GWAR - Bloody Pit of Horror Release Date

Bloody Pit of Horror is slated for release on November 9th.

 First single released is Zombies, March!

Catch GWAR on the "Bloody Tour Of Horror", with The Casualties, Infernaeon and Mobile Deathcamp:

10/2 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar

10/4 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue

10/5 - Knoxville, TN @ Valarium

10/7 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution

10/8 - Ybor City, FL @ The Ritz Ybor

10/9 - Orlando, FL @ Firestone Live

10/10 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade

10/11 - Charlotte, NC @ Amos' Southend

10/12 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts

10/13 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues

10/14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory

10/15 - Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights

10/16 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium - Rock N Shock Festival*

10/17 - Montreal, QC @ Theatre Telus

10/19 - Moncton, NB @ Club Oxygen

10/20 - Halifax, NS @ The New Palace

10/22 - Quebec City, QC @ Theatre Imperial

10/23 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House

10/24 - Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall

10/26 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues

10/27 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall

10/28 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's

10/29 - Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection 

10/30 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo's

10/31 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave

11/2 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues

11/3 - Little Rock, AR @ The Village

11/4 - New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues

11/5 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues

11/6 - Austin, TX @ Waterloo Park*

11/8 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada

11/9 - Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom

11/10 - Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theater

11/11 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theater

11/12 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater

11/13 - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theater

11/14 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater

11/15 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues

11/16 - West Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues

11/17 - Ventura, CA @ Majestic Ventura Theater

11/18 - Chico, CA @ Senator Theater 

11/19 - Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory

11/20 - Bend, OR @ Midtown Music Hall

11/21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom

11/22 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House Concert Hall

11/24 - Magna, UT @ The Great Salt Air

11/26 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

11/27 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory Concert House

11/28 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo

11/29 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom

12/1 - Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Events Centre

12/2 - Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall Ballroom

12/3 - Regina, SK @ Riddell Centre

12/4 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Garrick Centre

12/6 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Cabooze

*Denotes Festival Date

NO SLEEP TIL... FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

FOR MORE INFO ON THE FESTIVAL VISIT:  HTTP://WWW.NOSLEEPTIL.COM.AU/

12/10 - Auckland, New Zealand @ ASB Showgrounds

12/12 - Perth, Australia @ Arena Joondalup

12/15 - Adelaide, Australia @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

12/17 - Melbourne, Australia @ Melbourne Showgrounds

12/18 - Sydney, Australia @ The Entertainment Quarter Moore Park

12/19 - Brisbane, New Zealand @ RNA Showgrounds

CHECK OUT GWAR ON THE WEB

http://www.gwar.net

http://www.gwar.tv

http://www.gwarbq.com 

http://www.youtube.com/user/gwar

http://www.metalblade.tv/tv/

http://www.facebook.com/gwar 

http://www.myspace.com/gwarofficial

TWITTER FEEDS:

ODERUS: http://twitter.com/therealoderus

BALSAC: https://twitter.com/BalSacJoD

Murderdolls-Women and Children Last CD

Horror influenced glam-punk group Murderdolls first hit the scene back in 2002.
Their debut album – the monster-mash Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls was a smash but the band members went their separate ways.

Women and Children Last (let's call it WACL from here) is a decidedly darker effort.
Straddling the line between '80s-era hard rock and the Alice school are tunes like Summertime Suicide – which is more solidly melodic, with a groovy chorus hook and a great lead guitar. The Crüe sound comes through strongest in tunes like Death Valley Superstars, Rock N Roll Is All I Got and Nothing's Gonna Be Alright, but on Blood Stained Valentine the band goes as far as to enlist Crüe guitarist Mick Mars for axe duties. While that track is not nearly as catchy, Mars' solo work comes through most powerfully on Drug Me to Hell – which ironically is far less Crüe-like in tone, filled instead with crunchy, stacked modern-metal riffs and doubled vocals.

That more contemporary groove-metal sound comes through best on My Dark Place Alone – which is highly reminiscent of Rob Zombie's early work, complete with heavy drop-tuned riffs and caustic, snarling vocals, while Homicide Drive has a dark, shuffling beat and will definitely stick in your mind thanks to the use of “supercalifragilisticexpealidocious” in a lyric that would probably blow Mary Poppins back up into the clouds. After that, the standard edition album closes on an almost-as-memorable note with Hello, Goodbye, Die.

review given by Gregory Burkart of  Fearnet.com 

Combichrist- Making Monsters CD

Physical CD of Making Monsters is slated for release on September 28th, you can download the digital album tomorrow at all the usual places, including the Metropolis Records website.

The heavy techno powerhouse known as Combichrist have unveiled the details of their upcoming fifth studio album Making Monsters. Band founder & frontman Andy LaPlegua has declared the new material will “go beyond my personal demons” in search of a darker, more primal place.

full tracklist: Declamation
Follow The Trail Of Blood
Never Surrender
Throat Full of Glass
Forgotten
Fuck Machine
Just Like Me
Slave To Machine
Through These Eyes Of Pain
Monster: Murder: Kill
They
Reclamation
The band is also planning a US tour this fall to promote the album, and will be posting the new venues on their MySpace very soon.

Theatres Des Vampires News

Italian “vampiric metal” band Theatres Des Vampires – who take their name from the performing troupe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles – have announced the impending release of their ninth studio album, Moonlight Waltz. In the same update, the band also clued in fans about the album's first single and music video, both of which debut this fall.

Moonlight Waltz is slated for international release on December 3rd, in multiple formats – including a special edition with companion DVD. Well ahead of the album release, the band will unveil the first single Carmilla, based on Sheridan LeFanu's classic vampire novel (which also served as the inspiration for the whole lesbian-bloodsucker thing). The song will be streamed from the band's official MySpace in mid-September, and the accompanying music video will begin shooting later this month under the direction of  David Bracci – whose film credits include special effects work on nearly all of Dario Argento's films in the past decade.

Check out the complete track listing: Keeper of Secrets
Carmilla
Moonlight Waltz
Fly Away
Sangue
Figlio della Luna (Mecano Cover)
An Illusion
Black Madonna
Le Théatre du Grand Guignol
Obsession
The Secret Gates of Hades
Medousa

Black Label Society- Order of the Black out now

Black Label Society's new album, Order of the Black (E1), comes out August 10, and the band's mastermind, Zakk Wylde, is on the next covers of Revolver and Guitar World. If you want to meet the metal legend and have him sign your copies of the magazine, swing by the following locations:
Monday, August 16 
12:30 – 2:30pm
Borders Bookstore
150 North State Street
Chicago,  IL  60601
312-606-0750



Friday, August 20
11:30am  – 1:30pm 
Hudson News
Main Lobby store
(in the center, across from The Grand Central Market)
Grand Central Station, NYC
Thursday, August 26
5:30 – 7:30pm
Borders Bookstore
1501 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA  98101
206-622-4599

Black Label Society order now!

LORDI Reveal New Look for Next Album

LORDI Reveal New Look for Next Album
...Babez for Breakfast is slated for US release on September 14th, and the first single This is Heavy Metal will be available for download next Tuesday. More details are coming soon, but in the meantime be sure to visit their Facebook for individual descriptions of each band member... and it looks like they'll be posting the new album art any day now.

The Other- New Blood CD

 From Fangoria.com CD review
"...The music is so well put together that I have to assume people into all kinds of heavy music will have no complaints. It is very melodic but also quite heavy. The songs have a very basic structure that’s easy to follow with instruments emitting sounds that are totally suitable for a band called The Other. It would have been a shame for them to have gone for a more raw-sounding record in an effort to be “more punk.” NEW BLOOD sounds very modern, crisp and clean, but that metal edge gives it more than enough kick to appeal to people who don’t usually listen to this type of music."