From the depths of Californian crypts, FDA Rekotz presents bone-breaking death metal act MORFIN and their debut album, Inoculation. A video for the album track 'Viral Mutation' can now be seen below:
Comprised of 10 classically-inspired death metal hymns - including a surprise cover tune - Inoculation crushes faces in the vein of early DEATH, GORGUTS AND SKELETAL REMAINS. The album was recorded at Executer Studio in Pico Rivera, CA, and features artwork by Badic Art.
Inoculation is set for a February 21st release on CD, vinyl and digital formats. The vinyl LP will be offered on red/black marbled (100 copies only) or standard black vinyl. Pre-orders are being taken now at this location

Check out album track 'Dark Creator' below:
Morfín lineup:

Jesus Romero: Guitar/Vocals
Miguel Hernandez: Drums
Michael Gonzalez: Bass
Pedro Gonzalez: Guitar
More on Morfin at Facebook.

North Carolinian heavy rockers ASG will see their 2007 stoner rock classic Win Us Over released on double vinyl via Relapse Records this March. The long out of print album was originally released via Volcom and put the band on the map for their infectious blend of punk rock, alternative metal and stoner rock.
The album will see its official reissue on March 18th and is available for pre-order at this location.

A trailer can be seen below:



Additionally the band recently announced a European tour in support of last year's album Blood Drive, where they will be joined on the road by Canada's ANCIIENTS for two weeks of co-headlining dates. The tour kicks off with an appearance at the esteemed Roadburn Festival on April 10th and runs through April 26th, culminating at London's Desert Fest.

ASG will also be playing two regional shows this February with LAZER/WULF.

ASG tour dates:

February
20 - Raleigh, NC - Southland Ballroom (with Lazer/Wulf)
21 - Charlotte, NC - The Chop Shop (with Lazer/Wulf)

April
10 - Tilburg, Netherlands - Roadburn @ 013

April (with Anciients)
11 - Köln, Germany - MTC
12 - Marburg Germany - KFZ
13 - Bruxelles, Belgium - AB
14 - Hamburg, Germany - Headcrash
15 - Oslo, Norway - Club Scene
16 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Beta
17 - Osnabrück, Germany - Bastard Club
18 - Oberentfelden, Switzerland - Böröm Pöm Pöm
19 - Milano, Itay - Lo Fi
20 - Frankfurt, Germany - Das Bett
21 - Prague, Czech Republic - 007
22 - Wien, Austria - Arena
23 - Stuttgart, Germany - Juha West
24 - Berlin, Germany - Desertfest @Astra Kulturhaus
25 - Nijmegen, Netherlands - Merleyn
26 - London, UK - Desertfest

Christian metal heavyweights RIVERA BOMMA's latest album, Infinite Journey Of Soul, was released on January 22nd, 2013 via Retroactive Records. A video for the second single, 'In Blood', has been posted below:
Rivera Bomma features guitar virtuoso Rod Rivera, vocalist Johnny Bomma (ex-HADES), and bassist Mike Lepond (SYMPHONY X).

The tracklisting for Infinite Journey Of Soul is as follows:

'I.J.O.S. Intro'
'Infinite Journey Of Soul'
'Empty Desire'
'In Blood'
'Via Dolorosa'
'Angel And Demons'
'Horizon's End'
'In My Dreams'
'The Maker'
'Before The End - MMXIII' (Solo)

More on Rivera Bomma at this location.

Progressive instrumental pioneers ANIMALS AS LEADERS will release their new album, "The Joy Of Motion", on March 25 via Sumerian Records. This offering is quickly going to be hailed by fans and media alike as the group's career-defining release that will ultimately redefine the progressive world as we know it.

"Tooth And Claw", a song from "The Joy Of Motion", can be streamed in the YouTUbe clip below.

ANIMALS AS LEADERS' third full-length release is a bombastic, dynamic and innovative explosion that incorporates elements spanning across the entire musical spectrum. It also marks the recording debut of drummer Matthew Garstka, whose technical proficiency and unique style allows ANIMALS AS LEADERS guitarists Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes the room to push their boundaries to previously unthinkable heights.

States Reyes: "I think some of the new tracks are some of ANIMALS AS LEADERS' strongest and musical material yet, and [I am] extremely happy with how the album came out.

"Everyone who took part in this album — Misha Mansoor (PERIPHERY), Adam Getgood (PERIPHERY), Diego Farias (VOLUMES) and Navene Koperweis — is extremely talented and I think we've done a great job of capturing it onto what is now the third ANIMALS AS LEADERS album."

ANIMALS AS LEADERS kicks off the New Year with a massive headlining North American tour on February 24 with AFTER THE BURIAL, NAVENE KOPERWEIS and CHON.

Canadian technical death grind band KILLITOROUS - featuring ex-members of VITAL REMAINS, BLIND WITNESS, THE KINDRED, IMMERSED, and BLESSED BY A BROKEN HEART - have released a new music video for the track 'It's Not Stanley, It's Stan Lee (based on comic genius/legend Stan Lee).
The track is from the upcoming album Party, Grind, recorded by Chris Donaldson (CRYPTOPSY) at Garage Studio in Montreal. which is set to be released in May. The album will featuring guest appearances by: UNHUMAN, ARCHSPIRE, CRYPTOPSY, OBEY THE BRAVE, HIDEOUS DIVINITY, SKYNET, INFANT ANNIHILATOR and Blessed By A Broken Heart.

Blood Harvest has set March 31st as the international release date for CEREMONIALS’s Ars Magicka 7” EP.

A press release states: “Chile's Ceremonial was spawned in early 2010 from the ashes of previous native black metal projects and their undying need for creating metal. The band was formed and named by Imprecator (guitar/bass) and Lucifago (vocals/guitar). Not long after, Bliol (ex-GORHOTH) joined on drums and completed Ceremonial's first unlight trinity. Soon afterwards, Yelworc(k) (ERESHKIGAL, HELL’S VEINS) joined the circle on bass guitar and fully completed the band. Ceremonial's main aim is to crush and mock the origins of ignorance, create original occult lyrics, and the magickal execution of hermetic black/thrash metal. They do so, with iron-fisted force, on a brand-new, hellthrashing 7" entitled Ars Magicka. Across their two preceding demos, Ceremonial may have shown lethal potential, but here on Ars Magicka, they explode with diabolic force: four songs of cruel, chaotic mastery.”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
‘The Cloud Upon The Sanctuary’
‘A.R.C
‘Havohej’
‘Tribulations’

German black metallers NEGATOR have announced the departure of guitarist Kliffjard. The band released the following statement:

“Unfortunately we have to inform you, that Kliffjard is no longer a member of Negator. Due to other duties in life, which he will be facing from now on, we had to come to this conclusion. We want to thank him for his tremendous energy and for the great contribution. We wish him all the best for the future!
But, we have already found a worthy successor, who will be revealed soon!”

For more info visit Facebook.

DEFTONES singer Chino Moreno wants to clear up any confusion over some recent comments he made to Rolling Stone magazine, saying that the band intends to begin working on music for its eighth studio album this year. The timeline of the Rolling Stone article was vague, suggesting that the quintet would not even start writing new songs until early 2015. But Moreno told The Pulse Of Radio that's not the case. "I think we're all excited to make some noise together again, so I think right now we're looking at, planning-wise, of doing that, and hopefully have a record or material to go record by the end of the year or early next year."

Moreno himself just moved to Oregon, while drummer Abe Cunningham and keyboardist Frank Delgado remain in the band's hometown of Sacramento. Guitarist Stephen Carpenter lives in Los Angeles and bassist Sergio Vega is based in New York City.

DEFTONES spent much of 2013 on the road behind their seventh album, "Koi No Yokan", which debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard album chart in November 2012 and yielded the Top Two rock radio single "Tempest".

Doug Harrison, vocalist for Canada-based progressive rockers FEN, has launched a solo project called SLUG COMPARISON, and the debut release is a music video for the song 'Bringer Of Doom'.
A dark collaboration between Harrison and Swedish director Peter Wiholm, the video depicts a woman (actor Kim Arklie) who slits her wrists and lowers herself into a bathtub, then enters the dream-like world of her subconscious. In the shadows of this world a mysterious man (actor Brad Hammerstron) keeps appearing, and the woman finds herself running for safety.

“The story wasn’t what I had in mind when I wrote the song,” says Harrison, “But when Peter came up with the idea, I was impressed by how well it matched the lyrics, so we went ahead with making it.”
'Bringer Of Doom' is the first of a group of songs written at the same time as Fen’s Ripple Music release, Of Losing Interest. Harrison says, “Between writing sessions with the band, I found I had more energy to keep going, and more ideas kept coming out of me, so I’d work on those at home, piecing them together on my computer. Eventually I had enough of them that I realized I needed a new project.”

For 'Bringer Of Doom', Harrison wrote and performed and/or programmed all of the instruments with the help of long-time Fen producer, Mike Southworth of Creativ Studios. The song is available for $1 at Bandcamp.

Swedish thrash metal project BENEATH has released the lyric video for the song 'Vengeance I Breathe', taken from the upcoming album, Antidote, due out on March 7th.

According to a press release, "Beneath’s music can best be described as melodic and brutal. Beauty and beast. Acoustic and distorted. Singing and growling. Take the aggression of thrash metal and the melancholy of melodic metal, add some traditional songwriting and the furiosity of hard core and you get the picture."

Antidote artwork and tracklisting:

Tracklist :
'Vengeance I Breathe'
'Reasons Undefined'
'Blissfully Numb'
'Harvest Of Mankind'
'Fear Vs Hate'
'In The Shadow Of The Beast'
'Everything Ends'
'Killed In The Womb'
'The Antidote'

Beneath is :

Christoffer Binnberg - vocals
Emil Kyrk - bass and vocals
Mats Tornebohm - drums

Israeli heavy metallers SWITCHBLADE have signed a worldwide management deal with Germany’s Rock N Growl Management. Switchblade aims to attain the same sparkles and enthusiasm that made the 80s metal scene so great in a sense that it will sink in deep in today’s perception of metal music.
Switchblade are:

Lior “Steinmetal” Stein – Vocals
Fede “FedeRock” Taich – Lead, Rhythm Guitars
Venedict Pavlovic – Rhythm, Lead Guitars
Boris Siper – Bass
Moshe “Moshpit” Sabah – Drums

STICK TO YOUR GUNS will enter the studio tomorrow with legendary producer John Feldmann (THE USED, STORY OF THE YEAR) to start tracking their new full-length album.

Founding member/vocalist Jesse Barnett states: "Personally this seems like the next logical step for our band. The five of us aren't a group that has ever been ok with doing just enough or even entertain the thought of doing the same thing over and over again. We like to push ourselves. We like to ask ourselves, now what? What can we do to be better? With all of that being said, we are very excited about going into the studio with John. He has proven his expertise in punk music and that he takes bands and gets the absolute best out of them. I think I speak for all of us when I say the band that comes out of the studio will not be the same band going in. We will be bigger, faster, harder and more crushing. This is what we strive for and this is what John will help us achieve.
Stick To Your Guns will hit the road in March on their Fuck The Message tour to close out their most recent album, Diamond.

For more info visit Facebook.

The release date of the BLACKBIRD album Of Heroes And Enemies on CD is March 28th. The preorder phase will start on March 14th in the Pure Rock Records webshop.

A press release says “On their new album Of Heroes And Enemies Blackbird doesn´t recook the old rock ‘n’ roll recipe: Ten tracks including the single ‘Fire Your Guns’ are remarkable for their new style of production in rock music.

That´s why fresh and dirty guitar sound and sing-a-long choruses, in style of SLASH or BUCKCHERRY, meet a pumping groove, so that there´s nothing missed compared to the genre-heroes.”
Of Heroes And Enemies tracklisting:

‘Fire Your Guns’
‘Not About You’
‘Hero’
‘Dusk Till Dawn’
‘Of Heroes And Enemies’
‘Right With The Rockers’
‘Deuce’
‘Don’t Fool Me’
‘Devil’s Soul’
‘Right To Rock’

Album teaser:
Video ‘Fire Your Guns’:
Blackbird lineup:

Angus Dersim - vocals, lead guitar
Bora Karakus - rhythm guitars
Fritzi Delli - bass guitar
Steffen T. - drums
More on Blackbird at Facebook.

Italian metallers ANCILLOTTI will release their debut album, The Chain Goes On, on February 28th. They have now released a video for the song ‘Bang Your Head’.
The band has scheduled a release party, on March 8th at the Circus Club, located at Via Isaac Newton, 66 - Casellina - Scandicci (FI, Italy).
A press release states: “Does anyone remember STRANA OFFICINA, probably the most legendary 80s metal band from Italy? Or the 90s project BUD TRIBE? Those of you who liked those bands will definitely be fascinated by Ancillotti. Founded by the eponymous Daniele “Bud” Ancillotti, who took on his brother Sandro as bass player and his son Brian as drummer. The first sign of life was in 2012 the four track EP Down This Road Together; this is now followed by the debut album The Chain Goes On.

The ten songs of the album are affected by very straight heavy metal, which reminds one of the earlier bands of the singer, but some part are arranged with more mid-tempo. This has sometimes a very special charm created by the rough but melodic vocals, but other passages are pounding in best ACCEPT manner. The catchy choruses are exactly on the point and are made for singing/shouting along (to give a few examples: the opener 'Band Your Head', 'Legacy of Rock' or 'The Devil Inside'), which is brought to perfection by the penetrating double bass-drumming. This rock n' roll firework show is completed by a powerful production.”
Tracklisting:

'Bang Your Head'
'Cyberland'
'Victims Of The Future'
'Monkey'
'Legacy Of Rock'
'Liar'
'I Don’t Wanna Know'
'Devil Inside'
'Warrior'
'Sunrise'
'Living For The Night Time' (Bonus Track)
Ancillotti lineup:

Daniele "Bud" Ancillotti (Bud Tribe, Strana Officina) - vocals
Luciano "Ciano" Toscani (LISTERIA, ex-WYVERN) - guitars
Sandro "Bid" Ancillotti (Bud Tribe) - bass
Brian Ancillotti (SHABBY TRICK) - drums

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions have released the debut album from Illinois' extreme metallers HELMSPLITTER and will release their album Enraptured By Suffering on CD and digital formats. The entire album is streaming now for free on Bandcamp.

A press release describes the band: “Hailing from Illinois, Helmsplitter are a molotov cocktail of black metal, sludge, death metal, crust punk, thrash, doom metal and hateful blues. This is extreme metal that takes you on a musical roller coaster through a world of misanthropy, pain, frustration and despair. Unpredictable, relentless and absurdly heavy, Helmsplitter manage to blend various styles together in a seamless, naturally flowing and unforced manner that is uncanny.”
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Scott Creekmore (BROKEN HOPE, NUM SKULL, LUPARA) and features Blakk (ANGELKILL, MORTUARY OATH, MASKIM) on vocals.

Enraptured By Suffering tracklisting:

‘Tyrants For Blood’
‘Panzram’
‘Aura Of Suicide’
‘Burden Of Our Existence’
‘Dance Of The Heretic’
‘World So Wicked’
‘Portrait Of Scars’
‘The Ground Bleeds Sorrow’
‘Forged In Fire’
‘Days Of Loathing’
‘Summon The Leeches’

‘Aura Of Suicide’:
To order on CD visit HorrorPainGoreDeath.com.

Profound Lore Records is planning for the label's introductory release from Chicago's anti-life quartet, LORD MANTIS, today officially dispatching the full details on the band's rancid new audio virulence, Death Mask.

A press release states: “The four depraved individuals who form the Lord Mantis cult -- bassist/vocalist Charlie Fell, guitarist/vocalist Andrew Markuszewski, drummer Bill Bumgardner and newly inducted guitarist/vocalist Ken Sorceron -- have culminated their contempt for humankind and some of the most horrific personal experiences over recent years into an exceptionally malevolent entity on Death Mask. Unleashing something far darker even than their already iniquitous prior LP's -- 2009's Seventh Rule debut, Spawning The Nephilim, and 2012's Candlelight-released Pervertor -- the visceral punishment one will endure on the seven works of Death Mask is not for the weak. Dredging forth their most disturbing works yet, born forth from some of the darkest recesses of the human psyche, Lord Mantis recorded the fifty-minute album with Sanford Parker (TWILIGHT, VOIVOD, EYEHATEGOD, YOB) at Chicago-based Electrical Audio and Soma Studios, who is also responsible for engineering both prior albums. INDIAN's guitarist/vocalist Dylan O'Toole also contributed additional vocals on two of the tracks on Death Mask, adding yet another dose of nihilism to the mix.”

The cover art for Death Mask, from the warped visualization of tattooist/musician Jef Whitehead (LEVIATHAN, Twilight), has been released along with the full track listing and more ahead of its street date of April 29th.

Following the springtime release of Death Mask, Lord Mantis will tour out to the East Coast this summer, as the henchmen have now been confirmed to raid the third annual New York City-based underground fest, Martyrdoom. Running from June 27th through July 1st at Brooklyn's Saint Vitus Bar, Lord Mantis is now locked to perform the final night of brutality alongside MOURNFUL CONGREGATION, LYCUS, VILKACIS and EVOKEN that evening alone. A full tour routing based around the Martyrdoom set will be announced in the coming weeks, amidst additional live events.

Death Mask tracklisting:

‘Body Choke’
‘Death Mask’
‘Possession Prayer’
‘You Will Gag For The Fix’
‘Negative Birth’
‘Coil’
‘Three Crosses’

For more info visit Facebook.

DOKKEN vocalist DON DOKKEN has released his long out of print solo album, Solitary, in digital format for the first time. Solitary was sold exclusively at live shows, primarily on a small run of acoustic dates that Don Dokken performed while opening for QUEENSRŸCHE.
Tracklisting:

'In The Meadow'
'I'll Never Forget'
'Where The Grass Is Green'
'Ship Of Fools'
'You Are Everything'
'Venice'
'Sarah'
'The Tragedy'
'Someday'

Audio samples are streaming at this location.

Phoenix, AZ-based black metal band PSYCHOBLISS has changed their name to SEVERED RECEPTORS ahead of the release of their upcoming EP. Severed Receptors is dark, female-fronted metal. Underlying black metal sets the foundation for a style that truly transcends the boundaries.
The band consists of the original members of PsychoBliss; Dan Stollings (guitars), and Kyla Stollings (vocals), but also welcomes guitarists Ian Durand and Jaron Elton, bassist Ryan Neeland, and drummer Michael Mistretta.

“We chose the name Severed Receptors because we feel it’s a more ‘mature’ expression of who we are musically.”
Severed Receptors is planning to support their yet-to-be-named upcoming EP with live performances when the album is released this spring. More information on the upcoming EP album will be announced very soon.

DEMONS OF OLD METAL will release Demonic Chronicles - Volume III on March 31st.
The Demonic Chronicles - Volume III brings the trilogy to a suitably brutal end with another collection of full throttle metal battering rams, including 'Battlecry', 'Another Day In Hell' and the brilliant new single 'The Devil That You Know', all of which are destined to help the Demons Of Old Metal stake their claim for a place in metal history.
Demons Of Old Metal lineup:

Vocal and Lead Guitar Demon - Tombstone Cowboy
Bass Demon - Machinegun Skelly
Second Guitar Demon - Psycho Wing
Drum Demon - Dr Doom
Tech Demon - Digital Death

Italian modern melodic metallers TEMPERANCE will release their self-titled debut album on April 15th via Scarlet Records.
Temperance were born from the dedication and efforts of a group of musicians with more than a decade of experience in the scene, hundreds of concerts played with the likes of RHAPSODY OF FIRE, DRAGONFORCE, PARKWAY DRIVE, LEAVE’S EYES and RAGE to name a few, and a renovated desire to make an impact.

The band’s self titled debut album consists of an amazing mixture of tight, heavy guitar riffs, electronics and folk elements, bounded together in the name of melody and power. Temperance was mixed and mastered by renowned musician/producer Simone Mularoni (DGM) at Domination Studio in San Marino, Italy.

'To Be With You':
Temperance lineup:

Chiara - Vocals
Marco - Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals
Sandro - Rhythm Guitar
Luca - Bass
Giulio - Drums & Keys

CI Records has announced the signing of Lancaster, PA natives, GLADIATORS. The band’s debut record, One Tooth At A Time, was produced by Rick Armellino of THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE and mixed and mastered by Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland (+LIVE+, AUGUST BURNS RED, TEXAS IN JULY) at Atrium Audio in Lancaster, PA.
Gladiators’ guitarist, Josh Krantz, had this to say: “ We are extremely excited to join the CI Records family, who helped propel the careers of bands like August Burns Red, Texas In July, as well as many more! To have our debut record released from such a storied label is humbling and we are absolutely stoked to have the opportunity to share our music with the world, thanks to the help of CI! ‘One Tooth At A Time delivers a mix of sounds forming a style we like to call progressively hardcore. It’s filled with raw attitude that gives it a hardcore appeal along with being strange enough to push the limits of progressive music”

A brand new lyric video for the band’s first single ‘Wasted Youth’ is streaming below:
Preorder bundles can be ordered at the CI Records Store.

Swedish melodic metallers DEAD BY APRIL have released a video for their single, 'As A Butterfly', featured on their new album, Let The World Know", out now in Sweden via Universal.
Let The World Know tracklisting:

'Beautiful Nightmare'
'Abnormal'
'Empathy'
'Done With Broken Hearts'
'As A Buttlerfly'
'Same Star'
'Let The World Know'
'Peace Of Mind'
'Freeze Frame'
'Infinity x Infinity'
'My Tomorrow'
'Hold On'
'Replace You'

'As A Buttlerfly' video:
Album sampler:

Australia’s TERAMAZE will release their follow-up to the 2012 release AnhedoniA on April 12th via Nightmare Records, distributed by Sony/RED.
Entitled Esoteric Symbolism, the new album blends amazingly tight and speedy syncopated guitar/drum riffs and rhythms, with melodic hard vocals, for a very unique brand of metal.
Tracklisting:

'All Seeing Eye
'Line of Symmetry
'Transhumanist
'Bodies of Betrayal
'Parallels-Dual Reality
'Spawn
'Punishment by Design
'Dust of Martyrs
'The Divulgence Act (CD edition only)
'Esoteric Symbolism':
vi - Order Out of Chaos
vii - Darkest Days of Symphony
viii - In Vitro

Teaser:

"Die & Rise", a brand new song from Italian heavy rockers LACUNA COIL, is available for purchase via iTunes and Amazon. The track is taken from the band's new studio album, "Broken Crown Halo", which will be released in North America on April 1 (one day earlier internationally) via Century Media Records. The CD was recorded Italy by producer Jay Baumgardner (P.O.D., SEVENDUST, EVANESCENCE, PAPA ROACH) and engineer Kyle Hoffmann (P.O.D., BUSH, ZEBRAHEAD). The effort was mastered by Howie Weinberg, whose credits include RAMMSTEIN, SOUNDGARDEN, NIRVANA, DEFTONES and SHERYL CROW.

"Broken Crown Halo" is LACUNA COIL's seventh studio effort, and the highly-anticipated follow-up to "Dark Adrenaline", which was released in January 2012 and saw the band tour with acts including MEGADETH, MOTÖRHEAD, VOLBEAT and SEVENDUST after debuting at No. 15 on The Billboard 200 album chart.

"Broken Crown Halo" track listing:

01. Nothing Stands In Our Way02. Zombies 03. Hostage To The Light 04. Victims 05. Die & Rise 06. I Forgive (But I Won't Forget Your Name)07. Cybersleep 08. Infection 09. I Burn In You10. In The End I Feel Alive11. One Cold Day

LACUNA COIL will hit the road as a quintet later this month as part of "The Hottest Chicks In Hard Rock Tour" following the departures of guitarist Cris "Pizza" Migliore and drummer Cristiano "Criz" Mozzati. Marco "Maus" Biazzi will handle all guitar duties on the trek while drummer Ryan Blake Folden will once again sit behind the kit for the tour. The band states: "Fans will already be familiar with Ryan, as he performed live with LACUNA COIL on the majority of the 2012 and 2013 'Dark Legacy' and 'Dark Adrenaline' tours."

Regarding the departures of Migliore and Mozzati, LACUNA COIL singer Cristina Scabbia told U.K.'s Metal Hammer, Scabbia elaborated on Migliore and Mozzati's exit from the band. "It's something we announced [on Friday] but knew for a few weeks, and honestly, I feel good, because we couldn't have a better — I don't even wasn't to use the word ‘split'; that sounds like, 'Oh, we had a big fight and we don't want to see each other anymore,' she said.

"It was something that was coming from the heart, very sincere. They just decided they wanted to change their lives. It's not like they didn't like the band anymore, but this lifestyle is not easy. You're on tour all the time, you don't have any private life anymore.

"Being on tour is really surreal, because time moves in a different way, so I think it's absolutely normal that after so many years together, some of us want to carry on doing what we do because we still enjoy it, and some of us would want to move on, keeping the great memories we have together. I mean, they're not planning to join other bands. It's not going to be a huge difference, because we will have the same songwriter, and we are determined to go on. So I'm sad that they're leaving, but we will continue seeing each other outside the band. They are happy, we are happy, everyone is happy."

She continued: "The drums [on the U.S. tour] will be played by Ryan Folden, who played with us for the last year while Criz was at home growing up his kid. And for guitar we are going on with Marco only, and then we will decide.

"I posted the news [on Friday] and I got 25 private messages in half an hour from people that wanted to do auditions. But we're not doing any auditions.

"It's too early to think about replacements, and we don't even know if we want that. We might work with session musicians for a while, because even if we are serene and happy, it's hard for us, because we lost two brothers, so we don't want anyone to come into the family just like that. It would be wise, I think, just to go on with us four and then move on with friends like Ryan, who is a great drummer and very easy to get along with. And that's an important factor, because if you're going to share a tour bus with people, you have to be able to get along with them!"

The Revolver-magazine-presented "The Hottest Chicks In Hard Rock Tour kicks off February 20 and features LACUNA COIL sharing a stage with SICK PUPPIES, Century Media Records labelmates EYES SET TO KILL and CILVER. The tour launches in Wilmington, North Carolina, and runs through March 20 in Anaheim, California. Visit www.hottestchickstour.com for additional details and VIP packages.



"Die & Rise" audio stream:

New York-based metallers EMMURE have unleashed details for their forthcoming seventh studio album, Eternal Enemies. Set for release on April 15th, Eternal Enemies embodies everything Emmure is trademarked for - aggressive, bold and brash metal that pushes boundaries to the utmost extreme.
Tracklisting:

'Bring A Gun To School'
'Nemesis'
'N.I.A. (News In Arizona)'
'The Hang Up'
'A Gift A Curse'
'E'
'Like LaMotta'
'Free Publicity'
'Most Hated'
'Grave Markings'
'Hitomi’s Shinobi'
'Rat King'
'Girls Don’t Like Boys, Girls Like 40’s And Blunts'
'New Age Rambler'
'We Were Just Kids'

Check out tracks from Eternal Enemies and the rest of Emmure's discography as they headline this year’s Mosh Lives Tour.
Dates include:

March
7 - Pittsburgh, PA - Altar Bar
8 - Louisville, KY - The Vernon Club
9 - Springfield, MO - Outland Ballroom
11 - San Antonio, TX - The White Rabbit
12 - Mission TX - Never Say Never Festival
16 - Tampa, FL - Orpheum
17 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
19 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
20 - Joliet, IL - Mojoe’s
21 - Minneapolis, MN - Skyway Theater
22 - Shawnee, KS - Aftershock
23 - Denver, CO - The Summit Music Hall
24 - Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue
26 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Metro
27 - San Diego, CA - Soma
28 - Pomona, CA - Glasshouse
29 - Las Vegas, NV - Extreme Thing Festival
30 - Phoenix, AZ - Joe’s Grotto
31 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater

April
1 - El Paso, TX - Tricky Falls
3 - Sauget, IL - Pop’s
4 - Columbus, OH - Alrosa Villa
5 - Springfield, VA - Empire
6 - Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock
17 - Worcester, MA - New England Metal and Hardcore Fest
27 - Jacksonville, FL - Welcome To Rockville

Metal Injection cameras were at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennasylvania on February 16 to document the world premiere of the new LAMB OF GOD documentary, "As The Palaces Burn". The 10-minute clip below features exclusive interviews with the director of the film, Don Argott; LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler; fans; and footage of LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe's comments from the stage.

The Trocadero Theatre was where LAMB OF GOD's platinum DVD, "Killadelphia", was filmed, making the venue a natural choice for the movie premiere. LAMB OF GOD entered into a worldwide distribution deal with Specticast (LED ZEPPELIN's "Celebration Day", Paul McCartney's "Rock Show") for their Don Argott-directed ("Last Days Here", "Art Of The Steal", "School Of Rock") feature film "As The Palaces Burn". Filming for the movie began in 2012 and concluded in March of 2013. "As The Palaces Burn", which should not be confused with the making-of documentary packaged with the recent re-release of the 2003 LAMB OF GOD album of the same name, was conceived to be a documentary focused on the power of music and its impact on cultures around the world and its ability to bring together people of all nationalities regardless of religious or political differences. After a worldwide casting call, filming took place in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, India, and the United States. As filming reached its conclusion, the documentary was forced to take a major turn when the band's lead singer, Randy Blythe, was arrested in the Czech Republic and charged with the murder of a fan in June 2012. Granted unique access to Blythe's saga, Argott's filming covered Blythe's 38-day imprisonment in Prague, his release and the band's return to live performances, and finally Blythe's trial for murder in Prague in February 2013.