News and sales: 2009-W17

If you click on the above image, print out the flyer, and present it at the door, you can get in free at Relapse’s Contamination Tour date in Cleveland at Peabody’s on May 6. The lineup features Obscura, Graves of Valor, and Abysmal Dawn.

Tickets are available here for the Nuclear War Now! festival in Berlin, DE. This two-day fest (Nov. 13-14) features Bone Awl, Dead Congregation, Midnight, Morbosidad, Villains, and many others. NWN also has Rotting Christ/Necromantia and Ulver/Thorns slipmats.

Unanimated’s In the Light of Darkness is streaming in its entirety here. It comes out April/May on Regain.

Slough Feg’s Ape Uprising is streaming in its entirety here. (The page also has full album streams for the new Crown the Lost and Crescent Shield records.) It comes out May 8 in Germany, May 11 in the rest of Europe, and June 2 in USA/Canada on Cruz Del Sur.

The latest records on Relapse from Buried Inside, Brutal Truth, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed are streaming in their entirety here, here, and here, respectively.

Pre-orders are available here for Xasthur’s new 2xLP, All Reflections Drained. One can choose from various vinyl options (black, red, picture disc) and accessories (back patch, slipmat, t-shirt).

Pre-orders are available here for 1349’s new CD, Revelations of the Black Flame. Tom G. Warrior co-mixed the record. It comes out June 2 in the States.

Pre-orders are available here for Voivod’s new record, Infini. Like its predecessor, it was extrapolated from riffs recorded by guitarist Piggy (RIP). It comes out June 23 in the States on Relapse.

FMP has dropped prices in its distro for the moment. Most CD’s are now $5. The label also confirmed the upcoming release of Velvet Cacoon’s Atropine.

Rhino has compiled its remasters of Black Sabbath’s Dio years into a 5-CD box set. The Rules of Hell features extensive liner notes and new interviews with band members. It is available here and here.

Australian deathrashers Shackles‘ debut album, Traitors’ Gate, is out on gatefold black vinyl and picture disc at Hells Headbangers.

Aspherical Asphyxia Productions has embarked on Old Crown, New Spawn, a three-part tribute to Emperor, Arcturus, and Ved Buens Ende. The Emperor one is available for free download here.

The soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s new film, The Limits of Control, features Southern Lord artists Boris, Sunn O)))/Boris, and Earth. The cast includes Isaach De Bankolé, John Hurt, Bill Murray, and Tilda Swinton. The film (trailer here) comes out in theaters June 3.

From the press release: “Massachusetts’ finest hard rock purveyors, Killswitch Engage, have announced the title for their eagerly anticipated fourth album for Roadrunner Records. The title is Killswitch Engage.”

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