6/21/2013 Fête de la musique 2013, stage Post Tenebras Rock – Geneva, Switzerland

6/28/2013 Moloko – Geneva, Switzerland *Flies Will Starve release party

7/05/2013 Obscene Extreme Festival 15 – Trutnov, Czech Republic

8/11/2013 Sylak Open Air Fest @ Stade Regis Perrin – St Maurice de Gourdans, France w/ Haemorrhage

8/30/2013 La Neuville @ Festival des arts bourrins 2013 – Chant d’Oisel, France

The band’s announcement reads as follows: “We are…very pleased to announce Alan D`Angelo (Livesay, ex-Sleepy Hollow) will be taking over duties as Power Theory bassist for Warriors of Metal IV – Open Air and the fall ‘Metal Masters Tour’ with Vicious Rumors, Leather Wolf, Seven Witches, and Power Theory’s support role starting 10/03/13 in our home town, Philadelphia, and the forthcoming ‘Driven By Fear’ final recording sessions. Alan is a kick ass bass player and has great stage presence.”

The band was forced to cancel its upcoming appearance in Delaware this weekend: “Unfortunately, we will have to cancel our 6/22/13 date with label mates Widow and good friends Infernal Opera at Mojo 13 in Wilmington, Delaware to prepare with Alan for our Warriors of Metal IV set in Ohio, on 6/29/13, but will attend to support the bands, and rest assured we will be in top form for our scheduled set at WOM IV.”

Power Theory recently hired new vocalist Jeff Rose last month.

Source: Metalunderground

http://www.facebook.com/pages/POWER-THEORY

8/06/2013 Ash St Saloon – Portland, OR w/ Black Breath
8/07/2013 Submission Art Space – San Francisco, CA
8/08/2013 Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz, CA w/ Black Breath, Obliterations
8/09/2013 The Echo – Los Angeles, CA @ Power Of The Riff

Underworlds marks a peak at which MAMMOTH GRINDER have sharpened and perfected their sound into a seething grind/death/thrash maelstrom of intense degree; unrelenting in its concentrated raw precision and focused power, Underworlds careens violently through ten tracks with effortless versatility and the fixated songcraft expected of a band on their third record. The album’s cover artwork was crafted by the legendary Joe Petagno who has worked Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Motörhead, Marduk and countless others.

https://www.facebook.com/MammothGrinder

TURISAS UK headlining dates:
10.8.2013 – (UK) Bristol – The Fleece
10.9.2013 – (UK) London – O2 Academy Islington
10.10.2013 – (UK) Nottingham – Rock City
10.11.2013 – (UK) Glasgow – Cathouse
10.12.2013 – (UK) Manchester – Club Academy

Turisas2013 is the first album introducing the band’s revamped line-up:
Mathias Nygård – vocals
Jussi Wickström – guitar
Olli Vänskä – violin
Robert Engstrand – keyboards
Jaakko Jakku – drums
Jesper Anastasiadis – bass

Source: Metal Rules

http://www.turisas.com/

“Taking Metal Bands To The NEXT LEVEL!”

This basically involves writing and sending out press releases on behalf of your band to your fans and to media types such as music editors, record labels, radio programmers and concert promoters.



A good music publicist is not cheap. You can expect to pay anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 per month or more for an “experienced” music publicist… and most of them have campaigns starting at a four-month minimum.

Often it is your band manager who deals with the publicist on a day to day basis.
Hiring a good publicist can help you get to the next level… even before you have landed a manager.



Randy “Rocket” Cody of The Metal Den has contacts at a national & worldwide level and can reach out to them with ease about the artists he represents. He is one of the most widely known and respected heavy metal journalists working today.




So what should you expect from a music publicist once you hire them? You should expect someone who is extremely professional, friendly, a skilled writer, and someone who has a wealth of contacts and a track record for landing media coverage.

“Rocket” will do the following for your band:

Write or edit bio with distinct story representative of the client.

Target all heavy metal media, including: radio, weeklies, dailies, blogs, ezines, freelancers, video and television outlets.

Solicit metal media for show previews, reviews, interviews and airplay.

Target personal contacts throughout worldwide metal media.
Send press releases and kits to media and will continue to follow-up to encourage press coverage.

If releasing album, to send press release and press kits announcing record release party and information about record to targeted media list.

Write UNLIMITED press on your band published at TMD’s official site,
with heavy bulletin marketing via TMD’s sites on MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and ReverbNation!

Give feedback on publicity photo and connect with photographer if necessary.

You also get a quarterly report that details all of the placements, and you will also be provided online links to coverage or hard copies of articles that have been published.

As fans of the band know, after last year there wasn’t going to be another MINISTRY album, but as Jourgensen put it recently, “I had no choice.”

Sessions for what would become “From Beer To Eternity” began last December at Jourgensen’s 13th Planet compound in El Paso, Texas, with Jourgensen (who produced the album, composed the music and wrote the lyrics for all 11 songs), guitarists Mike Scaccia and Sin Quirin, drummer Aaron Rossi and bassist Tony Campos. Rough tracks for 18 songs were finished on December 19, and three days later, the 47-year old Scaccia died from a heart attack he suffered onstage while playing a live show with his band RIGOR MORTIS in Dallas, Texas. Jourgensen, Quirin, Rossi and Campos were absolutely devastated.

“We have never, in the history of MINISTRY, ever had a tracking session like that before,” states Jourgensen. “Everything went so smoothly, it was surreal. And Mikey was so on fire and inspired, and really a driving force for this record.”

After returning from Scaccia’s funeral in Dallas, and shouldering the weight of grief as well as the desire to honor his fallen comrade, Jourgensen locked himself in his studio with his engineer and co-producer Sammy D’Ambruoso for three excruciating months. “There was no choice,” Jourgensen says of the bittersweet production process. “During the tracking sessions, Mikey was smiling and going, ‘You know what, Al? This is by far and away the best MINISTRY album we’ve ever done together. This is awesome.’

“I’m super proud of ‘From Beer To Eternity’, because it’s my tribute to Mikey’s incredible talent, and I feel it honors him and all of the years we spent together making music.”

From the schizophrenic opening cut, the sarcasm-dripping, sound effect-laden “Hail To His Majesty (Peasants)” to the thrash-punk riffs andbooming bass reverberations of “Punch In The Face”, to “Change Of Luck”, a song that Jourgensen wrote directly about Scaccia’s death, “From Beer To Eternity” pulls no punches, sounding at once familiar, yet completely fresh and inspired. The release also includes “Side F/X Include Mikey’s Middle Finger / TV4″, which old-school MINISTRY fans will recognize as a continuum in a series of TV songs that began in the mid-1990s, and underscores Scaccia’s birthright as one of the greatest metal guitarists in the world.

“PermaWar”, the first single from “From Beer To Eternity”, will drop digitally via iTunes in late July as a three-track maxi single. Additionally, 13th Planet Records will be releasing special products for “From Beer To Eternity”, including a special limited-edition digipak with 13 tracks, a special FanBox edition, as well as vinyl and limited-edition 12-inch picture discs.

MINISTRY will support “From Beer To Eternity” with a cavalcade of music videos, off-the-wall making-of digital clips, and an ongoing “dog-blog” commentary by Jourgensen’s two Labradors, Lemmy and Ozzy, who were present every step of the way during the recording and mixing of “From Beer To Eternity”, and have launched their own Facebook page.

But wait, there’s more. In addition to “From Beer To Eternity” coming in September, July 9 will see the release of Jourgensen’s authorized biography, “Ministry: The Lost Gospels According To Al Jourgensen”, penned by Jourgensen with Jon Wiederhorn on DaCapo Press. “Ministry” is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. Then, the two-disc DVD “Ministry: Enjoy the Quiet – Live at Wacken 2012″ debuts at the already sold-out Wacken Open Air 2013 festival in Germany August 1-3. Shot live in concert at one of MINISTRY’s final shows of the band’s 2012 tour at Wacken Open Air in front of 75,000 fans, the DVD features “New World Order”, “99 Percenters”, “Ghouldiggers”, “Psalm 69″, “Thieves”, “Just One Fix” and “Khyber Pass”.

Source: Blabbermouth.net

http://www.thirteenthplanet.com/ministry/

“Necromancer” was engineered by Theo B (Scorpion), produced and mixed by Joe Haley (Psycroptic) and mastered by Australian Metal Icon Stu Marshall (Death Dealer/Empires Of Eden/Dungeon/Paindivision).

Source: Metalunderground

http://www.facebook.com/taberah.tas

“Well, we’ve overcome the jet lag and have been looking back on the killer time we had in the USA.

“The tour didn’t get off to the best of starts, though; we turned up at Baltimore not knowing if we could even play due to severe thunderstorms in the area. Thankfully, we eventually got the green light, but the combination of bad weather, poor organization, a town curfew, etc. meant that we only got to play for a chaotic and under-par 50 minutes.

“Luckily the shows that followed were problem free, and we’d like to thank everyone who came along to see us, we were blown away by both the turnout and the reaction each night.

“Teaming up again with the legendary AUTOPSY for the two Californian shows was an absolute pleasure. And, of course, we’re very chuffed that we finally got to finish our U.S. business with the BENEDICTION hooligans.

“Cheers to Timmy the Texas Turd, all the local promoters who all helped make the shows even more enjoyable.

“And, as always, massive thanks to our long-suffering crew who continue to help keep the BOLT THROWER machine rolling.

“Hopefully it won’t be another 20 years ’till we hit U.S. soil again.”

Source: The Gauntlet

http://www.boltthrower.com/

“A new chapter has begun for Unearth as we have found a few new places to call home. By joining forces with eOne (North America), Century Media (Europe), Howling Bull (Japan) and 3Wise (Australia) we will have a more focused attack from some of the most well known and respected labels in the world. We know this new beginning of sorts will bring bigger and better things for Unearth and our fans and we couldn’t be more excited for the future of all things Unearth. We are currently in the studio recording some of the most aggressive, anthemic and energized metal we have ever written and we look forward to unleashing it to you all when it is finished. Expect to hear more about our new album, release dates and future world wide touring plans later this summer.”

“We also want to take this opportunity to thank Metal Blade Records for being our label home for almost a decade. In that time we released four LP’s and a double DVD, circled the Globe playing Heavy Metal dozens of times and experienced some of the greatest moments of our collective lives. Metal Blade helped us along the path of our dream and we are eternally grateful. We start new label relationships today, but we will always consider ourselves part of the Metal Blade Records family.”

After an awe-inspiring 15 years of blazing trails and dominating stages, Unearth is now institutionalized as a relentless force in heavy metal, standing the test of time with consistently triumphant creative output, tireless road warrior resilience, Blue Collar style workmanship and a resolute determination to deliver the goods.

Like Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Testament and Anthrax before them, Unearth emerged as part of a burgeoning revolution in heavy music but continued to maintain their relevance and mastery of their craft. They’ve resisted and prevailed against changing trends, subcultural fashions and the way music is obtained and distributed with their credibility, integrity and unique persona intact.

With roughly 500,000 in worldwide sales, Unearth’s continued staying power has also hinged on their highly interactive and toweringly heavy live performances. Over the course of a relentlessly impressive career, Unearth have played amphitheaters, sheds, theaters, halls and clubs with a diverse group of bands that includes Slipknot, Slayer, Killswitch Engage, Lamb Of God, All That Remains, DevilDriver, Dimmu Borgir, Gwar and Whitechapel. They’ve appeared at prestigious festivals like Download in the UK, Germany’s With Full Force and Wacken, Belgium’s Graspop, Hellfest in France and Japan’s Loud Park.

With an average age still well behind the genre-forefathers and legends ahead of them, Unearth are committed to collaborating on uncharted new heights within their music. No sellout, no experimental adventurousness and no letdown for their extremely dedicated fans on the horizon. With a blank slate in front of them, Unearth will always steadily maintain and powerfully proclaim their allegiance to the lifestyle, the ethos and the community of heavy metal, both now and forever.

Source: Lambgoat

http://unearth.tv/

“We regret to inform you that the St. Petersburg King Diamond concert, scheduled for June 18, 2013, has been canceled due to technical reasons. Tickets purchased for the St. Petersburg concert are valid for the Moscow concert. The Moscow concert will be held June 20, 2013 at Club Stadium Live. Tickets for the canceled concert in St. Petersburg can be returned. Details for returning tickets will be announced soon.”

Source: The Gauntlet

http://www.facebook.com/kingdiamondofficial