Here are the new heavy metal CD releases for this week:

Alaric & Atriarch - Split (20 Buck Spin)
Furze - Psych Minus Space Control (Fysisk Format)
I, Omega - The Ravenous EP (Bullet Tooth)
Lahmia - Into The Abyss (Bakerteam)
Marauder - Elegy Of Blood (Pitch Black)
Nachtvorst - Silence (Code666)
Never to Arise - Hacked to Perfection (BadGod)
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power Re-Release (Rhino)
Philm - Harmonic (Ipecac)
Royal Hunt - In The Heart Of The City (Best Of 1992-1999) (Scarlet)
Shadows Fall - Fire From The Sky (Razor and Tie)
Syn Ze Sase Tri - Sub Semnul Lupului (Code666)
Words Of Farewell - Immersion (AFM)

Here are the new heavy metal CD releases for this week:

Allegaeon - Formshifter (Metal Blade)
Angelus Apatrida - The Call (Century Media)
Arjen Lucassen - Lost In The New Real (InsideOut)
At The Skylines - The Secrets To Life (Roadrunner)
Bible of the Devil - For the Love of Thugs and Fools (Cruz Del Sur)
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity (Metal Blade)
Crack Up - Heads Will Roll Re-Release (Metal Mind)
Horseback - Half Blood (Relapse)
Hung - Hung (The End)
Huntress - Spell Eater (Napalm)
Impiety - Ravage & Conquer (Pulverised)
Incoming Cerebral Overdrive - Le Stelle: A Voyage Adrift (Supernatural Cat)
John 5 - God Told Me To (Rocket Science)
Kontrust - Second Hand Wonderland (Napalm)
Moonspell - Alpha Noir (Napalm)
Obsidian Tongue - Volume I: Subradiant Architecture(Dissociation)
Oddland - The Treachery Of Senses (Century Media)
Sleep - Dopesmoker Re-Release (Southern Lord)
Soil - Re-Live-ing The Scars In London CD/DVD (Bieler Bros)
Dee Snider - Dee Does Broadway (Razor and Tie)
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion (Roadrunner)
Svyatogor - Doctor Veritas (Svarga)
Trioscapes - Separate Realities (Metal Blade)
US Christmas - Bad Heart Bull Re-Release (Play The Assassin)
West Of Hell - Spiral Empire (Reversed)

Here’s a pretty good one found on the internet. Are you getting you daily death metal nutritional requirements?

Sound & Fury Festival is back in it’s 7th and biggest year yet, taking place at the Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara, CA from July 20th through 22nd. The festival is excited to announce additional performers for the 2012 lineup, including Earth Crisis, Harms Way, Ivy League, Sabertooth Zombie, Seahaven, Xibalba, and others.

Some previously announced performers are Bane, Blacklisted, Comeback Kid, H2O, Terror, Touche Amore and many more. Check out the full list of bands playing below and stay tuned for one more exciting lineup announcement coming before the festival.

Stay tuned to the festival’s website for more information and bands to be announced. The currently announced lineup is as follows:

Alpha & Omega
Bane
Basement
Bent Life
Black Breath
Blacklisted
Born Low
Comeback Kid
Creatures
Dead End Path
Donnybrook
Downpresser
Earth Crisis
Everything Went Black
Fire & Ice
Focused Minds
Friend or Foe
H20
Hardside
Harms Way
Harness
Holy Fever
Hour of the Wolf
Ill Intent
Ivy League
New Brigade
Night Birds
No Tolerance
Nomads
Piece By Piece
Retaliate
Rival Mob
Rotting Out
Sabertooth Zombie
Seahaven
Single Mothers
Souvenirs
Suburban Scum
Terror
The Mongoloids
Touche Amore
Tough Luck
The Wrongside
Xerxes
Xibalba

Here are the new releases in metal for this week:

Agruss - Morok
Catheter - Southwest Doom Violence
Diseim - Holy Wrath
Honour Crest - Metrics
Melechesh - Mystics Of The Pillar II
Teramaze - Anhedonia
Usurpress - In Permanent Twilight
When Tigers Fight - Death Songs
Wild Hunt - Before the Plane of Angles

Here’s some hilarious found on Deviant Art  to show you. Portuguese artist LusoSkav crafted this series of “funny because it’s true” caricatures of people from all walks of metal dubbed Luso’s Handy Guide to Metalheads.

click the thumbnails below to view them all!

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Here are the new releases in metal for this week:

7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes Of Absolution
16 - Deep Cuts From Dark Clouds
Anathema - Weather Systems
Bereft - Leichenhaus
Brendan Small’s Galaktikon - Galaktikon
Cancer Bats - Dead Set On Living
Cripple Bastards - Senza Impronte
Fair Warning - Best And More
Hydrogyn - Private Sessions
Mares Of Thrace - The Pilgrimage
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Pigeon Toe - The First Perception
Prong - Carved Into Stone
Running Wild - Shadowmaker
Struck By Lightning - True Predation
Teramaze - Anhedonia
Torche - Harmonicraft
Trixter - New Audio Machine
Unleashed - Odalheim
Vesperian Sorrow - Stormwinds of Ages
Wolfbrigade - Damned
Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light