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Batoushka join English Dogs and Wormrot on the cancellation list.

Wormrot and English Dogs have unfortunately cancelled their US tours and had to drop off Maryland Deathfest. There's also a pre-show happening the night before the festival.

Iron Lung's Brooklyn show is with Wormrot, Captain Cleanoff, P.L.F., and Mother Brain.

Also: Blue Oyster Cult, Rancid, Kreator, Emperor, Behemoth, Chelsea Wolfe, Primus, Electric Wizard, Pentagram, Hawkwind, Baroness, DRI, Integrity, Leftover Crack, & more.

Metal festival Maryland Deathfest (which returns this May) is expanding westward and presenting California Deathfest as well this year. It happens October 9-11 at Oakland Metro in Oakland, CA, and the lineup includes Worship, Infest, Antediluvian, Autopsy, Bolzer, Disma, Dispirit, Immolation, Excel, Loss, Lycus, Cretin, Despise You, Ghoul, Nader Sadek, Noothgrush, Poison Idea, Xibalba an...

Noothgrush at Power of the Riff in San Francisco in 2011 (more by Taylor Keahey) The Oakland sludge band Noothgrush--yes, named for Dr. Seuss's "little prismatic stoner imp who takes over your toothbrush"--recently released an LP of covers titled Uncovered Failures...

Immolation @ Gramercy, 2013 (more by Greg Cristman) The Maryland Deathfest lineup for 2014 grows ever spookier. The fest's organizers have taken advantage of Samhain to announce a whole string of new bands -- no huge names in this round, but there are a bunch of notables, including Castevet (who just played an IO-sponsored record release show), Sweden's Entrails and the hilarious Birdflesh, Germany's Necros Christos, Japan's Coffins, Canada's Mitochondrion, Austrialia's Whitehorse, plus local favorites Immolation, Incantation, and Mutilation Ri...

Despite the mayor's perhaps optimistic statement about rescheduling the big NYC Halloween Parade that was cancelled due to Sandy, there has been no update since November 3rd when the Village Parade organizers posted the following:The Mayor's Office has told us that the event is cancelled and they cannot give us a reschedule date any time in the foreseeable future...

& Keith Marlowe OFF! at The Bell House The Power of The Riff is entering its third year on the West Coast and much like the last two years, the festival will invade Los Angeles during a weekend in middle August...

Merchandise at Mouse Trap in Chicago last month (more by Jimmy Forabi) Merchandise's Children of Desire has been on heavy rotation since the LP dropped a few months ago via Katorga Works (download it for free)...