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Decapitated Reveal New Lineup

Poland’s masters of modern technical death metal DECAPITATED are back!  To open the new chapter in the band’s history, DECAPITATED will embark on a co-headlining U.K. tour with label mates KATAKLYSM in February 2010 with the following line-up:

• Rafał Piotrowski – Vocals
• Waclaw “Vogg” Kieltyka – Guitars
• Filip “Henrich” Hałucha – Bass
• Kerim “Krimh” Lechner – Drums

States DECAPITATED guitarist / songwriter / founding member Vogg:

“I am really happy to announce this short message for all DECAPITATED fans: As you all know, two years after the tragedies we had to suffer, I decided to continue the band. There’s no sense in stopping this amazing thing we built up so many years ago together with Witek [Witold Kieltyka, drummer, R.I.P.] , Sauron [Wojciech Wisowicz, the band’s first lead singer], Martin [Marcin Rygiel, the band’s first bassist] and Covan [Adrian Kowanek, second vocalist, still recovering from injuries]. We chose to do our first tour in the U.K. because we have only good memories from this place and we are sure that you guys will support us… We need you!!  I am very pleased to announce the new killer line-up of DECAPITATED: Kerim ‘Krimh‘ Lechner on drums – he’s a new blood, very talented and used to playing in bands like THORNS OF IVY and TONE INTIMACY; amazing Rafał Piotrowski comes from bands like KETHA and FORGOTTEN SOULS and will take over vocal duties; masterous Filip “Heinrich” Hałucha from VESENIA, ROOTWATER, UNSUN and MASACHIST will be destroying the bass!  See you all soon!  We honestly can’t wait!”

Leiana Debuts New Track Online Featuring Rob Caggiano (Anthrax) and John Tempesta (White Zombie)

LEIANA has posted the song “Suffer” featuring guest appearances by Rob Caggiano (Anthrax) and John Tempesta (The Cult, White Zombie) online at www.myspace.com/leiana. The track appears on LEIANA’s new album, Lucky #3, which lands in stores on February 23rd, 2010.

“Suffer is a tune from a record that I released myself. Rob Caggiano heard it when we first started writing together, and he expressed an interest in re-working it to take it in another direction,” commented Leiana. “We ended up keeping some cool elements of the original tune, and with Eddie Wohl’s help we made the song truly come alive. Rob got some killer tones on the guitar and bass, while John Tempesta added a really good feel on the drums. It’s rockin now!”

Kid Liberty Signs to Trustkill Records

Trustkill is proud to announce the newest member of the TK family -- KID LIBERTY from Sherman, TX. KID LIBERTY will record their debut full length Fight With Your Fists for Trustkill in December with producer Geoff Rockwell (Forever the Sickest Kids, Memphis May Fire) for a Spring 2010 release.

Check out their live mastery below:

System Divide Sign to Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce the signing of extreme modern metal act SYSTEM DIVIDE, featuring Sven De Caluwe (Aborted) and Miri Milman (ex-Distorted) on vocals, Cole Martinez (ex-Years Of Fire, Antenora) and Joseph Spiller (ex-The Binary Code) on guitars, Andrew Lenthe (Antenora) on bass, and Mike Heller (Malignancy) on drums.

System Divide has already completed a video for the song “The Apex Doctrine” off the bands current EP, which will also be on the band’s full-length Metal Blade debut. Check out a trailer for the new video below and be sure to head over to System Divide’s MySpace page to listen to more tracks. Stay tuned for more information including when and where the video for “The Apex Doctrine” will premiere, track listing and release date of the band’s debut full-length album The Conscious Sedation, and tour dates.

System Divide – The Apex Doctrine – TRAILER

SYSTEM DIVIDE [Signed with METAL BLADE!] | MySpace Music Videos

Relapse Records Signs Abraxas For EP, Features Former Members of Pyrexia and Monstrosity

ABRAXAS, the new death metal band featuring Makoto Mizoguchi (Pyrexia, Hate Eternal) on guitar and bass, Mike Hrubovcak (Monstrosity, Vile) on vocals and Lance Wright (Vile) on drums, will see the release of its debut EP, Wretched Existence, on December 15^th via Relapse Records. The release will feature artwork from Drew Elliott (Amorphis, Necrophagia) and is currently available for pre-order at this location.

Abraxas are streaming three of the EP’s four tracks online now via the band’s MySpace page. The band is currently writing for their first proper full-length, due out in 2010. Additional details will be announced soon.

Exodus Singer to Collaborate on Upcoming Comic Book

As reported on Cinema-Suicide.com, EXODUS front man Rob Dukes will be collaborating with Terminal Press on the upcoming zombie anthology comic Zombie Bomb!, edited by Adam Miller and Rich Woodall. Nuclear Blast USA caught up with Dukes on the eve of the band entering the studio to record the follow-up to 2007’s The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A to ask a few questions:

Between your cross-country motorcycle trip and touring South America, where in the hell did you find the time to come up with a zombie story?

Brian Ferrara from Terminal Press e-mailed me while I was on tour and asked if I would be interested in being a part of Zombie Bomb!. I wrote a quick, funny, kinda sick idea down and sent it to him.  A week later, we were sitting in Grassroots (a bar in lower Manhattan) talking about how it was a good start but needed a twist. Three days later, I was in an airport texting him ideas.  We went back and forth until we both were laughing and excited.  It was a cool process.

Is this the first story – aside from song lyrics – that you’ve ever written?

To be honest, a few years ago I started writing a novel.  It was a story in my head and it just took on a life of its own.  I would write a lot, then break for a while, and begin again.  This went on for two years.  Then I met Brian Ferrara and his wife from Terminal Press.  They wanted to do an Exodus comic.  After they started work on that, I called him and said I had a story that I had been writing and would like him to see if he thought it would be a good comic.  They thought it was cool.  The next day, he had Keith McCleary writing the script and now it’s a comic in the process.  I have seen pages of it and it’s fucking awesome!  Dark and evil and fucked up… just like it’s supposed to be.

The band comic Dukes alluded to, “EXODUS: Death Begets Death,” will be available early 2010 from Terminal Press. Visit the Terminal Press homepage for updates and the Terminal Press Facebook Fan Page for a look at some “EXODUS: Death Begets Death” concept art.  A promotional image of the artwork is available for download here.

Fox TV Boston Takes a Look at the Straight Edge Movement

Boston’s Fox TV recently aired a spotlight on the straight edge scene in their city. Featured in the segment are Chris Wrenn (owner of Bridge Nine Records), Pete Maher (In My Eyes), and Patrick Flynn (Have Heart).

Within Temptation to Release Acoustic Live Album

Symphonic rock outfit WITHIN TEMPTATION will release a forthcoming live album, An Acoustic Night at the Theatre, due out December 15. The release will be available via all digital music providers, while physical copies will be available exclusively at the newly-launched Roadrunner Records web store.

In November 2008, Within Temptation embarked on a sold-out, intimate theatre tour in their native Europe, complete with seated audiences. The setup afforded the band the opportunity to rearrange several classics from its extensive catalogue to suit an acoustic performance. The album was recorded at the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips in Eindhoven, Holland on November 30 of last year.  The performance was beautifully captured and demonstrates the simplified and stripped down side of the band.

Special guests include Life of Agony’s vocalist Keith Caputo for the single “What Have You Done.” Caputo guested on the album version, so it was only appropriate that he contributed to the live song, as well. Additionally, The Gathering’s Anneke van Giersbergen joins den Adel for a powerful partnership on “Somewhere.”

Of additional note, the album also contains the brand new song “Utopia,” written during the rehearsals for the theatre tour. A duet with UK singer-songwriter Chris Jones (who Sharon met while working with world-famous DJ Armin van Buuren on his track “In And Out Of Love”), Utopia will also be available as a digital single prior to the album release. The band are set to film a video shortly with director Oscar Verpoort. Poignantly written, “Utopia” is about two lovers who can’t be together because they are separated by their contrasting dreams of the ideal life. “The only way to be together is for one of them to sacrifice their dream,” clarifies Sharon. “It really is about this one moment that we each inevitably experience: reaching a point in your life where you have to decide what you want your future to look like.”

Former Every Time I Die Drummer Starts New Band

Mike Novak, formerly of Every Time I Die has formed a new hardcore group called DEADLY ANIMALS. They are currently looking for a bassist and a label deal. Head over to their PureVolume.com page to check out 4 songs from the band.

Alice in Chains Release Trailer for “Your Decision”

ALICE IN CHAINS have just released a trailer for their upcoming video, “Your Decision.” The clip features William DuVall, Mike Inez, Jerry Cantrell, and Sean Kinney dressed in suit and tie. The band teamed up once again with Director Stephen Schuster, who also did the video for the song “A Looking In View.” The video premieres on iTunes December 1.

“Your Decision” is the new single off of the hugely successful album, Black Gives Way To Blue, which entered Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart at #5, with first-week sales exceeding 126,000 copies.

Free KISS Webcast from the Staples Center in LA

The rock band KISS will be doing a live webcast of their concert from the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 9p PST on Wednesday, November 25. This is the first-ever live web concert for KISS, one of rock’s most iconic bands, as they celebrate the release of their new, three-song Guitar Hero track pack. Ustream anticipates this will be a major
concert event that could set new viewership records.

Users can watch and interact by visiting the official KISS Facebook page at facebook.com/KISS or on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kiss-live to connect with other KISS fans.

Behind the Scenes of AFI’s “Medicate” Video Shoot

Join Davey, Jade, Adam and Hunter, collectively known as AFI, as they take you behind the scenes of their video for “Medicate” in this newly released making of video clip. Full of performance, gold blood, humor, voyeurism, and pie filling this short video allows fans a chance to catch the rock quartet at their best, and at times most vulnerable while laid out on the soundstage floor.

Video: Before There Was Rosalyn – “The Warrior”

BEFORE THERE WAS ROSALYN recently released their Victory debut, The Furhrer: An Allegory of a History of Deception, on October 26.  The album tells the tail of a bold and emotional journey into the heart of a humanity left to its own devices.  Check out the new music video for their powerful single, “The Warrior”, below:

Richard Christy’s Charred Walls of the Damned Prep S/T Debut

As CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED prepare for their self-titled, first-ever album out February 2nd 2010 – the group is gearing up for their official release by announcing the track listing and unleashing the album’s artwork upon the metal world. The self-titled debut by CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED. contains 9 tracks, a bonus DVD: The Making of Charred Walls of the Damned, and comes in a Digipak.

S/T Tracklisting:

1. Ghost Town
2. From The Abyss
3. Creating Our Machine
4. Blood on Wood
5. In a World So Cruel
6. Manifestations
7. Voices Within the Walls
8. The Darkest Eyes
9. Fear in the Sky
*Bonus DVD The Making of Charred Walls of the Damned

CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED was produced by Jason Suecof and recorded at his Orlando, FL based studio, Audiohammer Studios, and boasts an all-star lineup consisting of some of metal’s most talented musicians...

Richard Christy, former drummer for Death and Iced Earth, comedian, and radio personality on the legendary Howard Stern Show on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio, on drums. Famed producer Jason Suecof who has produced and/or mixed some of the most prominent albums from metal’s leading bands, including: Trivium, All That Remains, The Black Dahlia Murder, Chimaira, DevilDriver and many, many more, on guitars. Tim “Ripper” Owens, who fronted heavy metal legends Judas Priest from 1996 to 2002, performed alongside Richard in Iced Earth from 2003 to 2004, and currently performs with Beyond Fear and Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force, on vocals. And one of metal’s most heralded bassists, Steve Digiorgio, who played alongside Richard in the bands Control Denied and Iced Earth, and has also performed with Death, Autopsy, Testament, Vintersorg, and is a founding member of technical thrash pioneers Sadus.

Devildriver, Suffocation 2010 Tour Dates

As first revealed here, DEVILDRIVER and SUFFOCATION were touted to be teaming up for a January 2010 tour. That news has now indeed become a distinct reality. First tour dates for the five week tour are as follows:

January 7 – Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse
January 8 – San Francisco, CA @ Slims
January 9 – Ventura, CA @ Majestic Ventura Theater
January 11 – Portland, OR @ Peter’s Room at Roseland Theater
January 12 – Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
January 13 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
January 15 – Grand Junction, CO @ Mesa Theater
January 16 – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
January 18 – Maplewood, MN @ The Rock
January 19 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave

Legend Signs to Rise Records

Rise Records is pleased to announce the signing of Detroit , Michigan ’s LEGEND. Featuring former FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS vocalist Chad Ruhlig, LEGEND is stomping out of the gate determined and ready to bring the heavy.

Vocalist Chad Ruhlig states, “We are extremely excited to announce our signing with Rise Records. Having done work with Craig Ericson and Rise before, we couldn’t think of anybody else we would rather work with than Rise. We will be hitting the studio in January and this will hands down be the heaviest album of 2010. You can be sure of that.

The group will enter the studio in January 2010 under the complete mastery of Zeuss at Planet Z Studio in Hadley , Massachusetts . Their debut album is set to release in April of 2010. Keep an eye out for constant tour