After working four-day weeks for the last month, today begins a marathon of mental endurance. Will I make it through five whole days and still be alive to write the news next week? Stay tuned.

All Pigs Must Die have a little West Coast tour with Baptists.

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Did you get Portal-ed yet?

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Allegaeon released yet another Rush cover. I kinda love it.

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It was posted a few times last week, but here’s Visigoth’s new track if you missed it.

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• The band Solution .45 announced a hiatus. Blame Wintersun if this upsets you.
• One of the Toilet favorites from last year, Integrity, has a short spring tour.
• DEP played their last show, watch some footage here.
• Iced Earth is re-recording some back-catalog with its new lineup.
• A band backed my McNulty, Colosso, released a track.
• Protest the Hero is recording a new one. I was hoping they’d do that after the upcoming Fortress tour so they had in mind how dope that album is.
• Clutch are recording a new album.
• Judas Priest dropped a new song.
• How ‘bout some new Pestilence from a flexi while we’re at it?
• Extinction A.D. put out a new song.
• Heavy sludgy band Ilsa announced an album and dropped the first single.
• Sodom parted ways with their guitarist and drummer, basically saying they need fresh blood to be interesting. Weird statement.
• Leather armor jacket band Septicflesh released a new video.
• Exmortus are recording a new album with Warbringer members in the studio.
• The rape and kidnapping charges against Decapitated have been dropped…for now.