The new album from highly recognized black metal band Darkthrone is all up on the tubes. If you’re not familiar with Darkthrone, their early material is 2nd wave bm which was at the forefront of the movement. Their more recent work, however, is a throw back to 1st wave with the huge punk and thrash influences. Peep this awesome stuff.

-MW

The highly anticipated return from ambient black metal master Varg Vikernes has hit the tubes before it drops in stores on March 8, 2010

Get it, unless you’re false.

-MW

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Oh shit. Matt Pike’s gonna kill somebody.

Snakes for the Divine, the highly anticipated follow up to 2007’s Death Is This Communion, hit the internet within the last couple of days. With the end of Did It Leak, it makes it harder to keep up with what new albums are floating around to sample. So this may have been around for a bit longer, but this is the first I’ve heard of it.

If you’d like to report any future metal album leaks, give us a shout at the email address at the right. It’s over there somewhere.

Snakes for the Divine is available legitimately February 23rd on E1 Records. Check out a YouTube video of “Frost Hammer” below if you’re in for a more legal taste of things to come.

- JR

The only thing I cared about is their cover of “Cars” with Gary Numan. The rest is just meh. I know they were influential and whatever, but I honestly don’t get why everyone’s popping e-boners over the “reunion”. I’ll just listen to Strapping Young Lad (which features half of the members of the current FF lineup) and Meshuggah, who did that whole industrial death metal/chuggy thing better, if you can call Fear Factory death metal.

Not only is the sound generally aged and boring, but to listen you have to navigate through the clunkiest site I’ve had to endure in a long while. You need a Facebook account to listen, and you have to unlock tracks by leaving comments spamming your friends on Facebook and Twitter. I listened to opening track “Mechanize” and gave up, because fuck that noise. Snap judgments are too damn easy.

If you still care, here it is. Meh.

- JR

You know how it goes. Go get it you freeloaders.

It’s due out July 7th.

After the jump, some stuff. You can tell I don’t care, right?

PHONING IT IN.

- JR

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Batten down the hatches. Metalcore band Darkest Hour’s new album The Eternal Return leaked.

Is anyone sick of the pirate jokes yet?

You know the drill. The Eternal Return is comes out June 23rd on Victory Records.

Below, listen to the song “No God” that they gave away for a free and legal taste of the album.

- JR

Darkest Hour – No God

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Killswitch Engage’s self-titled album hit the internet last night. Now it’s time for it to hit your hard drive. It’s Killswitch Engage, so you know what to expect. Catchy melodic metalcore done right.

You can find it if you know where to look. Seven seas, etc. The album comes out June 30th if you want to buy it.

After the jump, catch their video for Starting Over.

- JR

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You pirates want some deathcore? Well here you go. Suicide Silence’s No Time To Bleed hits stores June 30th. It hits internets NOW. I’m sure you can find it out there somewhere.

GET SOME.

After the jump, a song from the album or something.

- JR

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Feast your ears on this fresh death metal gem dug up by pirates online somewhere. Obituary’s new album Darkest Day is out there right now somewhere. Do a blog search to find it or something.

The album hits stores on June 30, 2009 through Candlelight Records.

Get a taste of the album with “Blood To Give” after the jump via a YouTube video.

- JR

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Progressive rock act The Mars Volta’s new album Octahedron leaked. Get some.

The album is due out June 18th.

After the break, catch a YouTube sample the super rad song “Cotopaxi”

- JR

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I don’t think I’ve ever heard of It Dies Today, but their name came across my RSS feed, so I feel obligated to post it. They are a run of the mill metalcore band with crushing verses and soaring choruses from what I can tell.

Getcha pirate groove on. Lividity comes out June 23rd in the physical world. Digitally, get it at a rapidshit near you.

After the break, catch their song “This Ghost” up on YouTube.

-JR

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Finally. I was just talking about this yesterday.

Seven seas, etc. I haven’t heard it yet, but I’m getting to it. Look out for a review at some point.

Album drops Tuesday on Century Media.

Oh hey. I can finally post their new video for “You Aint No Family.” Thanks YouTube.

- JR

If you haven’t heard of Gorod, you haven’t heard much of anything. Gorod are a french tech death band with a wide variety of interesting world music influences. They aren’t particularly full of low end chunky riffs but they still manage to be remotely heavy and contain great songwriting. They’re back with a new release for June 1st, which might be floating around on the internet somewhere, but I don’t know for sure. I also don’t know that it’s great.

You can catch a couple tracks over at their myspace.

www.myspace.com/gorod

-mw

I don’t know much about Bury Your Dead, but I do know their new album hit the internets late last night. It’s only a few days until release, but you can download it out there somewhere.

The album comes out May 26th on Victory Records. Below is a YouTube video of their new song “Hurting Not Helping”.

Visit Bury Your Dead on myspace to listen to more new music. Or go download it somewhere. Whichever.

- JR

THREE TIMES IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS I AM SICK OF SEEING HIS FACE GHSDPGHEGHERH.

Anyway, Marilyn Manson’s High End of Low leaked today. You already know what I think of it, so I won’t write anymore.

You can pick this up on the seven seas right now, or you can wait to get it May 26th.

I was going to post his new video for Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon below, but apparently every video of it on YouTube has embedding disabled. Honestly, if you cared enough, you already saw it. It’s the best song on the album, which is pretty much saying that crabs is the best STD.

-JR