Las Vegas, NV — Five Finger Death Punch has announced the band will release the lead single from their forthcoming 2 new studio albums this Tuesday, May 14 via all digital retailers. The track, “Lift Me Up” (featuring Rob Halford of Judas Priest), which debuted with a performance of the band joined by iconic guest artist Halford live at Revolver Magazine’s Golden Gods Awards Show, will hit the air on radio stations across the globe today. Singer Ivan Moody shares, “First and foremost, just to work alongside an icon like Rob Halford, THE Metal God, was absolutely surreal. The song itself was originally written about overcoming everyday obstacles and less than perfect situations. Most of us weren’t born with a silver spoon in our mouth but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play. The song’s intent is to inspire; if you play that hand right you might just come out on top anyway”

“Lift Me Up” (featuring Rob Halford of Judas Priest) will be available online starting May 14 http://bit.ly/10kJNWX

Five Finger Death Punch will release The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume 1 on July 23, while Volume 2 is scheduled for later this fall. Eleven Seven will release the albums outside of North America. Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory recently shared, “We came off the road after a couple of great years of touring and were really amped up to write the 4th record. Everybody was in the right headspace and the band tighter than ever so it was a perfect storm. We jumped in head first and found ourselves 12-13 songs deep fairly quick but were still coming up with better and better material so we looked at each other and said…. ok why stop there? Let’s keep going. Once we passed the 24th song we knew we’re going to have to do two albums. We had this massive amount of music that’s very dear to us, possibly the best material this band has ever created. At that point there was no way to decide which songs to leave off one album. So we made the decision to release them all.”

In June, Five Finger Death Punch will return to Europe for a tour of major festivals including Sweden Rock (6/06), Germany’s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park (6/08 and 6/09) and the U.K.’s Download Festival at Donington Park (6/16) (full schedule below) concluding the run with a performance at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Ceremony in London.

Upon the band’s return to the U.S., the band will co-headline the 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival alongside Rob Zombie kicking off in San Bernadino, CA on June 29. The travelling festival will stage appearances in 26 markets, and the full itinerary can be viewed here: www.fivefingerdeathpunch.com/tour/

Five Finger Death Punch has released three consecutive RIAA gold certified albums through Prospect Park for sales exceeding 500,000 copies. The success of The Way of The Fist (2007), War Is The Answer (2009) and American Capitalist (2011), which debuted at number 3 on the Billboard charts in October 2011, exhibits the band as one of the few in the rock genre to consistently see significant sales both digitally and physically. The band’s ten consecutive Top 10 radio hits – including 2012′s #1 hit “Coming Down – have spawned cumulative single sales of over 4.2 million. Going back to 2008’s “The Bleeding”, Five Finger Death Punch has consistently been one of the most heavily played bands at rock radio.

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Metal guitar legend Chris Poland (ex Megadeth / OHM) has contributed a guest guitar solo to the new album Belt Buckles and Brass Knuckles, from popular Nashville based rock band Moccasin Creek. Poland plays lead on the hard driving track “Only Warning,” which is scheduled to be one of the singles off the album.

Moccasin Creek have taken the rock underground by storm, releasing three full length albums in less than two years. The band has close ties to the heavy metal world, with previous albums having guest appearances from Glen Alvelais (Testament / Forbidden) and Tom Klimchuck (Pro-Pain), and Klimchuck handling mixing duties for all Moccasin Creek recordings.

Moccasin Creek guitarist Charlie Bonnet III spent many years as part of the Tennessee based metal band Disarray, and now serves as co-manager for the career of metal legend Steve ‘Zetro’ Souza (Exodus / Hatriot). Belt Buckles and Brass Knuckles is available now on iTunes.

 Listen to “Only Warning” featuring Chris Poland -

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For more information on Moccasin Creek please visit

www.moccasincreekmusic.com and www.creekvideos.com

Chicago, IL. – New York City, NY based I Scream Records has entered into an exclusive, worldwide distribution agreement with Victory Records. I Scream was founded in Brussels, Belgium by Laurens Kusters in 1994.

I Scream Records, www.iscreamrecords.com, is one of the world’s leading international punk and hardcore labels. The catalog features releases from Life Of Agony, Madball, Ramallah, Trapped Under Ice, Stigma, Skarhead, The Last Resort, Wisdom In Chains, Earth Crisis, Twitching Tongues, Death By Stereo, Incite, Agnostic Front, MOD, Blood For Blood and Lionheart to name a few. After years of licensing its releases to various US labels, I Scream started its American operation in 2006 as a committed and diverse independent label. The first releases will be the re-issuing of the classic and seminal Murphy’s Law catalog“Murphy’s Law”, “Back With A Bong”, “The Best Of Times”, “Dedicated” and “The Party’s Over” along with a new EP from Lionheart. In addition to distribution, Victory will be handling all of I Scream’s international e-commerce.

Tony Brummel, Founder of Victory Records said, “I have known Laurens for at least fifteen years. He grew up in the music industry on the business side and also as a musician. He has a great ear as a musician, publisher and label owner. He has a fantastic catalog and will be announcing some very exciting signings in the coming weeks and months. I Scream is a great addition to our stable of distributed labels.”

About Victory Records, Inc.:

Victory Records, Inc. is the top independent rock label in the United States and one of the world’s leading independent record companies. For more information please visit  http://www.victoryrecords.com

Peoria, IL — Mindset Evolution will release the band’s full-length debut Brave, Bold, and Broken via Prospect Park Records in June. Perseverance has become a way of life for the Peoria, IL quintet since they began fighting to be heard in 2005. The band – Rob Ulrich (vocals), Brad Prentice (guitar), Josh Bodeen (bass), Joey Gibbz (drums), and Skyler Baer (guitar) – went from local stalwarts to national contenders as the winner of 2011′s Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival “Battle of the Bands.” As they ready the release of their lead single, “Burn It Down,” the real fight is just beginning.

By 2011, the band had carved out an impressive following in the Midwest that led to a featured spot on the 2012 Vans Warped Tour, as well as opening slots for the likes of Seether and Breaking Benjamin. As their budding career was building steam, a friend blindsided the band entering Mindset Evolution in the first-ever Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival “Battle of the Bands.” They emerged victorious out of a pool of over 5,300 bands across the country, and as Singer Rob Ulrich recalls, “We had just endured a lineup change and were actually in the process of planning our next step. We wanted to write more, but my buddy found this ‘Battle of the Bands’ contest. He entered us without saying anything, after rallying the fans, and promoting, we ended up winning.” As contest victors, they landed a spot on the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival 2012 sharing the stage with Shinedown, Godsmack, and Staind for the entire summer.

On the album, produced by Johnny K (Staind, Disturbed), they infuse hard rock with a vibrant, vital, and, at times, vulnerable energy. That spark ignites on the incendiary and irresistible first single “Burn it Down,” which impacts radio in June, and is available on iTunes May 21. Both Chicago’s WIIL and Colorado Springs KILO are on the track pre-impact date showing strong support, while hometown rock station WIXO in Peoria has already begun spinning the song. The band’s very moniker suggests the importance of change in the face of life’s trials and tribulations. Ulrich reflects, “If you face an obstacle that you can’t pass, you have to change your approach, and do something differently. You have to look at it from another angle, and find a way around it or through it. That’s what the name is about. That’s what we’re about.”

Mindset Evolution will appear at Rock On The Range on Friday, May 17, and Rocklahoma on Saturday, May 25, alongside additional confirmed shows that include:

5/18 Big Flats, NY The Summer Stage with Korn

5/21 Patchogue, NY The Emporium with Buckcherry

5/22 Point Pleasant, NJ Jenks Club with Buckcherry

5/23 New York, NY Irving Plaza with Buckcherry

5/29 Bethlehem, PA Sands Bethlehem Event Ctr with Buckcherry

5/30 Providence, RI Fete Ballroom with Buckcherry

5/31 Hampton Beach, NH Hampton Beach Casino with Buckcherry

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“Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11AM this morning near his Southern California home,” the band’s longtime publicist said in a statement. “Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure.”

Slayer guitarist and founding member Jeff Hanneman died earlier today of liver failure. He was 49.

Las Vegas, NV — Five Finger Death Punch has announced the band will release their fourth studio record as a double album in two installments with Vol. 1 hitting stores on July 23 and Vol. 2 scheduled for later this fall. Prospect Park will release the albums in North America, Eleven Seven in all other territories. Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory reveals, “We came off the road after a couple of great years of touring and were really amped up to write the 4th record. Everybody was in the right headspace and the band tighter than ever so it was a perfect storm. We jumped in head first and found ourselves 12-13 songs deep fairly quick but were still coming up with better and better material so we looked at each other and said…. ok why stop there ?… let’s keep going. Once we passed the 24th song we knew we’re going to have to do a double album. We had this massive amount of music that’s very dear to us, possibly the best material this band has ever created. At that point there was no way to decide which songs to leave off the album. So we made the decision to release them all.”

The band will be kicking off the new album cycle by introducing the first single, “Lift Me Up” with a live performance featuring a very special surprise guest at Revolver Magazine’s Golden Gods Awards ceremony in Los Angeles this Thursday where the band will appear live alongside Metallica, Stone Sour and Halestorm amongst others. The show will be streaming live on AXS TV and Xbox LIVE:http://bit.ly/13pBfkq. The studio version of the song will premiere in the U.S. on radio on May 13 and will be available for purchase online May 14.

In June, Five Finger Death Punch will return to Europe for a tour of major festivals including Sweden Rock (6/06), Germany’s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park (6/08 and 6/09) and the U.K.’s Download Festival at Donington Park (6/16) (see full schedule below) concluding the run with a performance at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Ceremony in London.

Upon the band’s return to the U.S., the band will co-headline the 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival alongside Rob Zombie kicking off in San Bernadino, CA at the San Manuel Amphitheatre on June 29. The travelling festival will stage appearances in 26 markets, and the full itinerary can be viewed here:www.fivefingerdeathpunch.com/tour/

Five Finger Death Punch has released three consecutive RIAA gold certified albums for sales exceeding 500,000 copies. The success of The Way of The Fist (2007), War Is The Answer (2009) and American Capitalist (2011), which debuted at number 3 on the Billboard charts in October, 2011, exhibit the band as one of the few in the rock genre to consistently see significant sales both digitally and physically. The band’s ten consecutive Top 10 radio hits – including 2012′s #1 hit “Coming Down – have spawned cumulative single sales of over 4.2 million. Going back to “The Bleeding” in the spring of 2008, Five Finger Death Punch has consistently been one of the most heavily played bands at rock radio.

www.fivefingerdeathpunch.com