UPCOMING RELEASE DATES
19.07.10 ALLEGAEON-’Fragments Of Form And Function’ (CD)
19.07.10 BLOOD REVOLT-’Indoctrine’ (Digi CD)
02.08.10 FLESHWROUGHT-’Dementia/Dyslexia’ (CD)
02.08.10 HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE-The Bastard (Reissue CD)
02.08.10 HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE-’The August Engine’ (Reissue CD)
02.08.10 HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE-’The Locust Years’ (Reissue CD)
02.08.10 HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE-’Fields/Church Of Broken Glass’ (Reissue CD)
16.08.10 KING OF ASGARD-’Fi´mbulvintr’ (CD)
16.08.10 RETURN TO EARTH-’Automata’ (CD)
30.08.10 NIGHTFALL-’Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants’ (CD)
13.09.10 DAWN OF ASHES-’Genocide Chapters’ (CD)
13.09.10 SYSTEM DIVIDE-’The Conscious Sedation’ (CD)
13.09.10 THE ABSENCE-’Enemy Unbound’ (CD)

PRIMORDIAL’s AA Nemtheanga and Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel discuss classic metal albums in a 4 part series for Metal Blade TV!
Recently, Brian Slagel and Primordial’s AA Nemtheanga had a chance to talk about some of their favorite classic metal albums from the Metal Blade vault. The conversation has been broken up into a four part series to focus on each of the four albums that they discussed. In part 1, the metal connoisseurs reminisce about Cirith Ungol’s King Of The Dead. Nemtheanga talks about that album’s influence on himself and Primordial while Brian Slagel talks about what it was like to work with the band back in the early 1980s.
This video series will be a fascinating and enthralling experience for metal heads new and old. Remember some of your favorite classics or discover an album that influenced hordes of modern musicians.
Part 1 of this series is available for viewing on Metal Blade TV. Stay tuned to metalblade.tv for parts 2, 3 and 4 next week!



A.A. Nemtheanga’s side-project BLOOD REVOLT featuring musicians from Revenge and Axis Of Advance will release it’s debut album ‘Indoctrine’ on July 16/19 via Metal Blade Records in Europe.

http://www.metalblade.tv
http://www.facebook.com/primordialofficial

ALLEGAEON premieres “A Cosmic Question” with Revolver Magazine; album pre-order is up!
Colorado’s premiere metal band, ALLEGAEON, is currently premiering their song ‘A Cosmic Question’ exclusively on RevolverMag.com! The song is up in the form of a youtube video that allows you to follow along with vocalist Ezra Haynes’ lyrics. A Cosmic Question’s lyrics pose questions about the nature of the universe and what we as humans REALLY know to be “truth”.
Allegaeon’s debut album, Fragments Of Form And Function, hits streets on July 16/19, 2010!

Allegaeon is:
Ezra Haynes - Vocals
Ryan Glisan - Guitar
Greg Burgess - Guitar
Corey Archuleta - Bass
Jordon Belfast - Drums

http://www.myspace.com/allegaeon

CANNIBAL CORPSE: two live videos and interview from Scion Rock Fest now available!
Head over to Metal Blade TV to check out exclusive interview and live footage of CANNIBAL CORPSE performing at the Scion Rock Fest back on March 13 in Columbus, OH courtesy of the car company, Scion, who hosted the metal event. CANNIBAL CORPSE is currently wrapping up the first leg of their Euro Festival tour this week, which picks up again in August and includes stops at Summer Breeze, With Full Force Festival, Wacken Open Air, Graspop Metal Metting, and Party San Open Air. Some new CANNIBAL CORPSE tour news will be announced over the next few weeks so stay tuned to MetalBlade.com and CannibalCorpse.net for details.
Scion presents the Scion Rock Fest: Saturday, March 13, 2010 - Columbus, OH



http://www.myspace.com/cannibalcorpse
http://www.cannibalcorpse.net

Metal Blade Records launches DAWN OF ASHES landing page!
In honor of extreme metal act DAWN OF ASHES’ upcoming release Genocide Chapters, Metal Blade Records has launched a landing page where fans can go to check out a video teaser for the upcoming release, music, album artwork, and the specially low-priced preorder packages for the album. The first single, Conjuration of the Maskim’s Black Blood, is currently streaming with two more tracks to come before the album is released on September 10/13 in Europe!
About the band:
In the darkest form of incubated evil, a symbol has been born to strike immense fear into the hearts of mortal weakness. Kristof Bathory, Volkar Kael, Bahemoth and Othuum, four vile forms that control a new era where nightmares become reality and where the sounds of the macabre shall emerge from a catastrophic symphony, have resurrected the sounds and visions of horror, hatred, and suffering that is spewed forth in the form of extreme horror metal that is DAWN OF ASHES; a name that was created to reflect upon the birth of death and failure. Now the plague has come to corrupt the flesh of man.
Since DAWN OF ASHES (DoA) formed in 2001, the band has made transitions in line-ups and sound to create their ideal artistic outlet. DoA did so by adding additional members and placing the element of live guitars and drums into the music, taking the group from the Industrial scene into the Extreme Metal scene. With DoA’s new, solid line-up, the next installment from the group will summon new sights and sounds among the world with a blackened melodic-death metal sound.
Enter December of 2009; DoA inked a worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records to release the group’s third full-length studio album, Genocide Chapters. The horrific act entered the studio in the winter of 2010 to record their Metal Blade debut with producer Fred Archambault, known for his work with Avenged Sevenfold, Death By Stereo, Eighteen Visions, and many more. Handling the cover art for Genocide Chapters is Machine-Room (My Dying Bride). This cryptic act, based on horror inspired extreme metal, is comprised of four musicians whose passion for intense and macabre imagery, music, and live performances will soon be seen by the metal masses when Genocide Chapters is unleashed September 10/13, 2010. It is now time for DAWN OF ASHES to increase the brutality so prepare yourself for further devastation as the ashes will never rest upon the weak; the evil within this group will never die!

DAWN OF ASHES is:
Kristof Bathory (Horrid screams / Keyboards)
Volkar Kael (Guitar)
Othuum (Bass guitar)
Bahemoth (Keyboards)

Websites:
http://www.myspace.com/dawnofashes
http://www.dawnofashes.com/

NIGHTFALL reveal cover artwork for ‘Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants’ via video teaser including sound of new album! Announce track listing and release dates!
Greek Metal Gods NIGHTFALL have announced the track listing and release dates for their new album ‘Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants’.
Pompous, grandiose, savvy – the album attracts names from people who have been enjoying an earlier audition, offering satisfaction to the whole team involved in the genesis of it.
The band claims ‘Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants’ the best NIGHTFALL album so far, raising expectations to the maximum. “We have worked hard and we’ve put lots energy and effort in the details of the production. The outcome is massive and believe can attract any metal fan’s attention.”
The powerful Athenian act is now running on an ingenious combustible engine made of Greek, American and German blend and is aiming high. Dare to join!
The album´s artwork has been created by Travis Smith (Opeth, Death, Nevermore, Katatonia a.o.). It is unique and beyond Mr. Smith’s typical patterns. “The front cover depicts the sea, the grand opposite of the sky-cum-space, and the means we humans are inventing to explore the unexplored. We are part of this universe and we use its planets to navigate, to tune our lives through the “time” set by their motion, and who knows, may be to escape to some day in the future.”
NIGHTFALL prepared a video teaser to celebrate the unveiling of the great cover artwork.




The album was recorded in various places with Soundlodge (Germany) being the main studio. It has been produced by Efthimis Karadimas (’Athenian Echoes’) and co produced by Jorg Uken (known from his work with God Dethroned, Dew Scented, and Sinister).
‘Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants’ will be released on August 27/30 in Europe and on August 31 in North America.
NIGHTFALL formed in 1991 in Athens and have released seven albums since then. After the temporary fold of their wings for a few moments-cum-years, they enter the scene again with a brand new opus under the magnificent title Astron Black and The Thirty Tyrants!”
NIGHTFALL is:
Efthimis Karadimas (vocals)
Evan Hensley (guitars)
Stathis Kassios (keyboards)
Jörg Uken (drums)

http://www.myspace.com/nightfallgr
http://www.nightfallstar.com/

Swedish Black Metallers VALKYRJA to team up with MARDUK for European tour in September!
Swedish up and rising Black Metal band VALKYRJA will tour Europe in September with fellow countrymen MARDUK.
VALKYRJA released their second album ‘Contamination’ in January of 2010 via Metal Blade Records. Metal Blade also re-issued the band’s debut album ‘The Invocation Of Demise’ in 2009. Both albums prove the immense talent of VALKYRJA to create grim yet melodic Black Metal with memorable melodies. Both albums have been produced by Tore Stjerna at the infamous Necromorbus studios in Stockholm, Sweden.

MARDUK
+ RAGNAROK
+ VALKYRJA
01/09/10 – PL – Poznan – Blue Note
02/09/10 – PL – Wroclaw – Madness
03/09/10 – DE – Crispendorf – Wolfszeit Festival
04/09/10 – DE – Adelsheim – Metal Fest Festival
05/09/10 – BE – Brugge – Het Entrepot
06/09/10 – NL – Tilburg – 013
07/09/10 – DK – Aarhus – Voxhall
08/09/10 – DK – Copenhagen – The Rock
09/09/10 – NO – Oslo – Betong
10/09/10 – SE – Gothenburg – Parken
11/09/10 – SE – Stockholm – Klubben
12/09/10 – SE – Ostersund – Tingshuset
14/09/10 – FI – Oulu – Nuclear
15/09/10 – t.b.c.
16/09/10 – FI – Helsinki – Dante’s Highlight

http://www.myspace.com/valkyrjaswe