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Touche Amore are one of the best new bands to come around. Their fusion of hardcore music with almost pop guitar melodies is really awesome, and I especially dug their recent split with Pianos Become The Teeth when they took a more post-rock turn. It really boded well for them, and as of today, the band are already done tracking drums for the newest record, set to be released this fall via Deathwish Inc. I’ll tell you, it’s going to be a big year for Deathwish: Touche Amore, Deafheaven, Harms Way, Young And In The Way and possibly even Trap Them all have records set to come out, and I’m stoked for all of them, even more so because I know that Deathwish is a killer label who always puts out quality releases. Watch the teaser video below and keep up with their Facebook, and we’ll have more news as it comes!

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Tim Lambesis

Allegedly, Tim Lambesis, member of As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine, & Pyrithion, tried to hire a hitman, who was really an undercover detective, to kill his wife. Via San Diego County Sheriff’s Dept:

Tim Lambesis, lead singer and co-founder for the heavy metal band, “As I Lay Dying” was arrested without incident today, May 7, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in a retail business on Vista Way in Oceanside. Lambesis is charged with Solicitation of Another to Commit Murder. 

Information came to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department on May 2 that Lambesis was soliciting another individual to kill his estranged wife, who resides in Encinitas. The Encinitas Detectives, The San Diego Fugitive Task Force and the Sheriff’s Special Investigation Division investigators immediately initiated an investigation.

The investigation culminated this afternoon, when Lambesis solicited an undercover detective to kill his wife. He was then arrested, transported to the Encinitas Station, and booked into the Vista Detention Facility.

Um, WHAT?! I really really hope that this didn’t happen. I talked to the guy, and it’s hard to believe somebody could do something like this, but everyone has their secrets. The story is legit though, with official sources from San Diego County Sheriff’s Dept. and Reuters reporting the story. More info as we get it.

-SS

Mastodon

Using the average two-year album cycle, it was kind of a no brainer that Georgia progressive metal titans Mastodon were working on a follow-up to 2011′s The Hunter. Even still, it’s good to get confirmation! Mastodon have updated their Facebook with the following status update:

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Revocation

Boston’s Revocation are one of the finer exports of modern metal according to many a metalhead. Their all-encompassing, jack-of-all-trades approach delivers the goods for fans of almost any extreme subgenre out there, but never feels derivative or uninspired. Personally, I have yet to hear another band combine intensity, intelligence, skill, and emotion to such an extent, and I’m sure there’s others out there that would agree with me, based on the widespread recognition their 2011 opus Chaos of Forms and its successor Teratogenesis received.  Following a relentless tour cycle that is set to culminate with this year’s rendition of the Summer Slaughter Tour, the guys are going to release their upcoming self-titled full-length this summer. As the first proper release with new bassist Brett Bamberger (ex- East of the Wall) on board, this album is building up quite the anticipation within the community.

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Given our love of avant-garde metal and all things weird in general, we’re beyond stoked to announced our sponsorship of the upcoming Polkadot Cadaver headlining tour with special guests Exotic Animal Petting Zoo and One-Eyed Doll on select dates. Cosponsored by Digital Tour Bus, this trek will be in support of Polkadot Cadaver’s upcoming full length, Last Call In Jonestown, which comes out this May 14 via Razor To Wrist Records.

Check out the dates for the tour below, and be sure to hit up your local tour stop!

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The Nerve

Just last week I shared the exciting news that the Gower brothers, formerly of Australian progressive rock trailblazers, Cog, have returned with a new outfit called The Occupants, and now just today, it has been revealed that The Nerve, which features Cog’s drummer, Lucius Borich, has signed with Bird’s Robe Records, home to prominent instrumental post-rockers, sleepmakeswaves and Tangled Thoughts of Leaving.

Fronted by the dynamic Ezekial Ox, whose former projects include Mammal, and who has continued to write and tour with his duo, Over-reactor, the band released a teaser track, ‘Witness’, earlier in the year, which is an assault of blues infused Aussie hard rock, and is also another wonder of the internet age, having been recorded by band members based in Melbourne, Sydney and Prague.

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The surprisingly so-so All Stars Tour now has tour dates! The trek — featuring Every Time I Die, Veil of Maya, iwrestledabearonce, and more — will run through July and August. Special guests Volumes will be performing July 26th-August 11th and  Structures will appear July 19th-25th and August 12th-17th. Here are the dates:

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RIP Jeff Hanneman of Slayer

Photo credit: Kevin Winter

Photo credit: Kevin Winter

From the band’s Facebook page:

Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11AM this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael and Larry, and will be sorely missed.

Our Brother Jeff Hanneman, May He Rest In Peace (1964 – 2013)

He was a legend.

-NT

Vale of Pnath

Vale Of Pnath are another one of those bands that I always hear of, but never manage to hear. I guess I could be slightly forgiven seeing as the band released their last album in 2011 and have remained fairly quiet on the whole ‘releasing new material’ part of the bargain which is where I normally catch on, but given the quality of ‘Sightless‘, I should probably check out their debut The Prodigal Empire.

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korn 2013

I know I’m kind of in the minority of metal blogs when I say this, but Korn are an alright band. I’m a bit biased since they were my gateway into heavier music, and the nostalgia factor is there, so keep that in mind before you chew my head off over this. Korn III is actually the only album of theirs that I actively disliked, and I even enjoyed most of their 2011 dubstep-themed record The Path of Totality. I have a high tolerance when it comes to Korn, and I can’t help it. They were once my favorite band, but now that I’ve moved on, I have a bit of a casual interest in the group.

This interest has been piqued a bit since their live reunion with original guitarist Brian “Head” Welch who left the band to kick drugs and pursue Christianity. Now that everyone has had time to heal and grow since the split — including an alleged sobriety across the group — both parties were ready to start again. Apparently the reunion went quite well, because Head has joined Korn’s lineup on a more permanent basis, even being actively involved in writing the group’s upcoming album — their first album together in a decade.

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