• Get ready for SXSW with our metal playlist

  By now, many in the music industry are either touring on their way down to Austin, making a final checklist before heading down there, or already representing at the interactive portion of SXSW. The music segment of the annual South by Southwest conference starts on Tuesday, and as we continue...

• Help Ghost Ship Octavius fund the making of their full-length and appear on the album’s cover!

  Ghost Ship Octavius, the new group featuring ex-God Forbid guitarist Matt Wicklund and ex-Nevermore drummer Van Williams, is set to begin work on their debut full-length with Grammy award winning producer Neil Kernon in Seattle. However, while they decided to go the DIY route, they need help funding the recording...

• Are Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden touring together this summer?

  Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails are two of the most iconic acts of the ’90s, and while the two missed playing Lollapalooza by a year during that decade, it looks like the two acts might be headed out together on tour this Summer. Theprp found a listing, since pulled, for...

• Topanga from Boy Meets World is a metalhead

  Oh Topanga. Actually, her real name is Danielle Fishel, and it turns out that she likes metal. The Boy Meets World actress’ Twitter profile pic shows her proudly sporting a Lamb of God shirt, and if you fall into the rabbit hole of her Instagram, you’ll find her rocking a Slipknot shirt...

• Gus G. is the fire

  While Ozzy is off in Black Sabbath land, it’s not like his guitarist, Gus G. is sitting idly by. In 2012, his band Firewind released Few Against Many, and he’s got a solo album, I Am the Fire, coming out on March 18th. The title track of the album, which features active...

APESHIT - An Extreme Metal Webzine

• SOLEFALD Venture to Tanzania for New Album

  Underrated Norwegian avant garde black metallers SOLEFALD recently traveled to the nation of Tanzania to record their album, Kosmopolis.  The band are no strangers to travelling to different countries to conjure up inspiration as they travelled to Iceland for the recordings of Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey, Part 1 and Black for Death:...

• CRADLE OF FILTH: Total Fucking Darkness Demo to Get Vinyl Treatment

  After more than two decades, Total Fucking Darkness, the infamous third demo from extreme metal pioneers, CRADLE OF FILTH, will be unleashed on gatefold double LP and digipak CD via Mordgrimm May 5, 2014. The undertaking was helmed by vocalist Dani Filth, former guitarist Paul Ryan (currently of THE KING...

• New Grind from MISERY INDEX Coming Your Way May 2014

  Under appreciated death/grind extremists MISERY INDEX have announced The Killing Gods as the title of their forthcoming new full-length. The band’s fifth studio album will hit the stores on May 23rd (May 27th in North America). Frontman Jason Netherton issued the following update: “After an extended writing and recording process...

• ANATHEMA Returning to US with HIM

  Following the band’s recent appearance on the inaugural voyage of the Progressive Nation at Sea cruise, doom metal pioneers turned progsters, ANATHEMA, has announced a U.S. tour for March as special guests of Finland’s HIM. The tour marks just their second proper North American run  after a successful tour last...

• New MAYHEM Record Coming May 2014; Grand Declaration of War Reissue Announced

  Norwegian black metal legends MAYHEM will release their long-awaited new album on May 23rd (May 27th in North America). Entitled Esoteric Warfare, MAYHEM’s fifth full-length will be the follow-up to 2007′s excellent Ordo Ad Chao. Esoteric Warfare will be preceded by the release of new single Psywar as a 7” vinyl on April...

Loudwire

• Soundgarden: Favorite 'Superunknown' Song – Readers Poll

  On March 8, 1994, Soundgarden unleashed their fourth album, 'Superunknown,' a now-ironic title considering the great heights the disc has reached. Continue reading…

• Nine Inch Nails: Favorite 'Downward Spiral' Song – Readers Poll

  Today, March 8, marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the seminal Nine Inch Nails album 'The Downward Spiral.' The 1994 release boasted a unique blend of industrial rock and electronica, redefining both the genres, along with lyrical content that explored the deepest depths of pain and suffering. Continue reading…

• Daily Reload: Corey Taylor, Rob Zombie + More

  The top hard rock and metal stories from Loudwire and around the web for March 7, 2014: Continue reading…

• Machine Head's Robb Flynn Reveals New Song Titles From Upcoming Album

  Machine Head are making strides toward a new album, but as frontman Robb Flynn reveals in a new "General's Journals" posting, things are moving forward at a "slow and steady" pace. However, the progress is coming along well enough for Flynn to divulge the current titles of a few songs...

• Linkin Park + Thirty Seconds to Mars Discuss the 'Visceral Rock Energy' of Carnivores Tour

  In a hangar-like sound studio in Hollywood, California, members of Linkin Park and Thirty Seconds to Mars were on hand Tuesday, March 4 to announce their upcoming North American 'Carnivores' tour (which will also be featuring AFI). Continue reading…

Century Media Records News

• Borknagar: : European tour starts today!

  Norwegian post-black metallers BORKNAGAR are kicking off their first ever headlining tour in Europe today, which will see the band showcasing material from their latest studio album release, "Urd" (2012). Actually this tour will also be the first time BORKNAGAR tour in Europe since 1998 and their first real tour...

• Vampire: : debut album released!

  The sleeper in the deep awoken ... The self-titled debut album of Sweden's masters of horror-ridden death metal has been released all across Europe this week. "Vampire" has been released as fan-friendly priced CD, LP (180gr vinyl, including embroidered logo patch) and as digital download. Get your copy her: https://www.cmdistro.de/Artist/Vampire/1737...

• Gus G.: : "I Am The Fire (Feat. Devour The Day)" video premiere; Album out soon!

  Gus G., well known in the Metal and Rock universe as guitar virtuoso for his work as leader of his own group Firewind and also as member of Ozzy Osbourne's band, has completed the video clip for the first single, "I Am The Fire (Feat. Devour The Day)", off his...

• Arch Enemy: : reveals details for new album, 'War Eternal'

  Three years after the release of Khaos Legions and their most successful world tour to-date, extreme metal icons ARCH ENEMY have started mixing their 9th studio album with Jens Bogren (OPETH, PARADISE LOST, KREATOR) at Fascination Street in Sweden. Michael Amott (guitar) comments: "We've been producing ourselves, as we did...

• The Haunted: : Begin new album recordings; Announce support acts for Scandinavian live-dates!

  Swedish Metal institution THE HAUNTED have started recording for their newest, 8th studio album effort at Antfarm Studio in Denmark with Tue Madsen as producer, who has already worked with the band on their latest albums but also with heavyweights such as Dark Tranquillity; Heaven Shall Burn or also Sick...