Taiwanese metallers CHTHONIC just kicked off their United States tour in support of their new album Mirror of Retribution.  The tour features Satyricon, Bleeding Through and Toxic Holocaust and runs through October 27th in Montreal, Quebec.
Bassist Doris Yeh comments:
“After 2 years, we finally have our new album Mirror of Retribution out on Spinefarm Records, and this is our second North American tour. We’re very excited to see the fans here, and we just met the members of Bleeding Through, they’re very nice people, but including the members of the band and staff, there will be a total 15 people on …read more

Bleeding Through are heading out on tour in support of Declaration. They’ll be touring with The Acacia Strain, As Blood Runs Black and Impending Doom. The tour is sponsored by Revolver Magazine and Zambooie and will be Bleeding Through first headlining tour in three years. If you click on the tour poster it will open in another window and you will see where it says “Visit Bleedingthrough.com for tour dates”. I saved you the trouble and posted the dates after the fold. What aggravates me about visiting some label and band official websites is that you have to click …read more

Today there are some pretty good releases. I ran to the mall this morning to pick up the new Trivium and Amon Amarth. Sampled a little bit of each one and so far no complaints.
Misery Index Released Traitors on Relapse Records today
Amon Amarth released Twilight Of The Thunder God on Metal Blade
Trivium released Shogun on Roadrunner
Bleeding Through released Declaration on Trustkill
In This Moment released The Dream through Century Media
Prosthetic Records released Antagonist’s label debut Exist
Megadeth Anthology: Set The World Afire was released on Capital/EMI
Facedown Records released Call To Preserve’s From Isolation

Holy sh*t! When was the last time I did this? Last time I was lazy and had a lot of news to cover and wanted do it all at once. That pretty much sums it up when I do the Metal Shavings.
Divine Heresy, despite the drama as of late, have enlisted another temporary singer for their South American Tour. Travis Neal will be covering the vocals for the South American tour and it’s said that Kerry King recommended him. Travis is formerly of The Bereaved and Pushed.
Ex-Bleeding Through and Ex-Martyr A.D. members are joining forces (Wonder twin powers …read more

The new outtake picture for Bleeding Through’s Marta is up at revolvermag.com. You can also see yesterdays picture of Light This City’s Laura Nichol and Maria Brink of In This Moment. Click the link to go straight there.
Hottest Chicks In Metal II Outtakes: Nee Pic Of Bleeding Through’s Marta
Image Source: Revolver Magazine’s Myspace

If you saw the latest issue of Revolver Magazine then you saw their annual Hottest Chicks In Metal III feature. Well now they are letting you see the pictures that didn’t make the cut at Revolver.com. The pictures in the magazine were very classy and nothing sleazy and I think it was very nice to leave something to the imagination.
Right now you can view a few pictures of Maria Brink of In This Moment and through the rest of the week a new set of pictures for the other beautiful ladies will be posted there as well. Don’t miss …read more