Lambesis was taken into custody on Tuesday, May 7  in Oceanside, California, after he solicited help from the detective, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. According to initial reports, the police were notified about this arrangement between Lambesis and a supposed “hitman.”

NOW HOLD ON EVERYBODY! This is AMERICA, you are innocent until proven guilty, so by the wings of the bald eagle, and the sweat of Abe Lincoln’s massive brow, sit tight and let this story unfold before you belligerently bastardize the story.  We all remember what happened with Randy Blythe, albeit a much different scenario…

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Pre-Order “Return to Helios”

From the docks, out of Sweden’s southmost harbor, IMMINENCE rises like the tide. The quintet conquers stage after stage with precision, presence and pure commotion to not leave anyone untouched in the audience. 
Their six-stringed progressive post metalcore is as heavy as admiralty-pattern anchors and the atmosphere as endless as the seven seas whilst the lyrics reflect the deepest parts of their minds.
With heavy weight references like Swedish WALKING WITH STRANGERS and American AUGUST BURNS RED, IMMINENCE keeps to unrestrainedly climb the wave of metal that will wash over the genre.

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Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11AM this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael and Larry, and will be sorely missed. Our Brother Jeff Hanneman, May He Rest In Peace (1964 – 2013)

From Show No Mercy to World Painted Blood, his music will persist to live on in our hearts. May he shred in peace. 

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Dates and Headliners:

10/30/13 Soundstage – Baltimore, MD *KREATOR headlines*

10/31/13 The Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA *Overkill headlines*

11/01/13 The Palladium – Worcester, MA *Overkill headlines*

11/02/13 Club Soda – Montreal, QC – CANADA *KREATOR headlines*

11/03/13 Opera House – Toronto, ON – CANADA *KREATOR headlines*

11/04/13 Altar Bar – Pittsburgh, PA *KREATOR headlines*

11/05/13 Al Rosa Villa – Columbus, OH *Overkill headlines*

11/06/13 Mojoes – Joliet, IL *Overkill headlines*

11/07/13 Granada – Lawrence, KS *KREATOR headlines*

11/08/13 Gothic Theater – Englewood, CO *KREATOR headlined*

11/09/13 In The Venue – Salt Lake City, UT *Overkill headlines*

11/11/13 Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, B.C. – CANADA *KREATOR headlines*

11/12/13 El Corazón – Seattle, WA *Overkill headlines*

11/13/13 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR *KREATOR headlines*
11/14/13 Fillmore – San Francisco, CA *KREATOR headlines*
11/15/13 The Grove – Anaheim, CA *KREATOR headlines*
11/16/13 Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ *KREATOR headlines*

11/17/13 Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM *Overkill headlines*
11/18/13 Trees – Dallas, TX *Overkill headlines*
11/19/13 Backstage Live – San Antonio, TX *KREATOR headlines*
11/21/13 Diamond Pub & Billiards – Louisville, KY *KREATOR headlines*
11/22/13 Empire – W. Springfield, VA *Overkill headlines*

11/23/13 Stage 48 – New York City, NY *Overkill headlines*

11/24/13 Stage 48 – New York City, NY *Overkill headlines*

Pre-sale tickets are available now at EnterTheVault.com. VIP tickets include a pre-show Meet & Greet with both KREATOR and Overkill, plus a limited edition poster. For New York City fans, there will be a special limited number of tickets that will grant admission to both shows at Stage 48.

Frontman Mille Petrozza had this to say:

The mighty Overkill have been a major influence on Kreator and they are killer guys. Our friends from Warbringer will also join us. It does not get more brutal than this!”

Well Mille…it does, if we can deliver them packed shows for each date!

Pre-Order tickets here: http://www.enterthevault.com/artist.php?id=45

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Click for Glorious Full-Resolution

This Album is set for release on June 25th worldwide via Metal Blade Records.  The band is proud to present that they have multiple pre-order options and bundles that please everyone from the casual listener, to the die hard collector!

If you get the brutally badass bundle pictured above, you’ll receive:

CD #1 – “Deceiver of the Gods”
01. Deceiver of the Gods
02. As Loke Falls
03. Father of the Wolf
04. Shape Shifter
05. Under Siege
06. Blood Eagle
07. We Shall Destroy
08. Hel
09. Coming of the Tide
10. Warriors of the North

CD #2 – Bonus EP – “Under the Influence”
01. Burning Anvil of Steel
02. Satan Rising
03. Snake Eyes
04. Stand Up to Go Down

+ Limited Edition Collectible Loki Bust (Appox. 10 Inches Tall) + Multi-Panel Digipak with 16-Page Full-Color Booklet + Under the Influence Mini Poster + Limited Edition Fliptop Keep Case + Deceiver Of The Gods T-shirt + Limited Edition Vinyl Picture Disc

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They’ve been using the power of social media to make sure EVERYONE KNOWS that the Vikings are back and here to pillage your ear drums.  Earlier this week they unveiled the EPIC ALBUM ART via their Official Reddit…yeah reddit, how awesome is that? 

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And today they unveiled the title track off of the album for streaming via their official website.  However, there have been some streaming issues so you can listen to it here as well: http://official.fm/tracks/H8oa

You can expect us to bring you more on this already epic sounding LP.  Now we do have a special request for you. GO SEE THEM OPEN THE MAINSTAGE ON THE ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL.  Tour dates here.  This may be one of the only times you’ll have the opportunity to see Amon Amarth in a festival setting without having to recycle your beer bottle collection for that CA CRV, just to afford a damn plane ticket to Europe.  

Speaking of beer, have you seen AA’s custom brew? (That’s short for Amon Amarth…not Alcoholics Anonymous) Unfortunately, RAGNAROK, as it was so “appropriately” named, was only brewed once by the Three Floyds Brewing Company in Indiana, US.  At least we can look at bottle art! Huzzaahh.  

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Okay, I’ll stop over fluffing this post.  It just seemed so non-Viking to just post “album art…song link. K thanks”

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Iron Maiden is bringing the US another leg of the Maiden England tour! Megadeth will be their brothers in arms throughout the tour. They will be hitting North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Texas, Las Vegas, as well as San Bernardino for all of you Southern Californians!

Will YOU Be attending the Battle for San Bernardino? Because we’re getting an all-star line-up of Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Overkill, and Sabaton as well!

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Iron Maiden + Megadeth
Sept 3. – Time Warner Cable Music Pavillion, Raleigh, NC
Sept 5. – Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN
Sept 7. – Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO
Sept 8. – Verizon Wireless, St. Louis, MO
Sept 10. – 360 Amphitheater, Austin, TX
Sept 12. – Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, NV
Sept 13. – San Manuel Amphitheater, San Bernardino, CA *

*+ ANTHRAX, TESTAMENT, OVERKILL, SABATON

Official Statement from IronMaiden.com

IRON MAIDEN will make a brief return to the USA this September, playing seven specially selected shows en-route to Latin America where they will once again headline at the legendary Rock In Rio Festival, Brazil, on 22 September, their show there having recently sold out to 70,000 fans in just a couple of hours

These will begin with a first-ever visit to Raleigh, NC, for the opening show on September 3rd at the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion followed by taking Metal back to country music capital Nashville, TN where Maiden haven’t played in over twenty years, at the Bridgestone Arena on September 5th. There will also be shows in Kansas City, MO, Sprint Center on September 7th, St Louis, MO, Verizon Wireless on September 8th and the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, NV on September 12th , all of which Maiden last visited way back in 2000 on the Brave New World Tour. Plus a return to Austin, TX for a show at the 360 Amphitheater on September 10th,  the first time the band have played in that city since the original Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Tour twenty-five years ago!

Very special guests on all these dates will be MEGADETH.

Before they finally head south towards Brazil, Maiden will also headline a very special event at the San Manuel Amphitheater, San Bernardino, CA. The Battle Of San Bernardino will take place on Friday 13th September. Anthrax, Testament, Overkill and Sabaton will join tour special guests Megadeth for this performance only, making for a big, loud and exciting day out for Metal fans in Southern California. (Read more about The Battle Of San Bernardino)

Tickets for the Las Vegas and San Bernardino shows go on sale 12 April. Tickets for Raleigh, Nashville, St Louis and Austin go onsale 13 April. Tickets for Kansas City go onsale 17 May. See below for exact onsale times and links.

An exclusive first ticket pre-sale for Iron Maiden Fan Club members will run on Wednesday 10 April. Fan Club members will also be eligible in the draw to be ‘First To The Barrier’.

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Enter our Facebook contest for your chance to win a General Admission ticket* for the Paganfest America 2013 show in Hollywood to see Ensiferum, Týr, Heidevolk, Trollfest, and Southern California’s very own Helsótt, pillage the House of Blues on Sunset Strip.
You may also have the opportunity to have an exclusive meet and greet with the bands!**

The winner will be contacted by a DMK staff member to exchange information for ticket delivery.

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We’d love to bring you guys more ticket and merch giveaways in the future, so invite all of your friends to check us out on Facebook and the Web!

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* General Admission allows access to the venue’s standing floor.  All ages. 
**Availability of Meet and Greet is subject to change.  Tour Management will confirm approval

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ROB ZOMBIE, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, MASTODON, AMON AMARTH, MACHINE HEAD, CHILDREN OF BODOM, BEHEMOTH AND MANY MORE

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, the world’s biggest hard and heavy music touring festival announces its electrifying sixth-year lineup. Artists performing on the 2013 thunderous fest include main stage metal and horror legend, festival closer, ROB ZOMBIE, plus, the triple gold certified FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH and a monster lineup that includes additional main stage bands MASTODON and AMON AMARTH. The festival area is led by stage closers CHILDREN OF BODOM and MACHINE HEAD as well as BEHEMOTH, JOB FOR A COWBOY, EMMURE, BORN OF OSIRIS, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, BUTCHER BABIES, BATTLECROSS, HUNTRESS, THROWN INTO EXILE and CITY IN THE SEA. Four stages will be presented this year for the first time ever and the stages include the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAIN STAGE, THE JAGERMEISTER STAGE, MUSICIANS INSTITUTE STAGE, as well as, the SUMERIAN RECORDS/HEADBANG FOR THE HIGHWAY CONCOURSE STAGE, (local bands performing on the Sumerian Records/Headbang for the Highway Stage will be announced in June).

All tickets go on sale March 22nd at 12:00 Noon local venue time via

www.rockstarmayhemfest.com or www.livenation.com.  The tour will stop in 26 cities across the United States and Canada as it makes its way to the Gexa Energy Pavilion in Dallas, Texas on August 4th, 2013.

ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL STAGES AND ARTISTS:

ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAIN STAGE

ROB ZOMBIE

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH

MASTODON

AMON AMARTH

MUSICIANS INSTITUTE STAGE               JAGERMEISTER STAGE

CHILDREN OF BODOM                                MACHINE HEAD

BEHEMOTH                                                   JOB FOR A COWBOY

EMMURE                                                        BUTCHER BABIES

BORN OF OSIRIS                                           BATTLECROSS

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE                               HUNTRESS

THROWN INTO EXILE

SUMERIAN RECORDS/HEADBANG FOR THE HIGHWAY STAGE

CITY IN THE SEA

3 LOCAL OPENERS

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ICED EARTH’s first officially recorded DVD/Blu-Ray, Live In Ancient Kourion, will hit stores April 16 in North America (and April 15 in Europe)! For this live release, the band recorded an epic 2.5 hour show in a 6,000 year old amphitheater with an incredible, unique atmosphere.

To give fans a preview of this must-have DVD, ICED EARTH has now teamed up with Brave Words.com to premiere the live track “Damien”: http://www.bravewords.com/news/200770