Head over to Revolver Magazine to check out the exclusive premier of THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’s brand new album Deflorate, streaming in its entirety starting today. Still riding high on waves of acclaim for their rabidly-received DVD spectacle Majesty, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER triumphantly brings you their fourth thrashing opus Deflorate. An epic expansion of the stunning pitch-black cacophony that was 2007’s Nocturnal, Deflorate boasts Black Dahlia’s brand of seamlessly-mixed Swedish influenced blackened thrash and pounding American death metal muscle, and sees one of metal’s most outstanding underground outfits at the peak of its unmitigated musical brutality.

Vocalist Trevor Strnad comments; “Without further adieu, we, the five proud fathers of The Black Dahlia Murder in cooperation with Revolver Magazine bring you a sneak peek at our new Metal Blade album, Deflorate! This stream should tide you ravenous freaks over until you can go out and buy the album on Tuesday!!! Crank it up fucking loud and keep supporting the extreme!”

“Their fastest, ickiest, most surgically sharp record to date, the metronome murdering blast-fest Deflorate.” Revolver Magazine

“an album that exceeds the accomplishments of previous albums on virtually every level…the music is written in a way that has the listener eagerly paying attention to every note played. With Deflorate, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER proves more convincingly than ever that they are one of the top extreme metal acts in the world. Few do justice to the style the way these guys do.” Blabbermouth.net

If you haven’t picked up your copy of Majesty yet, the DVD is available at the Metal Blade Records online store HERE.

“Deflorate” bonus DVD preview on TheGauntlet.com

TheGauntlet.com is exclusively premiering a teaser clip taken from Deflorate’s bonus DVD, We’re Going Places…, which shows the band on their first ever tour through Scandinavia and Russia. Go HERE to check out the teaser clip with the guys playing in Iceland for the first time.

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
Tour w/ Children Of Bodom, Skeletonwitch

09/18 Providence, RI Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
09/19 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
09/20 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights
09/22 Quebec City, QC Theatre Capitole
09/23 Montreal, QC Metropolis
09/25 Kitchener, ON Elements Night Club
09/26 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
09/27 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
09/28 Minneapolis, MN Epic
09/29 Fargo, ND The Nestor Tavern not part of tour
09/30 Winnipeg, MB The Garrick Centre
10/01 Saskatoon, SK Odeon Events Centre
10/02 Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall Ballroom
10/03 Edmonton, AB Edmonton Events Centre
10/05 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
10/06 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
10/07 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
10/09 San Francisco, CA Regency Center w/ Austrian Death Machine
10/10 Pomona, CA The Glass House
10/12 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theatre w/ Austrian Death Machine

Tour w/ Skeletonwitch, Toxic Holocaust, Trap Them

10/13 San Diego, CA Soma
10/14 Victorville, CA Karma
10/15 San Luis Obispo, CA Downtown Brewing Co.
10/16 Reno, NV The Underground
10/17 Orangevale, CA The Boardwalk no Toxic Holocaust
10/19 Murray, UT Murray Theater
10/20 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep
10/22 Iowa City, IA Picador
10/24 Madison, WI The Annex
10/25 Columbus, OH The Basement
10/26 Evansville, IN Boney Junes
10/27 Nashville, TN Rocketown
10/29 Metairie, LA The High Ground
10/30 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits
10/31 Augusta, GA Sector 7G
11/01 Wilmington, NC The Soapbox Laundrolounge
11/02 Baltimore, MD The Ottobar
11/03 Farmingdale, NY The Crazy Donkey
11/04 Hartford, CT Webster Underground
11/06 Cleveland, OH Peabody’s Down Under
11/07 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection
11/08 Louisville, KY Uncle Pleasants
11/10 Syracuse, NY Lost Horizon
11/11 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place
11/12 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance
11/13 Bucksport, ME The Kave

End Tour

11/24 Trois-Rivieres, QC Batisse Industrielle Trois-Rivieres Metal Fest

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As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis and California frontman Ahhnold are back for round two with the release of AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE’s Double Brutal, the follow up to 2008’s highly successful (and, well, brutal) release, Total Brutal. With an appetite for all things barbarous, AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE ups the ante with Double Brutal. This two-disc goliath features one disc of all new heavy tracks in the tradition of all of Ahhnold’s greatest cinematic moments and a second disc of cover songs including songs originally performed by METALLICA, MEGADETH, MISFITS, JUDAS PRIEST and more, with cover art once again being tackled by Ed Repka (MEGADETH, DEATH, NOFX, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, etc).

A new audio clip featuring sneak peeks at tracks taken from Double Brutal is currently available on ADM’s MySpace page HERE. Check it out to get a taste of the sheer brutality that is set to devastate the world on September 29th Doom-thousand and Nine.

Comments AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE creator Tim Lambesis:

“Sometimes being stereotypically metal is fitting. I’m not trying to break new ground; I just want to break people’s necks…and have fun doing it”

For anyone who doubts the barbaric and brutal nature of Double Brutal, rest assured this album truly is doubly brutal. How can anyone argue Double Brutal’s pure savageness and testosterone filled manliness when you have Ahhnold, the strongest man in the universe and leader of many a mission filled with exploding chests, eyes bursting out of their sockets, and hands down the most classic one-liners you will ever hear, AND Tim Lambesis who can do a one armed push up while listening to Survivors ‘Eye of the Tiger’ (it’s true, I’ve seen it)?

Bottom line, AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE is still fast, still pissed, and still brutal.

Double Brutal features shed-a-riffic performances by:
• BILLY SHEEHAN (if you have to ask…)
• BUZ MCGRATH (UNEARTH)
• ANDREW TAPLEY (THE HUMAN ABSTRACT)
• JAMES GERICKE (DEATH BY STEREO)
• MARK MACDONALD (MERCURY SWITCH)
• ROCKY GRAY (LIVING SACRIFICE)
• RUSTY COOLEY (again, if you need to ask…)

Double Brutal track listing:
Disc 1
1. Double Ahhnold
2. I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle (from Terminator 2)
featuring guest shredding by Andrew Tapley
3. Let Off Some Steam Bennett (from Commando)
featuring guest shredding by Rusty Cooley
4. Who Writes the Songs? (The Real Bomb Track)
5. It’s Simple, If it Jiggles it’s Fat (from Pumping Iron)
featuring guest shredding by Andrew Tapley
6. See You at the Party Richter (from Total Recall)
featuring guest shredding by Chris Storey
7. Hey Cookie Monster, Nothing is as Brutal as Neaahhh
8. Who Told You You Could Eat My Cookies? (from Jingle All the Way)
featuring guest shredding by Mark MacDonald
9. Come on Cohaagen, Give Deez People Ehyar (from Total Recall)
featuring guest shredding by Buz McGrath
10. Who is Your Daddy, and What Does He? 2
11. Come on, Do it, Do it, Come on, Come on, Kill me, Do it Now (from Predator)
featuring guest shredding by Kris Norris
12. Allow Me To Break The Ice (from Batman & Robin)
featuring guest shredding by James Gericke
13. Conan, What is Best in Life? (from Conan the Barbarian)
featuring guest shredding by Rocky Gray & Jason Suecof

Disc 2
1. Intro to the Intro
2. T2 Theme
3. Hell Bent for Leather (from Terminator 2 / Judas Priest cover)
4. Time Travel: The Metallica Conspiracy
5. Trapped Under Ice (from Batman & Robin / Metallica cover)
6. Iron Fist (from Terminator / Motörhead cover)
7. Recalling Mars
8. I Turned into a Martian (from Total Recall / Misfits cover)
9. Killing is My Business…and Business is Good (from everything / Megadeth cover)
10. Tactically Dangerous – Cannibal Commando (from Commando / Goretorture cover)
11. Gotta Go (from Terminator / Agnostic Front cover)

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All That Remains – Overcome: This was one of my “Highly Anticipated” releases for 2008. After really enjoying The Fall Of Ideals and This Darkened Heart, I couldn’t wait to see what was next. When the first two singles dropped I really liked them. The sound was a bit different and I couldn’t wait for the album. When I got it I was pretty stoked. I wrote a great review for it and said it surpassed their previous releases. While the album is different from the previous two and is good in it’s own right, it lacks longevity. I wouldn’t call it “uninspired” as many others have, but it It doesn’t having the lasting effect that The Fall Of Ideals has.

The Acacia Strain – Continent: This is another one of those albums that doesn’t have the lasting effect. It’s heavy and brutal, but it lacks the hooks that I feel is necessary to make an album stand the test of time. The vocals and lyrics are great, but a good chorus or breakdown is needed for me to truly appreciate this album. Like The Dead Walk, I really dug it at first listen but it’s easily forgotten within a week or so.

Austrian Death Machine – Total Brutal: Tim Lambesis side project with Ahhnold was fun at first few listens. The music is cool and there are a lot of guest solos in the mix. Paul Raven (From The Critics Den) kind of opened my eyes up a bit more on this album. In his review he states that it is one of those albums that get’s passed around by teenage metalheads and that the novelty of it doesn’t last very long. He was exactly right. It’s a “Solid thrash album”, as he says in the comments of my review but it doesn’t last long and gets thrown in with the stack of things such as Beatallica, the Jerkie Boys and such. Funny, yes. Overwhelmingly wowing…’fraid not.

Soulfly – Conquer: I stated in my review that this is probably Soulfly’s best release ever…and I still feel that way. If you ever plan on getting a Soulfly album then start with this. If you want to reach in to their back catalog, then go for their self titled debut. Everything in between is garbage in my opinion. Conquer brings a thrashier feel to it as if Max and Igor Cavalera Conspiracy release resurrected something inside of him. Let’s not forget that Marc Rizzo is a complete bad-ass guitar player too.

Withered – Folie Circulaire: This one was really tough to get in to. The blackened death metal genre is something I’m fairly new to and if your not totally in to that music then it will either take some time to get used to or it will just not sink in at all. The Funeral Pyre is the same way. Their 2008 release Wounds has that strange effect where it takes some time. Prosthetic Records signs acts that stand out from the rest. That’s where bands like Lamb Of God and All That Remains got their big start. Other bands that made their Prosthetic label debut this year that deserve a listen are Book Of Black Earth with Horoskopus and The Antagonist with Exist.

Children Of Bodom – Blooddrunk: This album seemed to fall short of my expectation upon first listen. I honestly don’t know what I expected of this album considering that I only heard Hate Crew Deathroll and Are You Dead Yet? before I got BloodDrunk. I bought it and the same day immediately after first listen wrote a review saying that it was mediocre. A day or two later I wrote a quick re-review, something I don’t often do. The album grew on me and I was really getting in to it. While it’s still not my favorite COB release it’s a good release nonetheless. After I bought Blooddrunk I went on the search and bought the remaining C.O.B. re-releases of the albums I didn’t have.

Finally Slipknot and Metallica: I loved the old Metallica like a million others have. I’ve also been disappointed like a million others have since the release of Load, Reload and St. Anger. What I expected of Death Magnetic was another over-hyped piece of dog excrement. What we got was a not-so-bad album with a more thrash feel than the previous four Metallica studio album with it’s ups and downs. This album proved that Metallica haven’t totally lost touch with their past, but are still far from re-achieving the expectations of a lot of their hardcore following fans from the beginning. At some points is seems as they are trying too hard and some times it seems they aren’t trying hard enough. Better than expected but still no enough to quench the hunger of a dying Metallica fan. Progress has been made but they might never make another Master Of Puppets and that’s something we all need to live with. To name this as “Album Of The Year” is just plain idiotic.

Slipknot really disappointed me this year. All Hope Is Gone was hyped and hyped some more. The best songs were released as singles and most everything else on the album felt like a rushed filler. We’ve seen a different progression of the band since MFKR, but this one was a giant step sideways instead of forward. Iowa had me wanting more and Vol. 3 made me a happy fan. The Stone Sour releases in between sufficed but All Hope Is Gone made me second guess myself as a fan of this band. I don’t really know if I will anticipate the next one as much as I have in the past. Also I have found so many more bands and releases this year that it was almost easy to forget how much I disliked this record and that makes me feel as if perhaps I’m growing away from Slipknot, which ultimately is not necessarily a bad thing. All Hope Is not Gone, but on more release like this and it may be.

Writing reviews is not as an easy process as some might think. After you have written so quite a few it’s tough to come up with creative ways to say just how “Brutal” or shitty an album really is. For some it comes easy and for others like myself it’s not always a piece of cake. You also have to battle your own feelings sometimes and try not to second guess yourself in fear of drawing a negative response from someone that doesn’t feel the same way about an album. At times you read a comment from someone after you’ve posted a review and it’s get’s you thinking about that album. You go back and you think to yourself, “Damn, they’re right.”. You don’t want to change your mind but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and either say so or just ignore the fact. Some albums deserve a full track-by-track review and other just need a simple explanation that the album slays. With the Internet it’s fairly easy to find reviews before you buy a cd. Who’s advice you take is solely up to you and your liking. If ever you agree read a review in Rolling Stone Magazine and it says nothing but negative things about the album…chances is are that the album is great. If they say and album is innovative and spectacular…buyer beware.

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Just a few things real quick and I’m off to see if I can find a driving range that is open on this beautiful Labor day.

• Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone has landed at number 2 on the UK charts and number 1 on the Australian charts. So how’s it hitting on the Billboard Charts? Who gives a crap because the Billboards have their genres and stuff all screwed up. On a side note this album has started to grow on me a bit. I still feel it’s not their best work and there are still a few songs that I’m not feelin’, but it’s not too bad. Suppose it could have been worse.
• KISS are going to start marketing “Hotter Than Hell Ketchup” in the Myrtle Beach, SC KISS Coffee House…and you can be a proud owner of some spicy habanero ketchup (wouldn’t that be ‘hot sauce’? I’m just sayin’) for just 7.95 USD a bottle…
• Dark Funeral guitarist “Lord Ahriman” (~snicker-snicker~) are a couple of weeks into the pre-production of their next album and want to make sure they are “666%” satisfied before going into production.
• The Haunted have anounced a few Australian tour dates. The new album ‘Versus‘ will be out the end of this month. Nov. 08 – Brisbane, AUS @ The Arena, Nov. 09 – Sydney, AUS @ Manning Bar, Nov. 11 – Melbourne, AUS @ The Hifi, Nov. 13 – Perth, AUS @ The Capitol
• Bruce Dickinson piloted a plane that brought home some British RAF (Royal Air Force I’m assuming) returning home from Afghanistan.
• And lastly Austrian Death Machine will debut their first video from the recently released album Total Brutal. The video for “Get To The Choppa” will debut on Myspace Metal on September 3rd.

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Ok, Tim’s Ahhnold impression is not the best I’ve heard but he doses alright and it makes this cd fun and enjoyable. Every song has a catch phrase from Arnold Schwartzenegger’s movies. You can pretty much look at the track listing and figure out which movie it’s from. Just when you think Tim is going to sing in the voice of Ahhnold, but he sings like he does in AILD. The guitars drums and everything in between is heavy as hell and the solos rip.

The cover art was done by Ed Repka. You might know him from other covers such as Megadeth’s Peace Sells…, Rust In Peace, a couple of Death albums, A Venom album and a bunch of other metal album covers.

So if you have a good taste for fun heavy metal then give Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal a listen.

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Austrian Death Machine

Ahhnold is the embodiment of everything brutal and stereotypically metal, so he is the perfect front-man for each of these songs that I wrote in less than an hour. If you think that shows any sort of disrespect or makes me less of a fan than you are, then I’d like to hear the entire CD you wrote in tribute to the governator. Plus, let’s be honest, it came out a lot better than a lot of bands who are totally serious and practice all the time. Everything I put into my other band (As I Lay Dying) is heartfelt and full of passion. This, on the other hand, is an outlet of pure testosterone and stupidity. I hope you’re ready… chances are you already know the words to every chorus, so sing along!

I’m goign to swing by the record store and pick this up today just because. I’ll also do a review on it later as well. Sounds like some funny shit!

Read about Austrian Death Machine and download the track ‘If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It’

here is a track listing. Try to read it without laughing.

1 Hello California
2 Get To The Choppa
3 Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers
4 All Of The Songs Sound The Same
5 I Am A Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over (Metal) Endoskeleton
6 Come With Me If You Want To Live
7 What It’s Like To Be A Singer At Band Practice
8 Who Is Your Daddy And What Does He Do?
9 You Have Just Been Erased
10 Broo-Tall Song Idea
11 Here Is Subzero, Now Plain Zero
12 So Far, So Good, So Let’s Talk About It
13 Screw You (Benny)
14 Why?
15 If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It
16 It’s Not A Tumor
17 Not So Hidden Track

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