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Arch Enemy are gearing up to release their 10th studio album, Will of Power, on September 8th via Century Media. After unveiling the album artwork late last month, and dropping a cover of the Shitlickers' "The Leader (of the Fuckin' Assholes)" earlier this week, the Swedes have finally unveiled "The World Is Yours," Will of Power's debut single (which is also their first new music in over three years). It arrives accompanied by a ferocious music video directed by Patric Ullaeus, which finds Alissa White-Gluz and company performing the song against a backdrop of shadows, strobe lights and outer-space scenery. Watch below.

Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott (who co-wrote and co-produced "The World Is Yours" with the help of drummer Daniel Erlandsson) says he's proud of Will of Power, and can't wait to take it on the road. "We had a blast recording together with the full band in the south of Sweden, and then mixing with Jens Bogren [Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, At The Gates], who did a superb mix and mastering in my opinion, even surpassing the epic sound on our previous record, [2014's] War Eternal," Amott says. "People that have heard this song in particular are saying it's got the classic anthemic Arch Enemy vibe going on, and I think they might be right about that."

Arch Enemy are keeping busy in the weeks leading up to their latest LP with a slew of European summer festival appearances scheduled through mid August. On September 15, one week after Will of Power's release, they'll embark on a trek through Eastern Europe, with support from Ukranian groove metal outfit Jinjer on most dates. Europen and North America legs will follow, although the band has yet to offer specific details regarding dates, cities, or venues.

July 06 – Ballenstedt, Germany – Rock Harz Festival
July 07 – Viveiro, Spain – Resurrection Fest
July 12 – Dunaújváros, Hungary – Rockmarathon
July 15 – Gavle, Sweden – Gefle Metal Festival
Aug. 04 – Snina, Slovakia – Rock Pod Kamenom Festival
Aug. 05 – Ostrava, Czech Republic – Ostrave v Plamenech
Aug. 07 – Majano, Italy – Festival Di Majano
Aug. 08 – Dornbirn, Austria – Conrad Sohm
Aug. 10 – Villena, Spain – Leyendas Del Rock
Aug. 11 – Vagos, Portugal – Vagos Metal Fest
Aug. 12 – Leeuwarden, The Netherlands – Into The Grave
Aug. 13 – Walton-On-Trent, UK – Bloodstock Open Air
Sept. 15 – Innsbruck, Austria – Music Hall *
Sept. 16 – Linz, Austria – Posthof *
Sept. 17 – Ljubljana, Slovenia – Cvetlicarna *
Sept. 18 – Belgrade, Serbia – Dom Omladine *
Sept. 20 – Bucharest, Romania – Quantic Club Open Air Stage *
Sept. 21 – Sofia, Bulgaria – Universiada Hall *
Sept. 22 – Athens, Greece – Piraeus 117 Academy *
Sept. 23 – Thessaloniki, Greece – Principal Club Theater *
Sept. 25 – Bratislava, Slovakia – Majestic Music Club *
Sept. 26 – Warsaw, Poland – Progresja *
Sept. 27 – Vilnius, Lithuania – Loftas *
Sept. 29 – Riga, Latvia – Melna Piektdiena *
Sept. 30 – Tallinn, Estonia – Rock Café *
Oct. 01 – Helsinki, Finland – The Circus
Oct. 03 – Minsk, Belarus – Re:Public
Oct. 04 – St. Petersburg, Russia – Aurora
Oct. 06 – Novosibirsk, Russia – Otdyh
Oct. 08 – Yekaterinburg, Russia – Tele Club
Oct. 10 – Moscow, Russia – Yotaspace
Oct. 11 – Samara, Russia – Zvezda

Amon Amarth have unveiled an epic visual for "The Way of Vikings," off last year's record Jomsviking. Directed by Polish production studio Grupa 13 (who previously oversaw videos for the album's singles "First Kill" and "Dawn's First Light"), the cinematic clip pays homage to the 1920's crime drama "Peaky Blinders." Here, in the seedy underbelly of Birmingham, England, the five-piece — clad in dapper period garb, as opposed to their typical all-black attire — serve up the sountrack to a grueling, bloody cage match. As Amon Amarth tear through the Jomsviking highlight in a boxing gym, we see a litany of shady characters (gamblers, grifters, gentlemen and gangsters), and of course, one hell of a fight, complete with slow-motion action sequences. (Alas, the band don't get in on the brawl.) Watch below.

Amon Amarth's latest video arrives one day before they hit the road for another run of shows behind Jomsviking. The trek kicks off in their native Sweden, with an appearance at Gefle Metal Festival. From there, they'll head out to play Chicago Open Air festival (the only North American date on their itinerary) before finishing the leg in Europe and the U.K.

Jul. 14 - Gavle, Sweden - Gefle Metal Festival
Jul. 16 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Open Air
Jul. 25 - Tolmin, Slovenia - Metaldays Festival
Jul. 27 - Tel Aviv, Israel - Theatre Club
Jul. 29 - Istanbul, Turkey - Rock Off Festival
Aug. 02 - Vienna, Austria - Jolly Roger Festival
Aug. 04 - Kostrzyn nad Odra, Poland - Przystanek Woodstock
Aug. 05 - Wacken, Germany - Wacken Open Air
Aug. 06 - Colmar, France - Foire Aux Vins
Aug. 07 - Majano (Udine), Italy - City Festival
Aug. 09 - Villena, Spain - Leyendas Del Rock
Aug. 11 - Derbyshire, UK - Bloodstock Open Air
Aug. 12 - Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Into The Grave
Aug. 13 - Kortrijk, Belgium - Alcatraz Festival
Aug. 17 - Dinkelsbuhl, Germany - Summer Breeze
Aug. 18 - Moravsky Krumlov, Czech Republic - Rock Heart Festival
Aug. 19 - Zvolen, Slovakia - More Than Fest
Aug. 21 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Earshaker Day
Aug. 23 - Budapest, Hungary - Barba Negra Open Air Show
Aug. 25 - Giessen, Germany - Kultursommer
Aug. 26 - Sulingen, Germany - Reload Festival
Aug. 28 - Kiev, Russia - Sentrum
Aug. 29 - Minsk, Russia - Re:Public
Aug. 30 - St. Petersburg, Russia - A2
Aug. 31 - Krasnodar, Russia - Arena Hall
Sept. 02 - Yekaterinburg, Russia - Tele Club
Sept. 04 - Samara, Russia - Zvezda
Sept. 05 - Moscow, Russia - Yotaspace

This year, Danny Wimmer Presents, the Los Angeles-based festival production and promotion company behind Rock on the Range, Monster Energy Aftershock Festival and other major rock events, launched their new video series "What Drives You?" As its title suggests, the franchise compiles interviews with noteworthy musicians about their sources of inspiration and motivation, presented alongside live footage from recent DWP-presented shows. Following March's inaugural installment featuring Korn's Jonathan Davis, DWP is back with another short video, this time starring Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor. Check it out below.

"What drives me?" Taylor ponders in the clip's opening seconds, answering the question with a query of his own: "What fucking doesn't drive me?" He then goes on to list some of his biggest motivators: his love for music, his struggles with personal demons, his duty to fuel the crowd ("the mob," to borrow Taylor's phrasing), and an insatiable desire to make art. "It's that need in me to create," he explains. "It's that need in me to explain. It's that need in me to reach out, react, empathize and have people reciprocate that feeling: to understand it, to relate, so you don't feel as alone." Taylor's interview is interspersed with scenes of his performance with Stone Sour at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena earlier this month (July 1).

Yesterday, Taylor announced the second-annual Ozzfest Meets Knotfest: a weekend-long merger of Ozzy Osbourne and Slipknot's respective festivals set to take place November 4-5, in San Bernadino, CA. The Iowa legends (who curated Knotfest, per usual) are not scheduled to perform; Instead, Taylor will hit the stage with Stone Sour, who released their sixth album Hydrograd last month. Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Prophets of Rage, Testament, Children of Bodom are just a few of the 40 bands slated to play the tag-team weekender.

Mastodon dropped by 'Conan' for an awesome performance of their single, "Show Yourself." Check out the video below.

The Atlanta-based outfit's 'Conan' appearance follows their European tour behind their latest album, Emperor of Sand. Mastodon also recently confirmed another run of North American dates with Eagles of Death Metal and Russian Circles for the fall, as well as a September benefit concert in Chicago, to support suicide prevention initiatives and mental health education. After that, they'll head to the U.K. for even more shows. Check here for a full list of dates.

In an interview with Revolver earlier this year, Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor discussed "Show Yourself" at length, revealing that the song almost didn't make Emperor of Sand's final track listing. "I kind of was not wanting to even put 'Show Yourself' in there at first," he explained. "I was not really into it. I liked it, but I thought it was too catchy and too easy–but then when I saw the scope of everything I realized there was a lot of density on the record. Every song had six or eight working parts, so 'Show Yourself' is like a nice breather from the rest of it."

Arcadea — the psychedelic, synth-heavy project from Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor, Zruda guitarist Core Atoms and Withered guitarist Raheem Amlani — have teamed up with Revolver to premiere their trippy new music video, "Through the Eye of Pisces." Check it out below.

Atoms says of the clip, "The ice melts on a small planet drifting towards a new sun. An android wakes to find she is the only lifeform on this once bustling planet. Traveling through graveyards of crystal, dust and lifeless automation, her memories replay. Created to service the living, her programming resets and becomes the drive to revive her world."

The lyrical concept of the album is set five billion years in the future, after a collision of galaxies creates a new order of planets. In a recent interview with Revolver, Dailor said, "That's kind of Core's foray into the prog-osphere of the concept album, and he wanted to be in charge of that. I was more than willing because writing lyrics is hard! It's one of the hardest parts of my job: trying to come up with cool lyrics. It takes forever. I was like, 'I can't write lyrics for this stuff. Come on, man!' He had the whole thing worked out in his head, where he wanted it to go."

The band's self-titled debut is out now via Relapse Records. To pick up a copy, visit Relapse's webstore. For more on Arcadea, follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

French sludge/doom outfit Monarch have a new full-length on the way. Never Forever, the follow-up to 2014's Sabbracadaver LP (and 2015's covers EP Sacrifice Your Parents, Satan Wants You To), arrives September 22 via Profound Lore. As evidenced by the haunting first single "Song to the Void," the band's latest album finds them tempering an already infernal racket with churning, turgid dream pop. Bandleader Emilie Bresson's eerie vocals remain foreboding and shadow-steeped, and they possess an ethereal, delicate quality heretofore unexplored in Monarch's broader body of work, more reminiscent of Chelsea Wolfe than Noothgrush.

The same can be said for the song's surrealistic, stop-motion video, which doubles as an album trailer. The black-and-white visual mixes the cheery with the morbid, juxtaposing images of fields and butterflies with dark rituals and creepy ruins. To further illustrate the schism, Bresson starts off the video clutching a balloon, and ends up holding a noose. Check it out below.

Before they signed to Prosthetic, won a Metal Hammer Golden God award or played Download Festival, Venom Prison were just five friends from South Wales laying waste to their local hardcore scene. Three years after their 2014 formation, the five-piece have amassed a reputation as some of death metal's most promising upstarts, due in no small part to last year's excellent debut LP, Animus.

Nevertheless, Venom Prison remain staunch DIY disciples, as evidenced by their action-packed "Perpetrator Emasculation" video. The band's latest visual, which collects Ashley Bea Photography's footage of a secret show the band held in their hometown, doubles as Venom Prison's show of solidarity with underground music communities worldwide. Watch below.

"Venom Prison grew from a grassroots hardcore scene, and have no intention of forgetting where we have come from," vocalist Larissa Stupar says of her band's new clip, adding, "Living in a time where music venues close down or just aren't affordable for underground promoters and bands, supporting your local scene is very important, as it helps expanding musical boundaries and help to evolve the bands involved in it. Hopefully this footage from 'Perpetrator Emasculation' spreads word that shows like this are going on all over the world in DIY spaces."

Venom Prison are set to hit the road with Australian death-metal outfit Aversions Crown for a European tour in early August. Their upcoming itinerary also includes a series of dates opening for Gorguts, plus appearances at Belgium's Ieper Festival and Germany's Void Fest.

Aug. 05 – London, UK – Boston Music Room *
Aug. 06 – Birmingham, UK – The Flapper *
Aug. 07 – Glasgow, UK – Audio *
Aug. 08 – Manchester, UK – Satan's Hollow *
Aug. 09 – Exeter, UK – Cavern Club *
Aug. 10 – Bournemouth, UK – The Anvil
Aug. 11 – Ieper, Belgium – Ieper Festival
Aug. 12 – Hamburg, DE – Menschenzoo ^
Aug. 13 – Potsdam, DE – Archiv ^
Aug. 14 – Wiesbaden, DE – Schlachthof $
Aug. 15 – Leipzig, DE – Naummanns $
Aug. 16 – Rotterdam, NL – Baroeg $
Aug. 17 – Oberhausen, DE – Kulttempel $
Aug. 18 – Zinzendorf, DE – Void Fest 2017

* w/ Aversions Crown
^ w/ Without Human Trait
$ w/ Gorguts, Revocation, Fallujah, Havok

Today, metallic hardcore icons Integrity have teamed up with Revolver to premiere their dark, brutal and NSFW-ish music video for "7 Reece Mews." Directed by Revolver Creative Director Jimmy Hubbard with Jeremy Danger and Travis Shinn, the clip can be seen below.

Frontman Dwid Hellion says, " '7 Reece Mews' is one of the most unique and ambitious songs featured on our new album, Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume. Director Jimmy Hubbard has invested a tremendous amount of his time, talent and possibly even his very own mortal soul while creating this short film. I knew from the beginning that Jimmy had a brilliant aesthetic vision that would bring a new and riveting dimension to '7 Reece Mews.'

"Jimmy has exceeded all of my expectations and went above and beyond, the end result has me in absolute awe. His cast and crew conjured up the perfect mood and visual world to encapsulate our soundtrack: A dark religious fairy tale rooted in historic truth. This video is a continuation of our previous video, 'Hymn for the Children of the Black Flame,' which was also directed by Jimmy.

"This prequel is set 400 plus years before 'Hymn' and tells the tale of an unhinged holy man who inverts the holy scripture in the hope of smoking God out of hiding. Culminating in a debaucherous religious orgy that exposes the human condition for what it truly is. Jimmy has captured a spiritual purity within its depravity: Biblical horror for the masses. I hope that you will enjoy this video as much as I do."

Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume, the band's 12th full-length album, will be released on July 14th via Relapse Records. Mastered by Brad Boatright (Obituary, Toxic Holocaust), the LP was mixed and recorded at Developing Nations Studio in Baltimore, Maryland and features cover art by Hellion. The record can be pre-ordered digitally here while physical versions are available at this location.

Northern California-based metal group Aethere recently released their Tragic Hero Records debut full-length, Adrift. Today, the band has teamed up with Revolver to premiere their new live video for "Manipulative." Check it out below.

The group says, "We chose to do 'Manipulative' for our live video, because of the dynamic within it. It begins very in your face and fast, shows a heavy side and as the song progresses it has a very eerie interlude that ties the song as a whole. It's one of our favorite songs to play live so it only made sense that it would be our first of many live videos."

For more on Aethere, follow them on Facebook.

Slipknot are gearing up for the premiere of their new, self-directed tour documentary Day of the Gusano. The film, which chronicles the band's first-ever performance in Mexico City and the legion of loyal fans — otherwise known as "Maggots" — who turned out for the landmark show. The film will grace over a thousand silver screens worldwide for one night only, on September 6. A list of participating theaters will be announced sometime next month; but all you maggots can sign up for email notifications regarding these screenings over at the film's website.

To tide fans over until then, Slipknot have shared a 36-second snippet from the Day of the Gusano. The pro-shot clip previews the group's no-holds-barred take on set staple "Vermillion" — a performance made all the more intense by their sophisticated onstage setup, which transforms an otherwise ordinary stage into the devil's playground. Check it out below.

"Slipknot still has dreams for itself," said percussionist and co-founder Michael "Clown" Crahan, who also directed the documentary. "Finally playing Mexico was one of them. It's been a surreal life of rock and roll for Slipknot and the fact that the dreams still go on for us is simply incredible."

Guitarist Jim Root added, "We had such a great time at Knotfest Mexico... Not only with all the friends and bands that were there, but with the fans and the crowd we had to document it with. Now we get to share it with the world."

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