Washington DC’s own DARKEST HOUR have posted a brand-new webisode, documenting the band on the 2009 edition of the “Summer Slaughter Tour”  The tour webisode is available NOW on the band’s YouTube page, www.youtube.com/darkesthourdudes or you can view it below.

DARKEST HOUR recently kicked off a fall tour with Trivium, Dirge Within, and Whitechapel. The complete list of tour dates is below. Visit DARKEST HOUR’s revamped MySpace for tour updates at http://www.myspace.com/darkesthour.
Drummer Ryan Parrish had the following to say about their current tour:

“We are totally stoked to be reaching new fans with our style of melodic death metal.  The …read more

BENEATH THE MASSACRE unveils DYSTOPIA artwork and second in-studio video blog, pre-orders available now

Montreal’s death metal quartet BENEATH THE MASSACRE has unveiled artwork for the band’s forthcoming record, ‘Dystopia,’ online in conjunction with the launch of pre-orders for the album. “After months of hard work in the studio, we finally have the master version of our new album entitled ‘Dystopia,’” frontman Elliot Desgagnés. “We are all very stoked by the new album as we feel that this is the best release we’ve ever done and we’re impatient to share our songs with our fans. You can now pre-order ‘Dystopia’ …read more

Another kick ass metal site, MetalInjection.net  shot some good live Black Dahlia Murder footage for their Bootleg Series from the Summer Slaughter Tour. The song is Elder Misanthropy. The Black Dahlia Murder is a band that I have tried to get into before but there was just something about it that I had a hard time getting. Perhaps it’s because I haven’t heard that much and what I have heard has been from a shitty sampling station. Maybe I should just buy a CD and force-feed myself. Anyway, enjoy the video.

Corey Mitchell, who  writes for Incoldblog.com and who has also written various crime novels, submitted an in depth experience of his attendance at the July 4th San Antonia Texas stop of the Summer Slaughter tour over at Metalsucks.net. He wasn’t able to catch the entire show due to family obligations but he still seemed to enjoy what he saw. Check his writing out at the link below.
SUMMER SLAUGHTER SLAYS SAN ANTONIO

The Summer Slaughter Tour will be working it’s way through Canada from East to West. Nuclear Blast reports:
Necrophagist, Dying Fetus, Beneath The Massacre, Into Eternity, Neuraxis, Whitechapel, Veil of Maya, DIVINITY (Nuclear Blast) and Common Grave will join forces in Quebec to start SUMMER SLAUGHTER CANADA

8/14/08  Imperial – Quebec City, QC – CANADA 8/15/08  Club Soda – Montreal, QC – CANADA 8/16/08  The Opera House – Toronto, ON – CANADA

Repost From Nuclear Blast Newsletter:
The organizers of the SUMMER SLAUGHTER Tour have just announced a second nationwide underground festival tour to take place later in the Summer!
It’s called The THRASH & BURN Tour, presented by Revolver Magazine in conjunction with Deathcote, Merch Now and Iron Fist Clothing.
While SUMMER SLAUGHTER is known to be “The Most Extreme Tour of the Year” with a cutting edge line-up focused on pure progressive brutality and the different faces of death metal, The THRASH & BURN Tour will showcase a diverse mix of underground metal bands who draw from decades of Thrash, Punk and Hardcore …read more

Ibanez is having a guitar give away. The bad ass axe they are giving away is the Xiphos. It kinda reminds me of a Jackson Warrior XT. Visit www.Ibanez.com/xiphos to enter to win this beauty!