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It's finally here! The first taste of Gojira's Roadrunner debut, L'Enfant Sauvage. The title track was just posted on Pitchfork. Yes! Yes! Yes!!! What does it sound like? A more mature Gojira! The signature sound is there, but it seems more realized, more groovy, just more awesome. Holy shit, I cannot wait for this sucker ...

GWAR front-thing Oderus Urungus has become the voice of the voiceless, saying everything that many metalheads are thinking. A few weeks ago, the entire internet collectively applauded when he told Dave Mustaine he needs to shut the fuck up. Now, Oderus has turned his gills onto another band, HELLYEAH, with a recent rant at a ...

The Faceless's upcoming release has almost reached Necrophagist-levels of mythos. People have even come up to me asking if I knew when it would be released. I don't, only Michael Keene has the answer, and he addresses the question in the band's most recent video update, which you can watch above. Keene and bassist Evan ...

Holy fuck balls gentleman! Dying Fetus have given us all a small preview of the shit-storm they are planning to release on June 19th through Relapse Records! Their new album entitled Reign Supreme sounds like a nine track romp through hell and the fact that we only get about thirty seconds of each track is the ...

Now I have never been one to pine for residency in the south but this announcement almost makes me want to saddle up and ride into the sunset! Valient Thorr will be hitting the road with Holy Grail starting at the end of May for a small string of dates across the Southern states of ...

Today is a sad day for those of us working in the music business. Word leaked over Twitter that Roadrunner Records was doing some reshuffling recently. The label was bought out by Warner Music Group in 2010, and whenever a label or a company is "bought out" or there is a merger, as much positive ...

Kitties!!!! The unstoppable meme force of the internet strike again. We've posted many posts about kitties before, but this may be my favorite. Some genius out there on the interwebs, have combined our collective love for felines with famous album covers for amazing results. Here are my favorites: Check out more at The Kitten Covers ...

I am really excited for Baroness' upcoming double album, Yellow & Green, out July 17th on Relapse. It's been forever since we've heard new music from the band and I can't wait to hear more. The band have been trickling out a ton of new info, including the super sexy double artwork, above, tracklisting and ...

Before Matt Heafy was the frontman of a world-renowned band like Trivium, he was in a bunch of shitty bands just like the rest of us. Matt posted a live demo of his former black metal project, Mindscar on his personal blog and it's interesting to hear some of his early work. It sounds very ...

• Mindscar - Midwinter Darkness

The last Thursday of every month is deemed Metal Night, by our friends at Idle Hands Bar. We sponsor the evening along with MetalSucks and Metal Insider. This month, it's Metal Insider's time to shine and they have lined up an exclusive listening party of Marilyn Manson's new album, Born Villian. There will also be ...

If you checked out the site yesterday, you would have noticed Gojira was coming out with a concert film called The Flesh Alive. The trailer just hit the Web, and it looks fucking sick! With two and a half hours of performance footage, there is also quite the lengthy behind-the-scenes look at the making of The ...

If you watched the premiere episode of On The Record focusing on reunions, you'll know that a lot of people were most excited about At The Gates' reunion a few years ago. It was huge. We thought that might've been it for the band, but it turns out the band is not done just yet! ...

Drum roll please...Nile, has announced a July 3rd release date for its upcoming studio album, At The Gate Of Sethu through Nuclear Blast records! This is the official follow-up to Nile's 2009 album, Those Whom the Gods Detest. The album will be produced by Neil Kernon (Cannibal Corpse, Macabre) and believe me when I say plenty of ...

Holy shit, it's Thursday already? Fuck yes! The weekend is just around the corner. Let's get this party started with some new tunes: First up, check out this pretty funny promo clip for Tenacious D's upcoming comeback album, Rize of the Fenix. It's an educational tale of the woes of tinnitus and how the band's ...

We sincerely hope you have been following our 5 part "Decade In Metal" series on our new show ON THE RECORD. Everybody on the internet is talking about it. Yesterday, we premiered an episode about "Women In Metal" and it caused quite the stir with some of the females featured in the piece. Above, you ...

Red Fang apparently like art, and as professional musicians it's not hard to see why. Red Fang have recently announced they are playing a benefit show scheduled for May 25th at Hawthorne Theater in Portland, Oregon to benefit something that hit's pretty close to home for the band's Aaron Beam. Over 20 years ago, while ...

Polish grindcore act Antigama have just released a brand new song entitled "the Law," off of their forth coming new E.P. titled Stop The Chaos, set for release on May 18th through Selfmade Records. This is just the beginning for the band as Antigama plan to release a split later this year with Noisear and ...

European Gojira fan boys, listen up! Gojira will release a new DVD/Blu-ray, The Flesh Alive, in Europe on June 4 via Mascot The three-disc set will chronicle the making of the band's 2008 album, The Way Of All Flesh, and the touring activity that followed the CD's release. The Flesh Alive's track listing: Disc 1: ...

This is a pretty busy time for Metalocalypse co-creator Brendon Small. The new season of the show is set to premiere this Sunday (April 29th), as does his new solo album, Galaktikon. Plus, he's been out doing press this whole time, like talking to us (oh, hey) on the black carpet of the Revolver Golden ...

If there's one subgenre of metal that has way too many bands to claim, it's probably metalcore. Nowadays, you really have to be cutting edge, or do the subgenre real justice in order to get real notoriety and fame. If you've been out as long as War Of Ages, you probably do stand out from ...