Former CRADLE OF FILTH guitarist James McIlroy — who left the band in 2005 — has joined forces with ex-BIOMECHANICAL drummer Matt C.

British extreme metallers ANAAL NATHRAKH have scheduled the following dates:

May 02 – Feto Obliteration Fest / The Underworld – London, England
May 10 – Barfly – Glasgow, Scotland
May 17 – The Kathedral – Toronto, ON
May 18 – The Gig Theater – Kitchener, ON (with CRYPTOPSY)
May 20 – Cafe Dekcuf – Ottawa, ON
May 22 – The Plaza Theater – Montreal, QC
May 24 – Maryland Deathfest – Balt

Swedish Viking metallers AMON AMARTH have issued the following update:

“On May 1st (Labour day here in Sweden) we enter Fascination Street Studio to start recording our seventh full-length album.

“Clouds Over California”, the new video from Santa Barbara’s DEVILDRIVER, can be viewed below.

Legendary Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED are about to release their ninth album, entitled “Hammer Battalion”, in a few weeks.

In an effort to appease members of the BLABBERMOUTH.NET community who call his interviews “stupid” or worse, the “world’s leading metal journalist” Johnny Orlando Jr.

Samantha Maloney has toured the world drumming for HOLE and MÖTLEY CRÃœE, produced scores for films, including “Black Hawk Down”, and acted on the silver screen.

The web site of Danish rockers D-A-D has been updated with the following message:

“Right now D-A-D are on their way to the Copenhagen Airport Kastrup.