US death metal veterans SKINLESS have announced three East Coast live dates in support of their Savagery full-length. The weekend tour runs from June 7th through June 9th and features support from Ringworm, Churchburn, and Outer Heaven. Additionally, SKINLESS will perform at California Deathfest and Quebec Deathfest in October. See all confirmed dates below. SKINLESS: 6/07/2018 Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA w/ Ringworm,…

  A Perfect Circle, who performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last night, have announced Fall tours for both the U.S. and Europe. The tour news arrives as the band celebrates the release of Eat The Elephant (https://AperfectCircle.lnk.to/EatTheElephantPR), A Perfect Circle’s first album in fourteen yearsand a release that was marked worldwide with the band gracing the covers of Revolver, Kerrangand Visions magazines. Rolling…

Set to unleash their new album “Saviours” on May 25th, Ottawa thrashers INFRARED are “All In Favour” of premiering their first single with Metal Rules.com. “Anyone who likes a more classic thrash sound, and longs for those days, just like we do, will dig this album. Since we are from that era, we are not trying to bring back that style of music, we…

San Jose brutal death/doom practitioners, MORTUOUS — featuring past and present members of Exhumed, Repulsion, Necrot, Atrament, and others — will unleash the bestial fruits of its Through Wilderness debut in North America this June via a joint partnership between Tankcrimes Records and the newly-launched Carbonized Records spearheaded by drummer Chad Gailey (Necrot). MORTUOUS‘ Through Wilderness was captured at Earhammer Studios with Greg…

“With intense vocals and instrumentals, a vibrant set design, outrageous fashion and people singing along loudly in Japanese, X Japan’s set felt like stepping into a rock opera.” –Makeda Easter, LOS ANGELES TIMES (4/22/2018) X JAPAN headline the Mojave stage at Coachella 2018. Legendary Japanese rock group X JAPAN made a triumphant return to the Coachella Music &  Arts Festival this past weekend (Saturday, April…

Less than one month to go until melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS release their highly anticipated new album Queen Of Time, on May 18th via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band has revealed the epic and mesmerising second single, ‘Wrong Direction’. Watch the video featuring long-time lyricist Pekka Kainulainen The album is available for pre-order in various formats (pre-order digitally to receive ‘Wrong Direction’ and ‘The Bee’ instantly), here: http://nuclearblast.com/amorphis-queenoftime…

Portland’s deadliest death metal band returns with their long-awaited sophomore album Disinterred Horror.  Nearly seven years since their debut full-length Oath of the Abyss and four years since their last recording, Void Manifest EP, RITUAL NECROMANCY have been honing their song-writing skills while showcasing their bludgeoning sounds at live events such as last year’s Dark Descent anniversary show and Maryland…