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Sepultura are not fucking around with this new record they are working on right now. They reunited with producer Ross Robinson, who helped them with their biggest release, Roots. And now, they enlisted founding Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo to guest on the record. Lombardo is keeping busy since having that messy falling out with Slayer. …

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In 1996, Sepultura teamed up with Ross Robinson and created the legendary album Roots, which in essence became a part of the nu-metal blueprint. Now, 17 years and a few lineup changes later, the two forces hope to rekindle their relationship by working on a new album. Obviously, this is not the same Sepultura, seeing …

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Detroit post hardcore act We Came As Romans will release third full-length album, “Tracing Back Roots,” in Europe on July 26th via Nuclear Blast Records. In March, the band traveled to Los Angeles to record the new album, teaming up with producer John Feldman.

Singer/guitarist discusses the roots of thrash and his ongoing search for the “ultimate riff.”

Finnish hardcore heroes Unkind have revealed the details for their upcoming sixth full-length entitled “Pelon Juuret” (Translation: “Roots of Fear”). The album was recorded with producer Kari Nieminen at Noisecamp studios in Turku, Finland at the end of 2012. Relapse Records comments: “‘Pelon Juuret’ continues in the direction of the group’s previous work, offering up a furious fusion of d-beat hardcore crossed with a creative touch of atmospherics, as if Mogwai made a record of Tragedy covers or From Ashes Rise were influenced by Explosions In The Sky.” The album will be released on CD/LP/Digital via Relapse Records on July 9th in North America, July 8th in the UK / World, and July 5th in Germany, Benelux, and Finland.

Hells Headbangers has announced June 21st as the international release date for Insanity’s “Death After Death” vinyl reissue. The following press release was issued about the album: “Hailing from California, Insanity’s roots stretch back to the mid ’80s, when death metal was just beginning to get a toehold in the underground

From The Bogs Of Aughiska

The Gaelic May Day, aka Beltane is upon us and the shadowy, dark ambient entity that is County Clare’s From The Bogs Of Aughiska want to celebrate with a Hammer-exclusive live video.

Recorded at London’s The Unicorn last March, these two tracks - I Rise In Bealtaine, Turn To Ash In Samhain, taken from the new album, Roots Of This Earth Within My Blood, and Aos Shi – are piped direct from Ireland’s darkest recesses and not for the fainthearted. Enjoy!

After the exit of longtime vocalist Howard Jones, the path of Killswitch Engage seemed unclear. They went back to their roots, bringing back Jesse Leach, who left the band a decade ago. His return has seemed to energize the band, which is evident on their latest album Disarm The Descent. I chatted with Leach about how the reunion came about, the recording of the new album, his thoughts on singing Jones’ songs, the future of Times Of Grace and other topics.

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The producer of their seminal 1996 album “Roots” has been drafted in to bring back some of their old magic and record “one of the best albums in the history of Sepultura.”

Oh god Ozzy, not again.

New Black Sabbath album 13 lands this June, and Ozzy has been chatting about working with Rick Rubin again, never losing touch with his Brummie roots and, um, Adele.

“Every time I’ve seen him for the past 15 or 20 years, Rick Rubin‘s always said to me that if Sabbath ever got back together, he wanted to produce us,” says the Ozzman. “Before we went into the studio, people were telling us that he’s always got five things going on at the same time, so he’ll be in there one day and then you won’t see him for three weeks. All I can say is that whenever I was in the studio, he was there. Rick Rubin is the producer and he knows what he’s doing. If this is anywhere near as successful as the Adele album [Rubin co-produced], I’ll be happy!”

And on the note of ever potentially collaborating with Adele, Ozzy adds:

“I’d die a happy man, I think she’s fucking great. She’s not fucking botox-faced, she’s a normal, healthy girl who speaks in her native accent.”

Adele: Ozzy’s new BFF

Ozzy also noted that Tony Iommi‘s progress is coming along well, stating that he’s “fine, but he can only go out on the road for six weeks at a time as he has to have infusions or some shit for his immune system. I was amazed that during his chemotherapy he was still writing songs. My heart goes out to him, because when Sharon [Ozzy's wife/manager] had cancer a few years back, she was so sick from chemotherapy she could barely get out of bed. It’s like having a football kick to the nuts. The chemotherapy is worse than the cancer — Sharon was like [the possessed child Regan in] The Exorcist, having seizures all the time. Tony is doing really well, though.”

Tony and Ozzy hard at work

Black Sabbath recently posted another video from the 13 studio sessions – including an interview with Rick Rubin!

More details on the different formats 13 – out June 10 – will be available in have also come to light, with the following variations now available to pre-order from www.blacksabbath.com:

• Standard CD album
• Deluxe double CD album in a deluxe soft-pack (includes a second disc of exclusive bonus audio material)
• Vinyl: 12″ heavyweight (180g) vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve
• Super Deluxe Box Set: limited edition 12″ clamshell box set which contains:
- Deluxe double CD album
- 12″ heavyweight (180g) vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve
- Exclusive DVD containing ‘Black Sabbath–The Re-union’ documentary
- 5 behind-the-scenes videos
- Download card containing exclusive track by track interview with Black Sabbath
- Exclusive ’13′ art print
- 13 exclusive photographic prints and hand written album lyrics

“I wanted to make an album that stood alongside their first four albums,” producer Rick Rubin tells RollingStone.com. “The first album wasn’t a straightforward heavy metal record. You could hear the jazz influence, so that was the goal, and to capture that live interaction.”

Song titles on the album include God Is Dead, End Of The Beginning and Age of Reason, with Tony also shedding some light on the band’s position on drummer Bill Ward choosing to sit out the reunion last year.

Read the full interview here.

13 will be released in June via Vertigo and was recorded in LA, with Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk joining original Sabbath members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler for the recording sessions.