Montreal's BENEATH THE MASSACRE has posted the first in a series of in-studio videos featuring footage from Northern Studio in Quebec while the band was tracking material for its forthcoming album, Dystopia, which is scheduled for an October release through Prosthetic Records. The clip can be seen here and here, and more clips should be expected shortly. Recorded again with Yannick St-Amand (Despised Icon, Ion Dissonance, Neuraxis) and featuring artwork from Felix Rancourt, which can be seen in the video, Dystopia is the follow-up to 2007's Mechanics of Dysfunction, the band's Prosthetic debut after first releasing an EP with Galy Records.

"We're all stoked for the new album," frontman Elliot Desgagnes says. "The songs are by far the weirdest, most intense songs we have ever written. It's great to finally listen to all the crazy ideas we had.... After six weeks of intense tracking, we're also relieved that's it's all done. The writing process was hard and exhausting since we wrote most of it on the road, but we can now say that it worth it and we cannot wait to release the album and play the new songs on our upcoming tour. We're also stoked to get back to touring the US more frequently starting this September with Necrophagist."

Our friends over at The Ripple Effect were awesome enough to start a new column dubbed "Prosthetic Aesthetic" and the first installment features some reviews for the new records from CENTURY, WITHERED, SKELETONWITCH, THE FUNERAL PYRE and the reissue of TESTAMENT's First Strike Still Deadly! Cruise on over to The Ripple Effect and check out what they thought of the records.

For all the Swedish-speaking metalheads out there, WOLF has an interview up - including live footage! - from this year's Peace & Love Festival. You can check it out online here.

Our buddies at SickDrummer.com and Sick Drummer Magazine have launched their brand-new magazine online at www.sickdrummermagazine.com, and the best part is the subscription is free! Head on over and check it out, including a piece from WITHERED drummer Beau Brandon as well as Origin's John Longstreth, Tommy Buckley of Soilent Green, Romain Goulon of Nechrophagist, columns from Chris Pennie, Sean Reinert, Charlie Zeleny, and Kurt Ballou. Folks that already subscribed should get a notification with a link to the first issue and new subscribers can cruise on over and check out the current issue when they sign up!

Formed in 2003, Atlanta’s WITHERED rose from members of the grindcore/crust punk band Social Infestation, with a yearning to explore extreme music and create something with black metal overtones and dramatic guitar melodies while still clinging to their punk and grind roots. In April 2005, WITHERED evolved their crop of works into Memento Mori, yielding high praise throughout the world for its intense stylings and sophisticated arrangements, carving WITHERED a permanent position among top acts in extreme music.

After solidifying the line-up again, the band recorded Folie Circulaire, WITHERED’s latest opus, which sees a June 2008 release through new home Prosthetic Records. Again featuring artwork from Paul Romano and a devastating mix courtesy of Kylesa's Phillip Cope, Folie Circulaire marks another notch into the legacy of WITHERED’s history, further cementing the band’s place among bands in extreme music continuing to push the boundaries of the genre.