Whilst not only having wowed almost all festival goers this weekend Mastodon also announced they will be performing on UK shores! A handful of dates in some big venues in order to promote their latest achievement “Once More ‘Round The Sun” which according to Brann Dailor, they shall be performing in its entirety.

After playing their slot at Sonisphere this weekend, Tesseract announced that come winter they will have short UK stint after their European tour with instrumental virtuosos Animals As Leaders, while on seven dates long this tour surely will not be one to miss.

Get excited. Aborted have put out a teaser for their new video ‘The Extirpation Agenda‘.

A new Orkin pest control commercial has pitted a bunch of termites against multiple subgenres of metal – grindcore, deathcore, crustpunk and speed metal. And yes, the termites go metal.

Some bittersweet news from the Nachtmystium camp. After a tumultuous couple of years with frontman Blake Judd facing legal battles and drug addiction he has finally announced that this really is it for the Chicago-based black metallers despite announcing the break up last year.

In light of the recent highlighted ‘health risks’ of headbanging, Nightwish and ReVamp frontwoman Floor Jansen has taken to an interview to answer questions asked by South American fans on the ReVamp tour.

Decapitated took to Twitter today to ensure that we all know a follow up to 2011’s ‘Carnival is Forever’ is well and truly on the way. A bit of their new album cover, designed by Lukasz Jaszak, was teased via Facebook and subsequently shared on Twitter by the band. Check the teaser below.