VENOMOUS CONCEPT, featuring current and ex-members of NAPALM DEATH, BRUTAL TRUTH, CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR have kicked off their previously announced European tour supporting BRUJERIA.

BLACK TUSK have kicked off their previously announced European tour dates in support of their, in 2018 released, album ‘TCBT’. The tour will kick off at both Deserfests 2019 in London and Germany and sees the band traveling throughout 11 more countries until a final curtain at the D.K. Luksus in Wrocklaw (PL). A full list of confirmed dates can be found below.

Three-piece extreme metal formation VLTIMAS have updated their list of live performances for the Summer of 2019. The rampage will kick off at the Copenhell Festival in Copenhagen (DK) in the weekend of June 19, and continues to wreak havoc until a final curtain at the mighty Wacken Open Air (DE) in the first weekend of August. A full list of confirmed dates can be found below.

Norwegian black metal titans ABBATH are now releasing the second new track, taken from their upcoming full length ‘Outstrider’. The album is set for worldwide release on July 5, 2019.

Chaos Black Metallers REVENGE are kicking have kicked off their European tour with Polish metal cult Mgła. Find the full list of tour dates below.

Southern sludge masters BLACK TUSK will be embarking on a small run of live dates down South this summer! Starting on July 12, the band will hit three U.S. cities on this run – Chattanooga, TN, Lexington, KY, and Atlanta, GA. The full itinerary can be found below.

HEILUNG have released the second track taken from their upcoming album ‘Futha’, which will be released on June 28, 2019. “Othan” is now streaming via Roadburn at the link below!

Progressive metal masters NE OBLIVISCARIS will soon be embarking on their previously announced tour dates in Australia with label mates BEYOND CREATION. In conjunction with the upcoming trek, the band has shared pro-shot live video footage from their concert in Montreal from October 10, 2018. The clip, which was recorded and edited by Dr. Light Productions, can be viewed below!

Season of Mist are pleased to announce the signing of blackened doom outfit CULTED. The band will release their third upcoming album ‘Vespertina Synaxis; A Prayer for Union and Emptiness’ via the label later this year.

Dadabots is special artificial intelligent (AI) software that creates music. The software, developed by Berkley College of Music graduates Zack Zukowski and CJ Carr, is built upon a “recurrent neural network” that receives data and then uses it to interpret musical sequences on its own. Simply stated, the software teaches itself how to compose music based on the work of an existing band as its data-set.

VULTURE INDUSTRIES are about to embark on their European tour together with good friends HELHEIM and MADDER MORTEM. The Norwegian eccentrics kick off the ‘Strange Rain’ tour at the Quantic Club in Bucharest (RO) on April 25. A full list of dates can be found below.

VIRVUM are about to embark on their Southern European dates together with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER in support of their latest release “Illuminance” which was re-released by Season of Mist in 2017. VIRVUM will be direct support during the French and Spanish tour dates this April. See below for a list of all currently confirmed shows.

Critically-acclaimed metal band BLACK COBRA are kicking off a run of U.S. dates this Thursday, April 25 in Boston, MA as support for label-mates WEEDEATER. Find a list of all tour dates below.

Finnish funeral doom pioneers SHAPE OF DESPAIR will be performing a small handful of dates in the U.S. next month. The band will be performing two headlining Northeast Coast dates with ISLA before they head out west to be a part of Eternal Warfare Fest. Find all tour dates below.

THIS GIFT IS A CURSE have released the second new track, taken from the band’s upcoming album ‘A Throne of Ash’, to be released via Season of Mist on June 14. Listen to the new song below.

Death metal extremists MISERY INDEX have will be embarking on a North American tour this spring as direct support for NAILS. The run will kick off on June 8 in Chicago, IL and will conclude on June 16 in Raleigh, NC. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below.

Norwegian extreme metal formation GAAHLS WYRD, fronted by renowned vocalist Gaahl,have premiered a stunning video for the song “Carving the Voices” via Metal Hammer (UK).

The godfathers of American doom metal SAINT VITUS are now streaming the third new track, taken from their forthcoming album ‘Saint Vitus’. The new record is set for worldwide release on May 17, 2019.

Multi-instrumentalist MARK DEUTROM (MELVINS, CLOWN ALLEY) has partnered up with Brooklyn Vegan to premiere the existential new music video for the song “Hell is a City,” which is taken from DEUTROM’s new album, ‘The Blue Bird’.

Norwegian Black & Roll veterans VREID have premiered the official lyric video for the song, “One Hundred Years,” which is taken from the band’s latest release, ‘Lifehunger’.