Calfornian hardcore legends Strife have released a brand new video for the track ‘Torn Apart’, which can be viewed below.

‘Torn Apart’ comes from the band’s 2012 release ‘Witness a Rebirth’, their first release since 2001.

After much speculation, it has been announced that Atoms For Peace will release their debut album early next year.

The new project teams the Radiohead man up with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea for the new project.

Titled ‘AMOK’, the debut will include the following songs:

‘Before Your Very Eyes…’
‘Default’
‘Ingenue’
‘Dropped’
‘Unless’
‘Stuck Together Pieces’
‘Judge, Jury and Executioner’
‘Reverse Running’
‘Amok’

To read a review of Radiohead’s ‘King Of Limbs’, click here.
To read a review of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘I’m With You’, click here.

Signed to Revelation Records back in the 90s and reformed in 2012, Texas Is The Reason have announced their first live dates for the new year.

Fans in the US can see TITR at the following venues:

January 6 Chicago, IL House of Blues (Rev25)
February 15 Washington DC Black Cat
February 16 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
February 17 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
March 8 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
March 9 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
March 29 San Francisco, CA Bimbo’s 365
March 30 Los Angeles, CA The Music Box at Henry Fonda Theater

Support for each of the shows is TBC.

Swedish band Cult of Luna have confirmed a huge amount of tour dates for the first half of 2013, bring the band to the UK as well as visiting various European territories.

The confirmed dates are as follows:

January:
17th – Hamburg, Knust
18th – Luxembourg, Kulturfabrik
19th – Glasgow, Ivory Blacks
20th – Sheffield, Corporation
21st – Wolverhampton, Slade Rooms
22nd – London, The Garage
24th – Paris, Le Divan Du Monde
25th – Vannes, L’Echonova
26th – Bordeaux, Le Krakatoa
27th – Bilbao, Sonora
28th – Porto, Hard Club
29th – Lisbon, Paradise Garage
30th – Madrid, Caracol
31st – Barcelona, Razzmatazz 3

February:
1st – Beaumont, Le Tremplin
2nd – Karlsruhe, Stadtmitte
27th – Oslo, Parkteatret
28th – Stockholm, Debaser Medis

March:
2nd – Helsinki, Nosturi

April:
18th – Gothenburg, Pustervik
20th – Tilburg, Roadburn Festival
22nd – Fribourg, Fri-Son
23rd – Mezzago, Bloom
24th – Rome, Traffic Live Club
25th – Misano Adriatico, Boulevard
26th – Winterthur, Gaswerk
29th – Bucharest, Silver Church
30th – Timisoara, Daos Club

May:
2nd – Innsbruck, P.M.K
3rd – Wroclaw, Asymmetry Festival
5th – Munich, Kranhalle
6th – Stuttgart, Universum
7th – Bielefeld, Forum
8th – Cologne, Gebaude 9

More dates are to be announced later.

The band are also set to release a new album on January 25th.

Visit Cult of Luna on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/cultoflunamusic

With Devin Townsend’s relentless touring schedule for 2012 reaching Sweden, Swedish website Critical Mass conducted half an hour’s interview with the cult prog-metal star.  The first interview to surface since Townsend performed his one off show ‘The Retinal Circus’ can be seen in the embedded box below.

To watch Devin’s pre-‘Retinal Circus’ interview, click here.

To read a review of the ‘Retinal Circus’ gig, click here.