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.

British grindcore legends Napalm Death have released a new “tour video” for the track ‘Everyday Pox’.

The track is taken from their 2012 release ‘Utilitarian’ and features avant garde musician John Zorn on saxophone.

The clip can be seen below. To watch interviews with ND frontman Barney, click here.

A new video interview with Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway has been posted on YouTube. In a chat with Loudwire Rock, the Napalm Death frontman discusses the band’s 2012 release ‘Utilitarian’ and more. The resulting interview can be seen in the first embedded clip below.

An older interview with Barney discussing ‘Utilitarian’ with Italian website MetalItalia.com can be seen in the second clip.

Clicking on the YouTube logo in the bottom right of each embedded box will take you to each interviewers’ YouTube channel.

‘Utilitarian’ – Napalm Death’s fifteenth studio album – was released in February 2012.

On the back of the release of their comeback album ‘Push & Shove’, the reunited No Doubt have taken to the road. They bring 2012 to a close with a seven night residency at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles on the following dates.

November 24, 2012 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
November 26, 2012 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
November 28, 2012 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
November 30, 2012 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
December 2, 2012 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
December 4, 2012 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre *w/Best Coast
December 6, 2012 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre *w/Best Coast