This venue listing has word that Between The Buried And Me, The Faceless, The Contortionist and The Safety Fire will be touring together in the fall. Thus far the trek is set to hit the Ace Of Spades in Sacramento, CA on October 01st. The tour is also expected to hit the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ on October 18th. An official announcement of the tour remains pending.

The lineup has been officially revealed for the 2013 ‘The Power Of The Riff‘ festival. Set to take place at The Echo & Echoplex in Los Angeles, CA on August 09th-10th, this years event will feature:

The Obsessed
Final Conflict
From Ashes Rise
Hirax
Black Breath
M.D.C.
Iceburn
Iron Lung
Early Graves
Mammoth Grinder
Bastard Noise
Condition
Dead In The Dirt
Baptists
Nomads
Creative Adult
Replica
Obliterations
Completed Exposition
Centuries
Wartorn
Territory
Whip Hand
Children of God
Old Wounds
Opposition Rising

Tickets will go on sale this Saturday, June 15th. More details are available at thepoweroftheriff.com.

Love And Death—who feature Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch— fielded fan suggestions for the title of their newest song which they recorded this past May. The outfit have chosen “Empty” as the title to the track, which should surface in the coming months.

The following official recap of Metallica‘s second ‘Orion Music + More‘ festival has been uploaded by the bands camp. This years edition of the festival was held in Detroit, MI and featured performances from Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Deftones, The Dillinger Escape Plan and more.
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Prosthetic Records are readying new vinyl pressings of Gojira‘s “From Mars To Sirius” and “The Way Of All Flesh” for an August 27th release. “From Mars To Sirius” will be pressed on “eco-green” (600 copies), “mars red” (200 copies) and “sea blue” 200 copies—the latter two variants will only be available through mail-order. “The Way Of All Flesh” will be pressed on clear vinyl (500 copies) and a mail order exclusive blue/white vinyl split (500 copies.) Pre-orders can be found here.

Chimaira have announced the following headlining run in support of their coming album “Crown Of Phantoms“, out July 30th. The trek will see them supported by The Browning, Threat Signal and Dark Sermon.

07/26 Springfield, VA – Empire
07/27 Spartanburg, SC – Ground Zero
07/28 Orlando, FL – The Social
07/29 Jacksonville, FL – Freebird Live
07/31 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
08/01 Dallas, TX – Trees
08/02 Lubbock, TX – Jake’s
08/03 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
08/04 Tempe, AZ – Rocky Point
08/06 San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
08/07 Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
08/08 Hollywood, CA – The Whisky
08/09 Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
08/10 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
08/11 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
08/13 CO Springs, CO – Black Sheep
08/14 Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
08/15 Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s
08/16 Chicago, IL – Reggie’s
08/17 Columbus, OH – Frontier Ranch
08/18 Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
08/20 Philadelphia, PA – Theater Of The Living Arts
08/21 New York, NY – Gramercy Theater
08/22 Boston, MA – Middle East
08/23 Toronto, ON – Wreck Room
08/24 Rochester, NY – Montage Music Hall
08/25 Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s

Corrections House—who feature members of Neurosis, Eyehategod, Yakuza and more—are finishing up work on their full-length album. According to the bands Facebook, the group will have effort out on Halloween, October 31st.

Lord Dying have premiered their new song “Dreams Of Mercy” online through Revolvermag.com. July 09th will bring with it the release of the groups new full-length “Summon The Faithless” on Relapse Records.

Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd has branched out with a new solo project dubbed Sons Of The Sea. A song from the project titled “Where All The Songs Come From” is presently available for streaming through Rollingstone.com. A four song EP from the project by the name of “Compass” will see a June 25th release on Avow Records.

Drummer Riley Breckenridge of Thrice fame is involved in a new baseball-themed grindcore project with ex-Curl Up And Die vocalist Mike Minnick and Kowloon Walled City‘s guitarist Jon Howell and bassist Ian Miller. Taking their name from Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig and grind vets Pig Destroyer, the project has been dubbed Puig Destroyer. According to Breckenridge:

“So here’s the deal …

Puig Destroyer is actually happening. It’s a baseball-themed grindcore project featuring Mike Minnick (Curl Up & Die) on vocals, Ian Miller and Jon Howell (Kowloon Walled City) and me (Riley Breckenridge - Thrice) doing drum programming (because logistics and gah … blastbeats at 220 bpm).

We’ve got basic tracking done for our debut EP, and we should have a track from said EP fairly soon. Please stay tuned for updates/tunes. The roughs I’ve heard are ridiculously awesome and fun and raw as all hell.

Kinda like Yasiel Puig.

We’re all very excited and hope that you are too.”

Texas In July will preface their July 23rd-August 04th stint on the 2013 ‘Vans Warped Tour‘ with the following Northeast mini-tour alongside Reflections:

07/05 Richmond, VA – Kingdom
07/06 West Chester, PA – The Note
07/07 New York, NY – Tammany Hall
07/09 Providence, RI – Fete
07/10 Clifton Park, NY – Upstate Concert Hall
07/11 Amityville, NY – Revolution

Gypsyhawk‘s “Silver Queen” music video is now available for viewing below through Revolvermag.com. The group teamed with director Farron Loathing for the clip.
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Two bands have been tapped to flesh out the lineup of this years ‘Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival‘ in light of Behemoth‘s recent departure. Scorpion Child has been added as a headliner for the Sumerian Records Stage of the trek; while Attika 7 (Biohazard) have been added to the Musicians Institute Stage.

The lineup for this years ‘Mayhem Festival‘ features Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Mastodon, Machine Head and many more. Dates and details for the trek can be found here.

Black Sabbath‘s “End Of The Beginning” live video has been posted for viewing below. The footage was recorded for the bands appearance on the season closing episode of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” that aired on May 15th. The bands new album “13” saw a release earlier this week.
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Chelsea Grin frontman Alex Koehler has stepped down from his other outfit, Hearts&Hands. A statement from the latters Alex Lyman on the lineup shift can be found below along with a video interview regarding their future plans:

“I’ve been pretty quiet following today’s news from Hearts&Hands regarding the departure of Alex Koehler, Introducing the new band ect. ect.

I really wanted time to let people know in full detail what’s going on, has gone on, and how I personally feel about things.

First off, there is one reason why I play music. This is my personal love for music, nothing gives me close to the same feeling that music gives me. With that being said, I do not write music around your interests, or tastes. And any negative remarks you say to me, my friends or any fans of my music is absolutely irrelevant and you look stupid. So lets keep this post friendly before you start firing insults online at everyone who posts on it.

Coming home from The All-Stars tour in 2011 after a very long stretch of touring working for other bands, I had a lot of time to think(the drive was 16 fucking hours). I have been very passionate about music since a very young age, I had a brother 3 years older than myself who passed away 7 years ago and I have never found anything other than music to not so much heal, but numb and free my mind until the second I stop it. I had heard all the stories of people being truly passionate about what they did, I just thought they were doped up hippies who felt that they had to say that. I was wrong, cause I now know how it feels.

On this long ass fucking drive I couldn’t stop thinking about how badly I wanted to be playing music, I loved touring, the people involved, and seeing them on stage every night. But I needed the feeling of expressing myself on that stage. I wrote Hearts&Hands first single “We’re Not Alone” almost completely in my head on this drive, unbelievably anxious to get home and put this into musical form. At this time, although Alex Koehler was never further than 5 feet from me, I had no intentions of him being part of it(I would have been sure he’d laugh if i asked)

About a week after I had been home I had this song all layed out how I liked it. Garrett has been my favorite clean vocalist honestly around for a while, I with no hesitance instantly asked if he’d like to come sing on a song I did for fun. Being a fan of my work as well he agreed.

The night I finished it, Alex asked what I was doing cause we generally had a nightly ritual of drinking a bottle of rum and passing out in my basement. I told him that I had just finished recording and to come hang out, I showed him the track and he really liked it. After hearing the track a few times he asked if i’d be interested in him doing vocals on it. Alex Koehler is my best friend. This project was designed merely to do ONE song for fun with my good friends. This is exactly how Hearts&Hands STARTED.

We released “We’re Not Alone” to show everyone what we had done and let them enjoy it, as we enjoyed it ourselves. We obviously knew there would be a big audience to hear it. but the feedback we got was insane. We decided to do a few more songs for fun. ect. ect. ect. . . and the feedback only got bigger and better. Mike at Artery Recordings offered to sign the project so we could continue to put out music, we put out the E.P. went on the Impending Doom tour and had the time of our lives just like we wanted it.

Doing these things brought in more serious questions, More time demanding opportunities. Garrett and I love music, we want to be playing full-time which AK obviously undersands, and Chelsea Grin is Alex Koehlers baby. there is no physically possible way Alex Koehler could have continued Hearts&Hands with us beginning to be a full time band and keep Chelsea Grin in full focus, where it needs to be.

The beginning of Hearts&Hands will always be some of my favorite memories of my entire life, I can’t thank Alex Koehler enough for everything he did, and for being a part of something so meaningful with us. I will have his back through anything and will support anything he does.

With that being said, Hearts&Hands is beginning the second chapter of our career and I am very proud of the album we’re releasing, the members we are blessed to have and all of the incredible fans who stand behind us.

Thank You!”

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