Zakk Wylde ...new book!

Wylde takes a huge whack at his career in this book, starting from his first professional recording gig (holy s**t what a story!), which seems to have set the stage for everything he has done since. In the process of delving into myriad accounts of wild and crazy excess (reason enough to pick up a copy), the Ozzy/ BLS axman delivers sage advice about how to succeed in the music business and what it takes to be a man of metal.

Sodom working on new album for 2012!

In a recent interview with Greek webzine Rock Overdose, Tom "Angelripper" Such of German Teutonic thrash metal band Sodom revealed that the band is currently working on a new album, with two songs completed and aiming for a 2012 release. He says: "Nowdays we have started writing new songs for the next album, we wanna do a new album next year, I don't wanna have fans waiting so long like the black album that took 4 years waiting and I told our record company that I like to do records every two years, maybe every year. Next year we have a 30 year anniversary and I wanna do the new album, and I wanna do a special box set with old DVDs for the fans and celebrate it with a special show. We have a couple of songs together, we are going to go in the studio next May or June to start recording the new album. I want to release the new album in 2012 definitely."

EVILE - FIVE SERPENT'S TEETH - Out Now!

FIVE SERPENT'S TEETH, the incredible new album from British thrashers EVILE, is out now North America!

FIVE SERPENT'S TEETH is EVILE's third full-length release and is already receiving rave reviews around the world.  The album is available now in stores, and is also available online from FYE with an exclusive free band photo signed by the members of EVILE themselves!

Grab FIVE SERPENT'S TEETH with this highly collectible item now at http://bit.ly/evile-fye

Rob Halford NEW Live DVD - Live At Saitama Super Arena!

Halford Live At Saitama Super Arena features a multi-HD cam production and 5.1 surround-audio recording of the band’s Tokyo, Japan performance on October 10, 2010. Fifteen alford performed tracks spanning Rob Halford’s Judas Priest, Fight and Halford careers along with select cuts from Halford IV – Made Of Metal. (2011)

Lacuna Coil new sing "Trip the Darkness" clip on line...!

"Trip The Darkness", a snippet of a new single off of Lacuna Coil's upcoming new album Dark Adrenaline is now available online. You can listen to it below. Dark Adrenaline has been penned for a January 2012 release via Century Media. This single is now exclusively available on iTunes Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and Australia. "Trip The Darkness" will be released on October 9th in the UK, October 10th in the rest of Europe, October 11th in North American and Spain, October 12th in Sweden, Finland and Hungary, and October 17th in Italy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiufcRo9WI

Enjoy!

Ministry Reuniting .. North American dates announced!

MINISTRY   Reunited and doing 5 shows in North America.

June 17     Denver , CO  at the Ogden Theater
June 21     Los Angeles , CA     At the Club Nokia
June 23     NYC , NY     At the Best Buy Theater
June 28     Chicago , IL          At the Vic Theater
June 29     Chicago , IL          At the Vic Theater

Check back to our blog to see if more dates are announced!

Footage Of Big 4 Performing "Overkill" By Motorhead Live At Yankee Stadium

Here is the footage! http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/7585/the-big-4-at-yankee-stadium-jam-on-motorheads-overkill 

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Riot - Immortal Soul - New album from Riot! November 22nd in North America...

Immortal Soul is the title of the new upcoming album from US hard-rockers Riot, which will be released through Steamhammer/SPV records on October 21st in Japan, October 26th in Scandinavia, October 28th in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, October 31st in the rest of Europe and on November 22nd in the USA and Canada.

Immortal Soul tracklisting:

01. Riot
02. Still Your Man
03. Crawling
04. Wings Are For Angels
05. Fall Before Me
06. Sins Of The Father
07. Majestica
08. Immortal Soul
09. Insanity
10. Whiskey Man
11. Believe
12. Echoes

Megadeth New 2011 13 Album Artwork And Stream New Single Titled Public Enemy No. 1!

 

Album Artwork:

Warbringer Pre Order Specail..! Worlds Torn Asunder!

Warbring Pre Order Special!

http://www.cmdistro.com/     to order.

Deicide Tour 2012 - with Jungle Rot - and more!

Deicide  will return to the US for a brand new tour in 2012.
Support will come from jungle Rot , Abigail Williams and Lecherous Nocturne

dates are ALL ON SALE NOW

March 01 - West Springfield, VA - Jaxx
March 02 - Reading, PA - Reverb
March 03 - New York, NY - The Gramercy Theatre
March 04 - Montreal, QUE - FouFounes
March 05 - Quebec City, QUE - Imperial de Quebec
March 06 - Toronto, ONT - Opera House
March 07 - Rochester, NY - Montage Music Hall
March 08 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
March 09 - Detroit, MI - Blondie's
March 10 - Chicago, IL - Reggie's Rock Club
March 12 - Winnipeg, MB - The Osbourne Village Inn
March 13 - Regina, SK - The Exchange
March 14 - Edmonton, AL - Starlite
March 15 - Calgary, AL - Dickens
March 16 - Kelowna, BC - Rutland Centennial Hall
March 17 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theater
March 18 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
March 19 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
March 20 - San Francisco, CA - The Grand Ballroom
March 21 - West Hollywood, CA - House of Blues
March 22 - Tempe, AZ - Clubhouse
March 23 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex
March 24 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
March 26 - Dallas, TX - Trees
March 27 - Austin, TX - Emo's Alternative Lounging
March 28 - New Orleans, LA - The Hangar
March 29 - Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone

Hypocrisy to release new live DVD in October!

Swedish death metal masters Hypocrisy will release a new DVD called Hell Over Sofia - 20 Years Of Chaos And Confusion.

Mikael Hedlund states: "Finally after 20 years a DVD will be released to tell you the truth of Hypocrisy. It's called Hell over Sofia - 20 Years Of Chaos And Confusion.

It will contain a full concert from our last tour Long Time, No Death 2010 in Blue Box Club in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was a show that had everything! The crowd was helping us doing one of our best shows ever in our history and it was recorded with several cameras. The DVD will also contain a one and a half hour documentary that will show you our 20 years of chaos and confusion. We would like to give our fans the true story of the past and give them all the details what have happened on our jurney over all these years. There are secrets that never has been told plus pictures and clips that never has been showed. This DVD will give you the full cover of Hypocrisy!"

Hell Over Sofia - 20 Years Of Chaos And Confusion will be out on October 14th, 2011.

GWAR .. World Maggot Fall Tour Dates Announced!

GWAR ANNOUNCES "RETURN OF THE WORLD MAGGOT" FALL TOUR
After successfully decimating Europe this Summer with multiple festival appearances and headlining shows, your lords and masters the almighty GWAR have awoken from their arctic slumber to once again create utter devastation in North America this Fall.  The tour kicks off October 18th at in Charlotte, NC and will cross North America wrapping up November 27th in New Haven, CT. 

Providing direct support on the tour will be Buffalo New York's Every Time I Die.  Ghoul will open the first half of the tour and Warbeast will be opening the second half.  A complete list of tour dates is listed below.

Momentarily putting down his crack pipe, the warty front thing and mutant overlord Oderus Urungus spoke about the carnage that is sure to ensue when GWAR tours North America:
"Once again we blow the mighty horn of war, and summon the most fanatical fans in metal history to pay homage to their brutal overlords, us. Between holding Crack-a-Thon's, having GWAR-B-Q's, you might think that your Lords and Masters had forgotten about you...but you won't get off that easy! GWAR is returning to personally slap the teeth out of your collective mouths, and have a great time while doing it!"

GWAR on tour with Every Time I Die, Ghoul and Warbeast
10/18 Charlotte, NC @ Amos' Southend
10/19 Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
10/20 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/21 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
10/22 Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights
10/23 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
10/24 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
10/25 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre10/26 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
10/28 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
10/29 Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
10/30 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
10/31 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
11/01 Sauget, IL @ Pop's
11/02 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
11/04 Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Event Centre
11/05 Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall Ballroom
11/07 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom11/08 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
11/09 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
11/11 San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
11/12 West Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues
11/13 Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse
11/14 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
11/15 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
11/16 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
11/18 Austin, TX @ East Side Drive In
11/19 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
11/20 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
11/21 New Orleans, LA @ The Hangar
11/22 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
11/23 Tampa, FL @ Green Iguana Stadium
11/25 Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre
11/26 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
11/27 New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place

Exodus vocalist Rob Dukes side project - Generation Kill interview new album in Sept. 2011!

Rob Dukes lead singer of Exodus has a new side project called Generation Kill.  Check out the interview with Rob and drummer Jim DeMaria when interviewed about the new side project during the Hell on Earth Tour August 4th 2011.

Generation Kill's debut album titled Red White and Blood will be released in North America on Sept. 27th and in Europe Sept. 13th!

Get this one when it comes out...we have heard some samples and it is killer!

Chickenfoot New Song Teaser 2011!

Chickenfoot have released a brand new preview clip of an a new song ahead of the release of their new album in September.
The record is released on 26 September in the UK and will be preceded by a new single next month.
Here's the first new album teaser:

Diamond Head with Big 4 - Am I Evil? - Live - Sonisphere 2011 UK - July 8th 2011

The Big 4 jam that took place on July 8th 2011 at Knebwoth, UK featured Diamond Head lead vocalist Brian Tatler joining Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth to jam out the hit song Am I Evil? in front of 60,000 people! What a way to close off the show!

Make sure to follow us at @RAMNOfficial
Metallica's Setlist for the show:

Metallica Setlist:
Hit the Lights
Master of Puppets
The Shortest Straw
Seek & Destroy
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Ride the Lightning
The Memory Remains
All Nightmare Long
Sad But True
The Call of Ktulu
One
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Blackened
Fade to Black
Enter Sandman

Encore:
Am I Evil?
(Diamond Head cover)
Battery
Creeping Death

We will post the link to them playing Am I Evil? as soon as we get it!

Opeth to stream their live set at UK's Sonishphere in Knebworth!

Thank you Opeth and Roadrunner Records!  Check it out!

Opeth's live set at the Sonisphere festival in Knebworth, UK this Sunday, July 10th will be streamed live at Roadrunner UK.

The webcast will begin at approximately 5:50pm GMT. Click here to watch it.

Mayhem Festival Meet N Greets and Signing Info!

Rockstar Energy Drink and Jägermeister are presenting exclusive signings at each festival date!  Rockstar Energy Drink has confirmed signings with Machine Head and Suicide Silence, and Jägermeister will be offering signings with Kingdom of Sorrow and Unearth starting at the Boise, ID date through the end of the tour.  Hatebreed will also be taking part in signings on their specific show dates, and Dave Ellefson of Megadeth will be taking part in signings on various dates, as well.  Make sure to swing by the Rockstar and Jägermeister booths at your local festival date to check on signing times.

In Flames will also be doing signings on every date at starting 3:15-3:45 local time every day starting at the Seattle, Washington date and Machine Head will be appearing on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival tour all summer long, and they'll be holding meet and greets with fans at the Rockstar Energy Drink tent! Stop off at the Roadrunner Records booth and pre-order the new album, Unto The Locust, due out September 27, and receive an exclusive lithograph! Text MFHEAD to 67463 on the day of the show to receive signing times and be entered for a chance to win an autographed guitar from Machine Head!

Unearth has also confirmed to us on twitter that they will be doing signings before and after every performance Unearth puts on! 

Suicide Silence has confirmed signings at the Century Media tent every date on Mayhem Festival 2011!

For More Updates On Signings At Mayhem Festival 2011 Follow RAMN On Twitter HERE!

METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER, ANTHRAX Perform MISFITS Classic "Die, Die My Darling" Live In Italy - Footage Available

The "Big Four" bands of 1980s thrash metal — METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX — played the third show of their European tour earlier tonight (Wednesday, July 6) at Arena Fiera Rho in Milan, Italy.

The highly anticipated onstage performance of the "Big Four" bands at the same time happened near the end of METALLICA's set, between "Enter Sandman" and "Damage Inc.". Members of ANTHRAX, SLAYER and MEGADETH joined METALLICA on stage for a cover of MISFITS' "Die, Die My Darling" before METALLICA ended the night with "Creeping Death".

According to Musica Metal, ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian, who is sitting out nearly a dozen shows on the band's current tour in order to spend time with his family following the birth of his first child (his temporary replacement is SEPULTURA's Andreas Kisser), rejoined the group exclusively for the Italian date, claiming halfway through ANTHRAX's set that he loves Italy too much to miss out on the opportunity to play the country again. Ian also took part in the "Big Four" jam session, as did SLAYER's Dave Lombardo, who missed the Gothenburg "Big Four" jam on July 3 because he was getting tattoo work done on his arm. SLAYER guitarists Kerry King and Gary Holt (filling in for Jeff Hanneman) each had a beer on stage during the "Die, Die My Darling" performance, but didn't participate in the jam.

METALLICA's setlist was as follows:

01. Hit the Lights
02. Master Of Puppets
03. The Shortest Straw
04. Seek & Destroy
05. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
06. Ride The Lightning
07. Through The Never
08. All Nightmare Long
09. Sad But True
10. The Call Of Ktulu
11. One
12. For Whom The Bell Tolls
13. Blackened
14. Fade To Black
15. Enter Sandman

Encore:

16. Die, Die My Darling (w/ SLAYER, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX)
17. Damage, Inc.
18. Creeping Death

The members of SLAYER could not join the July 2 "Am I Evil?" (DIAMOND HEAD) jam at the "Big Four" show in Gelsenkirchen, Germany due to their travel arrangements to get to the next concert. They also missed the following night's performance of "Helpless" (DIAMOND HEAD) in Gothenburg, Sweden.

MEGADETH Performs Brand New Song In Hamburg; Video Footage Available!!

MEGADETH debuted a brand new song, "Public Enemy No. 1", during the band's headlining performance last night (Monday, July 4) at Docks in Hamburg, Germany.

In introducing the track, MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine said from the stage, "I wanted to do something for you tonight to show you how much we appreciate you instead of saying you're a great audience. We're gonna play a new song for you. This song is from our new record, [it's] never been played anywhere, never been heard by anybody but us. This song is called 'Public Enemy No. 1'."

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The band's setlist for the Hamburg concert was as follows:

01. Skin O' My Teeth
02. In My Darkest Hour
03. Hangar 18
04. Wake Up Dead
05. Poison Was the Cure
06. 1,320'
07. She-Wolf
08. Sweating Bullets
09. Trust
10. How the Story Ends
11. Angry Again
12. Tornado of Souls
13. Head Crusher
14. A Tout Le Monde
15. Public Enemy (new song)
16. Symphony Of Destruction

Encore:

17. Peace Sells
18. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

MEGADETH has once again tapped artist John Lorenzi to create the artwork for the group's forthcoming CD, tentatively due this fall via Roadrunner Records. The effort was recently recorded at Vic's Garage with producer Johnny K (full name: John Karkazis), who has previously worked with DISTURBED, SEVENDUST, MACHINE HEAD and STAIND, among others.