizers have announced new additions to this year’s band line-up. The new bands are the Thrash metal legends Testament, Greek Rotting Christ, and the Portuguese oldschool Power/Thrash Metal band WEB. Already confirmed are the following acts: TESTAMENT | US | http://www.testamentlegions.com/ SAXON | UK | http://www.saxon747.com/ ICED EARTH | US | http://www.icedearth.com/ MOONSORROW | Fin | http://www.moonsorrow.com/ ROTTING [...]

Swedish Tech Death Metal icons Meshuggah have released a video for the song “I am Colossus” from their latest album “Koloss”. Visually resembling the works of Tool, the video is an eerie journey, Produced by Owe Lingvall and directed / animated by Magnus Jonsson… [...]

  The Serbian black metal festival has revealed the complete schedule for the event, set to take place from 30th May till 1st June, around Belgrade: The complete line-up looks as follow: [...]

  Guitarist David Parland, also known as Blackmoon passed away last week (March 19th) at the age of 42. The news came from the Facebook profile of fellow Swedish guitarist and life-long friend Lord Ahriman, who co-founded Dark Funeral with David Parland in 1993. He commented: “A couple of days ago I was reached by [...]

Canadian black metal band MONARQUE  have recently revealed details regarding their upcoming full length album. The new album will be titled “Lys Noir”, and is scheduled to be released on CD some time in April through Canadian label Sepulchral Productions. A cassette version will be released by Les Productions Hérétiques, and an LP version is [...]

Black metal cult act VON are streaming their last full lenght album (“Dark Gods: Seven Billion Slaves”) online in it’s entirety. The album was released on the 22nd of March through the bands own label, Von Records and represents the band first new material work in more than 20 years. Acording to the band’s latest news, this [...]