Altsounds — Hard partying (and harder rocking) Finnish band *CHILDREN OF BODOM* (or *COB*) has announced a North American headlining tour in support of their new album *Relentless Reckless Forever *which landed at #41 on the Billboard Top 200 in its first week o... more info

Metal Injection — Holy. Fucking. Shit. Every now and then a tour comes along where it's hard to find a weak point where you can go outside and smoke a J. This is one of those tours. Just announced: Children of Bodom will headline a summer tour taking out some ext... more info

Metalsucks — It’s been almost a month since Devin Townsend spilled the beans that he was doing a summer tour with Children of Bodom — and now that tour has finally and officially been announced. That’s already a super-sexy package, but Obscura and Septicfle... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - Biohazard, Children of Bodom and Anti-Flag are among them.... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Eyes up technology lovers. The Next Web is making great use of their SoundCloud Premium account for their daily 5-minutes or less... tech news recap. It's a really great way to stay on top of what's happening in the fascinating world of technology ... more info

Metalsucks — RoCkStArBaSs100 introduces himself to the internet. He loves metal — anything from Rob Zombie to Children of Bodom to Dio. Also, he plays bass — at first he thought that he couldn’t actually play it for you in this video because it’s too loud... more info

Metal Injection — Tons of Devin Townsend news, people! Firstly, he tweeted that both Ghost and Deconstruction will be released June 20th. One will be heavy, one will be mellow. There is also album art for Ghost, as you can see. Devy also tweeted recently that he'... more info

Metalsucks — Hard to believe, but I don’t think I’ve actually seen Children of Bodom live since they did Gigantour in 2008. I blame Alexi Laiho’s broken arm (in 2009) and choosing to tour with Black Label Society (in 2010) as the culprits. But that’s gonn... more info

Guardian Music — (Spinefarm)Power metal – a kind of high-camp Eurovision take on Iron Maiden – has two main constituencies in its fanbase: lonely World of Warcraft addicts with no sense of irony whatsoever, and vintage Dio T-shirt-wearing hipsters whose ironic de... more info

Metalsucks — It’s a big week for metal releases. Children of Bodom, Destruction, The Human Abstract, Turisas, and Rival Schools are this week’s heavy hitters, while new ones from Agnostic Front, Maruta, Jag Panzer, Swamp Thing and more give hardcore a surpris... more info