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On June 30th, LA-based thrashers Omicida will put out their third full length instalment dubbed Sacrifice The Bastard Son. Punishment 18 Records will handle the release.
Production was held at Stealth Studio by Giovanni Durst (band drummer), and Ralph Patlan who also mixed and mastered the album.
July 14 sees England's metal masters, Evile, strike again with their sixth full-length record, entitled The Unknown, via Napalm Records.
Today, the band have unleashed a lyric video for their vigorous new single, "Reap What You Sow” - a hammering world of sound that builds up to a stomping thrash manifesto.
Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine guested on The Jeremy White Show and spoke about the increased touring costs and travel expenses.
Mustaine said, "Oh, it's pretty expensive. I think it's about 45 thousand dollars a day for us just to sit still. I think, it might be 52. But that's just sitting still...
German metal legends Tankard performed at Rock Hard Festival 2023 in Gelsenkirchenm, Germany on May 28th.
A new animated video from Tankard, created for the song "Beerbarians", recently celebrated its world premiere via the Sydney-Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival.
German thrash legends Sodom performed at Rock Hard Festival 2023 in Gelsenkirchenm, Germany on May 27th.
In late 2022, Sodom released a new single and video for the song "After The Deluge". The song is taken from the bonus CD of the box set version of the 40th anniversary album, 40 Years At War-The Greatest Hell Of Sodom.
Bassist Jason Newsted, who was a member of Metallica from 1986 - 2001, performed with his Newsted band for the first time in close to ten years on Saturday, May 20th at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Newsted, who played bass and sang lead vocals, was joined on stage by two original Newsted members
On May 13th, Megadeth brought their Crush The World tour to the Avenir Centre Moncton, New Brunswick. Fan-filmed video of the entire show can be viewed below.
The setlist was as follows:
Hangar 18
Dread And The Fugitive Mind
Arizona-born thrash metallers, Flotsam And Jetsam, have been forced to cancel their upcoming European tour dates. A message from the band follows...
"It is with great disappointment that we need to cancel our June European shows. We hope our fans will understand and support us in this. Unfortunately, the costs associated with touring have doubled, and in some cases tripled.
Metallica performed the 72 Seasons track, "Screaming Suicide", during their concert at Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on April 27.
Presented worldwide by Liquid Death and Blackened American Whiskey (in North America only) and promoted by Live Nation, Metallica’s M72 world tour sees the band in a complete 360 performance playing two nights in every city it visits
Annihilator founder / guitarist Jeff Waters has checked in with the following message:
"Well, it's now official: the most listened to song by Annihilator on the world wide web is 'King Of The Kill' (guess who sang it?! hahaha!). Just goes to show, hard work, commitment, good tunes can create something pretty damn good. It was also a #2 record in Japan, a huge record in most of Europe, and was the fourth big-seller in a row for Annihilator."