Soundgarden will have their new single “Live To Rise” featured on the upcoming soundtrack to the film “The Avengers“. The soundtrack will be available on iTunes on May 01st. For now you can check out a snippet from the track below:

The Used‘s new song “Together Burning Bright” is available for streaming over at the bands official website, Theused.net. The groups new album “Vulnerable” is due out in stores tomorrow, March 26th.

Live audio of Cave In vocalist/guitarist Stephen Brodsky and Converge drummer Ben Koller performing together has arrived online. You can listen to them play “Friday The 13/8” together below. The audio was recorded during a February 04th, 2012 show at the Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn, NY.

The Chariot and Norma Jean teamed up to make a ‘superhero’ movie centering around Norma Jean guitarist Chris “Derr” Day. You can watch it below:

Kittie have revised the dates for their upcoming spring tour with The Agonist, Blackguard and Bonded By Blood. Here’s how the update schedule will run:

04/10 Poughkeepsie, NY – The Loft
04/11 Albany, NY – Bogie’s
04/12 Reading, PA – Reverb
04/13 Rochester, NY – Montage Music Hall
04/14 Portage, IN – Camelot Hall
04/15 Waterloo, IA – Spicoli’s Grill
04/16 Peoria, IL – Brass Rail
04/17 Milwaukee, WI – Rave
04/18 St Paul, MN – Station 4
04/19 Winnipeg, MB – Park Theatre
04/20 Regina, SK – The Exchange
04/21 Edmonton, AL – Pawn Shop
04/22 Prince George, BC – The Generator
04/23 Vancouver, BC – Red Room
04/24 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
04/25 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
04/26 San Francisco, CA – The Grand Ballroom
04/27 Anaheim, CA – The Grove
04/28 Bakersfield, CA – The Underground
04/29 Las Vegas, NV – Cheyenne Saloon
04/30 Salt Lake City, UT – Vertigo
05/01 Englewood, CO – Moe’s
05/02 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
05/03 Odessa, TX – Dos Amigos
05/04 Dallas, TX – Trees
05/05 Houston, TX – Scout Bar
05/06 Tyler, TX – Clicks
05/07 Oklahoma City, OK – The Conservatory
05/08 Tulsa, OK – Eclipse
05/09 Kansas City, MO – The Beaumont Club
05/10 St Louis, MO – The Firebird
05/11 Libertyville, IL – Austins
05/12 Detroit, MI – Blondie’s
05/13 Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s
05/14 West Springfield, VA – Jaxx
05/15 Baltimore, MD – Soundstage
05/16 New York, NY – The Gramercy Theatre
05/17 Hampton Beach, NH – Wallys Pub
05/18 Worcester, MA – Tammany Hall
05/19 Boston, MA – Middle East Downstairs
05/20 Auburn, ME – Club Texas
05/21 Montreal, QC – FouFounes
05/22 Ottawa, ON – Mavericks
05/23 Hartford, CT – Webster Theater
05/24 Trenton, NJ – Championship Bar and Grill
05/25 Providence, RI – The Ruins at Coliseum

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis has cleared the air regarding his comments that Korn were “dubstep before there was dubstep.” You can watch what he had to say about that below:

Attila have now been added to the 2012 “All Stars Tour“. The confirmed lineup for the tour thus far includes:

Suicide Silence
I See Stars
Winds Of Plague
Stick To Your Guns
The Word Alive
Attila
Betraying The Martyrs
Obey The Brave

In other news, a fan-voted contest for the opening slot on the tour will soon be launched. No word yet on who will be in contention for the slot.

Soulfly guitarist Marc Rizzo will make a guest appearance on Strife‘s forthcoming album. Iggor Cavalera (Cavalera Conspiracy, ex-Sepultura) handled the studio drumming for the effort; while Terror drummer Nick Jett has been overseeing the production duties.

Winds Of Plague have been officially confirmed for this years “All Stars Tour“. Artists currently set to appear on the forthcoming trek include:

Suicide Silence
I See Stars
Winds Of Plague
Stick To Your Guns
The Word Alive
Betraying The Martyrs
Obey The Brave

Endwell vocalist Sean Murphy has issued the following statement regarding the bands current state of affairs. Essentially due the other band commitments, the group are planning to “retire” from touring and will instead now focus on future studio releases.

“I’m sure everyone has noticed that things have been quiet in the ENDWELL camp lately. I felt like it was time to let you guys in on what’s been going on. Around the time we started writing Punishment things started to go haywire. Danny, the only original member of the band (from 03…I joined in December 2005) decided it was time to back to school. In doing so he also decided that it was time for him to split from the band.

I couldn’t allow ENDWELL continue on without him, so after some lengthy discussions we decided to keep it going, even though Danny wouldn’t be able to tour until he was finished with school, he and I would still be the primary songwriters for the album. We had a new found drive and passion for the material we were writing and things were going great. Once the record was done we had about 6 months off.

In this time Matty (Realbad) started touring with our brothers in DEEZ NUTS. At the same time Scuzz & Pieter both started playing with THIS IS HELL. At first things were great, the guys had stuff to do in the off time and we had plans to start the touring cycle in early 2011. As that time approached it became more and more obvious that it would be impossible to maintain a healthy touring cycle while our guys were committed to other bands, and the fact of the matter is those bands had some cool offers coming in & they lost their passion for ENDWELL.

The last thing we want/wanted to do is find 3 new members. On top of everything the game has changed. If you aren’t consistently on tour nowadays it’s nearly impossible to land a decent one. With everything up in the air and Danny having just returned from school ready to jump back into touring full time again it was a pretty miserable time for the two of us. As the months went on we tried setting up DIY tours or jumping on a few weeks here and there but it became increasingly difficult to get all our guys on the same page and available for more than 3 days at a time.

Bottom line we have tried countless times in the past year and a half to get back on the road and it just was not happening. After numerous long talks with Danny we’ve decided that we ARE NOT breaking up the band…in fact we might be around forever. What we have decided to do is essentially retire ENDWELL as a touring act but continue on as a studio band that plays occasional shows.

As of 2012 ENDWELL is Danny Pupplo & myself, who do about 95% of the writing anyway. We’ll still play shows here and there if our friends are putting some cool gigs together and we are open to any tour offers, if it’s cool and we can pull it together it’ll happen. We’d love to make it to Australia, Japan, Mexico & all the other spots we haven’t had the pleasure to play yet. If you’d like to be a part of making that happen please get in touch with us through my email SeanMurphy345@Gmail.com

I could sit here and thank everyone we’ve ever known but were not nailing the coffin closed yet. Furthermore anyone who has kept up with us over the past 6 years or so is no stranger to us experimenting with different styles of music whether it be hardcore, metal, ambient, black metal, pop, rock and roll whatever. One thing I can assure you is that the progression of our material will not stop.

We’re going to keep getting weirder, heavier, lighter…we’re going to continue to write and play whatever the fuck we feel like writing and playing. Bringing an end to our touring career will at least give us more time and freedom to create. We plan on releasing at least one EP and possibly a full length or a collection of EP’s by the end of the year. We ALSO have a new version of “Sympathy For All Sufferers” from the Revenge EP that we tracked while recording PUNISHMENT that we’ll be releasing online real soon.

Other than that Danny and myself have quite a few projects in the works, separately, as well as working together. We’ve spent the last 4 months or so in the studio grinding away at these projects so we’re eager for them to see the light of day and that’s all I’m really going to say about that. Thank you for keeping up with us. We hope to see you guys in the near future, on the road, online, in your headphones or through any other new form of communication technology might muster up in the coming months.

-Sean“

Attila frontman Chris “Fronz” Fronzak will once again miss the bands Canadian stops. The denial of entry comes as a result of a felony charge on Fronzak‘s record. He had the following to say about that:

“Dear Canada, I am sorry to announce, but I WILL NOT be allowed into Canada for the Toronto and Montreal dates of “The Sick Tour”…. My manager and I worked very hard and payed SHITloads of money in hopes that the Canadian government would let me cross the border. Canada basically called my manager and said “No fucking way”.

It pisses me off, but there is nothing I can do. I have a felony on my record and Canada is the ONLY country in the world that I am not allowed in. However, I WILL be reconsidered to cross the border in 2 MORE YEARS! Sorry for making you wait so long, and on behalf of ATTILA, I am truly sorry that we will not be playing any shows in Canada : (

Sincerely,
Fronz“

dredg performed a special set at the Avalon in Santa Clara, CA this past Thursday, March 22nd. The performance saw the band play their entire 2005 album “Catch Without Arms” and more. Fan-filmed footage from the set has begun to hit the net and can be found below.

Meanwhile, the group have some rather ambitious plans ahead of them in regards to a new music video. Vocalist/guitarist Gavin Hayes shared the following on that via his Twitter:

“Shooting a ‘new’ video-doesn’t matter which record (b-side). What would you guys like to see? We’re going to tally votes. Top pick wins.”

It would appear that a 2012 “Slaughter Survivors Tour” is in the works. As with previous incarnations of the tour, the trek is expected to feature bands who didn’t win the fan-voted opening slot on this years coming “Summer Slaughter Tour“.

While no word was revealed on who will participate, potential acts eligible for the run include:

Aegaeon
Battlecross
Enfold Darkness
Fallujah
Fit For An Autopsy
Hour Of Penance
I Declare War
Pathology
Vildjharta

Corelia are currently working on their full-length debut which they plan to release later this year. Some recent studio footage from the band has made its way online below:

Crown The Empire have inked a deal with Rise Records. Word on the bands forthcoming release plans are pending. In the meantime, a video for the bands track “Voices” is available below: