Artist: BARONESS

Swedish masters of the extreme Meshuggah will be taking their sonic arsenal on the road and detonating sound systems in cities across the U.S. and Canada on "The Ophidian Trek" tour, which launches on April 29th in Houston. Support for all 19 shows will come from Baroness; opening each night will ...

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Swedish masters of the extreme MESHUGGAH will be taking their sonic arsenal on the road and detonating sound systems in cities across the U.S. and Canada on "The Ophidian Trek" tour, which launches on April 29th in Houston.

by BBG Baroness at Chaos in Tejas ( more by Tim Griffin ) While some may place the blame squarely on them for the emergence of "djent" as a subgenre, others will celebrate the news that technical metal band Meshuggah are heading out on the road in celebration of a new LP Koloss due in March via Nuclear Blast. The Swedes will team up with Baroness and Decapitated for a string of US dates [...]

:: Meshuggah is gearing up for a tour alongside Baroness and Decapitated . :: If you aren't in to Swedish death metal, songstress Feist is also gearing up for a tour . :: If your blood is boiling for new 3 Inches of Blood material, the tracklist and album art have been revealed for their new album, Long Live Heavy Metal . :: Comeback Kid has released a new video featuring crazy fans for the [...]

Another big metal tour for you today as djent pioneers Meshuggah has announced a headlining run supported by punk/metal heroes Baroness and Polish death metal outfit Decapitated . Meshuggah is gearing up for the release of Koloss on March 27th, 2012 .

YES! YES!! YES!!!! I was on the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise last week when this tour was revealed but holy fuck, this tour is magic: Meshuggah, Baroness and Decapitated. Holy mother of god. Between this and the Mastodon/Opeth/Ghost tour, wow, the Spring is such a great time for ridiculous tours. Look, I'm going to ...

Meshuggah recently revealed during an online chat that they'd be embarking on a North American tour with Baroness and Decapitated starting in May, and it turns out they were lying - the tour actually starts at the end of April. GOSH, MESHUGGAH, GET IT TOGETHER! I'm kidding, of course. This tour is gonna be awesome. [...]

Axl wore his most vile death metal shirt in an attempt to avoid being selected as a juror in this great City of New York, but lo and behold, his plan backfired and he was chosen anyway. So it's been the Vince party over here since Wednesday with plenty of help from all of our [...]

Last week, I read on Blabbermouth that Meshuggah would be doing a live Q&A chat on Ustream.tv, but I forgot about it. Luckily, Nuclear Blast recorded the entire stream, and uploaded the footage to YouTube. In the video, Jens Kidman and Tomas Haake reveal (at 31:43 minute mark) that they will be touring with Decapitated ...

UPDATE, 4:29 p.m.: MSN/Terrorizer/Decibel scribe Adrien Begrand tells us via Twitter, "I can confirm the Meshuggah tour, I talked to Tomas [Haake, Meshuggah drummer] last night. It's happening in May." HOLY SHIT! Major props to Adrien for the info. Follow him on Twitter to thank him, okay? Briefly - Meshuggah just completed a live Q&A video session, [...]

Ahhh, the Autumnal transition is finally upon us and here in New York the newfound chill in the air has already created a different vibe almost immediately. No more mugginess, the putrid garbage in the streets isn't melting into various layers of stench, and hooded sweatshirts are being pulled out of the deep recesses of [...]

photos by Chris Boarts Larson , words by BBG 7 Seconds After a crazy Friday , the Saturday of Best Friends Day 2011 included a 10AM set at a grocery store with Night Birds (who recently played Public Assembly ), a show at Hadad's lake with Against Me! (who recently played House of Vans ), Baroness , 7 Seconds , Big Freedia (who also [...]

Lesson #1: Do not wear a Black Tusk shirt on Christopher Street in the West Village. People get the wrong idea. Lesson #2: Hiring John Baizley to do your album art is still a good decision. I know some people feel his distinctive style has worn out its welcome, but those people are wrong. Case in [...]

Judas Priest It seems that now more than ever that it's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll, a fact I realised following the news of metal titans Judas Priest 's impending retirement. Priest's retirement will be lamented by the rock world, however the greater cause for concern amongst the rock community should be the apparent lack of suitable successors for Priest, or indeed the other great rock bands inexorably moving towards the twilight of their careers. Look at the headline acts of hard rock/metal festivals in the last [...]

When Kat Katz split with Salome back in March, I wondered if the band would even try to replace her. And I guess the answer is "No, they won't," because now drummer Aaron Deal is in a new band, Auroboros, and on their Facebook page, he is listed as "ex-Salome." So, the good news, I [...]

Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here's managing editor Andrew Bonazelli… For this week's FED, I was all ready to write something (more) idiotic (than usual) about how we usually parcel out shirts, six-month subscriptions and [...]

Heading to Austin this week for Chaos in Tejas? We're glad to hear. It's gonna be an epic - yes, epic - weekend of death metal, crust, punk, and a whole lotta Lone Star. Andy and Van will be at the fest representing the fest for the 'cake, so come give us a drink for our hand and a punch for our nutsacks. Here's a list of the shows we'll be at, plus alternatives if our main picks aren't your

Sheesh you are getting old... The best years and achievements are clearly behind you, and it's time to give in to the slow ride downhill to mediocrity. Right? Hmmm.....let's hope not. Regardless of what's ahead, it's important to keep remembering where you came from, how your experiences have shaped you, and what to learn from [...]

Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here's managing editor Andrew Bonazelli... The only other time Decibel put Morbid Angel on the cover was our fifth issue, in March of 2005. David Vincent had just answered our [...]