CHIMAIRA PREPARES TO KICK OFF FALL/WINTER TOUR WITH TRIVIUM, WHITECHAPEL AND DIRGE WITHIN
GUITARIST ROB ARNOLD WEIGHS IN ON THE UPCOMING TOUR
Fresh off their European headlining tour, CHIMAIRA are ready to decimate the US this fall and winter on tour with Trivium! The brutal tour also features heavy hitters Whitechapel and Dirge Within. CHIMAIRA hits the road this fall, kicking off the tour October 29 in Atlanta, GA.
Guitarist Rob Arnold commented on the upcoming run with Trivium:

“After an incredibly successful headlining tour of Europe, the gears are oiled and in motion, and we’re amped about bringing things back stateside. You can …read more

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

Behemoth has unleashed the trailer for the video for “Ov Fire and the Void”, filmed by Grupa 13 in Poland. You can also watch a preview of the upcoming DVD bonus footage over at Metal Injection!
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BEHEMOTH
ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL
Tour w/ Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid, Cannibal Corpse, Job For A Cowboy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel

07/30 London, ON …read more

Dirge Within have made the title track from their debut album available for free. They recently finished wrapped up a video for the song “Forever the Martyr” in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I personally think that’s a fantastic name for a song.
Force Fed Lies is due out September 1st, and is being released by E1 Music, and the band is going to be on the “Into the Mouth of Hell We Tour” in September and October with Trivium, Whitechapel and Darkest Hour.
Check out this video, and tell me what you think of Dirge Within. Download their title track here.
[via: Blabbermouth]

There wasn’t many updates yesterday for good reason. I had to attend the Suffocation Blood Apocalypse Tour last night. I haven’t banged my head that hard and long since my early 20’s and I’m feeling it this morning.
Before the show I had a quick interview with Frank Mullen of Suffocation. I’ll have to transcribe that and get it up later this week.
The venue wasn’t nearly as full as it was the last time they played on the Exhumed To Consume tour, but it filled up pretty good once Suffocation took the stage. I was also pretty impressed with the …read more

The local band that opened the show, Malebolgia, don’t want to be associated with anything ‘Core. That and they kick ass.
Veil Of Maya is not my thing, but they played well and the crowd liked them.
Bill Robinson of Decrepit Birth (pictured above) is the coolest dude in the world.
Whitechapel’s hardcore fans worship them.
If you like death metal and you never see Suffocation live, you might as well die a virgin.

Oh yeah…and I’m pretty sure I have a neck injury too.
I will elaborate more tomorrow.
Image © MetalMartyr.com

2009 metal festivals are popping up everywhere! One of the latest is happening in Ft. Worth. The third annual Metal Up Your Ass Festival. Headlined by Carcass with Suffocation, Whitechapel, Samael, Arsis, Decrepit Birth, Veil Of Maya, Psycroptic and Suicide Silence are just a handful of confirmed bands attending this fest on March 21st at the Ridglea Theater in Ft. Worth. I’ll try to update as new bands are announced. Tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door and went on sale today at Front Gate Tickets.
Image: Front Gate Tickets
On a side note, the Ridglea Theater has …read more

Wow, what a line up for another 2009 fest in the States. The Virginia Death Fest will be held on March 15th in Norfolk Virgina at the Norfolk Masonic Temple with a killer line up! Tickets are $20 in advance with a $3.95 fee if you order them from HERE, or you can purchase them at the door for $25.00. Either way, you’re getting to see a bunch of great death metal bands for fairly cheap. My gas to go is probably going to cost more than the tickets, but it’s going to be worth it! Check out the line …read more

Heaven And Hell will be on Headbangers Ball tonight. I don’t have much more detail than that.

UNDEROATH – DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES (Premiere)
LAMB OF GOD – WALK WITH ME IN HELL (live)
DRAGONFORCE – HEROES OF OUR TIME
CARNIFEX – ANSWERS IN MOURNING (Premiere)
WHITE CHAPEL – THIS IS EXILE
OZZY OSBOURNE – BARK AT THE MOON
THE SWORD – FIRE LANCES OF THE ANCIENT HYPERZEPHYRIANS (Debut)
SHADOWS FALL – FOREVERMORE
HATEBREED – I WILL BE HEARD (live) (Premiere)
HEAVEN AND HELL – THE MOB RULES
MESHUGGAH – BLEED

Click ‘Read More’ to watch the four videos that are premiering or debuting tonight, if you …read more

Last week I kind of slacked due to the fact that I was on vacation with my family and it really wasn’t on my mind. Here is this weeks HBB play list. Not the greatest list. The Hatebreed video will be on the upcoming live DVD, The gates Of Slumber video is kind of a cool, sledge, doom song (Kind of reminds me of Devon Townsend) and the Dragonforce song is from their upcoming Ultra-beat off cd. The Straight Line Stitch video is better than the last one but I still don’t like this band. I have always loved …read more