New ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Song Posted Online

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS have posted a new song entitled "Into The Ashes" on their Myspace Page. The song will appear on their upcoming release "In The Shadows of A Thousand Suns" and will be issued through CANDLELIGHT RECORDS this fall. You can hear that track here.

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS is ready to embark on a month long tour called "Thrash and Burn" with bands such as DARKEST HOUR, MISERY SIGNALS, ARSIS, SUICIDE SILENCE, and more starting July 29th. For a complete listing of dates click here.

The band will also be embarking on the SUMMER SLAUGHTER European tour with bands such as SUICIDE SILENCE, THE BERZERKER, BORN OF THE OSIRIS, and AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK. For a complete listing of dates click here.

MISERY INDEX Set Release Date

Maryland metallers, MISERY INDEX have announced their upcoming release "Traitors" will be out on September 30th through RELAPSE RECORDS.

You can catch MISERY INDEX on tour with ORIGIN and ABYSMAL DAWN on the RELAPSE CONTAMINATION TOUR 2008. Tour dates can be found here.

New SLIPKNOT Video "Psychosocial"

Apparently, this new video from SLIPKNOT for the track "Psychosocial" debuted last night on MTV. I don't have cable so you'll see it as I did, Youtube. Not a bad video, not a bad song. The band has really come a very long way from their birth. Melody is always a good thing when performed with accuracy.



SLIPKNOT "All Hope Is Gone" will be released on August 26th through ROADRUNNER RECORDS.

Enough Already...THIS IS BLASPHEMY!!!

I have to honestly say, I was really looking forward to hearing the latest Kerrang! covers release especially given it was an all out IRON MAIDEN covers album entitled "Maiden Heaven". Not just any covers album, but covers by bands such as METALLICA, TRIVIUM, MACHINE HEAD, DEVILDRIVER, ....Coheed and Cambria....and more! So i was obviously excited to hear how these metal bands paid homage to the legendary IRON MAIDEN!!!

Well then this link was posted. Following my clicking of the audio clips. I wanted to search for the closest nail bed and do a belly flop onto it because the songs are terrible. The short snippets were so punishing to my curiosity I should have just searched for child porn, be tapped by the FBI, and locked up in a cell with a fat 10" dick swinging black man named Bubba.

THIS IS BLASPHEMY. Seriously. Kerrang! gathers the most egotistical self-loving bands to cover a metal legend and expected to come out with positive results. I too was fooled. For fuck sake, I feel like our current metal scene is on the ass end of the Nu-metal years.

Now, I would have loved to have heard bands like DRAGONLAND, STILL REMAINS, BEHEMOTH, DIMMU BORGIR, SCAR SYMMETRY, INTO ETERNITY, THE HAUNTED...all the bands that can actually hold a note and sing...Fuck. I mean, I know DREAM THEATER and MACHINE HEAD rule and did well, but FUCK!!!! Kerrang! did you forget about the cover OPETH did which destroys METALLICA's attempt?! Even if that one isn't available give them "Fear of the Dark" or something guys. Something better than what you are marketing.

Give credit where credit is due. Display bands who play with a passion and respect and not for a paycheck. This is an absolute disgusting tribute.

I can't wait to hear the explaination for this Tommy....

I stumbled upon a blog today after all of the recent announcements (which I will only talk about in this blog because I don't like it) of Tommy Cummings (Ex-Divine Heresey, Ex-Vext) fronting the resurrected nu-metal band SNOT. I won't say much about the following blog, I'll let it speak for itself...however, I will say, I sure hope it isn't what it seems man. If so, then you will be forever forgotten in my metal world.

Here is the blog. Its disturbing and down right disgusting.

You should be on speed dial now to explain this in a video blog like you did previously with METAL Injection.

ANB Needs An Album Title....

AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED posted on their official Myspace Page about how they are stuck on an album name and would like some input.

"SO THE NEW ANB FULL LENGTH HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR AWHILE NOW, WRITING, RECORDING HAS BEEN ON GOING FOR OVER A YEAR NOW ON IT AND THINGS ARE REALLY STARTING TO TAKE SHAPE.

FOR ABOUT 7 MONTHS NOW I'VE HAD A TITLE FOR THE RECORD: "DRUGGERNAUT JUG FUCK", AND FOR REASONS I'M SURE I DON'T NEED TO EXPLAIN CAN NOT BE THE "OFFICIAL" TITLE OF THIS RECORD. WHATEVER DOES END UP THE TITLE OF THE RECORD I WOULD JUST LIKE EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT FOR ME "DRUGGERNAUT JUG FUCK" IS WHAT I'VE PERSONALLY TITLED IT AND FOR ME THATS IT.

SO WHAT WILL THE NEXT ANB RECORD BE "OFFICIALLY" TITLED?, WELL SINCE MY MIND IS MADE UP ON SOMETHING THAT IS TOTALLY FUCKIN' IMPOSSIBLE TO USE I WOULDN'T MIND MAYBE ENTERTAINING SOME SUGGESTIONS HERE- NOT SAYING WE WILL ACTUALLY GO WITH ONE OF YOUR POSTS BUT IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A SHOT AT IT WHO KNOWS? I'M ACTUALLY REALLY INTERESTED WITH WHAT HAPPENS WITH THIS- PLEASE SOMEONE KICK UP THE KILLER TITLE THAT HELPS ME LET GO OF "DRUGGERNAUT JUG FUCK", PLEASE.

J. RANDALL/ANB"

But in other ANB news, it sounds like they will be FINALLY releasing some new material prior to the full length. A split with INSECT WAREFARE as well as with ENDLESS BLOCKADE are said to be completed. Although there is absolutely no date as to when, the word its going to be around the end of summer and/or early fall.

Remember GLASS CASKET? You Better Get To Know COLUMNS

So do you? I don't know how you wouldn't know of GLASS CASKET since a majority of current "metal fans" are fanboys (and girls no pun intended) of BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME; therefore you must know of their other projects. My assumption brings me to the relation of GLASS CASKET and COLUMNS. Columns is a band of death metallers of whom formed in 2004, may I add included more band line up changes in the last four years than DYING FETUS did in their career, and features vocalist Adam Cody. Who is he you ask? He's the voice of GLASS CASKET he is! One bad ass dude whom also joined the almighty VEHEMENCE for a few shows. I can't not tell you how great it is to hear his vocals being capitalized with such great metal. Its been far to long.

Pure death metal. Something I love to hear. Not the, "I'M BRUTAL COOKIE MONSTER WHO LOVES BREE GIMME AN APPLE SLICE" but the "I'M GONNA RIP YOUR FACE OFF AND USE IT AS A DISH TOWEL" death metal. The band has a demo posted on the page from 2006 as well as a new mix for their upcoming 2008 release. You must hear it. If you are fans of VEHEMENCE, COLDWORKER, and CATTLE DECAPITATION you will love this band. So, if you want to check out their two songs, head to this location. You will not be disappointed.

Btw, it free for download.

Soulja Boy Death Metal Style

I just stumbled across a video of a band named MIRROR FOR THE SKY covering the popular one hit wonder song titled "Soulja Boy". Honestly, it sounds pretty damn good. My only wish of improvement in this video was for the two little kids in the beginning of the video to be doing Erik Rutan style windmills.

CONDEMN THE INFECTED Will Infect You

I often look through Myspace for bands in which to latch my metal desires to and believe me, there are a lot of bands out there and its not often you can find a band (especially at a young age) in which can impress me. I have found a band, as I was deleting the shitty bands from my friendslist, called CONDEMN THE INFECTED. Wow. These guys don't look a day over 18...and to top it off they are from my home state of Maryland.

I'd say they are a hybrid of OPETH, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, DECAPITATED, SUFFOCATION, and ORIGIN. Check these guys out and add them. They are fucking sick.
Check them out on Condemn The Infected's Myspace Page.

New NORMA JEAN Has Singing?

So, NORMA JEAN have posted two new songs on their official Myspace Page and there is a lot of mixed feedback on one of the two songs. Thats typical given the utter fact, the band spawns from the idea of bending frequencies and implementing an unorthodox rhythmic drum patter while screaming like an emo kid with a paper cut on his pecker. Now, I like Noisecore but in all honesty Norma Jean sucked at it. Seriously, I saw them on the 2005 Sounds of the Underground tour and I wanted to grab the closest Emocore kid and ask them for the wrist cutting instructions I've seen all over the internet. It was horrible. I really lost all urges to listen to them ever again. Until now.

I read an article on some site talking about how shitty the band sounded now and how NORMA JEAN are the newest sellouts for acquiring a melodic vocal to their sound. So, of course, I had to check it out. And I FUCKING LOVED IT.

"Robots 3 Humans 0" and "Birth of The Anti-Mother" are structured and sound fucking good. There is so much Melody placed through out each song, it sounds like a completely different band. On the first song, "Robots 3 Humans 0" it sounds like they've been getting musical advice from HE IS LEGEND; it sold me. So then on to the next song, "Birth of The Anti-Mother"; its the edger of the two with hits of a mathy MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER and ION DISSONANCE. It sounds like a take off of their 2006 release "Redeemer". So fucking good. I am very much so looking forward to hearing the rest of the release. "The Anti-Mother" comes out August 5th through SOLID STATE RECORDS.

Make sure you check it out. Don't playa hate, fuck trends, be your self and like what you like...don't belittle just because its not brutal enough. Give it a chance, it may help you out some way.