[Sabaton]Carolus Rex
[Havok]Point of No Return EP
[Order of Nine]Seventh Year of the Broken Mirror
[JK Flesh]Posthuman
[Never to Arise]Hacked to Perfection

[Dark Tranquillity]05/05/12
[Marilyn Manson]04/23/12
[Death Angel]04/28/12
[Sepultura]04/23/12
[Nothing]04/17/12
[Hammerfall]01/26/12

[Blind Guardian CD Giveaway] Blistering.com and Virgin/EMI are giving away copies of Blind Guardian’s career retrospective Memories of a Time To Come to five (5) lucky winners. It doesn’t take a genius (or wizard) to figure out the band’s power metal pedigree is of legendary proportions, and on Memories… BG has taken 15 of their classic songs, including the indomitable “Valhalla,” “Imaginations From the Other Side,” “The Bard’s Song (In the Forest)” and “Mirror Mirror” and slapped them on a must-have compilation. To get your (gnomish) hands on a copy, enter before Friday, May 18.

[Trepalium Song Stream]We are stoked to be streaming "Let the Clown Rise," a song from Trepalium's forthcoming H.N.P. (Klonosphere/Season of Mist) album. Part of the burgeoning French metal scene, Trepalium is a modern metal hybrid that injects harsh brutality and dynamics into their sound. And as your ears will hear, "Let the Clown Rise" is a brutal, groove-laden track. To listen, head over to our Downloads page…

[Six Feet Under]Alongside modern day Morbid Angel, Six Feet Under takes the cake as the most polarizing act in death metal. Obviously, there are far more extreme and exciting options out there, but on Undead, Six Feet Under gives meat-and-potatoes death metal a nice kick in the behind. And like 2008’s very-underrated Death Rituals, it showcases a kind of quality control that just wasn’t there when the band was virtually spitting an album out once a year…