Escape The Fate's "This War Is Ours" Streaming

Escape The Fate's upcoming record "This War Is Ours" hits stores in less than a week. Starting today, you can stream the entire album on Escape The Fate's MySpace page.

Escape The Fate just wrapped up their Black on Black headlining tour that ran from September through mid-October.

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Guns N Roses Revises Album Tracklisting

Guns N Roses has apparantly changed the tracklisting of their forthcoming, highly anticipated new studio album, "Chinese Democracy" from the previous list.

The tracklisting is now as follows:

1. Chinese Democracy
2. Shackler's Revenge
3. Better
4. Street Of Dreams
5. If The World
6. There Was A Time
7. Catcher N' The Rye
8. Scraped
9. Riad N' The Bedouins
10. Sorry
11. I.R.S.
12. Madagascar
13. This I Love
14. Prostitute

The album will apparantly be released on November 23rd in BestBuy stores and will feature two different front covers. Dr. Pepper recently confirmed that they will honour their promise of a free can of Dr. Pepper for everyone in the United States with the exception of Slash and Buckethead if "Chinese Democracy" comes out this year.

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Lacuna Coil Posts DVD Preview Clip Online

Italian rockers Lacun Coil has posted a clip from their forthcoming new DVD, "Visual Karma (Mind, Body and Soul)" of the band performing the song "Our Truth" at Germany's infamous Wacken Open Air festival. You can check out the video below.

Lacuna Coil's debut DVD, "Visual Karma (Mind, Body and Soul)" is packed with footage and material set to keep fans happy for hours on end and includes:

Wacken 2007: Intro
"To The Edge"
"Fragments Of Faith"
"Swamped"
"In Visible Light"
"Fragile"
"Closer"
"Senzafine"
"What I See"
"Enjoy The Silence"
"Heaven's A Lie"
"Our Truth"

Loudpark 2007: Intro/"To The Edge"
"Swamped"
"Closer"
"Within Me"
"Daylight Dancer"
"Our Truth"

"Our Truth" (Promotional Video)
"Enjoy The Silence" (Promotional Video)
"Closer" (Promotional Video)
"Within Me" (Promotional Video)

The Band: Simple As Water
Inside Milan
The Leaning Journey Of Pizza
7-Seven... Strings Life
The Real Thing
Enter The Drummer
Behind The Scenes: Australian Tour 2007
First Time In Japan
Making Of The Our Truth Video
Making Of The Closer Video
Fan Submissions (Lacuna Coil's Introductory Clip)
Empty Spiral Interview
To The Edge Remix Contest (Photogallery)
Inside The Spiral (Link)
Links

A Limited Edition 4 Disc Package will include:
- A 5.1 mix of the "Karmacode" album on audio DVD.
- A bonus CD with the Wacken Open Air audio live material.

The DVD will follow these release dates:

Germany / Austria / Switzerland / Benelux / Italy: Friday, October 31st
UK / France / Greece / Denmark / Norway / Rest Of Europe: Monday, November 3rd
Spain / Portugal: Tuesday, November 4th
Sweden / Finland / Hungary: Wednesday, November 5th
North America: Tuesday, November 25th More...

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Ex-Hellyeah/Danzig Bassist Involved In Hotel Brawl

Former Nothingface/Hellyeah/Danzig bassist Jerry Montano was reportedly involved in a fight early this morning with country musician John Rich (of Big and Rich fame). Police arrived at the hotel around 4:28 AM and are currently investigating the incident, although no arrests have been made at this time. Neither musician has pressed charges against one another.

This is not the first time Montano has been the source of controversy, he was relieved of his duties from the supergroup Hellyeah last year after becoming drunk and disorderly at the band's album release party and making offensive statements regarding firearms. He was replaced by former Damageplan bassist Bob "Zilla" Kakaha.

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Alestorm Vocalist Checks In From The Road

Alestorm vocalist Chris Bowles has posted the following tour report online:

"Haw there again lads and lasses.

"It's amazing just how little of the world you see when you're on tour. Milan was an endless suburb in the shadow of the San Siro, Munich was a rainy industrial estate. Switzerland wasn't much better. So today, myself, Ian, and Claus from SVARTSOT took a quest through Vienna in search of "culture n' shit". Alas, we found fuck all apart from a vaguely impressve church and a MEGADETH bootleg. Couldn't even find a twee snowdome. More...

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Megadeth Frontman Posts New Studio Report

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has posted the following studio report online:

"Droogies and Rattleheads!

"I am writing this from the studio - Vic's Garage - and am listening to Chris jam in the other room. Man that is one wicked fucker on geetah! I think that there are going to be a bunch of babies that will finally get to stop peeing their pants about the shred-factor being gone since Marty Friedman went off to the land of the rising sun.

"It is also good to have Andy in here. He is keeping it real; real metal I should say!! Pretty kewl for a vegetarian.

"Yeah, how about some Tofurkey for Thanksgiving? Howz about you tazer my eye lids first!!! More...

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Stratovarius Posts Studio Video Blog Online

Stratovarius has posted a video blog documenting the band at work on new material. It includes audio samples of new music and can be viewed below. More...

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Guitar Hero:Metallica Teaser Posted Online

A new teaser trailer for Metallica's own edition of the popular Guitar Hero game has been posted online via YouTube. You can check it out below.

Metallica will be heading out to Europe next year to support their latest album, "Death Magnetic" with support from Lamb Of God and Mastodon (except where noted.)

The tour dates are as follows:

March
5 - Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpalais (with MACHINE HEAD, THE SWORD)
7 - Stockholm, Sweden - Globen (with Machine Head, The Sword)
8 - Stockholm, Sweden - Globen (with Machine Head, The Sword)
14 - Vienna, Austria - Stadthalle

June
14 - Helsinki, Finland - Hartwell Arena
15 - Helsinki, Finland - Hartwell Arena
17 - Oslo, Norway - Spektrum
22 - Milan, Italy - Datch Forum
24 - Rome, Italy - Palalottomatica

July
13 - Madrid, Spain - Palacio de Deportes
20 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Copenhagen Forum
22 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Copenhagen Forum
23 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Copenhagen Forum More...

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Australian Stores Break AC/DC Embargo

Paul Cashmere from Undercover.com.au is reporting:

Stores across Australia have broken the embargo for Black Ice and started selling the album early. Despite the official release date being tomorrow (October 18), Black Ice is being sold now by just about every store that has it.

One retailer told Undercover, “we don’t care about embargos and the fans don’t care about charts. We are here to sell music and the fans are here to buy it. I couldn’t care less if Sony has an embargo on it until tomorrow. My customers want it today and I’m giving it to them”. More...

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Tygers Of Pan Tang Announces U.K. Tour Dates

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal veterans Tygers Of Pan Tang has lined up a series of shows in the United Kingdom.

The tour dates are as follows:

October
26 - JBs - Dudley, UK
30 - Yardbirds - Grimsby, UK
31 - Riffs - Blackpool, UK

November
2 - Moses Gate - Bolton, UK
6 - Trillians - Newcastle, UK
7 - Intake - Mansfield, UK
8 - Milkwood Jam Swansea - South Wales, UK

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Paul Di'Anno Announces More North American Shows

Former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di'Anno has lined up some more tour dates for his first visit to the United States in over fifteen years.

The tour schedule is now as follows:

November
28 - Springfield, VA - Jaxx (with ICARUS WITCH)
29 - Springfield, VA - Jaxx (with ICARUS WITCH)

December
4 - Farmingdale, NY - Crazy Donkey
9 - Cleveland, OH - Jigsaw
19 - El Paso, TX - Uncle Paulies
26 - San Juan Capistrano, CA - Coach House
27 - Redondo Beach, CA - Brixton

January
3 - San Marcos, CA - Jumping Turtle
9 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon

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Dirty Little Rabbits Signs With The End Records

MTV's Headbangers Blog announced yesterday the signing of Johnston, Iowa's DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS to THE END RECORDS. DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS features Slipknot percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan behind the kit, along with Stella Soleil (vocals), Ty Fyhrie (guitars), Jeff Karnowski (bass), and Michael Pfaff (organs, keyboards).

Shawn Crahan explains to Headbangers Blog:

"Dirty Little Rabbits is my new Slipknot. I’m playin’ drums, and I’m a songwriter and this is the band I’ve been waiting to be in my whole life. And it’s more of an alternative band than a metal band. It’s everything I’ve ever been into. And it’s a thought process, it’s a mindset. And this will be the band I end my life with.

"A lot of people don’t know I’m more or less an alternative person in art and music. I didn’t grow up obsessed with metal. But that’s most of the beauty behind Skipknot. You’ve got guys that are completely dedicated to the metal, and then you’ve got guys who never even listen to it, like me. And you come together and make this thing called Slipknot that happens to be a metal band, and that’s awesome because I always believed when I got together with my brothers that they were writing music that I never heard or felt and that’s why I went with it.

"And I brought the art to this music, and throughout time I developed all my musical skills and – boom — here I am with Dirty Little Rabbits and it’s finally everything I’ve ever wanted in a band."

Read the full article at Headbangers Blog.

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