Das neue ROTTEN SOUND Album "Cursed" kommt am 15. März 2011 via Relapse Records in den Handel und jetzt wurde vom Label nach dem Cover Artwork auch die Track List enthüllt! Das neue 16 Track Album wurde in den Nordic Audio Labs Studios aufgenommen und HIER könnt Ihr das Album vorbestellen.

01. Alone
02. Superior
03. Self
04. Choose
05. Hollow
06. Ritual
07. Green
08. Machinery
09. Power
10. Plan
11. Declare
12. Addict
13. Exploit
14. Terrified
15. Scared
16. Doomed

Das neue DEICIDE Album kommt am 15. Februar 2011 mit dem Titel "To Hell With God" via Century Media Records in den Handel und jetzt hat Century Media Records auch das Cover Artwork und die Track List enthüllt. Aufgenommen wurde das Album mit Produzent Mark Lewis (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, CHIMAIRA) in den Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida. Heute haben die Kollegen von MetalSucks den neuen Song "Hang in Agony Until You're Dead" zum probehören online gestellt.

"To Hell With God" Track List:

01. Save Your
02. Empowered by Blasphemy
03. Conviction
04. Hang in Agony Until You're Dead
05. To Hell with God
06. Servant of the Enemy
07. Witness of Death
08. Angels in Hell
09. Into the Darkness You Go
10. How Can You Call Yourself a God

SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor has once again spoken out in defense of illegal music downloading, insisting that no one wants to pay for "crap" new music. He tells Britain's Kerrang! magazine, “I have a completely different take on this from a lot of other people. A lot of people in the industry want to blame downloading for the state of [the music business], but I think that if most music wasn't shit to begin with people wouldn't be downloading this stuff for free."

He continues, "Seriously, who the fuck wants to risk hard-earned money on music that's maybe 98 percent crap? I'm not going to. And I still buy new albums. People ask what my favorite new album is and nine times out of 10, I don't fucking have one. Music is garbage."

Taylor's latest comments echo those he made back in 2008 when he told Kerrang!, "Why would you blame [people who download music]? Half the fucking albums that are out there are shit. I don't download, but at the same time, I don't buy new music 'cause it all sucks. Okay, there's a handful of bands that I buy, but other than that, I just buy old shit because old shit is good. Sorry!"

"People wanna blame the decline of album sales on downloading, I think it's actually the record companies' fault," he added. "I think it's the quality of the product. If record companies would stop giving any fucking mook on the street with a fringe a record deal or their own record label, maybe you would sell more fucking albums, dipshits."

"VII The Fraudulent", a brand new track from the North Texas death metal outfit THE FAMINE, can heard in the YouTube clip below. The song comes off the band's new album, "The Architects Of Guilt", which will be released on February 15 via Solid State Records. The follow-up to 2008's "The Raven And The Reaping" was produced by D. Braxton Henry (ex-DEVOURMENT) and was mixed by Jason Suecof (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, TRIVIUM, DEVILDRIVER).

"The Architects Of Guilt" track listing:

01. The New Hell
02. Ad Mortem
03. We Are The Wolves
04. Turner Classic Diaries
05. Bigger Cages, Longer Chains!
06. The Crown and The Holy See
07. VII The Fraudulent
08. A Pavement Of Good Intentions
09. A Fragile Peace
10. Pyrithion House
11. To The Teeth

Sergio Pereira of South Africa's MusicReview.co.za web site recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy of Florida metallers TRIVIUM about the band's forthcoming studio album, due later in the year via Roadrunner Records. A couple of excerpts from the question-and-answer session follow below.

MusicReview.co.za: "Shogun" featured several mythological themes. Is the new album going to be a continuation of this?

Heafy: "Shogun"'s mythological themes were something that felt called for by the music. Every CD has been so different with its lyrical inspiration that this next album will definitely be its own thing. So, it won't be carrying the mythological feel of "Shogun".

MusicReview.co.za: Musically, what can we expect? Is it a combination of everything TRIVIUM has already done?

Heafy: It's tricky to describe. We want it to be that this next album just sounds like "TRIVIUM." We may have — probably have — said that every record's goal is that, and it has been, but this time it's without question. There have always been experimental songs, since [2005's] "Ascendancy", on our albums, and this time the CD will only have what it is meant to have.

MusicReview.co.za: TRIVIUM's previous albums have included longer instrumental-only tracks. Can we expect the same this time around?

Heafy: Unfortunately, as of right now, there doesn't seem to be an instrumental song that will be on the album. However, there will be songs that do things we have never had as a song formula before.

MusicReview.co.za: It seems like the moment a metal band achieves moderate commercial success, such as TRIVIUM, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE and AVENGED SEVENFOLD, suddenly they become hated by elitists and, especially, Internet trolls. How do you handle this negativity and abuse? Do you just switch off after a while?

Heafy: Honestly, nowadays, the hate feels less than it's ever been. In actuality, there are probably far more people that DON'T like us, but our population of people who love us is so much bigger than it used to be; so it's a much smaller percentage of negativity, even though it's technically more of a voice. I feel that any band that has some sort of mainstream success — not calling us a mainstream band, [but] meaning being in magazines, radio, etc. — will have haters out of principle. But you can't think of that; there is too much good.

Decibel magazine recently conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Thomas "Angelripper" Such of German thrash metal veterans SODOM. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

Decibel: The story is that you started SODOM to escape working in the coal mines. Have the recent mine collapses in Chile and West Virginia made you feel especially lucky lately?

Tom: Yeah, and those guys in Chile were really lucky also, but I didn't like how they made it too commercial, like a big show when they came out of the mine. When I was in the coal mine, I remember thinking a lot of my friends were gonna die in there. We were 1,000 meters deep, and that is a very hard job, you know. I was so glad that they survived. But coal mining, that was my home. At these times, there were a lot of unemployed people, so they all go to the coal mine for work. My father went to the coal mine, my grandfather also, and my father took the decision for me to work in the coal mine as a blacksmith. I worked for 10 years, but it was a good time. It was like a big family; I got my money every month. Then in '89 I stopped doing this because [SODOM's] "Agent Orange" [album] came out and I get a lot of money from a record company to be a professional musician. So, I can make my living from the music. That was my aim, my dream, you know. And from that time I never went to work. But being a musician and managing the band for myself, it's a full-time job. It's not just writing songs and playing concerts. There's so much behind what we have to do.

Decibel: Did you have any close calls when you worked in the mines?

Tom: No, I got some scratches and cuts on my fingers and arms and things like that. The job is very dangerous, I know, but I always take care of myself. Security was first for me. A lot of coal miners, they never mind about security, but it is very important. So, I survived all those years with just some scratches. I worked at the Hugo mine. It was the first one in this area [the Ruhr industrial region of Germany]. They started mining there in 1873, I think. Nowadays, if you look in our area, almost all the coal mines are gone. In the whole district, just one or two coal mines are alive. That's why the people get unemployed here. The coal mines close and the people don't know where to go. You never find any good jobs here in this area.

Singer Michael Seifert and bassist Tomi Göttlich have decided to rebuild the German metal band REBELLION following the recent departures of Uwe Lulis (guitar), Gerd Lücking (drums) and Simone Wenzel (guitar),

Commented Seifert: "We have received many positive e-mails from fans. REBELLION are now looking for a drummer and a guitarist. Send applications to the band at the following e-mail address: rebellionfromhell@yahoo.com."

Added Göttlich: "We want to start the band from scratch. Micha and I would like to practice regularly. Future rehearsals will be near Giessen. The new musicians should not we live too far away."

Gerd and Uwe have plans to form a new band while Simone has joined VERNISSAGE.

REBELLION's latest full-length album (the third part of the "History of the Vikings" saga), "Arise: From Ragnarök to Ginnungagap - The History of the Vikings Volume III", came out in July 2009 via Massacre Records.

Poland's Metal Mind Productions has set a January 31 release date for reissues of the last three studio albums from WARLOCK — the band fronted by German metal queen Doro Pesch — "Hellbound" (1985), "True As Steel" (1986) and "Triumph And Agony" (1987) albums. Each title will be made available in a new digipak edition limited to 2,000 copies.

"Hellbound" reissue bonus tracks:

01. Hellraiser
02. Hellbound (live)

"True As Steel" reissue bonus tracks:

01. You Hurt My Soul
02. Turn It On
03. Evil

"Triumph And Agony" reissue bonus tracks:

01. East Meets West (live)
02. Angels With Dirty Faces
03. Under The Gun
04. Something Wicked This Way Comes

Swedish metallers SABATON have recruited DRAGONFORCE bassist Frédéric Leclercq to play guitar on their upcoming European tour. He will be filling in for regular SABATON guitarist Rikard Sundén, who "has decided to multiply himself and will have his first kid at this time," according to a statement released by the band.

The group adds, "Of course, it's the highest wish of SABATON to tour with all six members, but this time Rikard wanted to pass and to ensure that the fans that come to these shows will get a good show we wanted to bring in a person with both great musical talent as well as a great stage act together with a chemistry that we know fits in SABATON. We are sure that Frédéric is that person. This is, of course, a temporary situation, Frédéric is still a full member of DRAGONFORCE and Rikard is still the guitar player of SABATON. For the American tour that starts in April, Rikard will be on stage again, ready to rock and a hopefully a bit richer in life."

SABATON's "World War Tour 2011" of Europe is scheduled to kick off on March 3 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

"Uprising", the new video from SABATON, was filmed in Warsaw, Poland and is described as "a powerful and emotional tribute to those who lost their lives in the Warsaw uprising in 1944." The clip features an appearance by Swedish actor Peter Stormare ("Prison Break", "8MM", 'Fargo') as SS-Obergruppenführer von dem Bach and was directed by Jacek Raginis (who is related to decorated WWII hero Wladyslav Raginis).

"Uprising" comes off SABATON's fifth album, "Coat Of Arms", which sold around 450 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 124 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

"Coat Of Arms" was released in Europe on May 21, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Former TNT and current TONY HARNELL & THE MERCURY TRAINvocalist Tony Harnell has issued the following update:

"2010 was definitely better than 2009 by a long shot! I continued healing from my mother's passing and my own health scare and subsequent surgery in spring 2009. It knocked me down for a bit and I haven't spoken about it much 'till a couple of months ago but all is good now.

"It feels great that we actually got an album released, did some shows in New York, Norway, Spain and Florida and I'm almost back to my old self.

"My bands both in New York and in Sweden really helped me through some tough times. I love them all very much.

"2011 should be interesting. We are working on new material. We're not sure if we'll release a full album or a few songs at a time. We'll have to see how things go.

"I hope to do a lot more shows this year, either solo or with THE MERCURY TRAIN or maybe in some other unforeseen situation, such as last year's Queen Symphonic Rhapsody, which was a huge success and a lot of fun.

"I'll be announcing a New York show soon and hopefully more good things to come."

"Northern Lights", the debut video from Harnell's new project, TONY HARNELL & THE MERCURY TRAIN, can be viewed below. The track comes off the group's debut album, "Round Trip", which was released in Europe on July 2, 2010 and in the USA on July 27, 2010 via Frontiers Records.

"Round Trip" is a very special record: a stripped down, reinvented retrospective of Tony Harnell's past classics originally recorded with his previous bands TNT, WESTWORLD and STARBREAKER, with one brand new song, "Anywhere But Here", recorded exclusively for this release.

Canadian doomsters PASSAGE, featuring former members of MOONLYGHT and SORCIER DES GLACES, are preparing to enter the studio to record their second album, "II", for a late 2011 release. The band states, "Most of the songs were composed in 2005-2006, but we finished everything recently.

"As the first album was a kind of melancholic doom-rock, expect this second
offering to be different. We wanted it slow and painful. This is much more
doom, sad, progressive and atmospheric."

"II" track listing:

01. Melancholy Under Darkened Skies
02. Dismal
03. The Sadness That Haunts Me
04. Grievance (Instrumental)
05. As Darkness Comes
06. Degradation Of Deliverance
07. Passage

PASSAGE's self-titled debut album was released in 2005 via the Portuguese label Exorcize Music.

Greek melodic heavy/power metallers EMERALD SUN have inked a deal with Pitch Black Records. The band's sophomore album, "Regeneration", is scheduled for release on February 11. The CD includes "ten new tracks of utterly brilliant melodic heavy/power metal," according to a press release. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Maranis Studios in Backnang, Germany by Vagelis Maranis (ex-SANVOISEN) who also lends his voice on the 12-minute epic "Fantasmagoria".

The CD version of "Regeneration" will include a bonus track — a cover version of '80s pop classic "Holding Out For A Hero" — and will be available worldwide through Pitch Black Records and Twilight Distribution.

"Regeneration" track listing:

01. We Won't Fall
02. Theater Of Pain
03. Where Angels Fly
04. Regeneration
05. Starchild
06. Speak Of The Devil
07. Planet Metal
08. Chasing The Wind
09. Fantasmagoria
10. Holding Out For A Hero (CD bonus)

Check out audio samples at this location.

Formed in 1998, in Thessaloniki, Greece, EMERALD SUN recorded two demos prior to the release of the band's full-length debut in 2007 ("Escape from Twilight"), which was later issued in Japan with exclusive bonus material.

"Arise From Decay", the new video from German thrashers DEW-SCENTED, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's latest album, "Invocation", which was released on May 24, 2010 in Europe via Metal Blade Records and May 25, 2010 in North America through Prosthetic Records. The Japanese edition of the CD came with an alternate coloring of the cover artwork (sort of the "post-apocalypse version") and included four bonus tracks. The bonus tracks are two original songs, "Recall The Pain" (instrumental) and "The Death Of Common Sense", as well as two cover versions that the band recorded during the album session, 'Slaughterhouse' by U.S. power-thrashers POWERMAD and the track "Superstar Destroyer" by GENOCIDE SUPERSTARS from Sweden.

Commented DEW-SCENTED vocalist Leif Jensen: "While we spent a good amount of time on the European roads in 2010 promoting the release of 'Invocation', we figured it would be a good idea to collect live footage and have some of it presented to our global supporters. We chose the album's opening, 'Arise From Decay', for the clip as this track has become an important and very energetic piece of our current live set."

As previously reported, DEW-SCENTED has recruited Michael "Michi" Hankel (EROSION, HOLY MOSES) to play rhythm guitar on its upcoming European tour with NILE.

The two-man black metal outfit known as HAT (Norwegian for "hatred") will release its second full-length album, "Vortex Of Death", on January 24 via Abyss Records. The follow-up to 2009's "The Demise Of Mankind" promises to deliver the same razor-sharp aural nihilism as its predecessor, according to a press release.

"Vortex Of Death" track listing:

01. Inhumanus Revelation
02. Invocating Death
03. The Flesh I Wear
04. The Path To Immortality
05. Overmenneske
06. Ultimate Evil
07. Slaves of Insanity
08. Tilintetgjørelsen

"Your Heroes Are Dead", the new video from Italian folk/power metallers ELVENKING, can be viewed below. The song comes off ELVENKING's latest album, "Red Silent Tides", which was released on September 17, 2010 in Europe (November 9 in North America) via AFM Records. The CD was recorded at Piranha studios in Karsdolf, Germany with producer Dennis Ward (ANGRA, PINK CREAM 69, PRIMAL FEAR). The album's cover artwork was created by Samuel Araya, who has previously worked on CRADLE OF FILTH's "Thornography" CD.

"Red Silent Tides" track listing:

01. Dawnmelting
02. The Last Hour
03. Silence De Mort
04. The Cabal
05. Runereader
06. Possession
07. Your Heroes Are Dead
08. Those Days
09. This Nightmare Will Never End
10. What's Left Of Me
11. The Play Of The Leaves

Reunited late '80s Connecticut thrashers (now based in New York City) INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND (I.N.C.) have made their new EP, "Bleed The Line", available in digital format via iTunes or Amazon.com. Five of the EP's six tracks were written, recorded and produced by the band between the spring and summer of 2010, with the EP opener, "God Loves Violence", having been mixed by seasoned producer Fredrik Nordström (AT THE GATES, IN FLAMES, OPETH).

The "Bleed The Line" EP was made available on INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND's own label, M90 Records, and is the first music that the band has released in 20 years. The artwork for the EP was illustrated by Dennis Guevera.

"Bleed The Line" track listing:

01. God Loves Violence (Fredrik Nordström mix)
02. Bleed the Line
03. Rain (feat. Ron Thal of GUNS N' ROSES)
04. Full Metal Jacket
05. If I Were President
06. Fueled By Regret

"It felt great being back in the studio after so long," states lead guitarist Erik Barath. "It didn't even feel like there was any rust, it just felt natural. It was also amazing to have Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal stop by and lay down a lead on 'Rain'! That guy is an alien from another planet the way he plays guitar!"

INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND's video for the song "God Loves Violence" can be viewed below. The clip, which depicts scenes of violence and war, was posted on YouTube several months ago, but was banned after receiving over 100,000 views in under two weeks. This new video was filmed by New York City-based filmmaker Justin Johnson, who is known for his popular short political satire "Hillary In Bosnia", which has over 2.4 million views, and was featured on Fox News and other TV outlets.

Through humble beginnings in Connecticut, INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND released two full-length albums via Giant Records, "Razorback" (1987) and "The Visitor" (1988). Giant Records signed I.N.C. after witnessing the band's crushing live performances with the likes of EXODUS, MEGADETH and KING DIAMOND; all of which took place only six months after the INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND graduated high school. Now based in New York City, the band is writing and recording a new album (to be mixed by Fredrik Nordström), for a late spring release via the U.K.-based label Rising Records.

INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND is:

Erik Barath - Guitar
Tony Fabrizi - Guitar
Dennis Gergely - Vocals
Dennis Leeflang - Drums
Samuel J. Roon - Bass