CANNIBAL CORPSE HAS BEEN UNLEASHED.
THEY ARE STORMING IN WITH A BIG BANG.
HANG ONTO YOUR PRECIOUS METAL AND SEE THEM LIVE!


CANNIBAL CORPSE: More In-Studio Video Footage Available

More video footage from CANNIBAL CORPSE's Torture studio sessions is currently viewable at their official landing page. The near-ten minute long segment documents some of the guitar solo and vocal tracking and includes a candid glimpse of vocalist Corpsegrinder’s method for loosening his vocal cords during the lengthy recording sessions at Mana Recording Studio in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The band's twelfth offering of audio molestation will be available to North American fans on March 13, 2012 via Metal Blade Records. In an 9/10 review of the record, Decibel Magazine proclaims: "As always, the band's musicianship is downright inspiring. And their songwriting has never been better."  Zero Tolerance crowned the record  "pure death metal mastery from one of the best bands the genre has ever produced," while Metal Army America adds: "The masters have turned in effort that will puzzled over, studied and followed forever."

Torture was produced by Hate Eternal's Erik Rutan at his own Mana Recording Studio in St. Petersburg, Florida as well as Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas.

Check out the new studio footage at THIS LOCATION <http://www.metalblade.com/cannibalcorpse> .

As previously announced, CANNIBAL CORPSE's official U.S. headlining tour will commence this April. Sponsored by Metal Blade Records, Good Fight Entertainment and dB Drum Shoes, the U.S. Torture Tour 2012 will begin April 5 in Jacksonville, Florida. Support on the near month-long trek will be provided by Exhumed, Abysmal Dawn and Arkaik. In addition, the band will headline this year's edition of the Summer Slaughter Festival with official dates to be announced soon.

CANNIBAL CORPSE U.S. Torture Tour 2012
w/ Exhumed, Abysmal Dawn, Arkaik
4/05/2012 Freebird Live – Jacksonville, FL
4/06/2012 The Soapbox – Wilmington, NC
4/07/2012 Lincoln Theater – Raleigh, NC
4/08/2012 V Club Live – Huntington, WV
4/09/2012 The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC
4/10/2012 The Canal Club – Richmond, VA
4/12/2012 Higher Ground – South Burlington, VT
4/13/2012 The Club At Water Street – Rochester, NY
4/14/2012 Death On The Vine Fest @ Bogart's – Cincinnati, OH w/ CANNIBAL CORPSE, The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile, Exhumed, Skeletonwitch, Abysmal Dawn, Hour Of Pennance, Arkaik
4/15/2012 The Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI
4/16/2012 People's Court – Des Moines, IA
4/17/2012 Slowdown – Omaha, NE
4/19/2012 The Scene-ary – Wichita, KS
4/20/2012 The Black Sheep – Colorado Springs, CO
4/21/2012 Mesa Theater & Club – Grand Junction, CO
4/22/2012 Top Deck – Farmington, NM
4/23/2012 The Rock –Tucson, AZ
4/24/2012 Tricky Falls – El Paso, TX
4/25/2012 Jake's – Lubbock, TX
4/27/2012 The Blue Note – Columbia, MO
4/28/2012 Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK w/ CANNIBAL CORPSE, Behemoth, Watain, Exhumed, The Devil's Blood, In Solitude, Abysmal Dawn, Arkaik
4/29/2012 Newby's – Memphis, TN
4/30/2012 Exit In – Nashville, TN
5/1/2012 Zydeco – Birmingham, AL
5/3/2012 Double Down - Gainesville, FL

For special Torture preorder packages, and to check out, "Demented Aggression," visit the band's OFFICIAL LANDING PAGE <http://www.metalblade.com/cannibalcorpse/order.php> . And in case you missed the premiere of "Scourge Of Iron," go to REVOLVERMAG.COM <http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=31785> .

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GYPSYHAWK featured in Alternative Press's "100 Bands You Need To Know In 2012"

Alternative Press, the definitive source for information about the underground music scene since 1985, is proud to announce AP #285, its 100 Bands You Need To Know In 2012 issue <http://www.altpress.com/magazine/issue/285_100_bands_you_need_to_know_in_2012> . The annual special—which is now in its twelfth year—highlights up-and-coming acts from the worlds of rock, punk, pop, indie, hardcore, metal, electronica and screamo; the expectation with inclusion is that these bands are poised to have a breakout year in 2012.

The issue is available to pre-order now via Altpress.com <http://shop.altpress.com/collections/285-100-bands-you-need-to-know> ; customers can choose between the cover featuring Colorado electropop duo Breathe Carolina or Michigan metalcore sextet We Came As Romans. AP #285 will start hitting newsstands the weekend of March 2, with an official street date of March 6.

For more information, follow Alternative Press on Twitter (@altpress) and Facebook (facebook.com/altpress) or head to Altpress.com.

GYPSYHAWK is currently wrapping up their new album for a release date in 2012 that is TBA. Keep up with GYPSYHAWK on-line at https://www.facebook.com/Gypsyhawkusa <file://localhost/Gypsyhawkusa> and https://twitter.com/GypsyhawkUSA <file://localhost/GypsyhawkUSA>.



EXALT & AUX TV post exclusive song & contest for BREACH FALSE MINDS

EXALT and AUX TV have teamed up so YOU can hear a new song “Empty Dreams/Frail As Feathers” off of BREACH FALSE MINDS, out March 13, 2012.  AUX TV will also be running a contest for the ultimate EXALT gift bag including a Vinyl copy of Breach False Minds, Exalt t-shirt, Autographed poster &  Digital download.

Please go to link below to listen and enter!
http://www.aux.tv/2012/02/exclusive-song-and-contest-exalts-empty-dreamerfrail-as-feathers/

Tyler Brand, vocalist for EXALT, comments on the song Empty Dreamer/Frail As Feathers “Empty Dreamer/Frail As Feathers is a song that showcases a few different sides of us, musically. The lyrical content is about me building things up in my mind, and just finding myself let down with what I hand myself in the end”.

EXALT continue to hit the road this month and next, see below for tour dates.
TOUR DATES:
02.26 Ottawa, ON @ Mugshots
03.02 Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck
03.03 Peterborough, ON @ The Warming Room
03.04 London, ON @ Music Hall Lounge
04.12 Kitchener, ON @ The Wax w/ Cancer Bats

Pre Order link for Breach False Minds - http://feastorfaminerecordings.bandcamp.com/
VIDEO PROMO LINK for Breach False Minds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teydPA0zkjk

EXALT are:
Tyler Brand - Vocals
Ben Waugh - Guitar/Vocals
Tim Waugh - Drums
Nick Denomme - Bass
John-Paul Denomme – Guitar

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Trioscapes to release new album "Separate Realities" in May on Metal Blade Records!
The Dan Briggs from BTBAM-lead project offers a hefty helping of progressive music

March 12th, 2012 - Trioscapes started in the summer of 2011 when bassist Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me) contacted Walter Fancourt (tenor saxophone/flute) and Matt Lynch (drums) about working up a rendition of the Mahavishnu Orchestra classic "Celestial Terrestrial Commuters". The group also messed around with a few original ideas with the intent of playing a one-off live show.

However, after rehearsing the material and playing the show, the group decided the music was so demanding and fun to perform that there should be more of a future for the project. A few more songs were written near the end of the summer and a full length album was recorded the first week of October with Jamie King in Winston-Salem, NC. Trioscapes combines elements of 70s fusion with progressive rock, dark syncopated grooves, a flare for the psychedelic, and an unabashed love for both quirky Zappa-ish melodies and thunderous abrasive trade-off lines.

Trioscapes currently has one show confirmed for this May to celebrate the release of the CD on Metal Blade Records. The 12" LP is also available via Dan Briggs's own Hogweed & Fugue Records. Both will be available for purchase at this show. More shows are currently being confirmed.

YES! Weekly, the Greensboro, NC entertainment magazine, just named Dan Briggs the region's best bassist and Trioscapes the best new band. YES! praises Briggs' work: "his marathon bass runs for the progressive death metal quintet [BTBAM] are well noted, Briggs' work with the newly formed Trioscapes to this point is equally impressive. The abrupt time signature changes remain, but his style in the fiery jazz-fusion trio recalls Jonas Hellborg considered cadences in the Mahavishnu Orchestra mixed with a little bit of Bill Laswell fuzz bass." Read the full article HERE <http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-13744-best-of-the-music-endorsements.html> .

A track from Separate Realities can be heard and the album can be pre-ordered now at http://www.metalblade.com/trioscapes. Separate Realities will be available May 8th in North America and May 7th in Europe.

Trioscapes
CD release show
05/04            Greensboro, NC                        The Broach Theater

Trioscapes is also currently working on live dates for June, July and September. For the most up to date information, "like" Trioscapes on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/trioscapes.


SISTER "Spit On Me" live video now online!

SISTER has released a live video for "Spit On Me" from their debut album, HATED. The video was recorded during the course of the "HATED Over Europe Tour 2011". SISTER's touring schedule in 2011 saw them hit the road with metal legends UDO, as well play direct support for Chris Jericho's metal band, Fozzy.

SISTER comments on the video: "This video is dedicated to our European fans, cheers to all of ya! Big thanks to main man Jimmy Johansson for making this video and not to forget our two tour crew members Johan "Prästen" Heijdenberg and Jonas "Gryning" Berndt. We also wanna send out a big thanks to all the bands we've been touring with! See ya on the road bastards!"

The video for Spit On Me can be seen now HERE <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZkVi0sdCUM> .

HATED was released in June 2011 and is available for purchase now everywhere, including Metal Blade's webstore <http://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecords/band/sister> , iTunes <http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hated/id434352243> , and amazon.com <http://www.amazon.com/Hated-Sister/dp/B004WOXLQA> .

"The group's stateside debut, Hated (Metal Blade), is a genre-beinding amalgam of street punk attitude and glam-inspired melodies." Revolver Magazine

"the bastard sons of Ratt and Bang Tango with a little bit of punk thrown in for good measure" Examiner

"Not like anything you've heard before. This album is a combination of all kind of inspirations from glam/punk rock to classic rock n roll, death metal and beyond." Riff-Mag.com

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JOB FOR A COWBOY today unleash the first of a series of instructional video posts featuring guitar wizard Tony Sannicandro. Dubbed "The Leads Are Weak," the mini clips offer playing tips and an up-close look at Sannicandro's astounding skills and technique. Clip #1 showcases the solo From "Signature Of Starving Power" off the band's Gloom EP.

To view the clip, head to the official JOB FOR A COWBOY Landing Page <http://metalblade.com/jobforacowboy> .

The Arizona death metallers will begin a five-and-a-half week North American road journey as part of the Metal Alliance Tour next week. The live rituals will commence on March 15 in Austin, Texas at South By Southwest 2012. The band will be joined by The Faceless, Dying Fetus, 3 Inches Of Blood, Impending Doom, Wretched, and headliners, Devildriver.

In addition, JOB FOR A COWBOY will play a special daytime show on March 15 as headliners of the Metal Blade Records' 30th Anniversary party at SXSW. Presented by Musicians InstituteAnnex (formerly Emo's Annex) and co-sponsored by 'stache media, the show will begin at 11:30am and devour ears until 6:00pm. For more info, head over to THIS LOCATION <http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/2012/03/05/mi-annex-presents-metal-blade-records%E2%80%99-30th-anniversary-unofficial-sxsw-day-party/> .

JOB FOR A COWBOY will release their new full-length, Demonocracy, this Spring. Produced by Jason Seucof (Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Trivium) who recorded the band's scorching Ruination full-length, at Audiohammer Studios, and featuring the conceptual cover design by artist Brent Elliott White, Demonocracy, will be unearthed to North American fans on April 10, 2012 through Metal Blade Records.

JOB FOR A COWBOY – Metal Alliance Tour 2012
w/ Devildriver,The Faceless, Dying Fetus,  3 Inches Of Blood, Impending Doom , Wretched
3/15/2012 SXSW – Scoot Inn – Austin, TX
3/16/2012 The Hangar – New Orleans, LA
3/17/2012 State Theatre – St. Petersburg, FL
3/18/2012 Amos' Southend – Charlotte, NC
3/19/2012 Kingdom – Richmond, VA
3/20/2012 Sonar – Baltimore, MD
3/21/2012 Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY
3/22/2012 The Palladium – Worcester, MA
3/23/2012 Le National – Montreal, QC
3/24/2012 Opera House – Toronto, ON
3/25/2012 Alrosa Villa – Columbus, OH
3/26/2012 Mojoe's – Joliet, IL
3/27/2012 Station 4 – St Paul, MN
3/28/2012 Garrick Center – Winnipeg, MB
3/29/2012 Riddell Centre – Regina, SK
3/30/2012 Edmonton Events Centre – Edmonton, AB
3/31/2012 Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC
4/01/2012 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
4/02/2012 Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR
4/03/2012 Knitting Factory – Spokane, WA
4/05/2012 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
4/06/2012 The Fox Theatre – Pomona, CA
4/07/2012 Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
4/08/2012 El Rey Theater – Albuquerque, NM
4/09/2012 The Summit Music Hall – Denver, CO
4/10/2012 Sokol Auditorium – Omaha, NE
4/11/2012 7 Flags Event Center – Clive, IA
4/12/2012 Pop's – East St Louis, IL
4/13/2012 New Daisy Theatre – Memphis, TN
4/14/2012 Clear Channel Metroplex – Little Rock, AR
4/15/2012 Granada Theatre – Lawrence, KS
4/16/2012 Cain's Ballroom – Tulsa, OK
4/18/2012 Dos Amigos – Odessa, TX
4/19/2012 House of Blues – Dallas, TX
4/20/2012 Emo's East – Austin, TX
4/21/2012 House of Blues – Houston, TX

JOB FOR A COWBOY
6/30/2012 La Respuesta – San Juan, PR



ALLEGAEON to release new album, "Formshifter", in May; new song available now!
Behind-the-scenes studio video also available

In January 2012, Allegaeon traveled to Southern California and entered Lambesis Studios with Daniel Castleman (As I Lay Dying, Impending Doom, Carnifex, Winds of Plague) to begin work on Formshifter. The latest album brings forward a sound that both plays off the band's previous releases mixed in with some new flavors that will be sure to enthrall old and new fans alike.

Guitarist Greg Burgess had this to say about the new album, "With "Formshifter", I think we kept the sound a lot of our fans love about us, but achieved them through certain compositional challenges. Be it style, or genre mixing, I believe that we seamlessly applied certain elements we didn't have on Fragments, and it added a color and dimension we didn't have before". Guitarist Ryan Glisan adds, "This album to me indicates the future of the band but nods to our past as well. It, to me, is more of where I have envisioned our band being since I started the band a couple years back, it relies on similar songwriting structures and musicality but adds more groove and memorable riffing than our previous efforts."

Lyrics, an oft over-looked facet of death metal is one the more interesting aspects of Allegaeon. The band crafts their prose with a bit of a different mindset - often touching on space, civilization and philosophy. Vocalist Ezra Haynes elaborates on the band's first single from the album; "Tartessos: The Hidden Xenocryst is definitely one that sticks out to me. I was raised on Edgar Cayce readings and tales of Atlantis. When Greg [Burgess] and I knew we wanted to touch base on an ancient civilization, Atlantis was the logical choice."

Formshifter t-shirt/CD pre-order bundles, a stream and download of Tartessos: The Hidden Xenocryst, as well as the behind-the-scenes studio video can both be seen now at metalblade.com/allegaeon <http://www.metalblade.com/allegaeon> .

"The new face of ruthless modern death metal." Metal Hammer Magazine

Formshifter will be released on May 8, 2012 via Metal Blade Records.

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