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The summer of 2013 is shaping up to be a banner year for fans of Japanese doom metal. First, Coffins announced The Fleshland, their first LP in almost five years. And now Church of Misery have announced their next album, titled Thy Kingdom Scum, will be released on June 11th via Metal Blade Records.

The metal world is still shocked about the news that broke yesterday that Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman of Slayer passed away due to liver failure at the young age of 49. Musicians everywhere have been paying tribute, and here is a roundup of their kind words for the influential guitarist:

Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently. This week we head to 1980s South America, when and where fledgling Brazilian metal bands like Vulcano channeled all of their third world misery into some of the most vicious and [...]

In a move that makes perfect sense, Prosthetic has joined the ranks of labels that have uploaded their catalogue of records to Bandcamp. Now you can try it before you buy it without stealing it! Hooray!

Add a little color to your black t-shirt collection with our newly released blood red Metal Injection t-shirt featuring the killer "cold dead hand" design by our bestie Mike "theFATkid" Wohlberg. This t-shirt is available for $14 plus shipping (with international shipping available.) Additionally, all of our other designs are now fully in stock in [...]

Almost twenty-five years of dooming us all to a land of sludgy doom, Cathedral are on their way to calling it quits.

With tomorrow, 3/8 being International Women's Day, we celebrate by spotlighting women in metal with videos from Fuck The Facts, Arch Enemy, Aliases, Landmine Marathon, The Commander In Chief, and Crisis. For more on our coverage of women in metal, watch this episode of ON THE RECORD.

"Witch Village" is the first single from Senser's fifth studio album, To The Capsules set to be released this year. You can pre-order the album at PledgeMusic.com, and get access to sneak peeks of new material, rare demos, remixes, videos from the studio and loads, loads more. Every pledge will benefit Amnesty International to help [...]

For the first time since 1999, an increase in revenue was seen from the sales of recorded music (as picture above). Could things be on a slow crawl upward for the industry at long last?

The Dillinger Escape Plan promised a big announcement for today, and they delivered. The band have officially announced their new album and release date. 

The video is directed by Bernardo Loyola, who worked on the documentary film 'Heavy Metal in Baghdad,' which told the story of Acrassicauda and premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. "After working on the 'Heavy Metal in Baghdad' documentary and being so close to the story of the band, the text at the [...]

If you're hoping for new Slipknot in 2013, all hope is gone for you, pun intended. Corey Taylor has previously said the band only have a few international shows lined up and he's devoting the rest of the year to his other project, Stone Sour. Now, in a new interview with Loudwire, the Slipknot frontman [...]

Three recent albums by pioneering guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN – best known for his work with Megadeth and Cacophony – will be released in North America by PROSTHETIC RECORDS on August 14th. The title track "Simple Mystery" – off of the album "Future Addict" features vocals by Jeremy Colson( Steve Vai, Billy Idol) and can be [...]

Periphery never stop. In between international touring, with busses catching on fire, the band have been working on new music, a mere months after Periphery II: This Time It's Personal came out. In September, the band posted a teaser of a new track, and today we get another one minute teaser, this one sounding very [...]

Wow, Dave. It's only been one day since we last wrote about your looney defenses, and here you again saying something amazingly non-sensical. While Dave isn't leaving this country since Obama got re-elected, he has a new plan. To secede.