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Dying Fetus to play live in Shillong in June

US death metal bludgeon trio Dying Fetus have announced a show in Shillong, Meghalaya on the 7th of June this year, after which they embark for dates in Russia and the UK. The performance will be at the first installment of Shillong Open Air and it will also be Dying Fetus’s first show in India ever. Fans who have waited really long to be ‘subject to this beating’, book your tickets now! Dying Fetus 2014 tour dates

Opeth album release pushed to August

There has been quite a buzz about the upcoming Opeth release, but just when the release was getting nearer, Roadrunner Records has pushed the date by more than two months! In an official press release, Opeth has announced that the release of this highly anticipated eleventh studio album, ‘Pale Communion’ has been reslated for August 26th. This is what frontman Mikael Akerfeldt had to say: “Many of you have heard the rumours already and we can now confirm that the release of ‘Pale Communion’ has indeed been pushed back to late August. Several circumstances prevented the band from delivering essential tools to Roadrunner in time which are needed to set up the album release properly and release schedule conflicts made us mutually decide on August instead of June.” This is what the album cover apparently looks like. Whether this is a fake image that’s been leaked or not, we don’t know for sure. Pale Communion The lead single that has been titled “Cusp of Eternity” and album pre-orders are now being promised for June 3rd.

Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert from Cynic publicly come out as gay

In an article that took many metalheads by surprise, Cynic’s Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert have now come out as gay. The information was revealed in an article in the LA Times. Masvidal never hid the fact, being very open with when a fan once asked him about his sexuality on Facebook. The two were open about their sexuality to friends and associates but have decided to go public with the news for the first time in the insightful news piece. The article talks about how the two struggled with their identities, but Paul was the first to come out, in 1991. While on tour, he began exploring drag bars and gay nightclubs. Reinert wanted to join him but was not comfortable with it yet saying: “I knew that, secretly, I wanted to go to those clubs too,” Reinert, 42, said. “But back then, my stereotype of how to be gay was wearing dresses and tank tops. I didn’t have any masculine, metal role models who were gay.” But Cynic being on tour as the opening act for Cannibal Corpse was not making their coming out process any easier, with the audience not exactly embracing their “anti-macho stage presence.” “That tour was really traumatic for us,” Masvidal says, recalling anti-gay epithets being yelled at them. “We were wearing Indian garb and we had a girl keyboardist, and we were playing to this Paleolithic crowd throwing bottles and yelling ‘Get off the stage…’ It was our first big tour and all we could think was, ‘We don’t belong here.'” What made things worse was then Reinert went on a date with a guy who blogged about it on his website. He says “So for years, if you typed my name into Google, the second thing that came up, after ‘Sean Reinert Drummer,’ was ‘Sean Reinert Gay.'” The two musicians, who are now in their mid-40s, have decided to be public about it, and to show the world that gay men can play metal too. The article also states that Rienart is currently living with his longtime boyfriend. “Gay people are everywhere, doing every job, playing every kind of music and we always have been,” Reinert said. “It’s taken me years to finally be brave enough to say, ‘If you have a problem with that, then throw out our records. That’s your problem, not mine.'” Check the source here.

New SLAYER track “Implode” available for streaming

Slayer have put out a new track titled “Implode,” which is the band’s first release since World Painted Blood (2009) and the first since the loss of Jeff Hanneman and the departure of drummer Dave Lombardo. The album is expected to hit stores by summer 2014. Listen to the track here:

Shepherd releases new single

Bangalore based Shepherd has just released a new single titled “Crook” from their upcoming full length debut album ‘Stereolithic Riffalocalypse’. You can listen to it here:

The band has finished recording the album at Premik Jolly’s Area 51 Studios, and news of release should be out soon. Follow them on Facebook for more updates on the album.

Here’s vocalist Namit tracking vocals. Shepherd-vocals

What do you think of the new song? Let us know on the comment section below.

Fragarak announce tour of China

New Delhi progressive extreme metal band Fragarak have announced a tour of China scheduled for April/May. The band will play at 2 festivals in Zhenjiang and Shanghai respectively. They will be playing alongside the mighty Impiety from Singapore and other acts such as Annalyn (Thailand), Tenside (Germany), Narakam (China) and many more. The band will tour during the same time that their debut album ‘Crypts of Dissimulation’ completes a year since release. We sincerely recommend not missing this show if you’re reading this article from China! All the best to Fragarak from the entire Headbangers India team!   TOUR DATES: 30th April – Yangtze River International Music Festival @ Canal stage – Zhenjiang 3rd May – Asia Metal Festival @ Mao livehouse – Shanghai   fragarak china tour 2014

Theorized’s ‘Psychosphere’ album teaser out

The much awaited album by Theorized, titled ‘Psychosphere‘ is out, and the band has also just released the album teaser. You can check it out here: To get your hands on the CD or t-shirt, contact the band at theorized.india@gmail.com with your full name, postal address, contact number, Tshirt size and quantity and they will reply to you with payment details! CD – 395 INR (+ shipping) Tee – 600 INR (+ shipping) *Shipping is free if you pick up both, the CD and t-shirt! Follow the band on their official Facebook page.

Bangalore Open Air kicks off crowd funding with ‘Keep Metal Alive’

Indian metalheads might just create history this year. They will fund what is termed ‘Asia’s largest metal festival’- Bangalore Open Air, in an effort to prove that we do not need sponsors or promoters to keep metal alive! The crowd funding campaign is being spearheaded by the man behind B.O.A.- Salman U. Syed- well known metal DJ, event organizer and manager of Kryptos. Bangalore Open Air 2014 has a target of Rs. 44 lakhs, and a deadline – Tuesday, the 8th of July, 2014. The idea is to get metalheads to pay for a gig that they might attend, and get rewarded for it. There are multiple packages that can be purchased, which come with T-Shirts, meet and greet options, and also V.I.P passes, among other things. Read all about the crowd funding campaign in detail on the Wishberry website, and contribute! This time, it’s in all our hands to #KeepMetalAlive! Also check out the promotional video for the campaign here: Bangalore Open Air 2014  is powered by Wacken Open Air, which celebrates its 25th edition this year with bands such as Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Carcass and others confirmed. American heavy metal band Megadeth has been confirmed as a headliner and will be playing their first show at the history of the festival. Wacken-2014-poster The complete list of bands confirmed as of date are: A Pale Horse Named Death, Amon Amarth, Apocalyptica & Avanti! Orchestra, Arch Enemy, August Burns Red, Avantasia, Bülent Ceylan, Behemoth, Bembers, Blechblosn, Bring Me The Horizon, C.O.P. UK, Carcass, Children Of Bodom, Chthonic, Crematory, Decapitated, Degradead, Der W, Devin Townsend Project, Dunkelschön, Earth Divide, Emperor, Endstille, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Firkin, Five Finger Death Punch, Fleshgod Apocalypse, For The Imperium, Godsized, Hammerfall, Hatebreed, Heaven Shall Burn, Hellyeah, Iced Earth, ICS Vortex, J.B.O., King Diamond, Knorkator, Kreator, Lacrimas Profundere, Masterplan, Megadeth, Motörhead, Nachtgeschrei, Nailed To Obscurity, Nightmare, Omnia, Onkel Tom, Pampatut, Prong, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Saltatio Mortis, Santiano, Saxon, Schandmaul, Skid Row, Sodom, Steel Panther, The Ocean, The Vintage Caravan, Torment, Vogelfrey, Vreid + Guests and W.A.S.P. A lot more bands are slated to be confirmed in the coming months. Check out the trailer for the 2014 edition of Wacken Open Air: