Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Pennsylvania death metallers BLACK CROWN INITIATE will release their new album, "Selves We Cannot Forgive", on July 22 via Entertainment One Music (eOne). The mindbending cover art was created by Travis Smith (OPETH, DEVIN TOWNSEND, AVENGED SEVENFOLD... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS have scheduled 17 shows in the U.S. between their appearance at the Chicago Open Air festival in late July and the August 6 performance at the Heavy Montreal festival. Support on these dates will come from CROWB... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Two almost-equally long-running metal innovators, the Melvins and Napalm Death, are on tour now with the only slightly-less long-running Japanese noise rockers Melt-Banana. That killer triple bill just hit NYC for two sold-out shows: Thursday (4/14) ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Napalm Death & Melvins, Ween night 2, The Church, Pallbearer, Ghost, Sarah Neufeld & Colin Stetson, Stephen Steinbrink, Dave Harrington, and lots more NYC shows tonight. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Rob Sperry-Fromm The Melvins have a new tour 10" called War Pussy on the way via Amphtamine Reptile. The release will be available during their tour with Napalm Death and Melt Banana, and they're streaming the first song, called... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Rob Sperry-Fromm Grind supergroup Venomous Concept, which is comprised of members of Napalm Death, Brutal Truth, and Corrupt Moral Altar, have a new album on the way and a new song to stream. Kick Me Silly; VC3 is out... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Napalm Death at Gramercy Theatre in February (more by Mathieu Bredeau) Two metal institutions, Melvins and Napalm Death, have announced a huge co-headlining tour in 2016 with killer support from Melt Banana. The tour will stop in NYC for... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Voivod at Gramercy Theatre in February (more by Mathieu Bredeau) Canadian prog-thrash greats Voivod toured North America with Napalm Death earlier this year, and now they're on the road with them (plus Carcass and Obituary too) in Europe. Afte... more info

Stereogum — Justin K. Broadrick co-founded Napalm Death as a teenager, and more recently, he’s led the recently-reunited dark-hearted industrial metal legends Godflesh and the bottomlessly sad shoegaze-metal project Jesu. He’s also releasing a collaborative ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Maryland Deathfest is less than a month away (May 21-24), and the lineup was already stacked with Neurosis, Napalm Death, Yob, Triptykon, Primordial, Inter Arma, Tombs, D.R.I., Conan, Ufomammut, Sodom and so many more. Yet MDF still felt the... more info