Suicide Silence released a new digital EP for their track “Wake Up” through various digital outlets, including iTunes and Amazon earlier this week. The outing features the following track listing:

01 – “Wake Up”
02 – “Wake Up” (remix by M. Shawn Crahan (Clown) of Slipknot)
03 – “Wake Up” (Live At The Galaxy)

Professionally-filmed footage of Suicidal Tendencies performing their track “You Can’t Bring Me Down” live in Long Beach, CA earlier this month has been made available online and can be seen below. As previously reported, Suicidal Tendencies plan to release a new live DVD entitled “Live At The Olympic Auditorium” on January 26th.

Annotations Of An Autopsy have made their new track “Cryogenica” available online here in streaming audio form. The song is taken from their new album “The Reign Of Darkness“, which will see a February 09th release date through Nuclear Blast.

Warship, the group formed by From Autumn To Ashes alumni Francis Mark and Rob Lauritsen have officially announced their hiatus. Full details can be found in the following statement from Francis Mark :

“I’ve gotten a bunch of messages over the last few months with people asking if this is still a band and i apologize for leaving everyone guessing. I didn’t know how to respond because when I thought about it I’m not sure if you could call what we did a “band”.

We did four tours and had four different bass players, three drummers and three guitar players. Rob and I went into the studio and recorded a full length having never played a show and we hoped to fill out the rest of the band after the fact but that never fell into place.

So many things kept working against us. Then some tours came up which Rob could not do and I stubbornly expected him to let all other things in his life fall by the wayside to try to keep Warship on track. Of course this was unreasonable and nearly ended our friendship altogether.

With 50% of the creative force of Warship no longer involved I tried to keep it going until summer 09, when I returned from an extremely challenging tour of Europe and my father was in a near fatal motorcycle accident. I spent a lot of time in New York after that with my family and didn’t think much about music for a little while.

I’ll try to keep this short because I know most are only interested in a yes or no answer as to whether or not Warship is still a band.

A band? No. We will probably never be an active touring band again.

Will we ever make music again? Who knows. I love recording. I would stay in the studio recording new things all year if someone would fund it. Never say never, but don’t hold your breath either. Whatever happens, Supply and Depend is something I’m glad we did and proud to have been a part of. At least you’ll have that forever.

peace in the new decade”

Arsis have made their new track “Forced To Rock” available online here. The song itself serves as the first single from the bands forthcoming new album, “Starve For The Devil“. A video for “Forced To Rock” was recently filmed with director David Brodsky (The Black Dahlia Murder, Hate Eternal), while “Starve For The Devil” is due in stores on February 09th via Nuclear Blast.

Former Too Pure To Die members Jordan Peterson, James Olson and Clint Knox are currently in the midst of putting together a new band with more details to be revealed in the coming weeks.

A trailer for an upcoming film centered around Ministry and their life on the road has been made available online and can be seen below. Dubbed, “Fix – The Ministry Movie“, the outing documents the bands time spent touring as well as their impact on their peers, complete with commentary from members of Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Korn and more.

A summer 2010 release is being expected while an official website for the project can be found over at www.fixtheministrymovie.com.

Avenged Sevenfold drummer James Owen Sullivan, aka The Rev, was found dead in his home today, Monday, December 28th. Reports state that Sullivan, who was 28 years old, appears to have died as a result of natural causes. More information can be found here.

Avenged Sevenfold themselves have since offered the following official statement on the matter:

“It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we tell you of the passing today of Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan. Jimmy was not only one of the world’s best drummers, but more importantly he was our best friend and brother. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jimmy’s family and we hope that you will respect their privacy during this difficult time.

Jimmy you are forever in our hearts.
We love you.

M Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance and Johnny Christ“