Indiana blackened thrash and speed metal band WRAITH has today announced their signing to Prosthetic Records, with their new album, Fueled By Fear, due to be released via the Los Angeles label on June 28. Accompanying the signing and album announcement, WRAITH has shared lead single and music video, Heathen's Touch.

EXIST has today shared a new music video for Thief Of Joy. Thief Of Joy is taken from the US progressive metal band's new album, Hijacking the Zeitgeist, which is out now via Prosthetic Records. EXIST’s latest full-length sees the group expand upon their extreme metal technicality and atmospherics with a more concise approach to songwriting, resulting in the most direct and emphatic album of their 14 year career.

Connecticut, US melodic doom / melodeath metal four-piece FIRES IN THE DISTANCE has today announced they'll be supporting Amorphis and Dark Tranquility on the long running melodic death metal bands co-headling North American tour. The tour will take place this fall throughout September into early October, with full dates below. Tickets for the dates will go on sale Friday, May 10 at 10am local time.