Breda, Netherlands-based metalcore outfit DARK INTENTIONS has inked a deal with Deity Down Records for the release of the band’s debut full-length.

Swedish thrashers CARNAL FORGE have issued the following statement regarding their participation in the previously announced “Horns Up Festival Tour 2008” featuring headliners ONSLAUGHT alongside SUICIDAL ANGELS and EUFOBIA:

“CARNAL FORGE was asked by the Romanian promoter Metal Masters Management today [May 1] not to board the flight to Budapest later this evening due to the fact that the prom

Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE sat down at the bar with host Shark Firestone of NGTV.com for an in-depth chat about pertinent issues such as their music, the state of world affairs and the joys of writing on passed-out-drunk band members’ faces with permanent marker.

Two years after the release of “The Adversary”, his first solo album, former EMPEROR maestro Ihsahn is back with a new one, “angL”.

French power metallers NIGHTMARE have issued the following update:

“The band are currently also shooting another new video clip for the song ‘Queen Of Love And Pain’ directed by French talented producer Stéphane Gilbart and filmed with the collaboration of Israeli model Jasmin Kedem.

The TAZ TAYLOR BAND, whose touring lineup includes legendary hard rock singer Graham Bonnet (RAINBOW, MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, ALCATRAZZ, IMPELLITTERI), cancelled its Russian tour dates scheduled for May 2 and May 2 based on what the group previously stated was “entirely the decision of Graham Bonnet.” Graham has since issued the following statement of his own regarding the matter:

“There’s some

On Friday, May 2 at 12:00 p.m.

DARK EMPIRE, the American/Swedish band featuring vocalist Jens Carlsson (PERSUADER, SAVAGE CIRCUS), is currently streaming its upcoming album, “Humanity Dethroned”, on the group’s MySpace page.