Impending Doom have a brief June run booked with The Great Commission and The Overseer. Those dates include:

06/21 Tempe, AZ – Rocky Point Cantina
06/22 Flagstaff, AZ – Orpheum Theater
06/23 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
06/24 Abilene, TX – The Backroom
06/24 Oklahoma City, OK – Chameleon Room
06/26 Newport, KY – Thompson House
06/27 Pittsburgh, PA – Smiling Moose
06/28 Mt. Union, PA – Creation Festival East
06/29 Allentown, PA – Deathbed Festival At Main Gate Nightclub

Nine Inch Nails have been focused on cleaning out the vault as of late. This time they have posted footage which was originally compiled to serve as an exclusive bonus on the planned DVD re-release of their 1997 live set, “Closure“. Sadly, the expanded DVD re-release was scrapped due to issues with their then label home of Interscope Records.

Below you can watch the footage that was set to appear on the DVD. Meanwhile, more footage from the set can be seen here.
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Minsk have booked a series of shows to mark their return. Those dates will take place in July and can be found below. Furthermore, band vocalist Tim Mead has offered the following on the groups decision to return:

“To the brink and back. Nearly a decade spent pouring everything we had into this thing, and just like that we almost felt it slip away. Almost. It has been a long two years. It never felt like it was finished, the way forward just hadn’t made itself clear yet. I really think it took facing the precipice for us to turn that corner and understand what it meant to us, what it meant to those who’ve connected with us and the music we were a part of through these years.

When Chris and I started this band twelve years ago, we never anticipated it growing into what it became, how much of ourselves it would occupy, how it would eventually become more than the sum of its parts. We have always been our own harshest critics, and I think it took time to come to terms with the reality that this thing should continue. The past is a memory. The future is unwritten. The present is all that is. The work is not complete.

The family has expanded, and we’re so thrilled to have Aaron, Ryan, and Zac with us now. Aaron has been a brother for a very long time, and so this addition is more natural than we could have imagined. For me, hearing he and Chris play guitar together has that sense of something that just always should have been. And as Ryan and Zac have individually come into our lives and into Minsk, they have raised us up. Their abilities, and their spirits, take this collective space to new heights.

The Minsk practice space remains in the one and only city of Peoria, Illinois, as it always has. There is something about that city that has always left such an indelible mark on what Minsk is. Recent recordings coming out of rehearsals have been livening my life, and my mind, so much lately. It is an exciting time. Old material, new material, ideas just flowing again… that space being occupied again, that thing present in the ether that always seemed right when Minsk is making noise.

Up in Chicago, Sanford is still making some of the best records you’re going to hear this year. Still helping keep Chicago the musical powerhouse that is always has been. Still and always a member of the Minsk tribe from a distance, though we’re keeping a looser reign around him these days. Time will not allow him to do these shows with us in July, but he will be joining us on stage for at least a song or two in Chicago. When doing work involves giving birth to the kind of ground breaking music that Sanford has a hand in all the time, it’s hard to believe it’s not time well spent.

We are, however, ALL excited about working on a new album together. So, it is with great pleasure that we announce this next step on the path, a milestone marking ten years since the very first show… a celebration of what was, what is, and what shall be. Please join us.”

The group recently announced their return from hiatus with a new lineup that saw the addition of Aaron Austin, Ryan Thomas, and Zachary Livingston.

Minsk dates:

07/04 Peoria, IL – The Brass Rail (feat. Alma Negra)
07/05 Little Rock, AR – Downtown Music (feat. The Sound Of The Mountain, Mainland Divide, Enchiridion)
07/06 Nashville, TN – Springwater (feat. A Generation Of Vipers, Hellbender, Brother Ares)
07/07 Milwaukee, WI – The Cacus Club (feat. Asatta, Subjugation)
07/08 Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle

Another video from Intronaut‘s in-studio session at EMG Studios can be found after the break. The latest to be posted is for their track “Killing Birds With Stones“. Previous footage uploaded from the sessions include “Milk Leg” and this ‘dub’ jam session.
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According to this tweet, Six Feet Under frontman Chris Barnes‘ new side project IHATE are aiming to have their debut album out in October. A previously-released song from the project can be heard here.

Russian Circles have entered Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, IL to begin recording their new album. Sessions began earlier this week with producer Brandon Curtis once again overseeing the process. Curtis previously worked with the band on their last two full-length releases.

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst recently checked in with Metal Hammer to offer some words on the bands forthcoming album, “Stampede Of The Disco Elephants” and more. Speaking of the album, he offered:

“I’m finishing vocals on the new album. It’s sounding pretty awesome actually. It’s really raw, heavy, groove. It’s honest, it’s the record we wanted to make. We got in there and just let things go, kept it a little… I turned it up a few notches, better than being in that comfort zone as the last couple of experiences. I feel like it’s going pretty good, we’re really happy with it. It’s definitely an anti-radio record – a couple of the grooves are kinda catchy, but we went in thinking that anything too catchy, we’re just discarding it. It’s kind of fun in that way.”

He went on to add:

“We wanted to try and feel what it was like when we started out. We started out in this garage in Jacksonville, Florida, at this guy’s house. It was about 10 feet by 15 feet this garage, so [this time we] found a place that was in a really bad part of town that was about 10 by 15 feet, and just crammed everything in there, and just jammed and recorded. And the vocals I’m doing in such a raw sort of way.”

A release date for “Stampede Of The Disco Elephants” has yet to be announced.

Various musicians and friends of Baroness have donated items to an auction that aims to help ease the costs of the medical bills related to their August 2012 bus crash in the UK. Test pressings and autographed items from the likes of Mastodon, Meshuggah, Neurosis, Kylesa, Municipal Waste, Red Fang and more are up for grabs. Full details can be found at Baronessrelief.org; while the auction itself is now live on Ebay.

Defeater have had a July 16th release date set for their new album “Letters Home” via Bridge Nine. Band vocalist Derek Archambault said of the effort:

“Inspiration for this record came from a few places. Much like with Lost Ground, these stories are based around my two grandfathers’ service in WWII. Musically the record hearkens back to Travels and Lost Ground. EDSN was a bit of a departure for us, and I think we took some good chances on that record but Letters Home brings it back to why we started this band in the first place five years ago.”

The track listing for the outing is set to run as follows:

01 – “Bastards”
02 – “No Shame”
03 – “Hopeless Again”
04 – “Blood In My Veins”
05 – “No Relief”
06 – “No Faith”
07 – “Dead Set”
08 – “No Savior”
09 – “Rabbit Foot”
10 – “Bled Out“

Dynasty have released their music video for their song “Explicit Method” online below. The band filmed the clip just outside of the Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA in late March of this year.
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Palms (Deftones/ex-Isis) have confirmed the cover art (see below) and track listing for their self-titled debut album. The effort will feature six lengthy tracks in the following order:

01 – “Future Warrior”
02 – “Patagonia”
03 – “Mission Sunset”
04 – “Shortwave Radio”
05 – “Tropics”
06 – “Antarctic Handshake”

Pre-orders for the outing are now live on iTunes with an immediate download of the song “Tropics” also available. Further pre-order packages (including vinyl) will soon be made available through the bands official website, Palmsband.com. “Palms” is scheduled to land in stores on June 25th through Ipecac.

Meanwhile, the band will be joined by Chuck Doom of Crosses (aka †††) on keyboards during their coming first-ever tour. Those dates include:

With Crypts:

07/10 Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern (feat. Sleep Lady)
07/11 Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
07/12 Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour
07/13 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
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A new Torche song titled “Keep Up” is yours for hearing below via Spin.com. The song itself will receive a vinyl release in July as part of the Volcom Ent Vinyl Club.
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Recording sessions for 36 Crazyfists‘ new album commenced today in Portland, Oregon. The band commented on the sessions:

“36 Family!!!
I’m happy to announce that Drum sounds are being blasted through the Portland, Oregon Skies today @ Fisticuffs Studios for the start of the recording of our new album. Very excited to finish this monster and get it into your hands. High Holtage is manning the ship and navigatin’ the knobs and we couldn’t be more stoked. Touring news as well is on the horizon. It’s been a little bit and we are super grateful for your belief and patience. Respect 36CF”

Call Of The Void‘s music video for their song “Bottom Feeder” has received its online premiere through MetalSucks. The song appears on the bands album “Dragged Down A Dead End Path“, which is out now on Relapse.

While it has little relation to his current legal situation, As I Lay Dying, etc. frontman took to his Tumblr around a year ago to detail what he then described as his “prison style workout.”

At the time Lambesis was only referring to exercises one could do on the road without proper equipment; but given his current incarceration there’s a considerable amount of irony in his post, which has started circulating around online as of late.

An excerpt from that post—which once again was made a year ago—can be found below:

“Every time I leave for a tour I have to get creative with what we call “prison style” workouts. I don’t claim to be the authority on this stuff at all, so I’m seeking advice as much as I am dishing it out. For starters, there are always the basics you can do in any prison cell (or backstage room).
- pushups (clap pushups, triangle, wide grip, etc.)
- abs (crunches, jackknives, leg raises, bicycles, planks, etc)
- chair dips for triceps
- lifting luggage for biceps
- jump squats
- lunges
- handstand presses for shoulders

I’ll be really up front about that fact that I haven’t been able to gain a noticeable amount of muscle doing any of these things. All of these exercises really only help me maintain what I’ve been able to do from real gym workouts while off tour. These type of workouts can certainly help a person tighten up, get stronger, and get in great shape overall though. To actually build bigger muscle though, you have to lift an amount of weight that can take that muscle all the way to failure, usually in under 12 reps. That’s why the hardest thing for me is putting on size.

When I do get the chance off of tour at my local gym, the idea is to completely tear down a muscle by hitting it from a minimum of three different angles. An example on an upper back day would be to do vertical pull downs, high rows with different widths to the grip, and also low rows. The weight I would try to use would be whatever is heavy enough that I can’t do over 12 reps and sometimes as low as 4. Also, to cause my muscles to full break down and fail, I often need a spotter to force me to do at least one or two more reps than what my body can handle on its own.

Those are the basic principle I work out by. I’m curious to get other peoples opinions since there are thousands of people who swear they know best at my gym alone. I also don’t recommend anyone lifting weights that way if they haven’t already done other simpler exercises to get the muscles used to the pressure before going for heavy weight. I’ve only been working out for under a year and at that only about three times a week. Most people try to overdue it and get hurt. If you’re new to this, then do more full body (crossfit, kettlebells, etc) type workouts for at least three months before trying to look like Ahhnold. In my year of working out, I personally spent the first six months or so dabbling in a variety of kettlebells and prison style workouts while on tour so that my body was ready for what I’m trying to do now.

Lastly, either be an athlete or just admit that working out is mainly for vanity. Simply being healthy requires eating healthy and jogging your butt around the block from time to time. I admit that I have no practical reason for getting in great shape other than for intimidating girly men in the front row at ADM shows. Ahhnold still intimidates me, so I have a small man’s complex at 6’3”. My saving grace is that I’ve picked up a number of other hobbies to balance out my meathead ways. Check out documentaryheaven.com and come talk to me about something new you’ve learned at one the upcoming AILD shows. Overall, I’d rather talk about documentaries and/or charities than I would protein shakes.”

Lambesis was well-known for his physical fitness regiment with his ex-wife Meggan going so far as to say that he became: “obsessed with bodybuilding and spends a great deal of time lifting weights, hanging out in the gym, and being unavailable to the children” during her divorce from him this past September.

Lambesis was picked up last week as part of a murder-for-hire plot that alleges he tried to have his ex-wife Meggan killed. He was charged with solicitation to commit murder and is currently being held with bail set at $3 million. His next scheduled court appearance is June 10th.