Swedish all-female rock/metal band CRUCIFIED BARBARA will release its second full-length album, Til Death Do Us Party, in Scandinavia on February 11 and in the rest of Europe on February 27.

SANCTIFICATION, the Swedish death metal band featuring current/former members of GOD AMONG INSECTS, IN BATTLE and SOULDRAINER, has announced its new lineup consisting of Tomas Elofsson (guitar) and Markus Edvardsson (guitar) alongside three session members.

Xbox LIVE and Welsh ragga-metal band SKINDRED are set to team up for a massive video debut on Tuesday, December 9.

Fan-filmed video footage of the Swedish progressive metal band OPETH performing the song The Lotus Eater earlier tonight (Thursday, December 4) at Club Alcatraz in Milano Italy can be viewed below.

Earlier this year (starting around March), the Canadian branch of KFC (also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken), a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, started airing a commercial for its wicked crunch box meal featuring a fictional black metal band called HELLVETICA.

ORACLE'S END, the Acworth, Georgia-based metal band featuring drummer Ryan Drover — son of MEGADETH's Shawn Drover — has scheduled the following dates: Dec.

Brantford, Ontario-based extreme metal band OUR LADY OF BLOODSHED has posted the tracks Church and State and Agony Within The Flames from its upcoming album VII on the group's MySpace page.

After 13 years and four albums, and as controversial as ever, vocalist Hoest of the Norwegian black metal band TAAKE recently spoke to Terrorizer's Jonathan Horsley to FINALLY explain his reasons behind that stunt.

DEMONICAL, the Swedish death metal band featuring past and present members from CENTINEX, GRAVE, REGURGITATE, INTERMENT, AMARAN, WORLD BELOW and DELLAMORTE, has issued the following update: On December 17 we will crawl into the pits of Necromorbus Studios in order to start the recordings of our second full-length assault entitled 'Hellsworn'.

The latest issue of Sweden Rock magazine features an interview with the Swedish black metal band NIFELHEIM conducted in late September during the group's Finnish tour with WATAIN.

Canadian cult metal band THE EXALTED PILEDRIVER (a.k.a.

UNANIMATED, the reunited Swedish melodic death metal band featuring former members of ENTOMBED and DISMEMBER, has just returned from the recording studio.

Swedish metal band THE HAUNTED has issued the following update: We just finished a world tour of Asia, Australia, South America.

HardcoreSounds.Net conducted an interview with vocalist Johan Hegg of the Swedish Viking metal band AMON AMARTH prior to the group's November 26, 2008 concert in Tampere, Finland with SLAYER, TRIVIUM and MASTODON.

Death Dies Hard, the new video from the Swedish industrial goth metal band DEATHSTARS, will receive its world premier on Monday, December 8 on MySpace.

That Day, That Sorrow, the new video from the Russian/Swedish/Danish modern metal band ICON IN ME, can be viewed below.