Iconic German thrashers Rage are teaming up with their comrades Firewind for a Teutonic Tour for the ages. In January 2018 the band will co-headline two UK shows playing London's famous Underworld venue on January 21st and The Corporation in Sheffield the following night, January 22nd. Support comes from British metallers Crimes Of Passion UK.  

Tickets for both dates are on-sale now. Secure yours here:

Jan 21st – London, Underworld
https://www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk/events/2018-01-21-c-dot-o-p-uk-the-underworld

Jan 22nd – Sheffield, Corporation
http://www.corporation.org.uk/gig/2177/Rage+with+Firewind+at+Corporation+on+22+January+2018

RSVP to the London show on Facebook here: http://po.st/UnderRAGE 

Rage released their new, 23rd studio album titled 'Seasons Of The Black' last month.
'Seasons Of The Black' was recorded in February/March 2017 at Megafon Studios (Burscheid, Germany) and at Soundchaser Studios (Zandhoven, Belgium). Its production was handled by Rage, whilst the renowned Dan Swanö (Marduk, Opeth, Katatonia) took care of mix and mastering at  Unisound Studios (Grefrath, Germany).

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UK's legendary extreme metal icons Cradle Of Filth are pleased to announce that NWOBHM inspired thrashers Savage Messiah will be accompanying them as special guests on their upcoming UK and Ireland tour dates.

Savage Messiah stated:

     “We are thrilled to be joining Cradle of Filth on their UK/IRE tour in Oct/Nov! We had a great show together in Portsmouth recently, so we jumped at the chance to do a full run. This promises to be a really great night of metal so make sure you get your tickets early and we look forward to celebrating the UK metal scene with everyone!"

Dani Filth commented on the tour:

     "We, as a band, are incredibly excited about hitting the UK and Ireland for a full run of dates around All Hallows Eve, as playing the band's home country is always great fun and the audiences here are very receptive. And nuts. The dates will be the first in a long line of shows that will extend throughout the rest of the World throughout 2018. We aim to be very prolific on the live front, delivering a show worthy of our fan’s exalted expectations and more"

Tickets are on sale now!

Cradle Of Filth ‘Cryptoriana World Tour’ - UK & Ireland
w. special guests Savage Messiah

30.10. Belfast - Limelight
31.10. Dublin - Academy (Halloween Show)
02.11. Manchester - Academy 2
03.11. Glasgow - Garage
04.11. Birmingham - O2 Institute 2
05.11. Leeds – Church
07.11. Oxford - O2 Academy
08.11. Southampton - Engine Rooms
09.11. Norwich - Waterfront
10.11. London - Electric Ballroom
11.11. Bristol – Bierkeller

Cradle Of Filth have also released a brand new video in which singer Dani Filth talks about working with Artūrs Bērziņš on the expressive artwork of their eagerly awaited 12th album, ‘Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay’. Watch it here:  https://youtu.be/oVa2QASL0Jw


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This fall, The Black Dahlia Murder will embark upon a North American trek in support of their upcoming album, Nightbringers, due out October 6th via Metal Blade Records. The tour will run from October 6th through November 11th with a stop at this year's edition of Ozzfest Meets Knotfest on November 5th. Support will be provided by Suffocation, Decrepit Birth, Necrot, Wormwitch, and Exhumed on select dates. The journey follows The Black Dahlia Murder's co-headlining jaunt on The Summer Slaughter Tour with Dying Fetus, currently underway. Summer Slaughter sees The Black Dahlia Murder performing Nocturnal in its entirety in honour of the album's ten-year anniversary. See all confirmed dates below. 
 
For a first preview of The Black Dahlia Murders eighth full-length, Nightbringers, a video for the title track can be viewed at: metalblade.com/tbdm where the album can be pre-ordered in various formats.
   
The Black Dahlia Murder: The Summer Slaughter Tour w/ Dying Fetus, The Faceless, Oceano, Origin, Slaughter To Prevail, Rings Of Saturn, Betraying The Martyrs, Lorna Shore:

8/23/2017 Bogart's - Cincinnati, OH
8/25/2017 The Majestic - Detroit, MI
8/26/2017 Agora Theatre And Ballroom - Cleveland, OH

End Tour

w/ Suffocation, Exhumed, Decrepit Birth, Necrot, Wormwitch:

10/06/2017 Montage Music Hall - Rochester, NY
10/07/2017 Revolution - Lowell, MA
10/08/2017 Chance Theater - Poughkeepsie, NY
10/10/2017 Highline Ballroom - New York, NY
10/11/2017 Debonair Music Hall - Teaneck, NJ
10/12/2017 Ram's Head Live- Baltimore, MD
10/13/2017 One Center Square - Easton, PA

10/14/2017 The Chameleon - Lancaster, PA      
10/16/2017 Les Foufounes Electriques - Montreal, QC
10/17/2017 Bronson Center - Ottawa, ON
10/18/2017 Opera House - Toronto, ON
10/20/2017 The Forge - Joliet, IL
10/21/2017 Piere's - Ft Wayne, IN
10/22/2017 Delmar Hall - St Louis, MO

10/23/2017 The Slowdown - Omaha, NE
10/25/2017 Q & Z Expo Center - Ringle, WI
10/26/2017 Pyramid Cabaret - Winnipeg, MB
10/27/2017 The Exchange - Regina, SK
10/28/2017 Starlite - Edmonton, AB
10/29/2017 Marquee - Calgary, AB
10/31/2017 Rickshaw Theater - Vancouver, BC

11/01/2017 Studio Seven - Seattle, WA w/ Exhumed
11/02/2017 HIFI Music Hall - Eugene, OR w/ Exhumed
11/03/2017 Vinyl at Hard Rock - Lake Tahoe, NV w/ Exhumed
11/04/2017 Phoenix Theater - Petaluma, CA w/ Exhumed #
11/05/2017 KnotFest - San Bernardino, CA w/ Exhumed # **
11/06/2017 Club Red - Mesa, AZ w/ Exhumed
11/07/2017 Hard Rock Cafe - Las Vegas, NV

11/09/2017 Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City, OK
11/10/2017 Zydeco - Birmingham, AL
11/11/2017 Diamond Pub Concert Hall - Louisville, KY

# = No Suffocation
* = No Necrot, Wormwitch
 
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After their most successful festival to date in 2017 and first ever weekend sell-out at a capacity 15,000 tickets, Bloodstock is thrilled to announce Gojira and Nightwish as its first headliners for 2018's event which will take place at Catton Park from 9th-12th August.

Gojira had this to say:-

     "We are excited and honoured to headline Bloodstock festival in 2018. One of our favourite festivals in the world. We had such a great time in 2016 with the Bloodstock crowd and are sure that 2018 will be even better. We are already planning what we can do to make it the most awesome  GOojira show yet. We can't wait!"


Nightwish had this to say:-

      "We can't wait to hit the mighty Bloodstock Festival in 2018! By then we'll be in full flight on our 'Decades' World Tour (a retrospective) so expect an unusual set-list with a bit of nostalgia for the old fans, but some recent epics for the new. We will throw ourselves into it with everything we've got so be there!"  

The bands were revealed at the festival this weekend, on the big screens at the Ronnie James Dio main stage. See the video reveals at: https://youtu.be/CIwPDJsr3bg and https://youtu.be/X2eTzwnZrk4.

Early Bird tickets are available now from http://bloodstock.seetickets.com, priced £125 plus booking fee. VIP tickets will be available from 1st September. 

Russian Sci-Fi Metal group Sunwalter have announced 5 dates across Europe to celebrate the release of their brand new and second album, Alien Hazard. The album will be released worldwide in all digital formats on September 15th, 2017 via Sliptrick Records. Alien Hazard will be their first full length release since their debut in 2013, Forbidden Sun.

The band are known for their heavily sci-fi influenced persona, hard, heavy, extreme sound and wilfully bizarre media releases. Expect the unexpected and keep watching the skies!

Alien Hazard | Released on September 15th, 2017 on Sliptrick Records
Tour Dates:

Sep 30, 2017 | Moscow, Russia | Album release party
Oct 06, 2017 | Reutlingen, Germany
Oct 07, 2017 | Harderwijk, Holland
Oct 13, 2017 | Olomouc, Czech Republic
Oct 15, 2017 | Warsaw, Poland


The Sunwalter project was launched in Moscow on August 31st, 2008. Originally, they were defined as melodic black metal but have since morphed to what they like to call Sci-Fi Metal with clean female and extreme male vocals, a mix of metalcore, power and modern metal all wrapped up in some truly extra-terrestrial lyrics.

Sunwalter are: 

Alexio – Extreme Vocals
Olga Sol – Clean Vocals
Myutel – Guitar
St.Odium – Bass
Miran – Drums


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Corrosion Of Conformity will join Danzig on a short run of live dates next month. The week-long trek will commence off on September 7th in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire and includes stops in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Montclair, New Jersey; Huntington, New York; Lewiston, Kentucky; Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan.
  As a precursor to their run with Danzig, Corrosion Of Conformity will play Psycho Las Vegas this weekend at theHard Rock Hotel And Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada alongside the likes of Mastodon, Swans, The Murder City Devils, Cult Of Luna with Julie Christmas, and so many more. The following week the band will make their way to the Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. See all confirmed dates below.
  Corrosion Of Conformity:-

8/20/2017 Psycho Las Vegas @ Hard Rock Hotel And Casino - Las Vegas, NV [tickets] 8/26/2017 Mohegan Sun Wolf Den - Uncasville, CT [tickets]      

w/ Danzig:

9/07/2017 Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom - Hampton Beach, NH
9/08/2017 Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
9/09/2017 The Wellmont Theater - Montclair, NJ
9/11/2017 The Paramount - Huntington, NY
9/12/2017 Artpark Amphitheater - Lewiston, KY
9/14/2017 Agora Theatre - Cleveland, OH
9/15/2017 The Fillmore Detroit - Detroit, MI 
    Corrosion Of Conformity has been diligently working on their follow-up to 2014's IX offering. Helmed by longtime producer John Custer, who's recorded such prior COC classics as Deliverance, Wiseblood, America's Volume Dealer, and In The Arms Of God, the record will mark the band's studio reunion with vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan and their first full-length record together since 2005.
Corrosion Of Conformity emerged from hibernation as a trio and released 2012's self-titled album and 2014's IX to wide acclaim, but many fans have been eagerly and patiently awaiting the return of Keenan.
 
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Alpha Omega Management's Alpha Omega Tours have a huge pleasure to announce Theatres Des Vampires' South American Tour, kicking off on October 4th in Medellin, Colombia! See the full tour trek below.

October 4th - Medellin, Colombia - Sala Bombay
October 5th - Bogota, Colombia - Coven Fest
October 6th - Quito, Equador - La Industria
October 7th - La Paz, Bolivia - Salon De Oro
October 8th - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Museo Rock
October 10th - Montevideu, Uruguay - Sala BJ

Just recently Theatres Des Vampires released the video for their new single ‘Resurrection Mary’ taken from the band’s latest album ‘Candyland’ (out on Scarlet Records). The video is directed by Patrizia Cogliati Musicphoto (www.musichphoto.it). Watch “Resurrection Mary” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiDVWbGQCR0

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Having just closed a spectacular Bloodstock festival headlining the Sophie stage Sunday night, Finnish epic metallers Wintersun have just announced they will embark on a full UK tour with Arch Enemy and Tribulation in early 2018.

Tickets for all dates are on sale now and available here: www.myticket.co.uk
Full routing is as follows:

09.02.    UK          Glasgow - ABC
10.02.    UK          Nottingham - Rock City
11.02.    UK          London - Koko
13.02.    UK          Manchester - Ritz
14.02.    UK          Bristol - Academy

Wintersun released their brand-new record 'The Forest Seasons' last month which charted at #1 in their native Finland and charted highly worldwide:

'The Forest Seasons' - Chart Entries

#1 Finland
#7 Sweden (Hard Rock)
#10 Sweden (Physical)
#14 Germany
#16 Switzerland
#16 UK (Indie)
#18 UK (Rock)
#20 Austria
#119 France
#124 Belgium (Flanders)
#170 Belgium (Wallonia)
#8 USA (Hard Music)
#19 USA (Rock)
#50 USA (Top Current Albums)

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Denmark's finest black metal bands Solbrud and Orm have both released some of the most vital albums of 2017, and now, announce a joint tour of Denmark in November, called Blōtmōnaþ 2017.
 
There is movement in the shadows of Danish metal, as new talented bands have emerged from the darkest and coldest crannies of the scene during the last couple of years. Solbrud and Orm are two of those bands. Both have released heavyweight black metal albums via Indisciplinarian in 2017 and have thereby contributed to the increasing high standard of Danish metal music.

Atmospheric black metallers Solbrud have existed since 2009 and released their third album Vemod - a wuthering and misanthropic piece of black metal art - this past June, a co-release with Vendetta Records. The band is known for their captivating and hypnotic live shows, and they have just returned from a success full European tour with Wildernessking from South Africa. The quartet ORM made their recorded debut with an epic but hammering self-titled album this past March, and the subsequent shows have consolidated the band as an excellent live act.

Now, Soldbrud and Orm join forces in November for a tour of their native country Denmark entitled Blōtmōnaþ 2017. The word (pronounced Blotmonath) means "month of sacrifice" in old Anglo-Saxon tongue, and November was exactly the month, where Northern pagans slaughtered the cattle to honour the gods and prepare for winter. Denmark and its citizens can look forward to a bloody month where the nation's prime black metal ensembles will proclaim the coming of winter with their sinister tales and fierce soundscapes. The tour is presented by 3rd Tsunami Agency and Gearbox Agency, and tickets for all shows are now on sale RIGHT HERE.
 
Stream the new albums by Soldbrud and Orm album at the Indisciplinarian Bandcamp HERE.
 
Find the high-quality gatefold LP versions of Soldbrud's Vemod and Orm's Orm in the US at Earsplit Distro HERE and internationally at the Indisciplinarian webstore HERE.
 
Solbrud and Orm - Blōtmōnaþ 2017 Tour Dates:

11/03/2017 Radar - Aarhus, DK
11/04/2017 Plantagehuset - Thisted, DK
11/10/2017 Aalborg Metal Festival - Aalborg, DK
11/11/2017 Harders - Svendborg, DK
11/17/2017 Ungdommens Hus - Fredericia, DK
11/18/2017 Forbraendingen - Albertslund, DK
11/24/2017 Koncerthuset, Studie 3 - Copenhagen, DK
11/25/2017Elvaerket - Helsingoer, DK

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In the last few days UK melodic death metallers Bloodshot Dawn entered the studio to begin work on their third full length album, which will be entitled Renanimation, and is slated for released early 2018 via Hostile Media.

Frontman Josh McMorran comments, "We are pleased to announce we have joined forces with Hostile Media to release our third full length, Reanimation. After working with their press team for years we have built a stalwart relationship that we believe will help take us to the next level as well as making it easier to purchase our music across the globe. Their passion and commitment is equal to our tenacity and hard work ethic making this a force to be reckoned with!"

Since their acclaimed self-titled and second album Demons, there has been shifts in the bands ranks making way for new members, Canadian shredder Morgan Reid and drummer James Stewart (also of Vader and Divine Chaos). The band commented earlier about James joining the fold, "His experience and recording insight has helped shape the new album and we couldn't be happier!"

As well as the news of an imminent new release the band has announced a new UK / Ireland tour, their first in almost 2 years! "We are also excited to be hitting the tour circuit again after a short hiatus. We are hungry for live devastation and looking forward to seeing fans old and new!"

Reanimation UK/Ireland Live Dates

17/01/18 - Black Heart, London
18/01/18 - Green Door Store, Brighton
19/01/18 - Boiler Room, Guildford
20/01/18 - The Underground, Plymouth
21/01/18 - Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff
22/01/18 - Venue TBC, Birmingham
23/01/18 - Audio, Glasgow
24/01/18 - The Fulford Arms, York
25/01/18 - The Peer Hat, Manchester
26/01/18 - Venue TBC, Cork
27/01/18 - Limelight, Belfast
28/01/18 - On The Rox, Dublin

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