Riff-heavy Los Angeles Stoner/Doom/Thrash Metal band BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH have announced the ‘Desolization Tour 2013,’ which kicks off July 12th in Austin, TX and wraps up in Denver on July 24.
Stay tuned for forthcoming details on venues and support bands. Continuing to tour in support of 2012′s colossal outing Defender, Redeemist, BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH will leave yet another trail of scorched earth in its wake.
Make sure to pick up the limited edition (250 copies) Defender, Redeemist double LP Deluxe Vinyl once the smoke clears or order it at on their Bandcamp.
BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH Desolization Tour 2013:
7/12 – Austin, TX @ TBA
7/13 – Lafayette, LA @ TBA
7/14 – Orlando, FL @ Orlandoom @ TBA
7/15 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
7/16 – Chapel Hill, NC @ The Underground
7/17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
7/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus
7/19 – Akron, OH @ Annabell’s
7/20 – Chicago, IL @ Ultra Lounge
7/21 – St. Louis, MO @ TBA
7/22 – Little Rock, AR @ Downtown Music Hall
7/23 – Wichita, KS @ TBA
7/24 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Finnish hardcore heroes UNKIND have posted an in-studio episode chronicling the making of their forthcoming album Pelon Juuret. Watch the episode after the jump.
KEN MODE have announced new tour dates with TORCHE and BLACK COBRA. The new dates include West Coast performances in Long Beach, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, CA and a new date in Brooklyn, NY. Additional support on these dates will come from LO-PAN. Additionally, KEN MODE‘s participation in this year’s Sled Island and Pitchfork Music Festivals have been announced. A full list of confirmed tour dates can be found below.
Critically-acclaimed Southern hard-rock quintet KYLESA are streaming their forthcoming Season of Mist record, Ultraviolet in it’s entirety. The album is streaming now via 
Denver thrashers HAVOK today announce their first headlining tour of North America. Dates are set to commence July 22 and will see the band journey through the southern states, travelling up the eastern seaboard before making their debut performance at Montreal’s annual Heavy MTL festival on August 11. The tour will be in support of their forthcoming new album, Unnatural Selection, set for release June 25.
Candlelight Records launched the CD-only pre-order last week at the label’s official 
Check out the new track “Sink“, which appears on the eponymous 7inch release as well as ALPHA & OMEGA‘s forthcoming full-length No Rest, No Peace, now from 
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions brings together two of the sickest Death Metal bands in the world for a killer split! SEPTORY are the fastest rising Death Metal band in Russia at the moment. Featuring members of cult Death Metal act Bestial Deform and Black Metal horde Khashm, their brand of traditional yet innovative Death Metal is highly recommended for fans of Deicide, Vader and early Cannibal Corpse. After releasing the Rotting Humanity EP in 2006, SEPTORY put out their crushing debut World War Chaos in 2008, followed by the destructive Seductive Art Profane in 2011. Their strong HPGD debut features a deadly collection of new anthems of evil, old school Death Metal and includes a cover of Bestial Deform‘s “Three Days Since Dead“. An absolutely crushing offering!
The time has come for Hydra Head to shut down our LA HQ. It’s been a long time coming, but that doesn’t make the process any less of a heart breaker. In order to ease their pain a bit, we’re opening our doors to the public for the first and last time on Saturday May 25th as we celebrate our disintegration with a Hydra Head Super-Power-Yard-Sale. James O’Mara and Aaron Turner will be on hand to help serve you, and if you’re nice, give you treats (sadly Sugar Bear aka Andrew Cox will be spending his last official paycheck in Mexico and won’t be able to join us). We’ll have tables set up with goodies in the office for your perusal, and snacks and refreshments available at random intervals. There will be some give away surprises to random customers and a free test pressing for the first five arrivals.
Google unveiled Google Play Music All Access at their annual I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco. 
California Death Metal giants DEEDS OF FLESH has released another advanced track entitled “Amidst the Ruins“. The track comes off their upcoming 9th studio release Portals to Canaan available in CD, LP (gatefold) & digital format on June 25th worldwide via Unique Leader Records. 
Current members of Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall and ex members of Overcast, Seemless, and Cannae have combined forces in the project DEATH RAY VISION. These veterans of the Boston metal scene play a raw brand of metallic hardcore that recaptures the energy of their old school hardcore roots infused with all they have learned and experienced as musicians over the past decade. The songs are short blasts of energy and intensity built on thrash metal rhythms and chugging guitar riffs.
San Francisco’s DEAFHEAVEN are gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated second full-length album, Sunbather, on June 11th through Deathwish Inc. The band returns from a European tour this week, and will play a few West Coast shows with BORIS later this month before they gear up for a full U.S. run in June and July with MARRIAGES in tow.
Canadian thrash monsters FATALITY are unleashing their new album entitled Psychonaut for release on June 28th, 2013 along with an epic tour of Canada and the USA that will kick off in Oshawa, ON June 21st and wrap up in Buffalo, NY on August 28th. Guitarist Eytan Gordon comments:
Those brutal buggers at Comatose Music have announced a June 25th release date for NECROTIC DISGORGEMENT‘s Documentaries of Dementia. A promo video for the album, featuring the track “Grotesque Skeletal Reconstruction” his after the jump. 
Detroit, MI’s BATTLECROSS has completed work on their second album for Metal Blade Records. The title, track-listing, as well as music and behind the scenes studio videos are being readied for public consumption. Until then, BATTLECROSS has shared a few photos from their time at Audiohammer Studios, as well as some thoughts on the recording process with famed producer Mark Lewis (The Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, Whitechapel, DevilDriver).
