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After their successful co-headlining tour with MAYHEM in January 2015, Swedish black metal outfit WATAIN has announced a second leg of the trek, set to take place in November. Featuring ROTTING CHRIST as support, fans can expect another dose of wild blasphemy this winter. See below for all dates.

WATAIN will be touring in support of their critically acclaimed fifth full-length, The Wild Hunt, which was unleashed in 2013 worldwide via Century Media Records. check out the video for "Outlaw" below. 

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

The release date of Bullet For My Valentine's much anticipated new album Venom is approaching, which is August 14th. We've already had the chance to hear "No Way Out" and "You Want A Battle? (Here's A War)", and now a third track has been released.  The track is called "Army Of Noise" and this one is definitely the heaviest and thrashiest of the three tracks with the total Slayer feel in the riffs.  To me, it sounds like an unreleased track from Scream Aim Fire.

Stream the track down below and be sure to catch Bullet on tour with Slipknot and Lamb Of God starting July 24th and running through September 5th.

Fated to Burn from Darkology is now out worldwide on:

Nightmare Records (U.S.A.)
RSK & others (Europe/U.K.)
Prime Eon Media (rest of the world)

More on the band:
 
Website
Facebook
Videos via Prime Eon
Webshop

The "cult" concept video piece for the song "Kill Me If You Can", is the visual accompaniment for the crushing opener from their latest  album, Fated to Burn, a vicious quasi thrashing tune in the best tradition of Metal Church and the mighty Judas Priest. Darkology are the first metal band in a long time to deliver a truly stellar and exhilarating album of pure crashing heavy metal that's true to the genre without sounding dated.

The video's concept parts were directed by UCLA grad, Tassos Kapsanis and edited by Methodd/EM and it stars a fair number of local talent from the burgeoning Athenian music scene. 

Darkology has delivered a modern day classic, with Fated To Burn, getting excellent reviews and extensive press coverage worldwide.

The band did tour with Overkill, Prong and Enforcer last year and is looking forward to following that up with some dates that the management is currently working on for the fall.

A second video clip, for the title track from the album, featuring fire-performer, MissVanity aka Veronica Scandale is expected to surface sometime in September and is pretty sure to set the world on fire.

Urilia is:
Kristof Bathory - Vocals, Music, Left Hand Path Propaganda 
Grey - Guitars 
Paris Giraud - Guitars
Angel Dies - Bass, Female Vocals
Bahemoth - Keyboards
Levi Xul - Drums

Blog author: Ingrid Newton

Urilia share a new and improved vision of Extreme Metal that combines European and American style of Metal.  It strikes with a powerful message from a path based on Occultism, Dark Spirituality, and Left Hand Path beliefs that will now spread like a plague throughout the metal scene. 

Urilia features ex-members of Dawn of Ashes, As Summer Dies, & Demona Mortiss. Urilia will be releasing their new EP The Adversarial Light on August 11th 2015, with pre orders available as of July 21st. 
 
"I AM NEPHILIM" featured on the upcoming EP, The Adversarial Light.  For fans of: Dimmu Borgir, At The Gates, & Lamb of God.

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

At last, a full song from the upcoming Metal Allegiance album is now available for streaming.  The lyric video for the song "Can't Kill The Devil", featuring Testament's Chuck Billy on vocals, Alex Skolnick on guitar, David Ellefson on bass, Mike Portnoy on drums and Phil Demmel from Machine Head and Andreas Kisser from Sepultura on additional lead guitar can be viewed below

Chuck comments:  "I am very honored to be a part of the Metal Allegiance record.  The track 'Can't Kill The Devil' was fun and challenging for me.  Working outside of Testament lets me try different things with my voice.  I think the fans are going to be singing along to this track for sure."

This track is groovy, thrashy, melodic and Chuck showcases a bit of everything he has done vocally throughout the years. It's also awesome to hear Skolnick's skills as a rhythm player, and to hear Portnoy doing thrash and blast beats is equally awesome.  Alright, enough chit-chat, crank this track!

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

There's a new Children Of Bodom song available for streaming. The track is called "Morrigan" and it comes off the band's new studio album I Worship Chaos, coming out on October 2nd on Nuclear Blast Records.  The track is a real groover.  I Worship Chaos marks the first album the band recorded as a quartet with Alexi Laiho handling all the guitar duties after the departure of longtime rhythm guitarist Roope Latvala, and the album was once again produced by Peter Tagtgren, who produced 2013's Halo Of Blood, as well as Follow The Reaper.

For Children Of Bodom's current live shows, they have recruited keyboardist Janne Wirman's brother Antti Wirman to fill in on rhythm guitar duties.  The band have yet to announce a replacement for Roope, so keep your eyes and ears out for that announcement coming soon.  In the meantime, take a listen to the grooving new track "Morrigan" down below, and let us know what you think.

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

Lamb Of God have already released three songs from their new album VII: Sturm Und Drang, those being "Still Echoes", "512" and the jaw-dropping track "Overlord".  Now there's a fourth song available for streaming.  The track is "Erase This", and this one is a return to familiar territory with slamming riffs, big hooks, insane drumming and aggressive vocals.  The only difference in this track is the use of the talk box in the bridge. Listen to the track below and let us know what you think. Catch Lamb Of God on tour with Slipknot starting July 24th.