Texas Metal Alliance Signs With Housecore Records

Texas Metal Alliance, the new project of Rigor Mortis vocalist Bruce Corbitt, Gammacide guitarists Rick Perry and Scott Shelby, Gammacide/Devilfist bassist Alan Bovee, and Demonseed drummer Joe Gonzalez, has signed onto Phil Anselmo's Housecore Records. The band intends to release a full-length album on Housecore in 2009.

TMA has also asked their fans what they think about the band’s name. You can check them out on their MySpace page.

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Chimaira Enters the Studio

Jim LaMarca, of Ohio's Chimaira's has issued the following update:

"Well here we go again with a new record. We’re about to step in the studio again with Ben Schigel. Some of us have been working with Ben for over 13 years and I am really excited to be working on this record at home this time. We start pre-production this week and it will be fine tuning from here on out. I hope that everyone enjoy’s the YouTube stuff and hopefully we will have some new footage up for you this week. The attached video is a little homeage to The Great Hoya (Madball), I have to admit he is my favorite guy to tour with."

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Kevin Talley Talks About New Daath Album

Kevin Talley talked with Sickdrummer.com about his experience working with Daath on their latest album:

'The new Daath was recorded by Jason Suecof and Mark Lewis (they've done Bury your Dead, Devildriver, Chimaira) down in Florida. Finally, I have been able to capture a killer drum sound with them! Utilizing real acoustics, like recording Dying Fetus's Destroy the Opposition. So this drum sound isn't all fake like 90% of the other stuff these days.

"Daath just released new music this past week and I am very stoked about the great response we've gotten. I wasn't really a part of the last Daath record, but I helped write this entire record. It really took me back to the DF days, when I could really connect with other writers who are musically capable and able to handle an asshole drummer.

"The new Daath drum parts are very similar to my old school drumming except, in my opinion, more innovative. I have always been a drummer who writes drum parts to complement, not copy, guitar riffs. This is why I didn't write well with Chimaira. They simply wanted me to copy the riffs which is boring and overdone these days.

"Now more than ever, I have taken to a very unique writing style. It is, however, very very subtle. It's like the first main riff in Sepultura's Chaos A.D. You may think the kick drums follow the riff, but they don't... The beat is different and and adds a ton of groove by complementing the riff. To notice it, you must listen to the riff and then turn off the music. Next, hum the riff in your head and imagine what beat YOU would write to that same riff. Now, turn the music back on and see if the beats match up. Sometimes they will, but mostly they won't. This is not the case when you listen to Fear Factory or Chimaira, which are more straight forward drum parts. Although I added as many good drum parts I could in Chimaira, my drumming on the self titled album is pretty average IMO."

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Ephel Duath Reveals "Through My Dog's Eyes"

Italian avant-garde metallers EPHEL DUATH will release their fourth studio album, "Through My Dogs Eyes," in January 2009.

EPHEL DUATH has never been one to take the traditional approach to creating music and their latest effort takes this outlook even further. "Through My Dogs Eyes" is based on a bizarre concept conjured up by guitarist and founding member Davide Tiso, in which the entire album is written from the perspective of a dog. Tiso explains: "I wrote a few short stories and it was really fun for me to imagine myself as a dog and to imagine the world from a dog's perspective. The challenge was to translate the words into lyrics."

From opening track "Gift," which Tiso describes as being about "A cat that the dog kills for the owner as a gift, and he asks the owner if he is happy with the present", to the thought-provoking "Promenade," a song about a walk in the park which takes a twist when the owner questions himself as to why he's not as carefree and happy with life as his dog is, the barking mad brilliance runs throughout the course of the whole album. "Every song is a window into the dog's mind or an event," Tiso continues, "The album touches on a lot of things, both deep and sometimes silly."

It's not only the lyrics in "Through My Dogs Eyes" which are written from the dog's perspective - rather the entire album, including the music, is based around this unique and previously unexplored concept. "The music in this case is the soundtrack of the thoughts of the dog - at times you can hear the dog running," Tiso elaborates.

"Through My Dogs Eyes" is due to be released through Earache Records on January 26th, 2009.

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AC/DC Streams Entire New Album Online

Rock legends AC/DC's forthcoming new studio album, "Black Ice" has been uploaded in its entirety at VH1's The Leak. You can listen to the whole album by clicking here..

"Black Ice" will available to buy exclusively through Wal-Mart on October 20th and is the bands first studio album in eight years, following 2000's, "Stiff Upper Lip."

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Metallica Plans Radio Appearances, HBB Feature

Metallica will be performing live at the Los Premios MTV Latin America 2008 show coming to you from Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico. The show will be broadcast from Auditorio Telmex on Thursday, October 16 at 9 PM in the US (on MTV Tres), 10 PM in Mexico and Colombia and at 11 PM in Argentina.

Metallica will also be feratured on MTV here in the States on "Headbanger's Ball," celebrating the show's 20th anniversary starting on Monday, October 20 on MTV2. Metallica will be featured in the first show of the anniversary week, "MTV Essential: Metallica," that premiers on that Monday at 11 PM. The show will take you back through the band's history and includes new interviews about "Death Magnetic" and their recent summer tour in Europe.

Then on Monday, October 20, Lars and Kirk will be guests on Rockline coming to you from Phoenix, AZ the night before The World Magnetic tour begins. The show starts at 8:30 pm PST. Check rocklineradio.com for a station in your area broadcasting the show. And if you want to call in to ask a question, the toll free number is 1-800-344-ROCK (7625).

You can also find a list of stations on the Rockline site that will be streaming the show live by clicking "listen live" when you get there. There will be a recording of the show streaming there a day or two later if you miss it. Finally, the same show will be rebroadcast as an "Instant Classic" on Wednesday October 22 on Rockline.

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Exodus Posts Re-Recorded Songs Online

Exodus has posted the re-recorded versions of "Metal Command" and "A Lesson In Violence" online at their official Myspace. The songs come from the bands new album "Let There Be Blood" which is a re-recording of the bands classic 1985 debut album, "Bonded By Blood." The album will be released on October 28th.

In addition Gary Holt, founding member and guitarist, has released a comment on recording "Hell's Breath," a rare track from the band's 1980's demo. "Hell's Breath" will be a bonus track included on the Let There Be Blood release: "When Tom and I finished the drum tracks for Let There Be Blood, we had a half a day of studio time left, we tried to come up with something to record with the spare time we had. One thing led to another, and next thing you know I started playing the opening riff to "Hell's Breath", which is when we both said "Hell Yeah!" Funny thing is, neither of us had played the song for two-plus decades, so we were going by memory on the exact arrangement of the song. It wasn't until I started deciphering my old lyrics from some live MP3's that a friend had sent me, that I realized we had gotten the original solo section wrong! Just slightly different, but overall, this one came out so killer, almost makes me want to track some more of those old classics!"

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Tyr Announces North American Tour Dates

Tyr has announced a series of shows in North America with support being handled by Scottish metallers Alestorm and Suidakra.

The tour dates are as follows:

February 28 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
March 1 - Orlando, FL @ The Backbooth
March 2 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Engine Room
March 4 - Houston, TX @ Walter’s on Washington
March 5 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
March 6 - Dallas, TX @ Ridglea Theater
March 7 - Tulsa, OK @ The Marquee
March 9 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad
March 10 - Tempe, AZ @ TBA
March 11 - San Marcos, CA @ The Jumping Turtle
March 12 - Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
March 13 - Oakland, CA @ The Metro
March 14 - Portland, OR @ TBA
March 15 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
March 16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Vegas
March 17 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
March 18 - Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
March 19 - St Paul, MN @ Station 4
March 20 - Mokena, IL @ The Pearl Room / Capone’s
March 21 - Cleveland, OH @ TBA
March 23 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
March 24 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
March 25 - Rochester, NY @ The Penny Arcade
March 27 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
March 28 - Allentown, PA @ The Sterling Hotel
March 29 - New York, NY @ High Line Ballroom

More dates/venues will be announced shortly.

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E-Town Concrete Reunion Show Announced

New Jersey's E-Town Concrete will reunite for a show early next year. The show will take place at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ on February 21st. Doors open at 6pm and tickets (which go on sale Friday) are $25 in advance. The band, which broke up in 2006, has yet to comment.

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Static-X Posts New Live DVD Clip Online

Static-X has uploaded a clip of the band performing the song, "Push It" from their forthcoming new DVD, "Cannibals Live." You can watch the clip below.

The DVD contains the following tracklisting:

1. Cannibal
2. Dirthouse
3. Shit In A Bag
4. I’m With Stupid
5. Bled For Days
6. No Submission
7. Behemoth
8. Destroy All
9. Cold
10. Black And White
11. Destroyer
12. The Enemy
13. The Trance Is The Motion
14. This Is Not
15. Love Dump
16. Push It
17. Get To The Gone More...

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Stronger Anti-Piracy Laws Passed

A new RIAA supported bill as been signed by United States President, Geroge Bush JR which creates a position known as Intellectual Property Czar. This position means that said person will be reporting directly to the president as part of a new government office known as Office of the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative.

The law contains the following key points:

* The law toughens criminal laws against piracy and counterfeiting.

* The Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America backed the bill, as did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

* It is called the PRO-IP Act

* The ‘czar’ position will not be filled before Bush leaves office.

* Preliminary punishments involve seizing of pirated copies and the device on which the copies are stored. Hefty fines may also follow.

The PRO-IP act was originally signed off on by the House of Representatives on May 8. It is now law thanks to the signature of President Bush.

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Dream Theater Enters The Studio

Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess has posted a handful of audio and video updates from the first few days spent in the studio recording Dream Theater's upcoming tenth album.

The follow-up to 2007's "Systematic Chaos," which debuted in the ARIA chart at #23 in its first week of release, the new album will be their second with Roadrunner Records.

In his online diary "The Wizard's Log," Rudess said progress has already been made in the short period of time they've been locked away in the studio.

"It's going very well. Notes are flying as usual, there's lots of inspiration flying around, lots of food, lots of Starbucks. We're having a good time, it's good to hang with the boys again and do our thing. We're hard workers when we're at it and it's been really very cool," he said.

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Haste The Day Posts "Resolve" Online

Haste The Day's new album "Dreamer" is in stores today and the band has just posted one more song from the album on their MySpace page. The newly posted song is "Resolve."

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Download An MP3 Of Early Man's "Sinking The Blade"

EARLY MAN's EP "Beware The Circling Fin," their first release since 2005's acclaimed Closing In, is out today. "Beware The Circling Fin," the band's first release for THE END RECORDS, was mixed with the help of legendary producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney, Dwarves, High On Fire).

The lead track from "Beware The Circling Fin," a raging thrasher called "Sinking The Blade," is available for download from MetalSucks.net.

MetalSucks also interviewed EARLY MAN frontman Mike Conte about the downfall of Neanderthals ('they were too intense to last long'), Metalocalypse ('so on point it's sometimes not even funny'), and where metal went wrong ('it didn't'). You can read the entire interview and download an MP3 of "Sinking The Blade" at MetalSucks here.

"Beware The Circling Fin" is available for pre-order from THE OMEGA ORDER. The EP is available in CD, digital, and 10" vinyl formats.

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Sender Receiver Confirms Break-up

Iowa's Sender Receiver has formally announced their break-up via the following statement from guitarist Maxxwell Lange:

"This is honestly the hardest thing I've ever had to write. Well there is really no easy way of saying this but...after almost 3 years as well as 3 vans, 1 trailer, countless broken equipment and bones sender receiver is calling it a day.

"There is no one really to blame for this honestly, its been almost a long time coming. The band changed lineups more times than Zao has basically. The heart is still there but no body to continue on.

"The final nails in the coffin have come within the last few weeks, our longtime now singer Brett's family has been going through quite some financial troubles as well as some deaths have occurred and it has not been easy for him to be there for everyone so he hasn't been able to get back on his feet enough to move back out to Iowa. Luke our drummer for the last 8 or 9 months is having to step down himself due to financial and "health problems". This is a heavy loss to the band and leaving me once again being the only member. More...

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Astronomer Signs To Forgotten Empire Records

Forgotten Empire Records has announced the signing of Boston, Masssachussetts metal band Astronomer. "Astronomer is a great addition to our roster and we couldn't be happier to have them!," says the label.

More news is expected soon on album details. In the meantime, you can check out a couple of Astronomer's songs on their MySpace page.

Astronomer is also currently in search of a second guitarist. Interested parties should contact the band on their MySpace page.

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Dimmu Borgir Posts Video Footage From DVD

DIMMU BORGIR is featured in Episode Six of the Nuclear Blast Video Cast. In this episode, they take you Behind The Scenes to the band's exclusive Los Angeles DVD screening on September 30, 2008 where everyone was invited to come watch (and purchase) the 2DVD+CD before it hit street date...not to mention the Q&A session hosted by Brendon Small (co-creator of Metalocalypse) where fans were able to ask questions, raffle giveaways with killer prizes, and goodie bags for everyone who showed up.

You can watch the video below for over 30 minutes of footage from that night, as well as a video interview with Silenoz at the Nuclear Blast USA office the next morning.

"The Invaluable Darkness" is available for pre-order through JSR Direct as a bundle (2DVD+CD and exclusive T-Shirt), alone (2DVD+CD only), or exclusive T-Shirt only.

"The Invaluable Darkness" (2DVD+CD) is coming out in North America on October 14th.

In related band news, Headbangers Blog also has an exclusive podcast with Silenoz, where he talks about the new DVD, devil worship, line-up changes and more. More...

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