Houston's instrumental quartet SCALE THE SUMMIT hit the studio today to begin tracking the band's Prosthetic Records debut, entitled "Carving Desert Canyons". Due in early 2009, the record is the follow-up to the band's 2007 self-released debut, "Monument". Fans can expect a series of in-studio blog and video updates covering the progress of the recording of SCALE THE SUMMIT's new music.
British quintet ARCHITECTS will make its live debut on American soil as part of the Cleansing The Nation tour this fall alongside Century Media labelmates SUICIDE SILENCE, EMMURE, BENEATH THE MASSACRE and AFTER THE BURIAL.
GENGHIS TRON have posted the remix of Board Up The House track “Relief” online now at MySpace.com/GenghisTronRemix. This remix of “Relief” comes courtesy of Tobacco (BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW) and will be made available on volume two of the band’s ongoing 12” remix series. For more information on this series, please visit MySpace.com/GenghisTronRemix and limited copies of volume two are still available for pre-order now at this location.
St. Paul, Minnesota-based progressive/experimental metallers THE CRINN have posted a trailer for their forthcoming full-length debut, entitled "Dreaming Saturn". The band will enter the studio later this year to begin recording the CD for a 2009 release via Nuclear Blast Records.
Reunited progressive metallers CYNIC — whose 1993 album "Focus" is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal — will release their new album, "Traced In Air" on October 28 via Season of Mist Records (one day earlier internationally).
Metal Injection has posted fan video footage (see below) of ARSIS' August 16, 2008 performance at The Sonar in Baltimore, Maryland (where the Virginia-based technical death metal outfit was performing as part of the Thrash And Burn tour).
Tasmanian tech-death masters PSYCROPTIC have uploaded a brand new track, "Immortal Army of One", to their MySpace page. The song comes off the group's fourth album, "Ob(Servant)", which is scheduled for release in Europe on September 26 and in North America on October 14 via Nuclear Blast Records.
