3 INCHES OF BLOOD have announced that they have added some dates to their headline run around the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH tour with OPETH and DEVILDRIVER. Their full list of headline dates is now as follows:

Sun 27th Apr – Swindon Furnace
Mon 28th Apr – Brighton Freebutt
Wed 30th April – Sheffield Corporation
Thu 1st May – Peterborough The Park
Fri 2nd May – Leeds Rios
Sat 3rd May – Edinburgh Studio 24

Check out the video to their current EP TRIAL OF CHAMPIONS HERE

Current album FIRE UP THE BLADES is in stores NOW and you can buy online at the following locations:
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Scuzz TV has teamed up with DOWN this week to give one of you the chance to see them live in London on April 13th! Not only that but you will also be given the chance to help create your very own guitar courtesy of Krozka Sharpe! And all you gotta do is tell them what pioneering metal band is Phil Anselmo also associated with! An absolute DODDLE!! Sling your arse over to Scuzz.com to enter the comp!!!

Check out the full list of tour dates HERE

You can pick up their latest album ‘OVER THE UNDER’ online at the following locations:

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CAVALERA CONSPIRACY released debut album INFLIKTED last week to a chorus of critical approval. Just check out the METAL HAMMER and KERRANG! reviews below…

The Rapprochement of the Cavalera brothers – Max and Iggor – has everyone awaiting the expected announcement of a Sepultura reunion. Inevitable? Perhaps, at some distant point. But, right now, the guitarist/singer and drummer respectively aren’t thinking about such weighty matters. And to some extent it shows, with a project that definitely doesn’t try to second-guess where the Seps should be in 2008.
Obviously, there’s a great deal of the past locked into ‘Inflikted’. Nobody would suggest that the pair were ever going to remove all hint of their own heritage, and this is very much a return to the raw metal of the late 1980’s, infused with lashings of a hardcore attitude. If you take the Seps’ 1987 album ‘Schizophrenia’ as the starting point, then you’ll get an immediate feel for what’s involved. However, this is far from a retreading of old routes. The foundations might have been set two decades ago, but the power, the atmosphere and the focus belong to the modern age. Together with Gojira’s Joe Duplantier on bass and Soulfly guitarist Marc Rizzo, the Cavalera caucus have created a modern extreme metal experience.
From the moment the riotous title track and the brutal ‘Sanctuary” rise up and bite, you’ll be overwhelmed by torrential post-thrash downpour. And, for the most part, the band do embrace hyper-drive, with ‘Hex’ and ‘Never Trust’ the equal of anything being delivered by the new-generation thrashers currently sweeping through metal. The latter, in particular, makes its mark as Max bellows a list of those types of people whom he has found unpalatable over the years. The snarl of retribution is obvious.
But this is far from being a one-paced blur. Like all top-class metalheads, Cavalera Conspiracy understand the need for variation. So ‘Terrorize’ is built on a concussively supple guitar sound, ‘Black Ark’ is the closest we get to the ‘Roots’ era of Sepultura, and ‘Must Kill’ is an anthemic tirade, with a climactic guitar tornado.
But the most impressive moments come on ‘Heart Of Darkness’ and ‘Bloodbrawl’. The former has a classic metal stride that brings to mind Judas Priest, being multi-faceted, yet never losing intensity. The latter is the album’s masterwork. It veers from uber-mania to a softer rhythm, within a structure that’s both stern yet also intimate. It’s here that the band’s propensity for spontaneity is clearest. They take a basic song discipline and stretch out, reveling in their musical freedom. It’s a monumental achievement.
‘Inflikted’ is a strong start from a new band with a spectacular history. Much was expected, and a great deal is delivered. But the real triumph is that, ultimately, not only have the Cavaleras used Sepultura as a springboard, they’ve made talk of a Seps reformation just a touch irrelevant. For the moment. METAL HAMMER

It’s good to go away, but nothing beats coming home. If Inflikted is what happens when brothers reunite after a decade apart, then just maybe the rift has been worth it – in artistic terms, at least. Cavalera Conspiracy is anything but tokenistic. Remember the first tribal blast of Soulfly, the moment you realized the game might ultimately be up for the previously untouchable Sepultura? That’s the impression you get here. Inflikted sidesteps both Soulfly’s samba percussives and the corrosive distortion of early Sepultura, but at the same time it rebirths that shock and awe heaviness, the streewise riffing of the Cavalera’s first band, adding only a bigger production. That extra studio dynamic merely throws open the doors to let the storm roar in.
Some storm it is too. Max Cavalera’s coals have probably never cut through with more controlled brutality than here. The title-track opens in a squall of synthesized biomechanical feedback, and seconds later Iggor Cavalera’s tubs rifle in, marshalling the familiar crunch of his brothers guitar. This isn’t power for the sake of it – Cavalera Conspiracy (completed by Soulfly guitarist Mark Rizzo and bass from Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier) build songs from rolling, concrete riffs, each pounding out simplistic, upper cut hooks.
“I don’t give a fuck if everybody dies tonight” seethes Max in Sanctuary following a disconcerting spiral of guitar noise, before a churning time change hits you in the gut. Hex and Nevertrust are similarly aggressive, short bull-shaped nuggets of hardcore mangled metal designed purely to stun. There’s more ambition in Black Ark and Bloodbrawl, but Inflikted is an album that never deviates far from its central thrust – a simple equation of heaviness, groove and melody worked to perfection.
One thing that separates Inflikted from previous Cavalera projects is the occasional suggestion of synths. Purists need not furrow their brow – machines drop in only scarce and shadowy embellishments to the carnage up top. Inflikted is not a Fear Factory record. It is a modern spin on an old theme, a polished, updated but no less bellicose take on the Sepultura of old. These are killing fields of metal, a precursor just possibly to a Sepultura reunion, and a fine debut in its own right.
DOWNLOAD: Sanctuary, Nevertrust.
FOR FANS OF: Sepultura, Machine Head. KERRANG

If you are yet to check out the latest material fromMax and Iggor Cavalera, then check out their ARTISTS SECTION ta sample a couple of tracks and you can buy now, online, at the phollowing locations:

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In celebration of the upcoming DOWN headline UK tour, the following clubs will be holding Down themed club nights!! Check them out!!!

April 4th – Subway City in Birmingham
April 4th – Cathouse in Glasgow
April 5th – Carling Academy in Birmingham
April 5th – UEA in Norwich
April 11th – Satans Hollow in Manchester

The DOWN tour kicks off this coming Monday (7th April) in support of current album OVER THE UNDER and if you move fast, you may be able to grab yourself a ticket!!
Tue 8th Apr – Glasgow Academy
Wed 9th Apr – Birmingham Academy
Thu 10th Apr – Norwich UEA
Sat 12th Apr – Manchester Academy – SOLD OUT
Sun 13th Apr – London Brixton Academy
Tue 15th Apr – Dublin Ambassador Theatre

Pick up your copy of OVER THE UNDER online NOW:

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If you are lucky enough to live in the USA, then you will be looking forward to one of the most amazing tours ever concieved- the PROGRESSIVE NATION TOUR- which sees legends DREAM THEATER and OPETH on tour. Together.

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Kicking off on the 2nd of May and trawling through the States until the 31st of the very same month (full dates listed here), the one good thing to come out of this tour from those of us unable to book a plane ticket is that it’s meant that the US Roadrunner Office has been able to sit the 2 Mike’s down for a good ole chin wag. Part one is online NOW and if you clikc on the link below you can check it out…

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Don’t forget folks that DREAM THEATER relelased the digital EP ‘Forsaken’ this week, which features 2 previously unreleased live tracks. Buy online now at THIS location.

And for your live Opeth fix, you can always check out the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH TOUR which kicks off later this month. Tickets on sale NOW and dates are as follows:

Wed 23rd April – Birmingham Academy
Thu 24th April – Glasgow Barrowlands
Fri 25th April – Manchester Academy
Sat 26th April – London Brixton Academy

Swedish prog metallers OPETH have revealed the artwork to ‘WATERSHED’, their follow-up to the ctically aclaimed ‘Ghost Reveries’, which will be released June of this year.

You can take a peek HERE!

OPETH will be hitting these shores very soon on the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH TOUR (with Arch Enemy and label mates DEVILDRIVER and 3 INCHES OF BLOOD. Check HERE for more details.

Purchase OPETH’S previous release online, in either a digital or physical format by clicking on the links below…

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KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES will be performing a small acoustic show in Cardiff on Saturday 5th April and you can win tickets exclusivly at XFM.

Head HERE to enter.

Check out current single EASY TIGER and buy online HERE

They’ve not been around for a while, but tonight, at 12.01 NYC time (that’s about 4am our time) SLIPKNOT will update their website www.slipknot1.com with a taster of things to come in 2008…

Damn it’s exciting!!

South Wales quintet KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES release their new single GIVE ME WHAT I WANT on May 12th. This is the second single from their debut album SMART CASUAL, which is out on May 26th.

Track listings and formats:
CD
1. Give Me What I Want (radio edit) / 2. Be Nice (Start Now)

7” vinyl
A. Give Me What I Want (radio edit) B. Easy Tiger (acoustic)

Digital 2 Track (iTunes Exclusive)
1. Give Me What I Want (radio edit) / 2. Pink Suede (Studio Version)

Digital 1 Track (Available April 14th)
1. Give Me What I Want (radio edit)

The guys will tour the UK in May to support the release of both the single and album. Before that, you can catch them supporting Simple Plan in London on the following date:

Fri April 18
London, Astoria

Full tour dates are as follows:

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Around their shows with Aiden, KILL HANNAH will be DJ’ing at the following venues:

Friday 28th March : DJ Set at Subversion Club, Portsmouth
Tuesday 1st April : DJ Set at Queens Student Union, Glasgow

so, if you want to catch they guys after their set, head on over!