Invitro Updates Tour Dates

Invitro has updated their already existing tour dates with bands Devildriver, Napalm Death, Walls Of Jericho, and 36 Crazyfists. The band will be playing 38 dates on the DevilDriver tour "Bound By The Road." The dates are listed below. More...

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Director Larry Charles Slams Motley Crue

Writer/Director Larry Charles who has worked on such films and shows such as Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld has spoken recently about the proposed Motley Crue movie and his feelings on the band themselves.

"The Motley Crue thing I was really into and I did a lot of work on it," Charles says. "I wrote a pass on the script and everything, but it was at MTV Films which then got swallowed by Paramount Vantage which then got swallowed by Paramount. All those people were gone that developed it and it got put to the side, so I don't know what's going to happen to it. Also my thing about that which was that I felt it had to be an NC-17 movie, and I thought, 'Well that would be ballsy to do. When was the last time they had a mainstream NC-17 movie?' That'd be a good idea."

"I don't know if you've read the book, but it's really a great read," he continued. "Do you know Neil Strauss at all? He used to work for The New York Times as their pop critic, he wrote the book and he's a really good writer. It's so much better than they deserve, the book, because Motley Crüe is a crappy band but he wrote a really epic book about them. It's really fascinating. What's good about it is how hardcore it is. They've killed people, they've hurt people, they've crippled people, they've done all kinds of crazy things. You'd have to show that for real and I think there was a little bit of reticence about doing that ultimately. But for me, I would do it if it could be done the proper way. If it's going to be sanitized then they don't need me to do it. They could find somebody else to do that."

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Wednesday 13 Announces 2009 North American Tour

Wednesday 13 has lined up a string of tour dates in North America for next February. More details will be announced shortly.

The tour dates are as follows:

February
6 - Springfield, VA - Jaxx
7 - Reading, PA - Crocdile Rock
8 - New York, NY - Rebel
10 - Rochester, NY - Penny Arcade
11 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East
12 - Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club
13 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
14 - Detroit, MI - I-Rock Nightclub
15 - Mokena, IL - The Pearl Room
16 - Sauget, IL - Pop's Nightclub
20 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
21 - Portland, OR - Satyricon
24 - Hollywood, CA - Whisky A Go Go
27 - Austin, TX - Red 7

March
3 - Orlando, FL - Backbooth
4 - Ft Lauderdale, Fl - Culture Room
5 - St Petersburg, FL - The Tamiami
6 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
7 - Raleigh, NC - Volume 11

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Guitar Hero Trailer With Ozzy Posted Online

A new trailer for the forthcoming video game Guitar Hero:World Tour featuring Ozzy Osbourne has been posted online. You can check it out below.

Guitar Hero:World Tour will be released on October 28th and features the following tracklisting:

311 - 'Beautiful Disaster'
30 SECONDS TO MARS - 'The Kill'
AIRBOURNE - 'Too Much Too Young'
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - 'Ramblin' Man'
ANOUK - 'Good God'
THE ANSWER - 'Never Too Late'
AT THE DRIVE-IN - 'One Armed Scissor'
BEASTIE BOYS - 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn'
BEATSTEAKS - 'Hail to the Freaks'
BILLY IDOL - 'Rebel Yell'
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - 'Stillborn'
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB - 'Weapon of Choice'
BLINK-182 - 'Dammit'
BLONDIE - 'One Way or Another'
BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - 'Hollywood Nights'
BON JOVI - 'Livin’ On A Prayer'
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - 'Scream Aim Fire'
COLDPLAY - 'Shiver'
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - 'Up Around The Bend'
THE CULT - 'Love Removal Machine'
DINOSAUR JR. - 'Feel The Pain'
THE DOORS - 'Love Me Two Times'
DREAM THEATER - 'Pull Me Under'
THE EAGLES - 'Hotel California'
THE ENEMY - 'Aggro'
FILTER - 'Hey Man, Nice Shot'
FLEETWOOD MAC - 'Go Your Own Way'
FOO FIGHTERS - 'Everlong'
THE GUESS WHO - 'American Woman'
HUSH PUPPIES - 'You're Gonna Say Yeah!'
INTERPOL - 'Obstacle 1'
JANE'S ADDICTION - 'Mountain Song'
JIMI HENDRIX - 'Purple Haze (Live)'
JIMI HENDRIX - 'The Wind Cries Mary'
JIMMY EAT WORLD - 'The Middle'
JOE SATRIANI - 'Satch Boogie'
KENT - 'Vinternoll2'
KORN - 'Freak On A Leash'
LACUNA COIL - 'Our Truth'
LENNY KRAVITZ - 'Are You Gonna Go My Way'
LINKIN PARK - 'What I've Done'
THE LIVING END - 'Prisoner of Society'
LOS LOBOS - 'La Bamba'
LOST PROPHETS - 'Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)'
LYNYRD SKYNYRD - 'Sweet Home Alabama (Live)'
MARS VOLTA - 'L'Via L'Viaquez'
MC5’S WAYNE KRAMER - 'Kick Out The Jams'
METALLICA - 'Trapped Under Ice'
MICHAEL JACKSON - 'Beat It'
MODEST MOUSE - 'Float On'
MOTÖRHEAD - 'Overkill'
MUSE - 'Assassin'
NEGRAMARO - 'Nuvole e Lenzuola'
NIRVANA - 'About a Girl (Unplugged)'
NO DOUBT - 'Spiderwebs'
NOFX - 'Soul Doubt'
OASIS - 'Some Might Say'
OZZY OSBOURNE - 'Crazy Train'
OZZY OSBOURNE - 'Mr. Crowley'
PARAMORE - 'Misery Business'
PAT BENATAR - 'Heartbreaker'
R.E.M. - 'The One I Love'
RADIO FUTURA - 'Escuela De Calor'
RISE AGAINST - 'Re-Education Through Labor'
SEX PISTOLS - 'Pretty Vacant'
SILVERSUN PICKUPS - 'Lazy Eye'
SMASHING PUMPKINS - 'Today'
STEELY DAN - 'Do It Again'
STEVE MILLER BAND - 'The Joker'
STING - 'Demolition Man (Live)'
THE STONE ROSES - 'Love Spreads'
STUCK IN THE SOUND - 'Toy Boy'
SUBLIME - 'Santeria'
SURVIVOR - 'Eye of the Tiger'
SYSTEM OF A DOWN - 'B.Y.O.B.'
TED NUGENT - 'Stranglehold'
TED NUGENT’s Original Guitar Duel Recording
TOKIO HOTEL - 'Monsoon'
TOOL - 'Parabola'
TOOL - 'Schism'
TOOL - 'Vicarious'
TRUST - 'Antisocial'
VAN HALEN - 'Hot For Teacher'
WILLIE NELSON - 'On The Road Again'
WINGS - 'Band on the Run'
ZAKK WYLDE’s Original Guitar Duel Recording More...

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Kreator And Exodus To Tour North America

Kreator has announced that they will be hitting North American shores in April next year and are bringing a host of big names with them. Joining them on the tour will be thrash metal legends Exodus aswell as Belphegor, Warbringer and Epicurean.

The tour dates are as follows:

April
7 - Sonar - Baltimore MD
8 - Nokia Theatre - NYC NY
9 - Trocadero - Philadelphia PA
10 - Palladium - Worcester MA
11 - Medley - Montreal QUE
13 - Imperial - Quebec QUE
14 - Opera House - Toronto ONT
15 - Peabody's - Cleveland OH
16 - Rave - Millwaukee WI
17 - House Of Blues - Chicago IL
18 - The Rock - Maplewood MN
19 - Garrick Centre - Winnipeg MB
20 - The Distrikt - Regina SK
21 - Warehouse - Calgary AL
22 - Starlite Room - Edmonton AL
24 - Plaza Club - Vancouver BC
25 - Sugar - Victoria BC
26 - El Corazon - Seattle WA
27 - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland OR
28 - Slims - San Francisco CA
30 - House Of Blues - Las Vegas NV

May
1 - House Of Blues - San Diego, CA
2 - House Of Blues - West Hollywood CA
4 - Gator's - Farmington, NM
5 - Bluebird Theater - Denver CO
6 - Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City OK
7 - Ridglea Theater - Ft Worth TX
8 - Scout Bar - San Antonio TX
9 - Scout Bar - Houston TX
11 - The Garage - St. Petersburg FL
12 - Culture Room - Ft Lauderdale, FL
13 - Masquerade - Atlanta GA
14 - Headliner - Louisville KY
15 - Orange Peel - Ashville NC
16 - Volume 11 - Raleigh NC
17 - Jaxx - West Springfield VA

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Amon Amarth Confirmed For Wacken Open Air 2009

Amon Amarth are the latest band to be confirmed for Germany's legendary Wacken Open Air festival next year. The festival will enter it's 20th year in 2009 and will be headlined by Machine Head.

The bands confirmed thus far are:

Amon Amarth
Cathedral
Einherjer
In Extremo
Machine Head

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Deftones Posts More Studio Footage Online

Californian rockers Deftones has uploaded another video documenting the band at work in the studio. You can check it out below.

Deftones are currently finishing work on a brand new studio album entitled, "Eros" which is expected to be released early next year. The album was produced by Terry Date and engineered by Scott Olsen. More...

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Novembers Doom Cancels 2009 North American Tour

Chicago death/doom metallers, Novembers Doom, have issued the following statement regarding dropping off the January tour with Rotting Christ and Epicurean:

"It is with much regret that we must announce our departure from the Rotting Christ tour in January, 2009. A serious medical issue arose with a member of the band, making us unable to tour during that time. While this unfortunately prevents us from participating in the tour, thankfully it has come to light now rather than at the last minute, leaving 3 months time for the promoter to find a suitable replacement for us. We wish the very best for Rotting Christ, and Epicurean, and hope their tour has great success!" More...

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YOB Signs With Profound Lore Records

From the trials and ordeals that had befallen Mike Scheidt (with lawsuits regarding a specific former band name), to resurrect YOB was the only natural thing to do. As previously reported, YOB has reformed and has now signed with Profound Lore Records with plans to release a new full length album.

YOB is currently preparing their return by writing new material that, according to Scheidt, will be the
heaviest and most-epic (and naturally best) YOB material to date.

As the stress of the lawsuit regarding Scheidt’s former band was coming to its untimely end, at the same time as Scheidt was meddling around with ideas for some new music (that was even going to go under a different moniker at first). He then came in contact with drummer Travis Foster and when both decided to start jamming again, the decision was made to bring YOB back to life.

Now joined by new bass player Aaron Reiseberg, YOB are currently in writing mode for their monolithic comeback release to be released sometime in the first
half of 2009.

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O.M.T Signs To Rising Records

Rising Records has announced the signing of Sussex based metallers O.M.T. The band will be working on their debut album in 2009. The band also has the following shows scheduled:

Oct 5 2008 8:00P - Downtown Diner, Ashford
Oct 13 2008 8:00P - Freebutt, Brighton with Bury Tomorrow and Seven Year Kismet
Oct 17 2008 8:00P - Brass Monkey, Rock Horror Theme Party, Hastings
Oct 24 2008 8:00P - Private Show - Rachel and Ben’s party, Hastings
Oct 31 2008 8:00P - Crypt - Halloween - Hastings supporting Pig Iron
Nov 7 2008 8:00P - Pig in Paradise - BOTB semi-finals - Hastings
Nov 15 2008 8:00P - Lark in the Park - Coachtrip, London with Inseminate

You can check out some of O.M.T's material on their MySpace page.

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Dir En Grey's "Uroboros" Cover Art Revealed

Japanese heavy metal outfit DIR EN GREY has revealed the cover art for "Uroboros," their forthcoming seventh studio album. Uroboros will be released on November 11th (11/12 in Japan through Firewall; 11/14 in Europe through Gan-Shin). You can view the cover artwork here.

"Uroboros" will be available in the US in four formats: digital album; CD jewel case; deluxe limited-edition CD digipak with bonus track and DVD; and double vinyl LP with a digital download card included.

Dir En Grey's "Uroboros" tracklistings are as follows: More...

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Asra Calls It Quits

Confirming recent rumors, New York grind/death metal outfit ASRA has officially broken up. The group has issued the following:

"ASRA is done. Thanks to anybody who came to shows or helped us out in any way. If you were into the shit you should buy records/merch through Black Box... Check out past/present projects like Vasolek, Leader, Bloodred Residual, Kursk, Moral Degradation, Feces & Blood... Whatever, The Smash Ups. More to come from each of us in the future, I'm sure. Anybody who hated on the demo shit can suck dicks. Anybody who gave canned and/or nonsensical reviews for the LP can also suck dicks. Thanks to Scott Hull for doing This Comp Kills Fascists... Truly an honor to be included on that.

"In other news, we recently recorded seven tracks of what we consider to be our best material. Half of which will be included on a 3-way split with Defeatist and Triac. The rest of which will be included on a split with another band TBD. If any labels are interested, hit us up."

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Soulfly Announces Support For U.S. Tour

Tribal metallers Soulfly has announces that support on their North American tour will come from reunited thrashers Devastation, Cleveland based Bleed The Sky and Incite.

The tour dates are as follows:

November
3 - Granada Theatre - Dallas, TX
4 - White Rabbit - San Antonio, TX
5 - Meridian - Houston, TX
9 - Culture Room - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
11 - Jester's - Fayetteville, NC
12 - Hooligan's - Jacksonville, NC
13 - Jaxx - Springfield, VA
14 - Blender Theatre - New York, NY
15 - Webster Theatre - Hartford, CT
16 - Crocodile Rock - Allentown, PA
17 - Rex Theatre - Pittsburgh, PA
18 - Alrosa Villa - Columbus, OH
19 - The Machine Shop - Flint, MI
20 - Pop's Nightclub - Sauget, IL
21 - The Pearl Room - Mokena, IL
22 - The Rock - Columbia Heights, MN
23 - Beaumont Club - Kansas City, MO
25 - The Black Sheep - Colorado Springs, CO
26 - Sunshine Theatre - Albuquerque, NM
29 - Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ

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Chimaira Finishes Writing New Material

Cleveland metallers Chimaira has posted the following message online:

"Well friends after four months of writing, we are finally done!
We have 13 songs locked down and we will spend the rest of the month learning them, fine tuning everything and practicing our asses off.

"We start pre-production with Ben Schigel on the 17th.
For those of you that don’t know much about the pre-production process, it’s where “Mr. Producer” comes in and listens to the songs, throws in some ideas here and there and says this part sucks or that part rules. Then we ingest it all, try it, etc… More...

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Disturbed Announces London Signing Session

Disturbed fans in the U.K. will have the chance to meet the band on October 5th at the Zavvi store in London's Oxford Street outlet.

The band are currently on tour in the United Kingdom and has also just released a digital only EP containing live versions of some of their most well songs.

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Neuraxis Posts New Video Online

Canadian metallers Neuraxis has posted their latest video online for the song, "Darkness Prevails." You can check it out below.

The band will soon be heading out on the road with The Faceless, Abigail Williams, Decrepit Birth and Veil Of Maya. More...

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Cradle Of Filth Announces Tour Dates

Cradle Of Filth has announced the first few tour dates for their North American trek with Satyricon and Septic Flesh.

The tour dates are as follows:

January 16 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
January 23 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo’s
February 21 - Orlando, FL @ The Club

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