The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s new album “One Of Us Is The Killer” will have a special edition exclusive to Best Buy that comes with scratch-off artwork. You can check out how that works here. The album will hit stores this coming Tuesday, May 14th.

I Scream Records have begun a worldwide distribution agreement with Victory Records. The first offerings via the new agreement will be a new EP from Lionheart and a series of Murphy’s Law reissues. The official press release on the matter can be found below:

“Chicago, IL. – New York City, NY based I Scream Records has entered into an exclusive, worldwide distribution agreement with Victory Records. I Scream was founded in Brussels, Belgium by Laurens Kusters in 1994.

I Scream Records, www.iscreamrecords.com, is one of the world’s leading international punk and hardcore labels. The catalog features releases from Life Of Agony, Madball, Ramallah, Trapped Under Ice, Stigma, Skarhead, The Last Resort, Wisdom In Chains, Earth Crisis, Twitching Tongues, Death By Stereo, Incite, Agnostic Front, MOD, Blood For Blood and Lionheart to name a few.

After years of licensing its releases to various US labels, I Scream started its American operation in 2006 as a committed and diverse independent label. The first releases will be the re-issuing of the classic and seminal Murphy’s Law catalog “Murphy’s Law“, “Back With A Bong“, “The Best Of Times“, “Dedicated” and “The Party’s Over” along with a new EP from Lionheart. In addition to distribution, Victory will be handling all of I Scream’s international e-commerce.

Tony Brummel, Founder of Victory Records said, “I have known Laurens for at least fifteen years. He grew up in the music industry on the business side and also as a musician. He has a great ear as a musician, publisher and label owner. He has a fantastic catalog and will be announcing some very exciting signings in the coming weeks and months. I Scream is a great addition to our stable of distributed labels.””

Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats‘ newest album “Mind Control” is streaming in full right now at Spin.com. The outing will receive a North American release this coming Tuesday, May 14th, via Metal Blade.

Boysetsfire have released the below teaser for their first new full-length album in seven years, “While A Nation Sleeps…“. The group will have the outing in North America stores on June 11th via Bridge 9.
click here for the teaser…

Hundredth will headline ‘The Free Mind Tour‘ this summer with Counterparts, Being As An Ocean and Heart To Heart making up the rest of the bill. Dates include:

07/12 Charleston, SC – The Skatepark of Charleston
07/13 Wilmington, NC – Soapbox Landro-Lounge
07/14 Nashville, TN – The End
07/15 South Bend, IN – Generic
07/16 Chicago, IL – Fireside Bowl
07/17 Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
07/19 Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre
07/21 Boise, ID – The Venue
07/22 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
07/23 Portland, OR – Branx
07/25 San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
07/26 Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction
07/27 Rancho, CA -Nitty Gritty
07/28 Phoenix, AZ – The Underground
07/29 Lubbock, TX – Jake’s Sports Cafe
07/30 Dallas, TX – Tom Cats West
07/31 Little Rock, AR – Downtown Music
08/01 Evansville, IN – The Hatch
08/02 Toledo, OH – Frankies

Some brief studio footage from the recording sessions for Avenged Sevenfold‘s next album has made its way online via Avengedsevenfold.com. The clip appears via a radio/TV player the band uploaded a few weeks back that originally reflected on their history.

Rather than having to tune it like before though, it would appear all one needs to do now is just click the right button in the bottom center to activate the clip.

A Pale Horse Named Death have been joined by bassist Dave Bizzigotti (of Speed Kill Hate.) The outfit—who feature alumni of Life Of Agony and Type O Negative—have a May 21st release date set for their new album “Lay My Soul To Waste“.

A stream of the title track from ASG‘s new album “Blood Drive” can be heard online at Stereogum. A full album stream will be made available online on May 21st with the effort’s retail release to follow on May 28th through Relapse.

There’s a lot of insight into The Dillinger Escape Plan and their history to be had in the below new Converse x Decibel segment centered around them. This coming Tuesday, May 14th, will see the release of the bands new album “One Of Us Is The Killer“.
click here for the video…

Megadeth‘s new song “Kingmaker” will soon be making its online premiere. Similar to a promotion recently ran by Rob Zombie, the band will be debuting the song via a fan’s Twitter account with details as to how you can host it available here. The group have a June 04th release date set for their new album, “Super Collider“.

Mindless Self Indulgence‘s successfully crowdfunded new album “How I Learned To Stop Giving A Shit And Love Mindless Self Indulgence” can be streamed in its entirety via Revolvermag.com. The band raised just over $225,000 for the effort via Kickstarter and will release it this coming Tuesday, May 14th.

Locrian hade made a stream of their new song “Eternal Return” available through Pitchfork. Relapse will have their new album “Return to Annihilation” out June 25th.

Coliseum‘s cover of Pere Ubu‘s “Final Solution” can be streamed online at Invisibleoranges.com. The song is exclusive to the bands “Sister Chance” 7″, available now at this location. The bands new studio album “Sister Faith” saw a release a last week.

More animated weirdness from Queens Of The Stone Age appears to be on the way. The band have been posting a series of teasers on Vine recently that are in the vein of the “I Appear Missing” video and “…Like Clockwork” artwork—both done by Boneface.

The teasers posted so far can be found here, here and here. Furthermore, ‘Bulby’ looks to be making a comeback as part of an unspecified scratch and win promotion too. “…Like Clockwork” hits stores June 04th on Matador Records.

Slayer have revealed the cause of death of their guitarist Jeff Hanneman to be alcohol related cirrhosis. The outfit are planning a celebration of his life for later this month and offered the following new update on the matter below. Hanneman passed away on May 02nd at the age of 49.

“While the details are being worked out now, Slayer wants its fans to know that there will be a celebration of Jeff Hanneman‘s life sometime later this month, along with Jeff‘s family and friends, the public will be invited to attend. More information will be posted here soon.

Kerry King and Tom Araya are trying to deal with the loss of their brother by remembering some the good times they shared.

KERRY: “I had so many great times with Jeff… in the early days when we were out on the road, he and I were the night owls, we would stay up all night on the bus, just hanging out, talking, watching movies… World War II movies, horror movies, we watched “Full Metal Jacket” so many times, we could practically recite all of the dialogue.”

TOM: “When we first formed Slayer, we used to rehearse all the time, religiously, 24/7. Jeff and I spent a lot of time hanging out together, he lived in my father’s garage which was also our rehearsal space. When he got his own apartment, he had an 8-track and I would go there to record songs I’d written, not Slayer songs, other stuff I’d written. At a certain point, you still have the band but you start your own lives outside of the band, so that 24/7 falls to the side, you don’t spend as much time together as you once did. I miss those early days.”

KERRY: “He was a gigantic World War II buff, his father served in that war, so when Slayer played Russia for the first time – I think it was 1998 – Jeff and I went to one of Moscow’s military museums. I’ll never forget him walking around that place, looking at all of the tanks, weapons and other exhibits. He was like a kid on Christmas morning. But that was Jeff‘s thing, he knew so much about WW II history, he could have taught it in school.”

TOM: “We were in New York recording South of Heaven. Jeff and I were at the hotel and we had to get to the studio – I think it was called Chung King, a real rundown place. So we left the hotel and decided to walk, but then it started raining. We walked maybe five blocks, and it was raining so hard, we were totally soaked, so we decided to get a cab. Here we are, two dudes with long hair and leather jackets, absolutely soaked, thumbing to the studio. No one would stop. We had to walk the entire way.”

TOM: “Jeff was a lifeline of Slayer, he wrote so many of the songs that the band will always be known for. He had a good heart, he was a good guy.”

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We’ve just learned that the official cause of Jeff‘s death was alcohol related cirrhosis. While he had his health struggles over the years, including the recent Necrotizing fasciitis infection that devastated his well-being, Jeff and those close to him were not aware of the true extent of his liver condition until the last days of his life. Contrary to some reports, Jeff was not on a transplant list at the time of his passing, or at any time prior to that. In fact, by all accounts, it appeared that he had been improving – he was excited and looking forward to working on a new record.”