Hammerfall and Tv4 Play have uploaded a HQ live stream of Hammerfall's concert last Thursday in Stockholm. Check out the show over at this location.

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Source:	hammerfall.net
Band profile:	HammerFall

On June 28th (29th in North America), Season of Mist will release Californian thrashers Hirax' new delivery, entitled Noise Chaos War. Made of three thrashing EP's remastered, remixed and available on CD for the first time, this release includes a video of "Bombs of Death" filmed live in Japan last year.

Originally signed to Metal Blade in 1985, Hirax have been on the forefront of the thrash movement for over 25 years. Their music has stood the test of time and their legions of fans continue to grow.

Noise Chaos War cover art] tracklist:

Barrage Of Noise EP (2001):]
01. Murder One
02. Barrage of Noise
03. Walk With Death
04. Broken Neck
05. Jade
06. Mouth Sewn Shut
07. Beyond the Church
08. French Pearl

Chaos and Brutality EP (2007):]
09. Chaos and Brutality
10. Walk With Death (re-recorded)
11. 100,000 Strong
12. Lucifer's Infierno (reprise)

Assassins of War EP (2007):]
13. Lucifer's Infierno
14. Summon the Death Dealers
15. City of the Dead
16. Invasion
17. Assassins of War
+ Bombs of Death (live video)

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Source:	season-of-mist.com
Band profile:	Hirax

Tonight, Stickam.com will be streaming Exodus' Exhibit B: The Human Condition release show live from the The Key Club in Hollywood, CA. Tune in at 10:30pm PST to catch the live stream.

For those in later time zones who can't stay awake to view the live stream, captured footage from the show will be available later at this location.

Exodus is playing the following three record release shows in California in support of Exhibit B: The Human Condition before heading to Europe to play the festival circuit:

Thursday, June 10th - Chico, CA @ The Senator Theater (with Lääz Rockit, Anvil Chorus + 2 local openers)
Friday, June 11th - Los Angeles @ Key Club (with Heathen, Bonded By Blood + 2 local openers)
Saturday, June 12th - San Francisco @ Slim's (with Heathen, Anvil Chorus, and Passive Aggressive)

Next to a North American tour with Malevolent Creation later this year (tour dates here), Exodus recently announced they will help kick off Ozzfest 2010 with a one-off appearance on the 2nd Stage at San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernardino, CA on Saturday, August 14th.

Just today, Exodus also announced a string of live dates on Australian soil. This will mark the band's first headlining tour in these parts of the globe. Tickets go on sale next Thursday. The dates are:

October 1st - The Kings Arms, Auckland
October 2nd - The Manning Bar, Sydney
October 3rd - The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
October 4th - The HiFi Bar, Brisbane
October 5th - Amplifier Bar, Perth

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Source:	stickam.com
Band profile:	Exodus
Event:	Exodus

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming Mar De Grises album, Streams Inwards, will be released on August 30th in Europe and September 14th in North America. For a reaction of bassist Rodrigo Gálvez on the forthcoming album click here.

Streams Inwards cover art] tracklist:

01. Starmaker
02. Shining Human Skin
03. The Bell And The Solar Gust
04. Spectral Ocean
05. Sensing The New Orbit
06. Catatonic North
07. Knotted Delirium
08. A Sea Of Dead Comets
09. Aphelion Aura

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Source:	season-of-mist.com
Band profile:	Mar De Grises

Getting all riled up for the Big Four/Carnage shows? Well, thanks to Noisecreep, here's a small appetizer for Slayer's set, as the band recently filmed a World Painted Blood AOL Session in Los Angeles.

High-quality video footage of Slayer performing "World Painted Blood", "Chemical Warfare/Raining Blood", "Hate Worldwide", and "Mandatory Suicide" has now been made available online. Check out the performance at this location.

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Source:	noisecreep.com
Band profile:	Slayer

Ukraine Black Metallers Balfor has recently released the finalized artwork cover and album tracklisting of the group's debut effort entitled Barbaric Blood. The brooding yet introspect artwork cover and layout for Barbaric Blood was designed by Martin Saavedra at Uruguay's Spina Studio (Aborted, Dååth, Divinity, etc).

States Balfor frontman/guitarist Thorgeir: "It's always a long journey making an album, first it has to be written and rehearsed. Then it has to be recorded and mastered, and that's where most people think it ends. But it doesn't, quite end there. An important factor that everyone forgets about is the artwork, and yet this is often what people notice first. So we are particularly pleased that the artwork for "Barbaric Blood" has been so well executed by Martin of Spina Studio. He has captured both the concept behind the album, and the band itself."

Barbaric Blood was recorded at Blacklight Studio, Ukraine during August 2009, with the effort mixed and mastered by Shaddar. A further update on the official street release date for Barbaric Blood will be announced soon.

Barbaric Blood cover art] tracklist:

01. From The Ashes (...The Beginning)
02. Behold My Hate!
03. Shadow Of My Raven Wings
04. In A Thunder Of Ancient Glory
05. Pure Barbaric
06. Light's Demise
07. Kingdom's Blood
08. Voices Of Wilderness
09. The Perfect Fire

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pulverised.net

Legendary Teutonic Thrashers Destruction have signed a new record deal with Nuclear Blast Records. Here are the obligatory press releases that come with such events.

Comments mainman Schmier: "Sometimes I really hate the business side of my job, we have been thru some very difficult decisions in the last couple of months. Now after some weeks of hard work, I can proudly announce that Destruction is back with Nuclear Blast Records. We really wanna thank AFM Records for the great co-operation in the last years. Cheers for supporting all our craziness, I know it wasn't always easy folks.

Going back to NB feels like coming back home now, working with old friends is one of the biggest achievements you can have in this music business known as a "shark tank". Almost eleven years ago, Markus Staiger and his label made it possible for Destruction to come back in a strong way, those were some of the best years the band ever had. Hopefully this will be the last label change of the band's career, we have returned to our home port again and it feels absolutely fantastic.

We are working on a fast & furious new album that will kick ass in January 2011. Expect the roughest piece of thrash you've heard from Destruction in many years!"

Added Nuclear Blast A&R manager Jaap Wagemaker: "We are very stoked to announce that legendary German thrashers Destruction will be re-joining the Nuclear family again. After a small stint with another label, the band around scene icon Schmier has made the decision to return to the their label home Nuclear Blast. Everybody knows that Nuclear Blast was the label that brought back the band with a bang with their comeback album All Hell Breaks Loose and the following tour they did with Kreator and Sodom. Hell Comes To Your Town! was a huge success for the band as well.

After releasing several more CD's and DVD's the band decided to try something new, but over the years we have stayed in contact with both Schmier and Mike. When the time was right, we decided to sit around the table and realized that the future of both Destruction and Nuclear Blast should be a path we should walk together, and so Destruction is back home.

At the moment Destruction are hard at work to seal this deal with their most thrash sounding album for a long time. The future belongs to Destruction - the mad butcher has returned!"

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Destruction

Shroud Eater, South Florida's DIY grunge/stoner rock trio, is offering a free download of their debut self-titled EP, in anticipation of the release of their debut full-length record, ThunderNoise, due out this autumn.

Inspired by all things dark and dirty, including 70's heavy metal, and 90's grunge/stoner rock, the three-song EP can be downloaded at this location.

"We had always seen the EP as a way to distribute our music for free to as many people as possible - it's a basic primer on who Shroud Eater is as a band, and hopefully it left people curious and interested in hearing what we can really bring to the table," states guitarist/vocalist Jeannie Saiz. "For the ThunderNoise sessions, we have some surprises up our sleeves, and are positive that the finished album will rock your ass off."

The EP was recorded last year at Relax, Bro! recording studio, in the band's hometown of Miami, and it was mixed and mastered by Jonathan Nunez. Artwork comes courtesy of Shroud Eater's own Jeannie Saiz.

The EP is also available for streaming on the band's official MySpace, while a music video (directed and edited by Alvarez Bros. Productions) for the record's opening track, "We Are Beasts", can be viewed at this location.

Shroud Eater cover art] tracklist:

01. We Are Beasts
02. Vesuvius
03. Cyclone

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myspace.com

After Oblivion, the technical death metal band from Bosnia & Herzegovina, is finalizing its second release with working title Stamina. Mixing and mastering will be done by Stephan Fimmers (Necrophagist) in his Aexxys-Art Studio and first free streaming tracks should be ready first week of July. Check MySpace for further updates.

The band states: "What you can except from Stamina is eight old school driven tech death metal songs, where not much place is left for experimenting and innovations, since death metal is perfect already." According to their site, the band can be described as early nineties influenced technical death metal, pierced by some Balkan's traditional melodies. More info here.

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Polish symphonic folk metallers Illuminandi recently released their new album In Via. Two songs - "W Drodze" and "The Promise" - are now streaming on the band's MySpace, so go check them out. More album details below.

Official press release: "Having gained some recognition with their well-received EP Illumina Tenebras Meas, the seven-piece Polish metal act Illuminandi strikes back with their LP titled In Via . The album comprises 10 songs in which heavy guitar riffs are as prominent as haunting cello and violin melodies.

Although frequently labelled as "folk metal" or "gothic metal", the band's sound does not easily yield to boundaries. Even though Illuminandi appeals to most listeners of melodic metal, their music also contains elements of extreme metal, classical music, European folk music, progressive rock, early music and even hardcore.

The album features guest performances from members of Celtic music band Open Folk (Paweł Iwaszkiewicz - recorders, shawm) and Polish avant-garde folk band Żywiołak (Robert Jaworski - hurdy gurdy) as well as four different vocalists, which definitely adds to the albums diversity. The CD was mastered by Polish mastering legend Grzegorz Piwkowski. In Via was released on Ars Mundi on May 28 2010."

In Via cover art] tracklist:

01. Intro
02. The Promise
03. Poczekalnia
04. Cela
05. Wejdź
06. Interludium
07. Reborn
08. Illumina Tenebras Meas
09. W Drodze
10. ...I O Tym Drugim...
11. A Blessing

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Illuminandi

Last Friday lead guitarist Sami Vauhkonen issued the following update on the whereabouts of Finnish metal band Lullacry:

"It's been a while since the last update from the Lullacry camp. After a hard and complicated fourth album we took some time off. In 2008 we were ready to record some new material, with a new interesting record deal with quite a big german label. Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Moonspell, Apocalyptica etc.) was going to be the producer for that album.

But then suddenly just before the studio, without any warning we lost the connection to the label. After a couple of months I read from the newspapers that they went bankrupt. Fuck that.

Now when I look back, I can say that it was a blessing in disguise. Compared to the new songs, the older material was not as good. It wasn't the right time I guess...

Now it's a fresh new start. I've written some killer songs and I must say that a new era of Lullacry has begun! We are currently recording a couple of those songs and we'll put them online as soon as possible. Stay tuned and rock with Lullacry!"

The band's latest output, Vol. 4, dates back from 2005. Lullacry are set to play some new tracks live at Dante's Highlight in Helsinki, on Saturday 24 July. The band is currently looking for a label.

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Source:	lullacry.com
Band profile:	Lullacry

How To Destroy Angels is the brand-new project featuring Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor and his wife Mariqueen Maandig, along with frequent NIN collaborator Atticus Ross. The band is now offering their self-titled debut 6-track EP as a FREE download, delivered as high-quality DRM-free MP3s. A video for the song "The Space In Between" can be watched below.

At the price of an e-mail address you can now receive the EP for free download. All you have to do is sign up here and wait for the mailman with the download link.

How To Destroy Angels cover art] tracklist:

01. The Space In Between
02. Parasite
03. Fur-Lined
04. BBB
05. The Believers
06. A Drowning

Find out more about the band on MySpace.


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Source:	howtodestroyangels.com
Band profile:	Nine Inch Nails

Lambgoat is now streaming Vultures At Dawn, the new album from US black metallers The Funeral Pyre in its entirety. Vultures At Dawn, hits the streets next Tuesday, June 8 through Prosthetic Records. Click here to check it out.

The album was mixed by Ryan Butler (Landmine Marathon, Misery Index, Phobia) and mastered by Dave Shirk (Incantation, Nile, Today Is The Day).

Vultures At Dawn cover art] tracklist:

01. Vultures
02. Destroying Gods
03. Monolith
04. Blistered Hands
05. Personal Exile
06. Seeking Flesh and Bone
07. To Watch the Earth Rot
08. Clarity of Time

More about the band on MySpace.

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lambgoat.com

Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir proudly announce their collaboration with Norwegian composer and Berklee College of Music summa cum laude alumnus Gaute Storaas in addition to the 51 members of KORK (the Norwegian Radio Orchestra) and the 38-member Schola Cantorum Choir for their as-yet-untitled new album. To date, over 101(!) musicians have lent their talents to the making of the album.

Composer Gaute Storaas shares some insight on what it's like to work with Dimmu Borgir: "There have been several attempts of dressing up rock bands in suits, bow ties, and symphonic splendor - to various degrees of success. Working with Dimmu Borgir is quite different. Their music is epic, thematic and symphonic already from the creation; they are clearly having an orchestral approach to composing. My role in this is sometimes just to transcribe their themes, sometimes to take their ideas, tear them apart and build them back up in ways that are true to the band's intentions. The music must also be both interesting and playable for the musicians, and hopefully, meet the quality standards of the orchestral world."

Dimmu Borgir's ninth studio album will be released in Germany on October 8th, in the rest of Europe on October 11th, and in North America on October 12th.

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Dimmu Borgir

Kingdom Of Sorrow - the collaboration between Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) and Kirk Windstein (Down, Crowbar) - have made their sophomore album Behind The Blackest Tears available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The record will be released in the United States on June 8 via Relapse Records. The CD was recorded with engineer Nick Bellmore and was mixed and mastered by Chris "Zeuss" Harris.

Behind The Blackest Tears cover art] tracklist:

01. Enlightened to Extinction
02. God's Law in the Devil's Land
03. Monuments of Ash
04. Behind the Blackest Tears
05. Envision the Divide
06. From Heroes to Dust
07. Along the Path to Ruin
08. With Barely a Breath
09. The Death We Owe
10. Sleeping Beast
11. Torchlight Procession
12. Salvation Denied

The Kingdom Of Sorrow studio line-up on this record is:

Jamey Jasta - vocals (Asesino, Hatebreed)
Kirk Windstein - guitar, vocals (Down, Crowbar)
Nick Bellmore - drums (Toxic Holocaust, Phantoms)
Charlie Bellmore - guitar (Phantoms)
Matthew Brunson - bass (Shedding Old Skin, Crowbar)

With the help from:

Kenny Hickey - vocals/guitars (Type O Negative)
Steve Gibb - guitar (Crowbar, Black Label Society)
Derek Kerswill - drums (Shadows Fall, Unearth)

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