New Jerseys pirate themed thrash metal maniacs SWASHBUCKLE have revealed the cover artwork and tracklisting of their forthcoming album "Crime Always Pays"...

The album will be released via Nuclear Blast on September 10th in Europe and TBA in North America.

Commented vocalist/bassit Admiral Nobeard:

"Crime Always Pays... is our heaviest and fastest record to date. It'll tear your head off of your neck and shove a pegleg in your eye-sockets.  We're proud to have Nuclear Blast release this malicious metal madness, and we're sure you'll all be pleased with the shennanigans that are about to ensue. Thrash Hard, Mosh Fast, and Leave a Decaying Corpse swingin' from the noose! AVAST!"

The tracklisting is as follows:

01. Slowly Wept The Sea
02. We Are The Storm
03. This Round's On YOU!
04. Powder Keg
05. Where Victory Is Penned
06. Of Hooks And Hornswogglers
07. A Time Of Wooden Ships & Iron Men
08. Crime Always Pays
09. Raw Doggin' At The Raw Bar
10. The Gallow's Pole Dancer
11. Legacy's Allure
12. At The Bottom Of A Glass
13. To Steal A Life
14. You Bring The Cannon, We'll Bring The Balls
15. Surf-N-Turf (For Piratical Girth)
16. Rope's End

"Crime Always Pays"... was recorded at The Sound of Revolution Studios in Ewing NJ with engineer Len Carmichael, whom the band worked with on Back to the Noose.

Dutch Death Metal Masters HAIL OF BULLETS have launched the first song of their upcoming new album 'On Divine Winds' exclusively on MySpace. Surf to the bands site (http://www.myspace.com/hailoffuckenbullets) to check out the album opener Operation Z!

The album title 'On Divine Winds' refers to the translation for the Japanese word Kamikaze, as kami stands for "God" and kaze means "wind".

'On Divine Winds' track listing:

Read more: HAIL OF BULLETS launch first song of upcoming new album on MySpace!

"Gateways," the first single from the new album ABRAHADABRA by Norwegian symphonic black metal band DIMMU BORGIR, is available for purchase in Europe on iTunes at this location from Friday, August 20th on and in North America on Tuesday, August 24th.

Germany's Metal Hammer Magazine recently conducted a interview with DIMMU BORGIR frontman Shagrath. The video, where Shagrath discusses the new album and upcoming European tour, can be viewed here.

ABRAHADABRA will be released in Germany on September 24th, in the rest of Europe on September 27th, and in North America on October 12th. Fellow countrymen Enslaved and Sahg will be the opening acts on DIMMU BORGIR's headlining "Darkness Reborn World Tour" in Europe, which launches on September 21st in London.

One of the most infamous and notorious names in metal, Cradle of Filth  continue to shock, excite, disgust and inspire in equal measures. On November 1st 2010, the latest chapter of the band’s dark history is to be released through Peaceville Records on the band’s own AbraCadaver imprint. Titled ‘Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa’ their ninth studio album is, in the word’s of Cradle’s infamous frontman Dani Filth “without doubt the fastest and most brutal album we’ve created to date. As an acquaintance of the band so aptly noted, this is like ‘Iron Maiden on crack in a graveyard of angels!” “This album is Cradle at our most sinister and darkened fairytale,” continues Dani. “A gothic horror themed slay-ride of fervour and perversion; yet amidst the orchestral melodrama and lush, cinematic production, there sits stalwart a ravening beast of furious riffing, flesh ripping vocals and monstrous, unstoppable percussion.”

Read more: ‘Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa’ to be released on Abra Cadaver via Peaceville Records