Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Montreal-based deathcore act DESPISED ICON will release its Nuclear Blast debut, "Beast", on July 22. The album was produced and engineered by former guitarist Yannick St-Amand (BENEATH THE MASSACRE, NEURAXIS) and mixed/mastered by Andy Sneap (MEGADE... more info

Metal Injection — The album is called "Beast" The post DESPISED ICON Tease 30 Seconds of New Music, New Album This Summer appeared first on Metal Injection. more info

Chorus.fm — You can check out our interview with *Obey The Brave* (http://www.facebook.com/obeythebrave), here (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=3045321). Everyone in Despised Icon was jumping on a new train, trying something else - trying out the f... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Obey The Brave is a metalcore band featuring ex-members of Despised Icon & Blind Witness. "Young Blood" is out now on Epitaph (Worldwide) and Distort (Canada)! Read more » more info

Metal Injection — Over the weekend at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, the Black Dahlia Murder absolutely crushed it on the first night of the event. During their set, frontman Trevor Strnad officially welcomed bassist Max Lavelle into the fold. Lavelle ha... more info

Metalsucks — So back in January, The Black Dahlia Murder did a European tour with former Despised Icon bassist Max Lavelle instead of their own Ryan “Bart” Williams. Fans naturally assumed Williams may have left the group, but guitarist Ryan Knight reassured... more info

Metalsucks — Obey the Brave, the new project featuring former Despised Icon vocalist Alex Erian and ex-Blind Witness guitarist Jon Campbell, have released their first music video, for a song called “Live and Learn,” and I find that kinda silly, since we ha... more info

Metal Injection — Despised Icon frontman Alex Erian just can't sit still and not be in a band. He has announced the formation of a new group called Obey The Brave. The group also features former members of Blind Witness. The metallic hardcore (metalcore?) band i... more info

Metalsucks — It’s no secret that I was way into Despised Icon before they broke up at the end of 2010. So I was excited to get an e-mail this morning from that band’s now-former frontman (or I guess I should say “one of their frontmen”), Alex Erian, anno... more info

Metalsucks — Yesterday, Eric Jarrin, who as the guitar player for Despised Icon until they broke up last year, e-mailed Vince to announce that was re-joining the newly re-formed band Heaven’s Cry, who themselves broke up back in 2004. And Vince forwarded the e... more info