Another Black Day Drops Off FFDP Tour

Another Black Day has announced that due to reasons beyond their control, they will no longer be continuing on their current tour with Five Finger Death Punch. Here's what the band had to say:

"It is with great disbelief that we announce we will not be continuing on the Five Finger Death Punch tour. We would like to thank all of the loyal fans both new and old that have supported us and attended the past shows, your support is greatly appreciated. We apologize to everyone that was planning on attending any future shows, we promise to make it up to you ten fold with a killer show."

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Cripple Bastards Announces More Tour Dates

Cripple Bastards has announced a string of new tour dates into next year:

SATURDAY, November 15th 2008 - Reggio Emilia (Ita) - "Temporock"
SATURDAY, November 29th 2008 - Manduria (Taranto, Ita) - "Bike & Rock"
SATURDAY, December 13th 2008 - Prato (Ita) - "Siddharta"
SATURDAY, January 17th 2009 - Torino (Ita) - "United Club"
FRIDAY, February 6th 2009 - Roncade, Treviso (Ita) - "New Age Club" + NAPALM DEATH
SATURDAY, February 7th 2009 - Bologna (Ita) - "Estragon" + NAPALM DEATH
SATURDAY, March 28th 2009 - Belgium - "North Sea Hardcore Fest"

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Tombs Posts New Song, Live Footage, Tour Dates

Brooklyn, New York's TOMBS has posted the first preview track from their forthcoming Relapse debut, "Winter Hours." The track, "Gossamer," can be heard now via the band's MySpace page. "Winter Hours" is set for a February 17th North American release date, February 23rd internationally.

Additionally, Metal Injection has recently posted live footage of TOMBS from the Relapse Records / Metal Blade / Lifeforce CMJ show in late October. This footage, which includes the Winter Hours tracks "Golden Eyes" and "Filled With Secrets," can be viewed now at this location.

TOMBS has also announced more regional tour dates taking them trough the end of the year as well as a run of dates alongside label-mates DYSRHYTHMIA in February '09. A complete listing of tour dates and cities can be found below with more to be announced soon.

Here are the latest TOMBS tour dates: More...

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In Flames Announces Japanese Tour Dates

In Flames has announced they three shows in Japan in March 2009:

Mar. 04 Tokyo, JP - Blitz
Mar. 05 Tokyo, JP - Blitz
Mar. 06 Osaka, JP - IMP Hall

The band comments: "It’s been a while since we played Japan now so it will be great to come back and play some shows for our Japanese fans."

In Flames will be embarking on a UK tour in April along with Cancer Bats. Dates are as follows: More...

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Darkane Forced to Cancel Italy Date

Darkane posted the following update on their web site:

"We're back from a great tour in Switzerland. Thanks a lot to Vincent Dévaud from The Best of Underground for great organizing! Switzerland is a beautiful country and driving around in the Alps was really inspiring, along with meeting the fans during the shows. Thanks to everybody who showed up!

"Next up is the Italian tour next weekend. Unfortunately one date has been cancelled since the club has closed down. The date that won't happen is: Nov. 22 - Rock House - Pescara. Now, Darkane is available to play November 22nd in Italy, so if you're running a club and are interested give us a message at contact@darkane.com."

Here are the upcoming Darkane tour dates:

Italian tour w/ Subliminal Crusher 2008
Nov. 20 Init - Rome
Nov. 21 Comunita’ Giovanile - Busto Arsizio
Nov. 23 Iroko Content - Salerno More...

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Children of Bodom, Cannibal Corpse To Tour Europe

Children Of Bodom is teaming up with the death metal legends Cannibal Corpse and fellow Finns Diablo for a full scale European tour. Here's the first batch of confirmed tourdates. More TBA.

Feb. 01 Erfurt , D - Stadtgarden
Feb. 03 Munchen, D - Backstage
Feb. 07 Budapest, HU - Syma Hall
Feb. 08 Wien, AUT - Gasometer
Feb. 10 Milan, IT - Alcatraz,
Feb. 12 Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
Feb. 19 London, UK - Forum
Feb. 26 Oslo, N - Sentrum Scene
Feb. 27 Stockholm, S - Tyrol

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Ex-Hellyeah Bassist Suing Country Singer

Jerry Montano, the former bassist of Nothingface, Hellyeah, and Danzig is to sue country singer John Rich after the two had an altercation at a hotel recently. Montano claims that Rich became violent and belligerent over a girl, which led to the incident between the two. Montano claims he is suing for an undisclosed amount relating to cuts, permanent scarring, scrapes, swelling and bruising to his lips, jaw, face, teeth and nose. The bassist had apparently previously been warned of Rich's behaviour when drunk.

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Man Assaulted For Singing Dio At Kareoke

Blabbermouth.net reports: According to The Smoking Gun, a 24-year-old Wisconsin man allegedly became so incensed by a lackluster karaoke performance of DIO's classic song "Holy Diver" that he assaulted the singer and a second man, police charge. According to a River Falls Police Department report, Kyle D. Drinkwine throttled singer James Mischler, 28, and his friend Cyrus Kozub, 29, on November 7 "over one's ability to sing karaoke." Though cops did not specify which song set Drinkwine off last week, Kozub told The Smoking Gun that Mischler was performing "Holy Diver". Following the assaults, police apprehended Drinkwine after a short foot chase. A subsequent Breathalyzer test recorded his blood alcohol content at .169, more than twice the state limit.

Kyle D. Drinkwine was charged last Thursday in Pierce County Court with a felony count of aggravated battery and a misdemeanor count of battery. He was released on a $3,000 signature bond and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing November 19. The charges have a combined maximum penalty of three years in prison.

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Earache Records To Release Box Set

Earache Records has posted the following message online:

"In recognition of a music genre that has spawned some of the most original and talented bands hailing from every corner of the globe, Earache Records is proud to announce the release of Worldwide Metal.

"Celebrating the diversity of metal in all of its forms, Worldwide Metal is the ultimate collection of the fastest, heaviest and most brutal metal tracks to rock this planet. Offering 5 CDs of pure metal mayhem plus a fully playable PC game - all for the price of one CD - this collection consists of over 80 tracks from some of the most legendary and inspirational bands of all time. More...

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Ozzy Osbourne Crowned "Living Legend"

Ozzy Osbourne, solo artist and lead vocalist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath, won the award in honor of his long career, which has spanned four decades.

Past recipients of the accolade include Alice Cooper, Lemmy and Jimmy Page. Guitar legend Slash, the former Guns N' Roses guitarist, presented the award. He also received the Marshall "11" award "for his services to balls-out guns-blazing rock n' roll". Earlier, Osbourne and Slash enjoyed afternoon tea together at the Dorchester Hotel in London. The rock and roll stars showed their softer side as they shared tea and cakes ahead of the big night.

Osbourne joked about his award saying: "I hope I don't die on the way home." Speaking about his nomination award before the ceremony, Osbourne said: "I couldn't be happier to know that Classic Rock haven't written me off! Seriously, it's a great honor and I'm looking forward to going to my first Classic Rock Awards. Can't wait to see you there."

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Nightwish Vocalist Leaves The Stage In Tears

Nightwish vocalist Anette Olzon left the stage crying on Monday, November 10, while preforming "The Poet and the Pendulum" in Belo Horizone, Brazil. This happened about six songs into the set and cut short the bands performance.

Videos showing what happened are already posted to Youtube and can be seen below.

Marko handled the rest of the song and made a short speech saying something like "Anette is going through a hard time in life right now."

No further details are currently available. More...

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Max Cavalera Discusses Sepultura Reunion

Max Cavalera was recently interviewed by UWeekly, where he talked about the possibility of a Sepultura reunion and how he'd like it to happen, his friendship with the Abbot brothers and more. Some excerpts from the interview are as follows:

UW: Now that you’ve reconciled with your brother Igor, do you see a Sepultura reunion happening in the future?

Well, it’s not impossible, you know? But it’s also something that we’re not spending too much time on now because there is really a long way to go to that. I’m just happy to make peace with Igor, really… and doing the Conspiracy album. Playing with Igor again is great. Maybe. Everybody knows we would like to have a reunion, and even to the person who said it would happen … to be fair to the hardcore fans, it would also be good to invite the other players, not just the classic lineup … some of the guys from the first period of the band, which was the first 10 years — it was more death metal, you know, Sepultura … it really was a death-metal band in the beginning — and have these guys come out and do some of the reunion. If it happens … if it happens, I would want to do it this way. It would be more … it would have more integrity than just the Sepultura that everybody knows. More...

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Dimmu Borgir on Fuel TV, Talks About New Drummer

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR took a break from the recent Blackest Of The Black tour to perform two songs at the Fuel TV studios in Los Angeles. Hosted by Pat Parnell and featuring guest appearances by Bam Margera and Brandon Novak, "The Daily Habit" episode featuring DIMMU BROGIR will air on Tuesday, November 25.

DIMMU BORGIR has been on tour in support of its recent "The Invaluable Darkness" (2DVD+CD), which debuted at no. 5 on the Nielsen SoundScan Top Music Videos chart in mid-October. This will be the band's last North American tour in support of its eighth studio album, "In Sorte Diaboli," which debuted on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart at no. 2, on The Billboard 200 at no. 43, and has sold over 66,000 copies in the U.S.

"The Daily Habit" is Fuel TV's first original daily series, telecast weeknights at 9:00 p.m. Eastern (6:00 p.m. Pacific) while re-airing later in the evening at 12:00 a.m Eastern (9:00 PM Pacific), and the following weekday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern (11:30 a.m. Pacific) and 5:30 p.m. Eastern (2:30 p.m. Pacific).

In related band news, Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with guitarist Silenoz of DIMMU BORGIR. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

Metal-Rules.com: Speaking of a follow-up to In Sorte Diaboli I have to ask you; will you once again utilize Hellhammer [MAYHEM] as a session drummer?

Silenoz: "I mean, we keep all doors open but right now we have such a good chemistry, both personally and musically, with [current touring drummer] Darek [Dariusz 'Daray' Brzozowski], who played with VADER. It would sure surprise me a lot if he's not playing on the new album. He's doing such a great job and he fits really, really well into the musical wide range style of DIMMU BORGIR. I would probably say that he will be the one that will play on the next album. It would surprise me a lot if he wouldn't."

Metal-Rules.com: You've always been very fortunate to have some of metal's most talented drummers at your disposal; how would you rank Darek against the others?

Silenoz: "I would say that he is the most steady and consistent drummer I've ever played with, no matter what. He's extremely reliable, hard-working, determined and he really, really pushes himself, you know? Even if he plays a really killer show and the rest of us have nothing to complain about, he still is not happy. It's not good enough. That's the attitude we need, you know? After all, the drummer is the engine in the band and you won't get anywhere if you only have oil and gas…you need the engine to work too…so… he's awesome."

Read the full article at Metal-Rules.com.

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Underoath Member Releases Xmas Song Online

The Almost, featuring Aaron Gillespie of Underoath, has uploaded a cover of the Christmas classic "Little Drummer Boy" to their official MySpace page.

The track is taken from their forthcoming EP, which will be released on November 24.

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Rikets Announces Tour Dates with Within Chaos

Rikets will be on tour in December with Within Chaos, current dates are as follows:

December 5th in Amarillo, TX @ War Legion Underground
December 6th in Tyler, TX @ Clicks
December 8th in Birmingham, AL @ High Note
December 11th in New Port Richey, FL @ Bourbon Street
December 12th in Ft. Myers, FL @ Rockstar
December 13th in Tallahassee, FL @ Engine Room
December 15th in Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11
December 17th in Jacksonville, NC @ Hooligans

Additional tour dates are expected.

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Orphaned Land Guitarist Breaks Left Clavicle

Israel's Orphaned Land has posted the following update online:

"Orphaned Land guitarist Yossi Sassi-Sa'aron broke his left clavicle and is expected a healing period of at least six weeks, in which he probably won't be able to play the guitar at all. The accident happened during a peaceful sabbath in the park, while Sassi-Sa'aron was walking on his hands during a game, tripped and landed badly on his left shoulder. The specific fraction is the left clavicle near the acromion and as a result his left arm was fixed to his chest and he cannot move it and of course can't play musical instruments. Friends reported he's suffering from severe pain, yet he's constantly smiling as usual and he is laughing with his doctors. Sassi-Sa'aron composes and plays on various instruments in Orphaned Land, including bouzouki, oud, saz, electric and classic guitars."

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Saxon Confirmed For Bloodstock 2009

Saxon frontman Biff Byford has posted the following tour report online:

"Hi,

"Been on the road a week, time for a blog. tour is brill, been a long time since we played with our mates Motorhead in the UK, great audiences. got to say thanx to you all for that so far.

"Split my my jeans in newcastle, gonna try and wear them till hammer-smith no veg till hammersm!!!! Well you get the gist anyway, great things going on. We just confirmed hammerfest and the UK tour will kick off in London on 23rd of april. Yes St. George`s day at the forum, more dates to follow.

"Oh and we`re playing Bloodstock , so big things, see you on tour.

"P.S. Should have some news on USA and South America soon..

"Keep the faith

Biff"

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Disturbed To Issue "The Night" As Next Single

Chicago based rockers Disturbed has confirmed that they will be releasing the song, "The Night" as their next single from their chart topping album, "Indestructible." They expect to film a music video for the song in January.

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Thy Will Be Done Begins Writing New Album

Thy Will Be Done vocalist J Costa has posted the following message online:

"Thy Will Be Done is currently writing, re-writing, tweaking, and rehearsing new material for the next album in our home base of Providence, RI. The as-yet-untitled forthcoming effort is tentatively expected to surface sometime in early 2009 and will be the follow-up to 2007's Was And Is To Come.

"As the year comes to an end, we've started to debut new material at recent shows to gauge some reactions and so far, the results have been positive. 2008 was spent not only touring but also writing and demoing new material; throughout the whole year. Make no mistake, this was in no way a result of any negative feelings towards our debut. We're very pleased and were quite overwhelmed with the warm reception Was And Is To Come received. It is merely a result of the drive of friends with a common goal and a shared passion to create music. More...

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Satyricon Still Hoping To Achieve A Gold Record

Norwegian black metallers Satyricon has entered their home country's album charts at number five which is the lowest chart position the band has received in Norway since the 1999 album, "Rebel Extravaganza." The new album, "The Age Of Nero" has shipped 8,000 copies to record stores since it's November 3rd release.

Solheim Rohne explains, "If you look at the chart and the calender, it's clear that this is the highest chart position we could get. We have 1,000 recorders for 'The Age Of Nero' this week, so if we continue at that pace, we'll have a gold record before Christmas."

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Volbeat Posts New Video "Mary Ann's Space" Online

Danish metallers Volbeat has posted their new music video online for the song, "Mary Ann's Space." You can check it out below. The song comes from the bands latest album, "Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood." More...

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Lay Down Rotten Reveals New Album Details

German death metal band LAY DOWN ROTTEN has finished the pre-production for their upcoming new album. Here's an update from LAY DOWN ROTTEN guitar player Daniel Jakobi:

"Howdy! We just finished the pre-production for the successor of our Metal Blade debut 'Reconquering The Pit.' We are really happy about the result and actually can't wait for early December to come to enter the Desert Inn studios and record the new album. The working title for it is 'Katharsis...Or The Principle Of Death,' but this is subject to correction.

"The upcoming album will be quite a challenge for us. For the first time we will mix and master the album outside Germany. We have decided to go to Sweden and let Dan Swanö do the mix and mastering. Some of you might know Dan is my definite Death Metal hero so having him work on the album means a lot to me personally.

"Then we'll have a couple of guest appearances of top-class Death Metal singers on the album. I won't give you names yet, but we are talking about true Death Metal legends from the early days of our beloved music style and I am extremely excited having them on the next LAY DOWN ROTTEN record. We will reveal all those details in the near future so stay tuned and keep an eye on our online studio diary once we have started recordings.

"We will perform a new song called 'Hours Of Infinity' on the 'Darkness Over X-Mass tour' in December so come by, check us out and have a drink with us!" More...

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Drudgery Plans Hometown CD Release Show

Drudgery will be having their home town CD release show this Saturday night, November 15th, 2008 in Guelph (Ontario, Canada) at The Shadow. "Johnny's back from touring with Fuck The Facts and we're super stoked for this show," states the band.

Doors are only $10.

You can also check out the band's brand new EP, entitled "Rust," online on their MySpace page.

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Primordial Heidenfest TV Launched

The first clips from Primordial's Heidenfest tour have been posted online on the Heidenfest TV MySpace page. See what Alan from PRIMORDIAL has to say and what crazy stuff the other bands are doing. More clips will be posted on the tour's MySpace page as well.

Here are the remaining Heidenfest tour dates, featuring Finntroll, Primordial, Eluveitie, Equilibrium, Manegarm and Catmenia as well as special guests:

12.11.08 - DE - Ludwigsburg – Rockfabrik
13.11.08 - DE - Frankfurt – Batschkapp
14.11.08 - AT - Wien – Gasometer
15.11.08 - AT - Linz – Posthof
16.11.08 - HU - Budapest - Diesel More...

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Anal Cunt Announces Texas Shows

Tongue in cheek metallers Anal Cunt has lined up a few shows in Texas, scheduled to begin next week.

The tour dates are as follows:

November 20 - San Antonio,TX @ White Rabbit (
November 21 - Austin,TX @ Red 7
November 22 - Dallas,TX @ Renos
November 23 - Corpus Christi, TX @ Compound

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Heavy Metal Bad For The Heart?

Along with everything else these days, too much heavy metal is now apparantly bad for the heart. Jason Gregory from Gigwise.com is reporting:

Listening to stressful or disturbing music can be bad for the heart, according to a new study.

An American investigation found that genres like heavy metal narrowed arteries and made people more anxious, where as “joyful” music improved blood flow.

John Denver-style country music was found to be the most uplifting. More...

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