Shadows Fall‘s recent live performances on “The Daily Habit” have made their way online and can be viewed below:

The Red Chord‘s new video for their track “Demoralizer” has debuted online via www.bloody-disgusting.com and can be viewed below. The clip was shot with director David Brodsky (Suicide Silence, The Black Dahlia Murder).

This Is Hell have wrapped the recording sessions for their new album with producer Tomas Costanza (Diffuser, This Is Hell) and are now focusing on the mixes for it. The outing is expected out in June via Rise Records.

The initial line-up has been revealed for this years installment of the “California Metalfest“. The two day event will take place at The Fox Theatre and The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA from May 15th-16th and will feature performances from the following artists:

May 15th:
Fear Factory
Job For A Cowboy
Whitechapel
Dying Fetus
Arsis
Decrepit Birth
Cattle Decapitation
Misery Index
Annotations Of An Autopsy
Gaza

May 16th:
Bleeding Through
The Faceless
Born Of Osiris
Sleeping Giant
Earth Crisis
Oceano
Arsonists Get All The Girls
Thick As Blood
Enfold Darkness
Upon A Burning Body

Additional details for the event are available at www.myspace.com/californiametalfest.

CKY have added the following three Californian shows their schedule for next month:

March 24th Agoura Hills, CA – Canyon Club
March 25th Santa Ana, CA – The Galaxy Theatre
March 27th San Diego, CA – The Casbah

Ov Hell will be releasing their full-length debut “The Underworld Regime” through Prosthetic in North America on April 13th. The official press release on the matter can be found below:

“Prosthetic Records will be releasing black metal super group OV HELL‘s debut full length, “The Underworld Regime,” in North America via an agreement with Indie Recordings, on April 13th. This group of Satan’s all-stars has been sharpening their teeth in some of black metal’s most influential bands for many years. Known as key figures in bands such as Dimmu Borgir and Gorgoroth, Shagrath and King have come together to bring forward a new chapter in Norwegian black metal history. OV HELL will carry on in the same tradition for which King and Shagrath are known, but the collaboration between the two will mark a new era for them both.

“The Underworld Regime” originally started off as what was to be a new Gorgoroth album. After a lengthy legal dispute over the band’s name, King and Gorgoroth vocalist Gaahl took the album to be a God Seed release. Then Gaahl decided to leave the metal world, and Shagrath entered the picture to collaborate with King, and OV HELL was born.

The album was recorded at Earshot Studio with producer Herbrand Larsen and mastered at Living Room Studios by Espen Berg. Frost (Satyricon, 1349), Ice Dale (Enslaved, I, Audrey Horne, Trinacria, Demonaz) and Teloch (Nidingr, God Seed, 1349, Umoral) were recruited for work in the studio. The album combines the best from two worlds – King`s remarkable riffs and the distinguishable voice of Shagrath. The end result is a black metal album that contains all of the power and blast beats worthy of their evil pedigrees. Expect an assault on all false gods and hypocrisy that is of this world today.

King stated; “The album will contain a mixture of our different musical preferences and the personalities involved, which hopefully will lead to something original and new. Although I have to say though that I am more occupied of developing myself spiritually and musically than strive to be viewed as original by fans. This album contains music I’ve worked on in my Gorgoroth and God Seed years. It’s been a little hell to actually see this music form into a band, so the name of the band is quite suitable. Through the first song I got from Shagrath I knew that he would be the perfect man to join forces with. He has strong individual qualities and a strong will to power. I am very positive that when we finish up this album it will be an album that won’t sound like anything we have done before, and with a quality that won’t stand back from anything presented in black metal earlier!”

“With both of our demanding music careers and other projects, timing was not on our side. After last year’s Inferno Festival, King and I yet again joined forces to brainstorm our need to collaborate our passion for dark art. Over the course of the past year, King sent me demo ideas that were so inspiring it made me put my skeptic feelings aside. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to have another Black Metal project but my unquenchable thirst to explore my darkest beast, launched the birth Ov HELL. The majestic Ov HELL has become a band that reflects our roots, raw, ugly, and arrogantly blasphemous with uncompromising truth from two influential Norwegian musicians needing to express our primitive side, straight out Ov HELL.” – Shagrath“

Brain Drill have made their new track “Monumental Failure” available online here. The song is taken from their new album “Quantum Catastrophe“, which will now see a May 11th release date via Metal Blade. In addition, the band recently filmed a new video for their track “Beyond Bludgeoned” in California with director Nikko DeLuna. Band bassist Ivan Munguia commented on the shoot by saying:

“This guy that Nikko knows had a hookup that let us onto this utility company owned land. There was a dilapidated old house and some pretty cool scenery so we figured it was a good spot to shoot. We picked Beyond Bludgeoned as the first video because we feel it’s one of the strongest songs on the album and showcased everyone’s contributions to the album.”

A behind the scenes look at The Devil Wears Prada‘s recent video shoot for their track “Assistant To The Regional Manager” with Endeavor Media (August Burns Red, Inhale Exhale) has been posted online here.

The Empire Shall Fall frontman Jesse Leach has offered the following short update on the status of his upcoming Times Of Grace side project with Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz:

“Still do not know when the CD will be out, I assume 2010..but the record industry is much more difficult to deal with than it was 5-10 years ago…they have these things called 360 deals…trying to avoid that…also: have no fear if you are a person who enjoy soulful epic music…you will be satisfied…in the meantime THE EMPIRE SHALL FALL… much love to all!”

In other news, rumors are heating up that Leach will temporarily re-take his old position as the frontman for Killswitch Engage at the bands March 18th and 19th New York stops. Currently All That Remains‘s Phil Labonte has been handling the vocalist duties for the band while Howard Jones attends to some personal issues.

World Under Blood have reaffirmed their signing to Nuclear Blast with the following press release:

“WORLD UNDER BLOOD, the melodic death metal side project featuring CKY guitarist/vocalist Deron Miller alongside Tim Yeung (DIVINE HERESY, ex-HATE ETERNAL) on drums, Risha Eryavec (ex-DECREPIT BIRTH) on bass, and Luke Jaeger (ex-SLEEP TERROR) on guitar, have officially signed to Nuclear Blast Records! Deron Miller commented on the on the new relationship:

“I’m thrilled to finally be working with Nuclear Blast after all of these years of being a huge fan of their bands. To this day they’re one of the only labels that are aggressive and uncompromising without jumping on this week’s trends. Because of that they are still prominent even during tough times.”

WORLD UNDER BLOOD are currently wrapping up their as of yet untitled debut, produced by James Murphy. The record is tentatively slated for a Summer release.

Deron Miller (CKY) – guitars/vocals
Luke Jaeger (ex-SLEEP TERROR) – guitars
Risha Eryavac (ex-DECREPIT BIRTH) – bass
Tim Yeung (ex-HATE ETERNAL, DIVINE HERESY) – drums

For more info visit www.myspace.com/worldunderblood“

Mychildren Mybride have set “Lost Boy” as the title to their new album which has now been scheduled for a May 04th release date through Solid State. The sessions for the outing were helmed by producer Matt Goldman (Underoath, The Chariot).

Blatant Disarray have inked a deal with Tribunal and will be releasing their latest effort “Everyone Dies Alone” through the label on March 16th. In addition, the physical edition of the CD will feature three bonus tracks not available on the digital version of the effort. For now, those unfamiliar with the outfit can check them out here.

Machine Head invited a fan on-stage to play guitar for their track “Aesthetics Of Hate” at their show in Vienna Austria earlier this week. According to internet reports, the fan was holding a banner which read “Let Me Play ‘Aesthetics Of Hate’ — Seriously, I Can Play It” which was spotted by the band, who then took him up on his offer.

Fan-filmed footage of the performance can be seen online below:

Metal Hammer will be debuting Trivium‘s newly recorded cover of Sepultura‘s “Slave New World” online at www.metalhammer.co.uk this coming Saturday, February 13th.

An unmastered version of Veil Of Maya‘s new track “Namaste” has debuted online and can be found here. The song comes from the groups new effort, “[id]“, which is scheduled to see an April 06th release date through Sumerian.