Lazarus A.D.’s Jeff Paulick checks in from the road!

“What’s good dwellers of the Lazarus legion?!? Giving you a quick update from the road on our last-second venture with Ensiferum and Blackguard. Shit has been pretty awesome thus far. We left late Friday night, after the guys went and saw Job for a Cowboy, Gwar, and LoG in our hometown, the show was pretty fucking sick, headed off to Allentown, PA where the infamous Croc Rock pizza awaited…it wasn’t so hot haha! We really had no idea what to expect as this tour as it’s a little bit different genre-wise. It’s been hit or miss, but for the most part I think it’s getting through. Hopefully Peter and Alexi can get into the country asap so Hypocrisy can start tearing it up every night as well! The second night we played at Volume 11 in Raleigh, NC…and we have a little history there. As our previous three visits we laid a goose egg on merch every time, this time through, we finally got some good merch sales and had some very generous friends smoke us out, which meant our perception of Volume 11 did a huge 180! We grilled out that night with the guys from Blackguard (totally awesome brothers and an amazing band, definitely check them out!) shared a bottle of Jay-mo and woke to the sound of angry businessmen telling us to move our vehicle from their parking lot. We obviously denied the mess of beer cans strewn about the outside of the bus haha, but hey, I didn’t know anything about that!! After Atlanta we drove straight to Jacksonville, FL where some friends of ours reside, just dodging Ida on the way, very lucky there, our bus and trailer don’t mix with tropical storms. Our show was cancelled in Ft. Lauderdale which totally blew cuz we all were really looking forward to heading to the beach down south. SO, we made up for it and spent the day at Universal Studios, and needless to say, it was fucking awesome. Most of us had never been there before and it’s easily one of the most fun parks I’ve ever been to. It was a pretty cloudy day so NOBODY was there; we went on everything multiple times through. We shared some drinks and lunch at the Hard Rock (we saw Dime’s Crown Royal Guitar and Vinnie’s full Pearl set used at the show where Dime was shot, pretty intense shit). Met up with the guys from Blackguard and hit some coasters with them. We grabbed a hotel and passed the fuck out as I had been up for 36 hours straight ensuring we could make this awesome day happen in time. Last night was Orlando, FUCK downtown Orlando parking. We had to park a mile away after we unloaded, after we played had to come back again, and then there was some confusion with payment as we were playing this Anti Pop festival, which had a million shows going on, the city was fucking packed, so we sat double parked on a one way street in front of the venue until payment was received haha…and it was. Long drive ahead to Texas and then to CALI!! Can’t fucking wait, I’ll be throwing some more updates at ya next week, until then spread the word that we are on “The Tour from Afar” with Ensiferum, Hypocrisy, and Blackguard, then hopping on with Vader and Warbringer for a couple weeks, see all you fucks on the road!!! Oh and there’s a video coming soon of what we do most while on the road…COD…constantly haha! Light em up and drink em down!”

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Alice in Chains have just released a trailer for their upcoming video, “Your Decision.” The clip features William DuVall, Mike Inez, Jerry Cantrell, and Sean Kinney dressed in suit and tie. The band teamed up once again with Director Stephen Schuster, who also did the video for the song “A Looking In View.” The video premieres on iTunes December 1st.

“Your Decision” is the new single off of the hugely successful album, Black Gives Way To Blue, which entered Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart at No. 5, with first-week sales exceeding 126,000 copies.

The band are currently in the middle of a European tour, and will be touring North America in the new year.

North American tour dates are as follows:

Dec. 11 Las Vegas, NV The Joint (KXTE radio show)
Dec. 12 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre (KROQ Acoustic Xmas)
Feb. 2 Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre
Feb. 4 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
Feb. 6 Salem, OR Salem Armory
Feb. 11 Oakland, CA Fox Theatre
Feb. 17 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
Feb. 19 Denver, CO Fillmore
Feb. 21 Kansas City, MO Midland
Feb. 22 St. Louis, MO Pageant
Feb. 23 Louisville, KY Louisville Palace
Feb. 25 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Feb. 27 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
Mar 1 Nashville, TN Municipal Auditorium
Mar 2 Charlotte, NC Fillmore
Mar 3 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall
Mar 5 Richmond, VA The National
Mar 6 Mashantucket, CT Foxwoods
Mar 8 New York, NY Terminal 5
Mar 12 Atlantic, City, NJ Borgata
Mar 13 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
Mar 14 Boston, MA Orpheum
Mar 16 Montreal, QC Metropolis
Mar 17 Toronto, ONT Sound Academy
Mar 19 Detroit, MI Fillmore State Theatre
Mar 20 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
Mar 21 St. Paul, MN Roy Wilkens Auditorium

SLAVE PIT ARTISTS GO BERSERK IN FRENZY OF CREATIVITY—HUMAN RACE IN COMPLETE AWE

GWAR’s “AMERICA MUST BE DESTROYED” DELUXE EDITION  WITH “TOUR DE SCUM” AND “PHALLUS IN WONDERLAND” OUT NOW!

You might think that servicing the needs of GWAR in this, the midst of their 25^th Anniversary Tour would be a full-time job. And it is! But for the artists of Slave Pit Inc., the production company that created and maintains GWAR lust for all things rubber, a constant slew of side-projects is business as usual. This holiday season sees the artists behind the most notorious band in metal history involved in a bevy of extra-curricular delights.

Besides portraying GWAR’s bellicose lead singer Oderus Urungus, Dave Brockie is a painter, writer and avid snowboarder…and has just released his own signature snowboard! When old buddy, huge GWAR fan, and ex-pro rider Ron Bureta got his own company going, the long-held idea of a Brockie snowboard finally became a reality.

Says Bureta, “Since “HELL-O!” I have been a huge GWAR fan, scaring the jocks in high school by singing lyrics from “Slutman City” out loud. During my Pro Snowboarder days, I always wanted to do a GWAR graphic but my sponsors thought that it wouldn’t be cool. Now that I own my own company I’m doing things my way. Teaming up with Dave Brockie for this project is a dream come true for me and is the next best thing to becoming a GWAR Slave.”

Check it out at http://oderus.com/timewasters/sined/index.html

Brockie’s behind the scenes look at the birth of GWAR, “GWAR, Me, and the Onrushing Grip of Death” has reached its 13^th episode at http://rvanews.com/sections/columns/gwar

Meanwhile, Brockie continues to churn out collectible art pieces for private collections worldwide. Check out his work at http://oderus.com/timewasters/artmoney/index.html

But Brockie isn’t alone in his fanatical zeal to create art and somehow make a living off of it. His Slave-Pit confederates Bob Gorman and Matt Maguire also have their bloody little fingers in a multitude of pies.

GORMAN’S TROLLS AS FEATURED IN SPIN MAGAZINE

Bob Gorman is one of GWAR’s lead slaves and portrays GWAR’s hapless killing creates t-shirt designs and logos, custom illustration, and paintings. He also designs and fabricates custom props and costumes for GWAR and other clients and manufactures and sells concrete “Garden Trolls”, as featured in the Nov. 2009 issue of Spin magazine. Finally, he designs and fabricates full custom bicycles. He can be reached at bobgorman.com or gwarofficial@myspace.com

MATT MCGUIRE’S “FRIENDS” THINK “BLOOD IS YUMMY”.

Slave-Pit artist Matt Maguire is one of the main figures on the Slave-Pit shop floor and GWAR’s live show. This talented artist, who plays GWAR’s mixed up Scumdog cohort Sawborg-Destructo, also builds lots of the props and costumes for used by GWAR, also designs many of the shirts and other graphic elements of GWAR’s assault on humanity, and also serves as GWAR’s stage manager. Yet somehow he finds time to produce all kinds of collectible art. He does custom drawings, paintings, and tattoo designs, and creates limited runs of a host of bizarre creatures, including the “Blood is Yummy”, and “Friends” figures. Matt and Bob Gorman collaborate on the slave-trade.net site, and he can be reached through mattmaguire.com or at slavetrade.net for graphics, tattoos, and costumes one of a kind art, and fabrication work. He has a line of t- shirts, stickers and limited runs of latex “friends”, figures .and small blood is yummy guys coming soon on  slavetrade.net. Bob Gorman and I will also have limited prints soon.

In other GWAR news the Scumdogs have unleashed upon the unwitting populace of North America a special collection of classics from the GWARchives. America Must Be Destroyed, GWAR’s 1992 opus, can now be purchased in a special edition digipak that’s also crammed with a DVD that includes the seminal GWAR films Tour De Scum and Phallus In Wonderland. Never before have they all been available in one package for you to get your clammy human hands on!

GWAR Tour w/ Job For A Cowboy, The Red Chord

11/18    Ventura, CA                   Majestic Ventura Theatre

11/19    Chico, CA                      Senator Theatre

11/20    Sparks, NV                    New Oasis

11/21    Magna, UT                    The Great Salt Air

11/23    Pomona, CA                   Glasshouse

11/24    San Francisco, CA          Regency Center

11/25    Bend, OR                       Midtown Music Hall

11/27    Portland, OR                  Roseland Theatre

11/28    Spokane, WA                 Knitting Factory

11/29    Seattle, WA                   The King Cat Theatre

11/30    Vancouver, BC               Commodore Ballroom

12/02    Edmonton, AB                Edmonton Events Centre

12/03    Calgary, AB                   MacEwan Hall Ballroom

12/04    Regina, SK                     Riddell Centre

12/05    Winnipeg, MB                The Garrick Centre

12/07    Chicago, IL                    House Of Blues

12/09    Charlotte, NC                 Tremont Music Hall

12/10    Washington, DC             9:30 Club

12/11    Clifton Park, NY             Northern Lights

12/12    Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory

12/13    New York, NY                Irving Plaza

[images: Adrenaline PR]

This is a death metal version of the Super Mario Brothers Castle Theme. Incredible.

source: BlindAstaroth

Behemoth announces Evangelia Amerika tour presented by Revolver in association with Affliction and ESP Guitars!

The mighty Behemoth will once again be returning to North American soil in 2010! This is their first tour in the region since their massively successful summer with the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest. Following Mayhem, Behemoth’s Evangelion reached enormous heights, coming in at #56 on the Billboard Top 200, #61 on Canada’s Top 200, and three weeks straight at #1 in Poland before being certified gold in their home country.

The fans have spoken and Behemoth’s return to North America will be a triumphant conquest presented by Revolver Magazine in association with Affliction, ESP Guitars and with on-line media partners KillerTours.com and VampireFreaks.com. Supporting Behemoth on the Evangelia Amerika tour will be Septic Flesh from Greece and Shining from Sweden.

Tickets will go on sale beginning on November 20th with a November 19th pre-sale through Artist Arena here!

Read More – Behemoth Announces Evangelia Amerika Tour

SHADOWS FALL ANNOUNCE ANNUAL HOMETOWN HOLIDAY SHOW DECEMBER 26^th, IN NORTHAMPTON, MA

BE A PART OF THE SHADOWS FALL MERCH DESIGN CONTEST BROUGHT TO YOU BY ULTIMATE-GUITAR

Boston metallers SHADOWS FALL are pleased to announce their annual hometown holiday concert for December 26^th, 2009.  It will take place in Northampton, MA at Pearl Street.  Tickets are on sale now and you can purchase yours at :

http://www.nbotickets.com/default.asp?mode=artist&name=4922

SHADOWS FALL and Ultimate-Guitar.com are giving you a chance to design your own SHADOWS FALL merchandise item.  The guys have set up a few guidelines, read below:

“We’re giving our fans the opportunity to design a new Shadows Fall shirt. Check out the instructions for submitting your design below.

CONTEST STARTS NOW!
We’ve recently launched a merch design contest with Ultimate Guitar and want you to submit your designs for the next Shadows Fall shirt. We wanted to give everyone a chance to submit designs and we have extended the original deadlines.

Here are all the dates and details:

STEP 1: Create a new Shadows Fall design. Final files must be in 300 DPI or higher. Layered photo shop, illustrator, or corel files are best.

STEP 2: Place your design on one of our merch templates. The design needs to have the Shadows Fall logo. You can download the logo and shirt templates here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/c6dm6m. Please, do not send us the artwork file. Only use sendspace.com. All artwork files will be deleted and not entered into the contest!

STEP 3: Upload your file to www.sendspace.com

STEP 4: Email us the link to download your design at shadowsfallbandcontests@gmail.com BEFORE NOVEMBER 29, 2009.

Voting begins at Noon EST on December 2nd, 2009 and ends at Noon EST on December 9th, 2009. Winner will be announced on www.ultimate-guitar.com on 11 AM EST December. 10th, 2009.

We will go through all the submissions and pick our 5 favorite designs. Those designs will be posted on http://www.facebook.com/shadowsfall. Vote for your favorite design and the winner will actually become a real Shadows Fall merch design.

Grand Prize Winner:

2 pieces of the merch created, their myspace and facebook links on band’s page, and a Shadows Fall box set!

2 Runners Up:

Choice of 1 Shadows Fall t-shirt from merch store!

We can’t wait to see all the awesome ideas you guys have. Good luck!”

In more SHADOWS FALL news, the band has partnered up with Machinma.com and has created a video with the SHADOWS FALL song “Still I Rise” for the new video game Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.  Check out the video at: http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com

DELUXE BOX SETS, LIMITED EDITION CD/DVD VERSION AND T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE HERE

[image: Adrenaline PR]

Slayer. Megadeth. Two names synonymous with fierce, crunching power. Two bands whose histories are inevitably intertwined in defining the thrash/metal genre. Individually, their respective prowess and accomplishments are impressive; but together, they’re brutal and unstoppable. Megadeth and Slayer will join forces to co-headline “American Carnage,” the most blistering, the most explosive, and the most eagerly anticipated mega-tour of the winter – and you do not want to miss it.

“American Carnage” will kick off on January 18 in Seattle, WA for a 26-date trek across North America that will include the six Canadian dates postponed earlier this month. Tickets for most shows go on sale this Friday, November 20. Ticketmaster is offering a special presale for most shows from Wednesday November 18 at 10am until Thursday November 19 at 10pm.

“American Carnage” is the first time that Slayer and Megadeth will have toured the U.S. together since 1991’s epic “Clash of the Titans” tour. To celebrate that and in recognition of the tough economic times that many of their fans are having, Megadeth and Slayer have decided to roll back the price of a chunk of tickets at every U.S. show to the “1991 price” of $10.00. These specially-priced tickets will be limited and when they’re gone, they’re gone. Megadeth has also teamed with iloveallaccess.com to provide an Ultimate Fan Package including premium seats, meet and greets, pre-show parties and more.

In addition, Testament – who was also on the “Clash of the Titans” bill, will be Special Guests on the entire tour, marking the first time that all three bands have shared a stage together in more than 18 years, and making this a “must see” metal event.

Both Megadeth and Slayer will hit the road supporting new albums: Megadeth’s 2009 album, ENDGAME, while Slayer’s World Painted Blood, the band’s 10th studio venture, hit stores November 3. Testament’s The Formation of Damnation: Special Tour Edition, will be released on February 23, 2010, with special unreleased bonus tracks.

Slayer and Megadeth have already massacred territories together outside of the U.S. – first with four explosive dates in June, 2009 across Western Canada – “Canadian Carnage” – marking the first time the bands had shared a stage anywhere in 18 years; and then six co-headlining “Carnage” dates in Australia followed in October.

According to various Canadian press outlets last summer:

“It was a night of thrash impossible to trash…” “Tales about war, death, destruction, Satan, aliens and serial killers have never been so much fun…” “The two heavy metal heavyweights …went head-to-head on a level playing field. Both bands brought their ‘A’ game. And the results were anything but pretty – unless you include pretty freakin’ loud and pretty freakin’ awesome.”

Slayer. Few bands come close to matching the intensity that Slayer – guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, vocalist/bassist Tom Araya and drummer Dave Lombardo – brings to its live shows, having been named “Best Live Band” by numerous media outlets including Revolver, SPIN, and Metal Hammer. World Painted Blood offers a Slayer-ized point of view of our world – God’s terrifying global genocide, the chaos of our broken political system, the way-too-close proximity of world horrors that technology has brought us, and a chilling hypothesis of how the rest of the world might view America. The album was recorded in Los Angeles over two time periods, during October 2008 and then between late January and March 2009. World Painted Blood was produced by Greg Fidelman, who’s spent time in the studio with Metallica, the Gossip, the (International) Noise Conspiracy, Slipknot and others, and executive produced by long-time Slayer colleague, Rick Rubin, who suggested Fidelman for the project. One reviewer called the album “the heaviest, bloodiest and best album in almost two decades.” Fans got a couple of early morsels of the brutal new Slayer material — “Psychopathy Red,” a Hanneman song inspired by the heinous Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who confessed to savagely murdering 56 children, was recorded last October and then leaked online. Then, the King-penned track, “Hate Worldwide,” was made available in July as a limited-edition single through Hot Topic. For “American Carnage,” Slayer’s Tom Araya promises, “no ballads, no acoustic numbers, no slow tempos.”

Megadeth. 2009 saw the release of ENDGAME, what has been heralded as Megadeth’s best album in years. It’s the record where it all comes full circle in a career that has not only set standards in hard rock and metal, but defined them. Megadeth’s signature shredding and rousing lyrics are the hallmarks of ENDGAME, with vocalist/guitarist Dave Mustaine once musing and making declarations about the world we live in, having named the album after a government document that should strike fear in the hearts of Americans! But that’s Mustaine and Megadeth, using the vehicle of music to shake things up, to make a point and to rattle your brain, literally, figuratively and sonically. Revolver magazine said of ENDGAME, “One of their best albums.” VH1’s That Metal Show deemed it, “One of the metal albums of the year”, and Popmatters said, “the record positively scorches with an intensity not heard since Rust in Peace.”

Legendary thrash metal titans Testament, whose latest award-winning release (2008 Album of the Year, Metal Hammer’s Golden God Award) The Formation of Damnation, displays them as the quintessential modern heavy metal band, whose experience and accumulated skill allows them to attack with reserves of anger, energy and finesse that make them more powerful than ever. Lead singer Chuck Billy says,

“Uniting these bands is the heavy metal event of generations. We are so proud to be a part of it.”

Slayer and Megadeth are also re-scheduling the east coast leg of the “Canadian Carnage” tour, postponed from this fall.

JANUARY
18 WaMu Theatre, Seattle, WA*
19 Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR – tickets sold via www.rosequarter.com
21 Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA*
22 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA* (tickets on sale 11/21)
23 Dodge Theatre, Phoenix, AZ**
25 Magness Arena, Denver, CO*
26 Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, NM*
27 El Paso Coliseum, El Paso, TX*
29 Verizon Wireless, Houston, TX**
31 Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN*

FEBRUARY
1 Gwinnett Arena, Duluth, GA* (tickets on sale 11/20)
2 Broadbent Arena, Louisville, KY* (tickets on sale 12/4)
4 Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN* (tickets on sale 12/4)
5 UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL* (tickets on sale 12/4)
6 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI*
9 Chevrolet Theatre, Wallingford, CT**
11 Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ*
13 Susquehanna Center, Camden, NJ*
14 Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA*
16 Pavillon de La Jeunesse, Quebec City, QC – tickets sold via Billetech.com
18 John Labatt Centre, London, ON – tickets on sale 11/27 via JohnLabattCentre.com
19 Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON – tickets sold via Ticketmaster.ca
20 Bell Centre, Montreal, QC – tickets sold via Admission.com
22 Moncton Coliseum, Moncton, NB – tickets sold via MonctonColiseum.com
23 Metro Centre, Halifax, NS – tickets sold via TicketAtlantic.com

* tickets sold through Ticketmaster
** tickets sold through LiveNation.com

Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor tied the knot Friday in Las Vegas.

Corey Taylor wed Stephanie Luby at Vegas’s Palms Hotel, where the couple marched down the aisle to Metallica’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.

350 guests packed the hotel’s Pearl Concert Theater, where Camp Freddy’s Billy Morrison acted as minister.

[image: Newscom]

The wait is over! Flyleaf have just released their new studio album Memento Mori, the follow up to their platinum selling self titled debut, today! Check out their online listening party here!

The album features the single “Again” and was produced by Howard Benson (Voivod, Pretty Boy Floyd). On working with the band Benson said,

“For me, I like bands that have something they believe in, regardless of what it is, and the fact that they believe in something so strongly is fairly attractive to me”.

Guitarist Sameer beams about Memento Mori saying,

“We’ve grown a lot as musicians and songwriters…we’ve done a lot of growing up in the last few years, and I think a lot of that comes out in our songs and lyrics. A lot of real life experiences, honesty, and hope”.

Rhythm guitarist/backup vocalist Jared Hartmann was kind enough to answer a few questions for MetalMartyr.com about the band, the new album and performing for the troops in Afghanistan. Check it out below!

Read More – Flyleaf Interview and Listening Party

MUDVAYNE have outdone themselves once again with the mind-blowing packaging for the new album.  The new album is revolutionizing album artwork design, as this is the first album to ever use black light reactive ink.  Every bit of art and text in the packaging of the record will be printed on ink that can only be seen with a black light.

The image seen above is cover of MUDVAYNE’S self-titled album due out on December 22, 2009 when seen under a black light.  The artwork was created exclusively by the “King of Rock Tattoos” Paul Booth.

The world renowned tattoo artist had the following to say about the concept and artwork:

“This project has been absolutely killer to work on! The whole black light concept was totally experimental and quite the challenge, so of course, as an artist, I was drawn to it like a moth to a bugzapper.  I am happy to see bands focusing more energy on their album art… something I thought the internet had killed. Hailz to MUDVAYNE and everyone at the label for going the extra mile!”

The guys from Mudvayne are just as excited about the artwork and packaging:

The album will be available in the following formats:

***1. Super Deluxe – “Limited Edition” run of only 1,000 copies which will be sold direct to the consumer from the band’s site. Pre-Order it at mudvayne.com starting next Tuesday 12.10.09 and receive the digital album 2 weeks before release!

It contains:
a. The deluxe version of the album
b. The album on glow-in-the-dark vinyl (also blacklight-reactive)
c. A 24 inch blacklight
d. A 24×24 poster designed by Paul Booth in blacklight reactive ink
e. An 8×8 blacklight reactive decal designed by Paul Booth

***2. Deluxe – “Limited Edition” first run of 100,000 copies. Pre-Order it at Mudvayne.com starting Tuesday 12.24.09 and receive the digital album 2 weeks before release!

It contains:
a. The album in jewel case
b. A LED, keychain-sized blacklight
c. Special blacklight reactive packaging designed by Paul Booth

***3. Vinyl
a. Glow-in-the-dark vinyl (also blacklight-reactive)
b. Blacklight-reactive art designed by Paul Booth

***4. Jewel Case
a. Blacklight-reactive art designed by Paul Booth

Now that you have seen what the album artwork looks like, Mudvayne wants to give the fans a chance to hear another track off of the forthcoming album. Mudvayne has teamed up with Noisecreep.com to debut the track “SCREAM WITH ME”. Head over to http://www.noisecreep.com starting Tuesday morning to listen to an exclusive stream of the song.

[image: Adrenaline PR]