Swedish Viking metallers AMON AMARTH have issued the following update:

“On May 1st (Labour day here in Sweden) we enter Fascination Street Studio to start recording our seventh full-length album.

“Clouds Over California”, the new video from Santa Barbara’s DEVILDRIVER, can be viewed below.

Legendary Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED are about to release their ninth album, entitled “Hammer Battalion”, in a few weeks.

In an effort to appease members of the BLABBERMOUTH.NET community who call his interviews “stupid” or worse, the “world’s leading metal journalist” Johnny Orlando Jr.

Samantha Maloney has toured the world drumming for HOLE and MÖTLEY CRÃœE, produced scores for films, including “Black Hawk Down”, and acted on the silver screen.

The web site of Danish rockers D-A-D has been updated with the following message:

“Right now D-A-D are on their way to the Copenhagen Airport Kastrup.

“Endstilles Reich”, the new video from the German black metal band ENDSTILLE, can be viewed below.

After touring 10 out of 12 months in 2007, Oakland, California-based death metal band ALL SHALL PERISH has finally begun recording the follow-up to “The Price of Existence”, set to be released worldwide later in the year on Nuclear Blast Records.