Rotten UK

Metal tours announced: Midnight, Grim Reaper, Massacre, Slipknot, Mr. Bungle, more

Plus: Sannhet, System of a Down, Testament/Black Dahlia Murder, Uncle Acid, SECT, Ozzy listening parties and more heavy tour news ++ an unseen set of pictures from the Morbid Angel/Watain/incantation tour.

Montreal's Varning Fest returning; many bands playing NYC first (Hank Wood & the Hammerheads, La Misma & more)

Montreal punk/hardcore festival Varning is returning for its seventh year from November 7-9 at MTL venue Katacombes. A bunch of NYC bands will be there, like Hank Wood & the Hammerheads, Nuclear Spring, La Misma and more, plus Sweden’s Institution, Portland’s Criminal Damage, San Francisco’s Ruleta Rusa (ex-Born/Dead and Peligro Social whose last show was Varning VI), Boston bands Bloodkrow Butcher and Koward, and many m…