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Light This City new performance footage.

Live footage of Light This City’s farewell performance at The Chain Reaction in Anaheim CA has been posted on the band’s Myspace page and can be found HERE. HeavyMetalSource.com contributor JerryJohn also took picture’s of the final two performances and band photo’s, check them out HERE.

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Salem new album details.

Israeli metal band Salem will release the new album“Playing God And Other Short Stories”, on April 26 in Europe and May 25 in the U.S. via Pulverised Records. This will be the seventh full-length album from Salem and features a guest appearance by At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg, who shares vocals on”The Mark Of The Beast Part 1″ and sings exclusively on ”The Mark Of The Beast Part 2″. The album also includes Salem’s cover version of one of Bob Marley’s, “Exodus”.

“Playing God And Other Short Stories” track listing:

01. Drums Of The Dead Part 1
02. Drums Of The Dead Part 2
03. The Privileged Dead
04. Exodus (BOB MARLEY cover)
05. Downfall Of Paris Part 1
06. Downfall Of Paris Part 2
07. The Mark Of The Beast Part 1 (feat. Tomas Lindberg)
08. Beast Lullaby
09. The Mark Of The Beast Part 2 (feat. Tomas Lindberg)
10. The Mark Of The Beast Part 3
11. I Hate Pigs
12. Playing God

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Prong support Fear Factory on U.S. tour.

Prong will be the support on the Fear Factory U.S. tour that starts this May, dates can be seen below. Prong has recently been writing material for a new effort.

May 16 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
May 17 – Knitting Factory – Reno, NV
May 19 – Knitting Factory – Spokane, WA
May 20 – Knitting Factory – Boise, ID
May 21 – Club Sound @ In The Venue – Salt Lake City, UT
May 22 – Marquis Theatre – Denver, CO
May 24 – Pop’s – Sauget, IL
May 26 – The Machine Shop – Flint, MI
May 28 – Headliner’s Music Hall – Louisville, KY
May 29 – The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
May 30 – Alrosa Villa – Columbus, OH
Jun. 01 – The NorVa – Norfolk, VA
Jun. 02 – Jester’s Pup – Fayetteville, NC
Jun. 03 – Jaxx – W. Springfield, VA
Jun. 04 – The Palladium – Worcester, MA
Jun. 05 – Webster Theater – Hartford, CT
Jun. 06 – Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA
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Skinless classic lineup to reunite.

Skinless has announced that the band will play a single performance featuring the band’s classic lineup. Vocalist Sherwood Webber, drummer Bob Beaulac, guitarist Noah Carpenter and bassist Joe Keyser will reunite on June 19 at Northern Lights in Clifton Park, New York.

For more information on the event, go to this location HERE

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Kottonmouth Kings new album online.

Kottonmouth Kings are currently streaming their entire new, Long Live the Kings, on the band’s Myspace page and can be found HERE. The new album is due out on April 20th via Suburban Noize Records.

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Victory Records signs Vancouver, Canada’s Grave Maker.

Victory Records have announced they have signed Grave Maker. The band is set to release their Victory debut, Ghosts Among Men, on June 22. The band is currently out on a U.S. tour with Donnybrook, Ambush and Venia, check the date’s HERE.

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Emmure’s new music video.

The new Emmure music video for the track,“I Thought You Met Telly and Turned Me Into Casper”, has been posted online and can be viewed below. The song is off the band’s latest album, Felony, which was released on August 18, 2009 via Victory Records.

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Faith No More live date’s.

Faith No More have added some more live date’s to the, “The Second Coming U.S.Tour 2010”, look below.

April 17th Indio, CA – Coachella
July 02nd Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Waterfront
July 03rd Philadelphia, PA – The Mann Center
July 05th Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Waterfront

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Slayer behind the scenes footage.

Some behind the scenes footage of the making of Slayer’s video for the song “Beauty Through Order” has been posted online and can be viewed below. The song is off the band’s tenth studio album,
World Painted Blood, which was released on November 3, 2009 via American Recordings/Sony Music.

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New Releases

April 13, 2010

Bison B.C. - Dark Ages (Metal Blade)
Bleeding Through - Bleeding Through (Rise)
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season Deluxe Edition (Epitaph)
Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Scraps And Bones (Good Fight)
Child Abuse - Cut And Run (Lovepump)
Jon Oliva’s Pain - Festival (AFM)
Lair Of The Minotaur - Evil Power (The Grindhouse)
The Ocean - Heliocentric (Metal Blade)
Ov Hell - The Underworld Regime (Prosthetic)
Son Of Aurelius - The Farthest Reaches (Good Fight)
Vampires Everywhere - Lost In The Shadows EP (Century Media)
Woe Of Tyrants - Threnody (Metal Blade)

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Video of the day.

HeavyMetalSource.com filmed Suicide Silence performing,“Wake Up”, at the Music as a Weapon tour 2009.

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More to Come from the Hard Knock Life tour 2009.

Look inside.

SUICIDE SILENCE   HERE

OCEANO  HERE

EMMURE  HERE

BRAVER  HERE

STICK TO YOUR GUNS  HERE

DEVILDRIVER  HERE

EMMURE  HERE

MY CHILDREN MY BRIDE  HERE

DESPISED ICON  HERE

OCEANO  HERE

FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS   HERE

VEIL OF MAYA  HERE

• Suicide Silence  HERE
• Emmure HERE
• Beneath The Massacre HERE

• Gwar  HERE
• Mushroomhead  HERE
• Suicide Silence  HERE
• Kingdom of Sorrow  HERE
• Emmure  HERE
• Toxic Holocaust  HERE

Washington D.C. metallers DARKEST HOUR will headline the Thrash and Burn Tour beginning on July 29. Support on the trek will come from PARKWAY DRIVE, MISERY SIGNALS, WINDS OF PLAGUE, STICK TO YOUR GUNS, ARSIS, LIGHT THIS CITY, ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS and AFTER THE BURIAL. Special guests scheduled to appear on select dates include SUICIDE SILENCE, AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK, EMMURE, VEIL OF MAYA, BROTHER VON DOOM and more.

The tour will showcase a diverse mix of underground metal bands who draw from decades of thrash, punk and hardcore to mold their 21st century sounds. DARKEST HOUR, fresh off its tour with AT THE GATES, has been chosen to headline this tour.

Washington D.C. metallers DARKEST HOUR will headline the Thrash and Burn Tour beginning on July 29. Support on the trek will come fromPARKWAY DRIVE, MISERY SIGNALS, WINDS OF PLAGUE, STICK TO YOUR GUNS, ARSIS, LIGHT THIS CITY, ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS and AFTER THE BURIAL. Special guests scheduled to appear on select dates include SUICIDE SILENCE, AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK,EMMURE, VEIL OF MAYA, BROTHER VON DOOM and more.

The tour will showcase a diverse mix of underground metal bands who draw from decades of thrash, punk and hardcore to mold their 21st century sounds. DARKEST HOUR, fresh off its tour with AT THE GATES, has been chosen to headline this tour.

Thrash and Burn 2008 features DARKEST HOUR, PARKWAY DRIVE,MISERY SIGNALS, WINDS OF PLAGUE, STICK TO YOUR GUNS,ARSIS, ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, andAFTER THE BURIAL with special guests SUICIDE SILENCE, AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK, EMMURE, VEIL OF MAYA, BROTHER VON DOOM and more on select dates.

In addition to one main performer which has yet to be disclosed, the following artists are slated to appear:

The Black Dahlia Murder
Kataklysm
Vader
Cryptopsy
The Acacia Strain
The Faceless
Despised Icon
Emmure
Aborted
All Shall Perish
Born of Osiris
Psycroptic
Whitechapel
Since The Flood
Eternal Lord
Brother Von Doom