Warbird Entertainment has signed Cleveland, Ohio-based hardcore/punk rock act American Werewolves. The band previously released We Won’t Stay Dead, 1968 and The Lonely One and will be releasing their next full length, Wanderers Forever in the Spring.
Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Trine + Kim Design Studio has been creating album artwork since 1999, and during this year’s Inferno festival in Oslo, Norway it will exhibiting a selection of its designs for black metal and neo-black metal artists, including cover art for MAYHEM, DARKTHRONE, ULVER, DØDHEIMSGARD, IHSAHN, SHINING, SOLEFALD, ARCTURUS, VED BUENS ENDE, MANES and VIRUS.
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Germany’s “doom metal kings” MIRROR OF DECEPTION will enter Soundmann Studio in Stuttgart, Germany on April 1 to begin recording their fourth album, entitled “A Smouldering Fire”.
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Todd Kerns (SIN CITY SINNERS, STATIC IN STEREO, AGE OF ELECTIC) has replaced Dave Henning (BIG WRECK) on bass in former GUNS N’ ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash’s touring band.
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Fan-filmed video footage of SWALLOW THE SUN’s March 24, 2010 performance in Milan, Italy can be viewed below.
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Fellow Project (ex-Bridge and Tunnel, On The Might of Princes) is currently streaming their new 7″ at their last.fm page. The record is expected out soon on Rok Lok Records.
The band has also booked a few dates in Canada starting next week alongside Prevenge and Horses.
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After spending the past few months as a vinyl exclusive, Blacklisted will be releasing their critically acclaimed album, No One Deserves to Be Here More Than Me on CD on April 13, 2010. The record was the 12th Best of 2009 according to our staff and the CD release will feature the entirety of the record, as well as the Eccentrichine 7-inch released earlier in 2010.
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Billboard is reporting that the Black Lips are two recording sessions into their fifth studio album. Guitarist Ian Saint Pe spoke to the magazine, commenting that the record should be completed by June with a release date expected in late summer or early fall. The band recorded at its studio in Decatur, GA, followed by a session with Bradford Cox and Lockett Pundt of Deerhunter producing. A third session is slated for the Distillery in Costa Mesa, California. The band recorded 2005’s Let It Bloom in that studio.Saint Pe commented to Billboard on the direction of the album: “We do what we do. It’ll sound like a Black Lips record; I can’t say much more than that. It’s got garage stuff, punk stuff, a little of that Atlanta hip-hop. It’s just who we are. I think it sounds good.”
The band last relaesed 200 Million Thousand in 2009.
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The Business and The Hollowpoints will be touring together on the No Piece for the Wicked tour set to kick off in late April.
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Legendary guitarist Slash (GUNS N’ ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER) and Andrew Stockdale of WOLFMOTHER will be shooting a music video for the song “By The Sword” next Saturday, April 3 and Sunday, April 4 in the Los Angeles area and would like you to be a part of it.
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Traffic Street Records has posted the artwork, track listing, details, and streaming audio for their next two records, both of which are slated for an early April release.
First is a split 7″ from Elgin, IL’s Vacation Bible School and Minneapolis, MN’s The God Damn Doo Wop Band. The record is titled Covered and features one new song from each band on the A-side and both bands covering one of the others’ songs on the B-side. For VBS, this release follows up their split 7″ with Shot Baker for Underground Communique. The God Damn Doo Wop Band notably features vocalists Kat Naden (The Strait A’s) and Annie Holoien (The Soviettes).
Second is another split 7″, which pairs Madison, WI’s The Transgressions and Washburn, WI’s The Side Project. The record is titled Stop Wasting My Time and it features three new songs by each band. The Transgressions are following up their 2009 CDEP for Rally Records, Waste My Time, (the art and title of which are parodied subject matter for this record), while The Side Project are following up their 2009 7″ for Traffic Street, New Brain.
You can find more details, as well as streams of both records, at the label’s website or at their MySpace page.
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“The Abyss”, a brand new song from reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT, was premiered on Eddie Trunk’s “Friday Night Rocks” radio show last week on New York’s Q104.3 FM and then again on KNAC.COM’s “The Vault” this past Sunday, March 21 with host DJ Will.
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Guitarist/vocalist Steve “Lips” Kudlow of Canadian metal legends ANVIL was interviewed on tonight’s (Friday, March 26) edition of the “Metalzone” radio show with Kostas Purevil Kyriakakis.
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