Lazy Sunday

• Hate Enternal's record label, Metal Blade, has setup a pre-order page for the bands upcoming album "Phoenix amongst the Ashes" where they've premiered the new track, "Haunting Abound"

• The End records have a Spring 2011 sampler up for 'free' download, check out http://theendrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-records-spring-2011-sampler and click where it says "Buy Now" there is now limit to how small a donation is needed (i.e. zero works fine) but all the money raised will go to The American Red Cross to help out in Japan.
• Watch out for albums in late 2011 from Canadian all-girlers Kittie, and the mighty brits, Venom.
• Free compilation downloads at: http://www.metalhit.com/free.htm the genre based compilation free-downloads includes; Thrash, Death metal, Black Metal Gothic Metal, Doom Metal, Folk metal.
• Dia De Los Muertos have released their album, "Satanico Dramatico" for free download at: http://www.ddlm.net/ 

• Forsaken, a melodic thrash/ Experimental metal band from Bengaluru have released their album "Disengage" as a free download on mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?37p6sono3d9hodt
• Haemic, a band from somewhere, have released their 2011 Demo as free download on: http://haemic.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2011
• German's Gravsahl have released their new demo, "When Everything Fades" as free download: http://www.mediafire.com/?w6u1cwibzp1uzxm
• Italians "Ritual of Rebirth" have released their album, "Of Tides and Desert" for free download; go to www.jamendo.com/it/album/86386 and click "Scarica" for the download- give your email address as well.
• German's Caliban have finished work on their upcoming E.P "Coverfield" which features covers from Type O Negative, The Beatles, At the Gates and Rammstein

• Check out this link; http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/balsac/the-blood-vomits-a-very-good-man for some strangeness from the creatures behind the mighty GWAR
• There's a new 'super group' coming out called ""The Resistance" featuring members (formerly in most cases) of In Flames, the Haunted, Grave & more- more info/releases from these guys to come.
• Free Wormrot album, "Dirge" details here: http://earachenews.blogspot.com/2011/03/wormrot-offer-entire-new-album-as-free.html