Despite

Despite is a death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed 1998 by Timmy Leng and Fredrik Meister. After some years with a couple of demo recordings and line-up changes Despite found its current shape in 2007. With the new recruits John Lidén, Joseph Astorga (ex. Deus ex Machina) and Alex Losbäck Holstad (ex. Decameron, Cardinal Sin, Runemagick) the band stands stronger than ever. A record deal was signed with Tractor Productions (a new Swedish upcoming label) in 2008 and the recording of the debut album begun in September the same year.

Their debut album, “In Your Despite” was released in March 2009 by Tractor Productions. The album contains a song called ”MindPlague” and guest vocals on the track are supplied by Knut Agnred, a renowned Swedish singer and member of the very popular comedy group ”Galenskaparna och After Shave”.

Made of Hate

Made of Hate is a one of the best known polish metal bands. Originally they come from Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. They transformed from the band called Archeon. This band has been a huge inluence for many people over the world and has a big importance for polish heavy metal fans. Their existance as Made of Hate started in 2007 when they recorded Bullet In Your Head album in Zed Studio within 7 days of January. In the late summer 2007 media got informotaion that they had gotten signed with AFM Records. That was a huge step forward for polish band.

In 2008 band released worldwidely the album – Bullet In Your Head. After releasing it in February they appeared on long list of printed magazines, zines and radio shows, inluding all the most popular like Metal Hammer, Hard Rocker and Friday’s Rock Show on BBC by Bruce Dickinson. In the same year, the last mentioned acquaintance led band to play as direct support for Iron Maiden at Gwardia Stadium in Warsaw, Poland. Band played for 30 000 metalheads and got fantastic feedback from audience.

Arch Enemy

Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996. Founded by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage. The band has released several studio albums, a live album (Burning Japan Live 1999), DVDs and EPs. The band was originally fronted by Johan Liiva; frontwoman Angela Gossow joined as lead vocalist in 2000. They then performed on the Black Crusade tour at the end of 2007, with Machine Head, Trivium, DragonForce and Shadows Fall.

In the first half of 2009, the band toured Europe and South America, and they also played at the annual Dubai Desert Rock Festival alongside Opeth, Chimaira, and Motörhead. Following the release of The Root of All Evil on September 28, 2009, the band will embark on an Asian and Australian tour, including their first visit to New Zealand, to be started at the Loud Park festival in Japan on October 17, other acts include Megadeth, Judas Priest, Slayer, Anthrax, Rob Zombie and Children of Bodom.

Rose Funeral

Rose Funeral is an American death metal/deathcore band from Cincinnati, Ohio. Their first demo, Buried Beneath the Blood, was self-recorded and self-released in March 2006. The demo was followed quickly by the release of their EP, Crucify.Kill.Rot, in August 2006. It was enough for them to get picked up by Siege of Amida Records, who re-released Crucify.Kill.Rot in March 2007. While promoting their debut album, Crucify. Kill. Rot, they toured and played shows with The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth, Walls of Jericho, The Red Chord, Animosity, Too Pure to Die, The Faceless, Dead To Fall, As Blood Runs Black, Emmure, With Blood Comes Cleansing, Becoming The Archetype, Dead Man In Reno, For The Fallen Dreams, Diskreet, Last House On The Left, Once Nothing, My Bitter End, Endwell, Year Of Desolation, Nights Like These, In This Moment, The Burning Season, Veil Of Maya, Iscariot and more.

Their numerous regional and national tours helped gained the attention of Metal Blade Records and by early 2008, they had landed a deal. Since then, Rose Funeral has been hard at work continuing to tour across North America as well as writing their Metal Blade debut.

The Agonist

The Agonist, formerly The Tempest, is a Canadian melodic death metal/metalcore band signed to Century Media Records, hailing from Montreal, Canada. They released their first album Once Only Imagined on August 14, 2007. After releasing their first album (August 2007), The Agonist toured extensively, playing with bands such as God Forbid, Arsis, The Faceless, Sonata Arctica, Overkill, Epica, Visions of Atlantis, and Enslaved. One of the band’s tours was disrupted when its equipment trailer was damaged in a blizzard in the Rocky Mountains. Their second album, called Lullabies for the Dormant Mind, was released in March 2009.

They are known primarily for White-Gluz’s ability to use both clean vocals and metal growls. Songs’ themes often revolve around moral concerns such as animal rights, societal dilemmas, and the state of the world. Vovalist White-Gluz was named one of “the hottest chicks in metal” in the July 2007 issue of Revolver and also appeared as a “hottest chick in metal” in the May 2009 issue.

Maroon

Maroon is a straight edge metalcore/deathcore band from Nordhausen, Germany, formed in 1998. They released a demo cassette in 1999 entitled The Initiate although all four songs can be found on later releases. Their first CD, Captive in the Room of the Conspirator, was recorded at Headquarters Studion in Berlin in spring 2000 and released that year on the (now-defunct) Kerosene Recordings label, featuring such songs as “The Solution’ which strongly advocated a vegan lifestyle and support for animal liberation and earth liberation. The band began touring Europe, opening for hardcore acts including Earth Crisis and Morning Again.

Later that year, the band released a 7″ split with Absidia on the Crap Chords label, featuring the song “Wasted” from The Initiate. That winter the band went back to the studio to record a split album with Self Conquest entitled The Key, this time using 101 Studios, also in Berlin. Afterwards the band toured Europe and opened for bands including Heaven Shall Burn and Caliban. In March 2006, Century Media released Maroon’s fourth full-length album ‘When Worlds Collide, their second album titled The Cold Heart of the Sun, and their latest, Order.

Asesino

Asesino is a extreme band recurring project of Brujeria guitarist Dino Cazares formed in 2002, which has featured members of Brujeria, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Sadistic Intent and Static-X. “Asesino” is Spanish for “murderer” or “assassin”.

It is not unusual for Asesino to do Slayer covers live, most notably “Angel of Death” or “Raining Blood”. As with Brujeria, the lyrics are sung entirely in Spanish and with the same subject matter of death, violence, and perversion. Guitarist Asesino describes the band as “the new Brujeria.” Asesino also has the tendency of making satirical comments during the show, and when playing Brujeria songs, change the original lyrics to something more fitting. Unlike Brujeria, whose style is a more mid-tempo, bare-bones form of grindcore, they plays an extreme, up-tempo and multi textured form of extreme metal. packed with killer artwork and a powerhouse production.

Emmure

Emmure is an American Deathcore band from New Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, formed in 2003. The founding members, Ben and Joe Lionetti met Frank Palmeri and Jesse Ketive on the internet and began rehearsals together. Mark Davis joined when the original bass player had to leave for work-related reasons. To date they have had five releases, Nine Eleven Zero Four,The Complete Guide to Needlework, Goodbye to the Gallows, The Respect Issue, and Felony.

They finished a tour in the lower 48 US States supporting Misery Signals, August Burns Red and Burn Down Rome.  Jesse Ketive is a former member of the band Warfix, where he played guitar alongside Bryan Goldsman of Southside Panic, Sean Murphy & Mike Kaabe formerly of Endwell. In June 20, 2009 the music video for “False Love in Real Life” was released on MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball which was directed by Frankie Nasso who also directed the music video for “Sound Wave Superior” and in July 22 they released the first new song off the new album Felony titled “Bars in Astoria”. On August 11 they released the title track “Felony” on their myspace.

Frontside

Frontside is a Polish metalcore / deathcore band from Sosnowiec, Poland, formed by Astek and Demon in 1993. They compose and perform their songs in both English and Polish. The band was formed in 1993 in Sosnowiec, Poland by Astek and Demon. Early Frontside productions were hardcore songs with influence from many other genres, such as hip-hop. Compositions often included rapping, samples and scratching. However, these musical experiments ended on Our Is Kingdom… in 2001; they were replaced by riffs akin to thrash and death metal and harsh vocals.

In mid 2003, Auman from the Polish thrash metal band Totem joined as the new vocalist when Astek left, and Daron became the new guitarist after Simon left. Together, they changed the band’s musical direction more toward death metal, with characteristic riffs and death growling. Along with those aspects, the band also incorporated clean vocals.

Decimation of the Nation 2 Tour 2009

Hardcore metal purveyors  Hatebreed [ tickets ] will celebrate their self-titled new album with a North American run dubbed the “Decimation of the Nation 2″ tour.

A handful of club dates precede the trek’s official Nov. 6 kick-off in Cleveland. The excursion canvases the continent, dropping by theaters and clubs in 41 cities, including parts of Canada. A Dec. 20 performance in Philadelphia rounds out the tour. Details are shown below.

Cannibal Corpse and Unearth will tackle the outing’s opening duties.

The tour supports Hatebreed’s eponymous fifth studio set, which is due in stores Sept. 29 and follows the group’s 2006 release, “Supremacy.” One single from the new effort, “In Ashes They Shall Reap,” is currently streaming at the band’s MySpace page.