Ran a half marathon yesterday. It went well. I won a prize. And that prize is something I can drink out of. Everyone wins! And by everyone I mean… me.

• Metal Blade Records announced a new signing in Danish outfit Gradience. And with that update, the black metal, deathcore, metalcore, etc crew released the new single “Lucid”. That track features Ghost Iris (Jesper Gün).
• Full of Hell are releasing the Broken Sword, Rotten Shield 7-song EP on May 16th through Closed Casket Activities. Today they gave us the title track as they prepare for their upcoming run with Harms Way (and more), which kicks off a day before that collection’s release.
• Let’s jump back to Metal Blade. Dvne, the progressive post-metal collective, unveiled Live At The Biscuit Factory. That’s available digitally now, and the full session can be seen here.
• Four is enough for tonight. We’ll end with the new video from Pupil Slicer, titled “Heather”. That track is part of a double single, with “Black Scrawl” also just released through Prosthetic Records. A video for that latter track is still to come, however. So stay tuned!

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb