Nuclear Blast News

Virginia's melodic/technical death metal band ARSIS has posted a new song, "Beyond Forlorn" , on the group's MySpace page .

Guitarist Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka of Polish extreme metallers DECAPITATED has announced the band's brand new lineup, which will hit the road starting in February 2010.

Danish modern metallers MNEMIC will release their fourth studio album, "Sons Of The System" , in Europe on January 15, 2010 and in North America on January 26, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records .

Ex Deo had to cancel its U.S. tour, which was to start this week at Jaxx; see explanation at the end of this story.

"Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn" , the eighth full-length studio album from Austrian blackened death metal outfit BELPHEGOR , entered the official chart in the band's home country at position No.

Virginia's melodic/technical death metal band ARSIS has unveiled the cover artwork for its fourth studio album, "Starve For The Devil" , due in North America on February 9, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records .

"The Reign Of Darkness" , the new album from the U.K.-based death metal act ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY , is scheduled for release in January 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records worldwide .

The cover artwork for "The Reign Of Darkness" , the new album from the U.K.-based death metal act ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY , can be seen below.

Legendary Swedish death metal horde Hypocrisy have enlisted the help of Children Of Bodom guitarist/frontman Alexi Laiho for their upcoming North American tour.

Virginia's melodic/technical death metal band ARSIS will release its fourth studio album, "Starve For The Devil" , on January 15, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records .

Montreal melodic death metal quartet Augury a ' vocalist/guitarist Pat Loisel, guitarist Mathieu Marcotte, bassist Dominic "Forest" Lapointe and drummer Antoine Baril a ' are in a celebratory mood.

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Symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir now have their own pair of Vans shoes. That's pair, not pairs a ' only one set of custom sneaks have been made, to be unveiled and raffled off to a lucky winner at the San Diego Comic-Con being held July 22 to 26.

VANS To Unveil Custom Shoe Featuring DIMMU BORGIR Art At San Diego's COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL - July 16, 2009 Vans , one of the world's leaders in the shoe and apparel market, has joined forces with Nuclear Blast Records and plans to unveil a custom pair of shoes designed by Vans ' own Matt Shipman .

U.K. death metallers ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY have posted video footage from the recording sessions for their new album, "II: The Reign Of Darkness" . The band's follow-up to 2008's "Before The Throne Of Infection" will be released later in the year via Siege of Amida Records in the U.K. and Nuclear Blast in the rest of the world.

AMERICAN heavy metal band All Shall Perish will be performing at the Orange Box music venue in Yeovil on July 16.

"Skyforger" , the new album from Finnish metallers AMORPHIS , sold around 1,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan .

YOU'D BE FORGIVEN thinking that Mantic Ritual 's debut album, " Executioner " , is lost classic of 1980s thrash metal .

Twenty years is a long time to do anything, but that's how long Terrance Hobbs has been playing guitar for New York-based death-metal legends Suffocation - well, aside from a five-year group hiatus between 1999 and 2004.

WORLD UNDER BLOOD , the melodic death metal side project featuring CKY guitarist/vocalist Deron Miller alongside Tim Yeung on drums, Risha Eryavec on bass, and Luke Jaeger on guitar, has inked a deal with Nuclear Blast Records .