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The tour will support the Oakland death metal trio’s upcoming LP ‘Lifeless Birth.’

Wednesday’s NYC-area show options include The Antlers, Valerie June, Eyehategod, Dave, Eve 6, and more.

Plus: Northlane, Pickathon, Jason Isbell, Built to Spill, Tim Heidecker, Hop Along, The Hu, City Morgue, and more tour and festival news.

Eyehategod will be out with Clutch, IV and The Strange Band, and more before their tour with BAT…

The open air metal fest goes down in Cave In Rock, IL this September.

Plus: old school metal fest Rage of Armageddon, Necrofest, GWAR, Baroness, King Buzzo, Knocked Loose, and more metal tour/festival news.

“Seeing as Sonic Youth mash chords like few others, this cover of ‘White Kross’ just seemed to lift itself beyond the constraints of cover – or filler – song into a bit of a rumbling wall-of-sound epic,” Barney says.

It’s a pretty gnarly mix of black and thrash metal that splits the difference between the true darkness of the former and the party-spirit of the latter, resulting in an album that’s unsettling even as it maintains a sense of humor about itself.

Portland thrashers Toxic Holocaust have been involved in a bunch of tour-related turmoil lately, having been on that Discharge tour that got postponed…

Classic Canadian thrash outfit Razor have been back and making some moves lately, having reissued three of their classic albums with Relapse last year. Now they’re playing some shows around the US, including a mix of festivals and club dates…