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Last night, during a TeamRock Radio interview, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian made it public that the band's new guitarist is Shadows Fall axman Jon Donais. Donais has been filling in with Anthrax since Rob Caggiano left the band in January to join Volbeat.

"Jon is a bro and he's also a total fucking ripper," Ian said during the interview, which you can hear below. "I've worked with him twice before on side projects and he tears it up. I'm excited to have him on my right burning up the stage with Anthrax. '13s gonna be a good year."

Donais said:

"I grew up on Anthrax, they're the thrash scene, they're one of the Big Four, I'd be crazy to not want to play with them. Initially, Rob called and told me he was leaving the band, and asked if I'd be interested in filling in.

"Then Scott called me and everything fell into place. Rob and I are using Skype to work on solos and other guitar parts, so he's being great. I also have to give special thanks to my band — Brian, Matt, Jason and Ed — who have been incredibly supportive and encouraged me to do this."

You can hear the entire interview below.

Blackened thrashers Skeletonwitch have teamed up with Revolver to provide fans with a sneak-peek look behind-the-scenes as they track their new single "Burned From Bone" at Kurt Ballou's GodCity Studio. The band's new album, Serpents Unleashed, will be released via Prosthetic Records on October 29 in North America. Preorder packages are available at Skeletonwitch.com now.

Ace photographer Rob Fenn was on hand for this year's Gigantour to capture Newsted — singer/bassist Jason Newsted's new band featuring Staind guitarist Mike Mushok, drummer Jesus Mendez Jr. and guitarist Jessie Farnsworth — playing songs from their debut album, Heavy Metal Music. Check out Fenn's photos in the gallery below! The massive Gigantour 2013 also featured Megadeth, Black Label Society, Device and Hellyeah.

After an enormously successful IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign raising nearly $40,000, Grammy-nominated and Juno-winning Banger Films is embarking on a final push to create the "Lost Episode" of the series Metal Evolution: Extreme Metal. The episode will take viewers on an unprecedented journey across Europe and North America to tell the story of metal's most aggressive and misunderstood subgenre.

"Our first IndieGoGo campaign was a huge success and we were blown-away by the support of the metal community," says Banger Films co-founder Sam Dunn. "The research, writing, travel and filming is now complete and we've captured some amazing interviews and footage. But we need to turn this footage into an episode!" The new campaign kicked off Friday, August 9th. Details of the campaign, including a brand-new trailer featuring exclusive footage from Banger's Extreme Metal filming trip, can be found here: igg.me/at/LostEpisode

Back in October, Dunn was kind enough to pick and write about the bands that he considers to be the most important acts in extreme metal. Below, we've reposted the original list for all of you who missed it the first. "Since the entire extreme metal sub-genre is typically overlooked, I've decided to list five pivotal bands that have shaped the sound, lyrics and aesthetics of extreme metal from the early '80s to present-day," Dunn wrote. "So I humbly present to you my picks for the most important architects of metal's darkest, most iconoclastic sub-genre..."

Bathory: Bathory's self-titled debut record marked the true birth of the black metal sub-genre, transforming black metal from the tongue-in-cheek occult posturing of Venom into a sober, artistic pursuit. Lo-fi production values, epic Viking lore, eerie atmospheric passages – Bathory's enigmatic founding member Quorthon (RIP) almost singlehandedly forged a template that would inspire legions of Scandinavian black metal bands.

Possessed: Ratcheting up metal's evil quotient with ultra-low guttural vocals, songs about ritual sacrifice and images of giant flaming upside-down crosses and blood-splattered human skulls, Possessed made their 80s Bay Area thrash metal counterparts look like half-assed part-timers. Not to mention that the final track on their seminal debut Seven Churches, "Death Metal," would coin an entire sub-genre to be.

Carcass: Featuring over-the-top song titles like Genital Grinder, Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites, Crepitating Bowel Erosion - Liverpool's Carcass introduced a brand of extreme metal was at once absurd and clinically precise, and sent most 80s extreme metalheads to their local medical libraries to find out exactly what the hell "crepitating" meant. Pioneering so-called "grindcore" along with fellow Brits Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower, Carcass' sound was brutally raw, impossibly fast and indeed grinding.

Death: Death leader Chuck Shuldiner (RIP) was the Bach of extreme metal. Eschewing the primitive for the progressive, Chuck and Co. took the brutality of Bathory, Posssessed, Autopsy etc. and added complexity, virtuosity and lyrical depth, proving that extreme can also be elegant. And with album titles like Spiritual Healing and Human, death metal was now about more than decapitation and limb dismemberment: it was a social commentary.

Enslaved: Who said extreme metal couldn't be spiritual? Hailing from the fjords of Norway's rugged westcoast, Bergen's Enslaved began their career amidst the pack of Norwegian black metal bands that exploded in the early 90s. But by decade's end they had matured into an eccentric blend of black-meets-prog-meets-folk metal, with lead growler/bassist Grutle Kjellson recounting Norse mythology in long-extinct dialects. Recent albums Ruun and Axioma Ethica Odini demonstrate that extreme metal can be a vehicle for both savage aggression and oral history, suggesting a brave future for metal's most transgressive sub-genre.

Want to see a special "lost" episode of the Metal Evolution series dedicated to nothing but extreme metal? Check out www.indiegogo.com/extrememetal to see what killer perks you can get for helping make it a reality!

SOiL will release their new album, Whole, on August 20. In anticipation, the band has teamed with Revolver to premiere new track "The Hate Song" right here right now. Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments.

Whole is available for preorder on Amazon. For more on SOiL, visit SoilTheBand.com, Facebook.com/SOiLmusic, and Twitter.com/SoilTheBand. Check out their upcoming tour dates below the song stream.

Idaho progressive metalcore act The Ongoing Concept are literally a band of brothers. The three siblings and childhood friend have learned to live, play, and tour with each other—which can get quite tense at times.

"Well, being in a band for as long as we have, we've really learned what annoys one another—what makes each other tick, I guess," bassist and non-blood brother TJ Nichols says. "We all have our buttons and we know how to push them. That being said, surviving with three brothers who know every bit about each other's lives can be difficult." So with that, Revolver asked the crew how to survive being in a band with relatives.

The band's debut album, Saloon, drops on August 20 via Solid State Records. Check out their latest video, "Cover Girl," at the bottom of this post.

Rule 1: "Taking a back seat to pointless arguments is a must!" says Nichols. "I've learned that the hard way. Just let them do their thing and it'll be over soon. If you get in between a heated argument, you become the target! It's not all bad by any means, though. I love all these guys like blood. They're some of my best friends."

Rule 2: "Another thing I would say that is essential to the balance of the band is the relationship I have with each of them," says Nichols. "Like Dawson, he's at level 9 on intensity for the most part which is what makes this band work, but how we interact with each other is totally different than, say, how me and Parker or how Kyle and I act together. It's just the way we are a band of brothers. And honestly, I love the fact that we're a 'band of brothers.' I know where all of these guys' hearts are at and with three unrelated strangers it just wouldn't be the same."

Rule 3: Drummer Parker Scholz says, "I deal with my two other brothers by eating junk food and sleeping in the back all day. I'm the youngest in the band, so I find it easier to just trust my brothers on most things."

Rule 4: Vocalist-keyboardist Kyle Scholz says, "Parker's anti-jokes. His jokes are the best diffuser for when situations get a little heated. No matter how frustrated we may be, he knows how to lighten the mood."

Rule 5: Guitarist Dawson Scholz says, "I think trust is extremely important. Being the oldest, it's really tough for me to trust my brothers. I feel I need to always be keeping an eye on them. When I become to controlling, they get irritated, so I've found trusting them and letting them do their thing is key to keep everyone from wanting to punch each other in the face."

This week sees new shit from Black Water Rising, Old Wounds, We Butter the Bread with Butter, and more hitting stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you're snagging a copy of and which record should be the Album of the Week. Pick your favorite and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, August 19, at noon, when the results will be announced.

UPDATE: The poll is closed. For the results, click here.

Re-formed British extreme-metal legends Carcass have release the lyric video for the song "Captive Bolt Pistol"—check it out below. The track comes from their highly-anticipated sixth full-length album, Surgical Steel, which will be released on September 17 in North America. Surgical Steel will be available on several collectible formats and can now be ordered with or without an exclusive T-shirt design here.

Revolver Electronic Cigarettes was on the road with the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival all summer to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at all the action. Check out their fourth of six videos, Kicking Some Ash: On The Road With Mayhem and Revolver E-Cigarettes,Week #4, featuring Job For A Cowboy!

Revolver Electronic Cigarettes is a company of Revolver Electronic LLC. Their goal is to provide a better alternative to tobacco cigarettes while upholding a level of customer service that is committed to the highest level of excellence.

Learn more at revolvercig.com, and stay tuned for more videos from the road!