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 …read more

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 …read more

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 25th 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 …read more

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 …read more

SHADOWS FALL ANNOUNCE ANNUAL HOMETOWN HOLIDAY SHOW DECEMBER 26th, 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 26th, 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 …read more

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.
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Metallica has issued an update regarding the missing Death Magnetic songs from the Wii version of Guitar Hero. I hope Hitler doesn’t hear about this.
Metallica states:
“If you’ve been playing Guitar Hero on the Wii, you may have noticed that we were short a few songs when it came to ‘Death Magnetic’ – well no more! Our friends at Guitar Hero have been working long and hard with Nintendo so that Wii fans can now play the eight ‘Death Magnetic’ songs not previously available for that gaming system.
“Starting November 24, additional tracks from ‘Death Magnetic’ will be available as downloadable singles …read more

Grammy Nominees AS I LAY DYING Wins for Best Music Video for “The Sound of Truth” at the Hollywood Film Festival!
As I Lay Dying “The Sound Of Truth”
AS I LAY DYING | MySpace Video
The 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s “Hollywood Awards” ceremony was held last night before a standing-room-only audience of over 1,100 Hollywood Film Festival attendees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
The winners of the festival’s film competition were announced Sunday night at the Hollywood Discovery Awards Presentation Ceremony at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. This year’s winners are:

“CROSSING” by Kim Tae-kyun — Best Feature Film
“GARBAGE DREAMS” by …read more

Anders and Jonas of the Swedish metal band Katatonia sat down in London a couple of weeks ago to discuss a few of their major influences in regards to their upcoming album Night is the New Day.
They mention artists such as Fields of the Nephilim, the late, great Jeff Buckley and The Cure among others as having some influence on the direction they decided to take on this new album. Check out the video below, and pre-order your copy of Night is the New Day!

Wisconsin’s Lazarus A.D. recently returned from their first ever trip overseas to Japan’s Loud Park festival in Tokyo. Needless to say, the band had an amazing experience. They were the third band to play on the Big Rock stage on October 18th. The stage was headlined by Slayer and also featured Children Of Bodom, Hatebreed and Papa Roach among others. Lazarus A.D. sampled some foreign cuisine, was surprised by eager fans waiting at their hotel room door to sign autographs and take photos, and played to over 10,000 people. Multiple circle pits tore through the crowd as Jeff Paulick, Dan …read more