MANOWAR will release highlights of their Lord Of Steel World Tour 2012/2013 on a live EP, featuring performances from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia and Sweden.

 

Get ready for TURISAS to paint your town red and black again! On the day of their return to the renowned Download Festival in the UK the band is revealing first details of their upcoming album: "Turisas2013" is scheduled for a release August 21 in Finland, August 26 in Europe while UK will follow September 2 and North America September 3. Keep your eyes peeled for the exact dates though!

 

My Graveyard Productions inked a deal with Canadian band Cromlech to release the debut album “Ave Mortis”.

 

The band presents a dark gloomy epic/doom sound; founded in Toronto, Canada in 2011, Cromlech is the antithesis to all that is trivial and banal in Heavy Metal.

 

Thunderous drumming, extended dual guitar melodies and songcrafting on a truly epic scale sets Cromlech apart in a genre plagued by generic rock clichés and fashion conscious trendsters.“Ave Mortis” – Hail Death!

 

Disinterred British extreme metal legends CARCASS have been confirmed to team up with AMON AMARTH on their upcoming European run.

 

Jeff Walker commented:

There are two ways to approach releases like this one. You’re either a metalhead and you are into this “trip” or you’re not and you can’t get what’s all about so you end up making fun of something that you cannot understand. Italy & Greece have retained a strong underground “epic heavy metal” scene and they keep supporting it no matter if there are 10, 100 or 1000 people around. That’s its beauty in spite of everything… to support what you fancy without giving a tinker’s cuss about other opinions.
 

Ripple Music's newest band, Chicago doom-metallers EARTHEN GRAVE, will debut their new song, "death is another word...." prior to their upcoming appearance at Days of the Doom Fest III June 21st and 22nd, 2013.  

 

AINUR is currently one of the most important band dedicated to Tolkien's world and vision: their records are focused on the musical version of "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

 

After their first three albums, "From Ancient Times" (2006), "Children of Hurin" (2007) and "Lay of Leithian" (2009), all of them produced by Beppe Crovella and released by Electromantic Music,on June 14, 2013 they will release their brand new record called "The Lost Tales".

 

The new edition of “Warriors of the World” takes MANOWAR’s multi-award winning, best-selling album to the next level. Fully remastered and with a different bonus track, this brand new edition provides even higher sonic quality than ever before.

 

Mixed at legendary Galaxy Studios by world-renowned mixing engineer Ronald Prent, the 10th Anniversary Edition was remastered at MANOWAR’s own studios Hell and Haus Wahnfried by Joey DeMaio personally with MANOWAR’s in-house audio engineer Dirk Kloiber.

 

After several sold-out shows last year on their inaugural North American co-headlining tour with ELUVEITIE, Finnish epic metallers WINTERSUN will return to North American shores once again for a headlining tour this August/September sponsored by MetalSucks!

 

Joining them are Italian symphonic death metal champions FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, melodic tech-death kings ARSIS and up-and-comers STARKILL.

 

To-BiE, or not to Tobie? As long as you don’t Bieber... brother, you’re fine... I can’t seem able to shut up and Tobias Sammet, can’t seem able to stop putting out Avantasia albums.
 
Every time, he seems to think it’s the last time, since it’s “hard times” and who’s going to buy them?! Since they cost an arm and a leg to make… but since – apparently – people seem to actually line up in droves to buy actual copies and do go to his shows, he’s not really suffering that much...! He’s also been afforded the chance to bugger about with orchestras and various of his childhood heroes… so that can’t be THAT BAD!!!