Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

Wake up, wake up!!!!!  Here's some exciting news to start your day.  System Of A Down have announced a short tour which will be dubbed the Wake Up The Souls tour.  I guess this pretty much what drummer John Dolmayan was teasing with his recent cryptic tweets.  The tour will last for 7 shows and will run from April 10th at London's famous Wembley Arena, and conclude on April 23rd with a free show in Yerevan, Armenia at the Yerevan Republic Square.  It will also be the band's first ever performance in the country.  The band will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide with the tour. The tour will also be about bringing awareness and justice to the cause.  See tour dates below.

Apr 10 - London, England - Wembley Arena
Apr 13 - Cologne, Germany - Lanxess Arena
Apr 14 - Lyon, France - Halle Tony Garnier
Apr 16 - Brussels, Belgium - Forest National
Apr 17 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome
Apr 20 - Moscow, Russia - Olympic Arena
Apr 23 - Yerevan, Armenia - Republic Square (Free show)

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

IN ROCK WE TRUST.  IT'S ROCK OR BUST!  AC/DC have posted a brand new music video for the title track off their upcoming new studio album Rock Or Bust.  This is the second music video to be released from the album, as the video for the lead single "Play Ball" premiered on Nov 11th.  Also like in the "Play Ball" video, Phil Rudd is absent in this video.   Filling in on drums is Shogun drummer Bob Richards.  We all know about the trouble Phil has gotten himself into recently with his arrest for attempting to procure the murder of two men.  The procurement charge against Phil was dropped the following day after the announcement of the arrest, but the charges for the possession of methamphetamine and cannabis, and threatening to kill remain.   Rock Or Bust will be released on November 28th in Australia, and on December 2nd in the rest of the world.  Will you be picking it up?

AC/DC will hit the road in support of the album in 2015.  No dates have been announced yet, but it's not clear whether Phil will be joining the tour.  Hopefully Phil will sort himself out before the band hit the road next year and he will be able to join the tour.  Stay tuned for dates and details.

On the eve of returning to the stage in their native Switzerland after an absence of more than two years, and two weeks before embarking on a tour of Europe with At The Gates, Swiss avant-garde extreme metal act Triptykon are debuting a new visualization of a song off their acclaimed second album, Melana Chasmata.

See the video for the album's opening track, "Tree Of Suffocating Souls", here: 

Canadian blackened death metal band CONQUER will be unleashing their self-produced debut EP 'A Worms Demise' on December 2nd and are offering fans a FREE download of the title track at the following link here and is included below to sample. 

"Conquer’s main objective musically is to pay homage to the forefathers of Extreme Metal and bring the classic sound of bands past to a new generation of metalheads." comments vocalist Devlin Anderson.

For more info on Conquer, please visit the following links:

http://www.facebook.com/Conquerblackeneddeath

http://www.twitter.com/conquermetal

http://instagram.com/conquer_metal 

http://conquermetal.bandcamp.com 

EP Credits: 
Mixed and Mastered by Ryan White
Produced by Ryan White and Devlin Anderson

EP + Live Line Up:
Devlin Anderson: Vocals/Guitar
Ryan White: Lead Guitar
Rob Holden: Bass
Simon Oukhine: Drums

Send Them All To Hell track listing

01.  Death Knell
02.  Hail & Kill
03.  Temple Of Doom
04.  Panzer
05.  Freakshow
06.  Mr. Nobrain
07.  Why?
08.  Virtual Collision
09.  Roll The Dice
10.  Bleed For Your Sins

You can check out the lyric video for the track "Mr. Nobrain" down below.  You can also check out the latest album trailer that the band released.  I swear, this trailer is just hilarious!

Be sure to keep checking back here for more news on Panzer as far as more music and possible shows, but for now, drop what you're doing and CRANK this bad boy!

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

Panzer, the new German supergroup featuring Herman Frank and Stefan Schwarzmann of Accept and Schmier of Destruction, has released the lyric video for the track "Mr. Nobrain".  The track is taken off the group's debut album entitled Send Them All To Hell, which will be out on Nov 28th in Europe, Dec 1st in the U.K, Dec 17th in Japan and Jan 13th in North America on Nuclear Blast Records.  The band also filmed a music video for the album's opener "Death Knell", which will be released later this month.  Just from what I've heard from the album so far, I'm way psyched for this album.

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

Fire up the chainsaws and blow your trumpets!  Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth have announced that they will be hitting the road together for a co-headline tour of North America in winter 2015.  The tour will run from January 28th in New Orleans through March 7th in Ft. Lauderdale.  Support on the tour will come from Aeon and Tribulation.  Last week, the word slipped that the bands would tour together in the next few months, but now the dates have been confirmed.  Both bands are touring in support of their latest studio releases.  Cannibal Corpse just released their crushing new studio album A Skeletal Domain in September, and Behemoth is still touring in support of The Satanist, released in February this year.

The two bands toured Europe together two years ago where they co-headlined the "Full Of Hate" tour, which also featured Legion Of The Damned, Misery Index, Suicidal Angels and Nexus Inferis.

So, are you planning to go see this beast of a tour?  Well, here's some ticket info that you might want to know about. General admission tickets will go on sale this Friday, November 14th at 10 AM local time.  VIP packages will also be available for each show, which includes a meet and greet with both bands, limited edition tour tee, exclusive screen printed tour poster, and a VIP laminate.  Tour dates are listed below.

Jan 28 - New Orleans, LA - House Of Blues
Jan 29 - Houston, TX - House Of Blues
Jan 30 - Austin, TX - Mohawk
Jan 31 - Dallas, TX - House Of Blues

in Phoenix, Arizona through March 7th in Boise, Idaho.  VIP packages will include a meet and greet with the band, a group photo with the band, a poster, flag, laminate and Machine Head koozie.  Plus, everyone who purchases a VIP ticket will be entered in a raffle to win an autographed Bloodstone & Diamonds Flying V electric guitar.  Sounds awesome right?

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

Get ready to headbang Head Cases!  Machine Head have released a new music video for the track "Now We Die", off their new studio album Bloodstone & Diamonds, which was released yesterday on Nuclear Blast Records.  The video can be streamed down below.  The video was directed by Mike Sloat, who has previously directed videos for Testament and Hatriot.

Machine Head also just yesterday announced their rescheduled North American tour, but it will feature no support acts, as the tour has been dubbed "An Evening With Machine Head".  The tour will be hitting numerous cities, and will run from Jan 16