Deftones are gearing up for the release of their upcoming album Diamond Eyes, and  releasing their next single. “Diamond Eyes” March 15th via Amazon. A short sample of the song can be heard below.

Diamond Eyes [Sample]

This sounds fucking great. This is shaping up to be a surprise hit for 2010.

Diamond Eyes will be out May 18th.

- JR

Spanish brutal death metal band Wormed have thrown their new demo/promo CD out on the internet for you to hear. If you are unfamiliar with the band, their style of brutal death is very distinct. The guitar work on the first album Planisphaerium was muddied in the mix, while Phlegeton’s crazy angry frog vocals slurred away against a solid rhythm section. The brutality achieved by the band was purposeful and didn’t feel forced. The debut full length had a few unexpected sections, such as a very post-rock section in the song “Geodesic Dome”. All the riffs were masterfully constructed with a odd timing and sound. This bizarre sound is continued on the demo Quasineutrality with a early Immolation sounding structure. Peep the new songs “Uncolored Plasma Orifices Transported” and “Undeciphering the Inquantificability” on their myspazzzzz.

-MW

Metalsucks has the high quality stream of the new Dillinger Escape Plan song “Chinese Whispers” going on right now. Sounds so much better and fuller than the radio rip we heard this weekend. I’m so excited for Option Paralysis. I WANT IT NOW.

But it’s due out in three weeks; Tuesday, March 23rd via Season of Mist and Party Smasher Inc. That’s too far away.

- JR

New Dillinger Escape Plan song “Chinese Whispers” premiered on Full Metal Jackie last night. And just like every other internet radio premier or stream, someone rips it and uploads it to YouTube. Fuck yeah, Faith No More influenced Dillinger is always awesome!

Catch “Chinese Whispers” in higher quality on Tuesday when Metalsucks hosts the stream. We’re about two weeks away from this bombshell dropping on us all; March 23, via Party Smasher Inc and Season of Mist.

- JR

As you may or (most likely) may not know, I’ve written about The Crinn during the early days of HBIH. As a refresher, The Crinn are a mathcore band based out of St. Paul, Minnesota.

From the band’s bio on MySpace:

The Crinn’s self titled EP came to light in the spring of 2007, and after touring the south east to support the EP, The Crinn signed a digital distribution deal with the now defunct record label Corrosive Recordings. This signing allowed the band to greatly expand the reach of their music.

Shortly after the signing with Corrosive, The Crinn and drummer Corey parted ways, which led to the introduction of Chris Zugschwert. He learned the EP in only a few months, then The Crinn embarked on a west coast tour that took them throughout the south, up the west coast and back home to Minnesota.

Upon returning to St. Paul, The Crinn began work on the writing of their next release, “Dreaming Saturn”. In November of 2008, they were offered a record deal by Nuclear Blast to record their next album.

The album, Dreaming Saturn, was promoted as being released on October 19th, 2009 on Nuclear Blast. The year went on and the world of The Crinn went practically silent. The calendar rolled over to 2010 and I’ve yet to hear any new music or word of Dreaming Saturn.

That was until recently when they posted a new song “Man Eating Machine” on their MySpace page. The page also claims that Dreaming Saturn will be out Spring 2010. As far as I can tell, there isn’t an official date set, but they’re having an album release show on April 24th.

Finally, the album is within sight. The idea of Dreaming Saturn is fairly interesting. It’s a concept album, written as one singular piece of music broken up into tracks for the album (as you can tell on Man Eating Machine where it seems to randomly cut off). They used what they call “circular songwriting” with a lot of “ebbs and bows and ups and downs”. The Crinn have stepped up the songwriting by including more varying passages to break up the chaos and the new material sometimes has a more subtle melodic side, while maintaining the twisted technicality.

I think that Dreaming Saturn will surprise the people that hear it, and even has the ability to be a contender as being one of the best albums of the year. That is, if it ever comes out.

- JR

Haunted Shores posted the following update on their MySpace.

Greetings,

We’ll be releasing a split EP with our good friends in Cyclamen (UK), due out tentatively next month! We’re almost done with it, just putting the finishing touches on one more track on our end, as well as some artwork. From the bits I’ve heard of the Cyclamen material it is gonna be something truly special. Appearing on the split EP will be final versions of “When in Oslo” and one more song (which we will be posting here soon!). After that comes out Chris and I will resume work on the new album! We’ve been writing together a ton and are beyond excited to share it with you guys. I also wanted to formally thank all of you who have given us positive feedback on the new iteration of HS. We really take it to heart, especially considering the fact that we’re kind of getting a fresh start if you will. So thanks to all who have listened… tell your friends aboot us!

If you haven’t heard of Cyclamen, shame on you. I interviewed Hayato Imanishi earlier this year. They’re a really great band and are playing their first show with Tesseract March 19th in High Wycombe, UK. Haunted Shores, on the other hand, is a thrashier sounding djenty band based out of Washington DC, featuring Mark Holcomb on guitar and bass and ex-Periphery singer Chris Barretto. Periphery songwriter Misha Monsoor apparently makes studio appearances and handles some of the production.

Everyone should check this EP out and help support independent artists like Cyclamen and Haunted Shores. It will definitely be worth checking out.

- JR

Or at least they try to, in the promo video for their cover of ‘Sabotage’. With mildly entertaining results. Crazy Candians.

To be honest, I was completely unaware that Cancer Bats were releasing an album this year. I like them, but have never been overly into them, which is weird, because they’re exactly the kind of band I should love, a-la Every Time I Die.

This album has the potential to change that though. I really really like this song, and as a result will probably be getting Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones when it hits stores on April 13th.

Job done, promotional advertising. Job done.

- CG

Right here, sixth song down, the studio version of “Icarus Lives”!

Sadly, the quality is slightly lacking, but it made me that much more excited for Periphery’s debut album, which is out on 4/20. You know, I can’t think of another band with this much hype and such a huge fan base before even releasing anything official. That speaks volumes on the band. They’ve got lasting power, for sure. SO EXCITE.

- JR

Awww yeah.

Diamond Eyes
Royal
CMND/CTRL
You’ve Seen the Butcher
Beauty School
Prince
Rocket Skates
Sextape
Risk
976-EVIL
This Place Is Death

I really hope “CMND/CTRL” is the same kind of experimental track as “U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, A, B, SELECT, START” (wow that was a pain to type) from 2006’s Saturday Night Wrist. Deftones‘ version of post rock = great.

Pointless speculation based on similarly themed song titles is too easy.

The album’s title track “Diamond Eyes” is set to be the official single for the album, but apparently, according to The PRP, they’re doing a video of “Rocket Skates”. Wut?

So in case you missed it, here’s Rocket Skates. You can download that sumbitch right here for free.

Deftones’ highly anticipated Diamond Eyes is out May 18th on Reprise Records.

- JR

Bongripper, a Chigago, IL based doom band knoWn for being lOng, sludgy, harsh, and even stRaight up noise muSic are getting ready to put out tHeir new full length album tItled Satan Worshipping Doom. The album will contain 4 songs and will clock in at over an hour of SATAN. The track listing is as follows. I’m Pretty excited.

1.  Hail
2.  Satan
3.  Worship
4.  Doom

No joke either. TheSe guys Are seriously good and I wanT to see how they pull off slightly more trAditioNal and cheesy early doom. If you haven’t heard their material before, I suggest the releases Hippie Killer, The Great Barrier Reefer. The band are still looking for a label or some distribution for the new album, so if you can provide that for them, provide that.

-MW

Yerrrp.

Still pretty much crapping myself with anticipation for Option Paralysis, but it’s a nice view anyway. Trippy effects are trippy.

And oh my God, it is amazing. It’s much more epic than the original, thanks to added layers, reworked riffs, and the addition of new singer Spencer Sotelo. There’s so much going on in this final version. “Light” is a clusterfuck  of melody and mathy djent riffs, in the best possible way. Anyone who says having three guitarists is pointless is completely full of shit.  This just made me so much more excited for the debut album.

I’ve been listening to “Light” on repeat, and I’m still getting chills. This will be an amazing album, that’s for sure.

Periphery’s self-titled debut will rock your face on 4/20 via Sumerian Records.

- JR

Re-Traced, the upcoming Cynic EP, includes 4 reinterpretations of songs from Traced In Air as well as one new song that, according to frontman Paul Masvidal,  “[references] other styles and influences we have in a different context, which is a lot of ambient, shoegaze, and different types of maybe more subtle forms of jazz, drum and bass, and electronic music.”

It’s sounding really awesome so far. I think I see and hear them playing wine glasses in “Integral”. That’s a bit different, and awesome. I can’t wait to hear the rest of the music.

Apparently the tracklist works out to be:

1. Space
2. Evolutionary
3. King
4. Integral
5. Wheels Within Wheels

ReTraced comes out May 17th! Mark your calenders.

- JR

Oh man, this is gonna be awesome. Looks like some expensive high def cameras were used for this.

“Farewell, Mona Lisa” is the first single off of The Dillinger Escape Plan’s highly anticipated new album, Option Paralysis. The full video will premiere online at www.justin.tv/thedillingerescapeplan at 4pm EST on March 1st.

According to Dillinger’s Facebook page:

“We will also be video chatting and Jamming and running around in our pajamas for you so go sign up to Justin.tv and get ready to ask us a lot of stupid questions.”

Sounds fun! Can’t wait. Option Paralysis is out March 23rd on Season of Mist/Party Smasher Inc.

- JR

GUNS!
RAZORS!
KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!

You can download the new Deftones song “Rocket Skates” for free at gunsrazorsknives.com. “Rocket Skates” is off of their upcoming album Diamond Eyes, due out May 18th.

For those who want to sample before you download, there’s an official promo video featuring the lyrics above. What a great idea. More bands should do things like that for promotional use. There was some measurable amount of work put into the design of the promotion and design. The song ain’t half bad either.

- JR