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Best Hard Rock Performance

• Inside the fire: Disturbed
• Visions: Judas Priest
• Wax Simulacra: The Mars Voltra
• Saints Of Los Angeles: Motley Crue
• Lords Of Salem: Rob Zombie

My pick for this category would be Judas Priest simply for the reason that this is a great song and everything else on this list is bovine excrement.

Best Metal Performance

• Heroes Of Our Time: DragonForce
• Nostradamus: Judas Priest
• My Apocalypse: Metallica
• Under My Thumb: Ministry
• Psychosocial: Slipknot

My Pick would be Slipknot because this is probably the best heavy song off of All Hope Is Gone. Dragonforce annoys the hell out of me, Nostradamus is the most redundant song from that album sheerly because of the number of time he sings “Nostradamus” in the song and My Apocalypse is not a great song from Death Magnetic not to mention it’s one of the songs that sound terrible production wise. Concerning Ministry, I don’t think anyone should be nominated for a cover song.

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

• Castellorizon: David Gilmour from Live At Dansk
• Suicide & Redemption: Metallica
• 34 Ghosts I-IV: Nine Inch Nails
• Hope (Live For The Art Of Peace): Rush
• Peaches En Regalia: Zappa On Zappa

My pick is David Gilmour. Although the song is mostly ambient and some orchestration until about 2:11 into the song, it just has that David Gilmour/Pink Floyd feel to it. I like Suicide & Redemption but it’s not the most creative Metallica instrumental and is far too long clocking in at nearly 10 minutes long. I haven’t heard the other three so I don’t have anything to comment on those.

Metallica is nominated for Best Rock Album but they are up against Coldplay, so as we all know Coldplay will most likely win it. Anyone else have a hard time saying “Coldplay” without vomiting just a little? Death Magnetic is also nominated for Best Recording Package and Rick Ruben is up for Producer Of The Year as usual.

AC/DC Rock N Roll Train is up for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. Once again they are up against Coldplay so their chances of winning that silly category is highly unlikely.

You can read the entire list of nominees from every category at Chicago Sun Time Blog.

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Heaven And Hell

• UNDEROATH – DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES (Premiere)
• LAMB OF GOD – WALK WITH ME IN HELL (live)
• DRAGONFORCE – HEROES OF OUR TIME
• CARNIFEX – ANSWERS IN MOURNING (Premiere)
• WHITE CHAPEL – THIS IS EXILE
• OZZY OSBOURNE – BARK AT THE MOON
• THE SWORD – FIRE LANCES OF THE ANCIENT HYPERZEPHYRIANS (Debut)
• SHADOWS FALL – FOREVERMORE
• HATEBREED – I WILL BE HEARD (live) (Premiere)
• HEAVEN AND HELL – THE MOB RULES
• MESHUGGAH – BLEED

Click ‘Read More’ to watch the four videos that are premiering or debuting tonight, if you haven’t seen them already online.

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Dragonforce Pre-sale Tickets

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1. DRAGONFORCE – HEROES OF OUR TIME
2. INHALE/EXHALE – IT’S MYSELF VS. BEING A MAN
3. THE GATES OF SLUMBER – TRAPPED IN THE WEB
4. HATEBREED – THIS IS NOW (live)
5. EMMURE – SOUND WAVE SUPERIOR
6. KRISIUN – MURDERER
7. MISERY SIGNALS – A CERTAIN DEATH
8. MESHUGGAH – BLEED
9. IMPENDING DOOM – MY NEMESIS
10. FIREBALL MINISTRY – SUNDOWN
11. SLIPKNOT – PSYCHOSOCIAL

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How many bands like The Sword were never really even heard of until Guitar Hero 2 came out. DragonForce sales soared after Guitar Hero 3 and the band even admits that Guitar Hero 3 is probably what made them bigger. Even some of the older bands have gained new fans from the Guitar Hero games. Some kids never even heard of half the bands on there. After they played them and discovered that they liked them I guarantee they did one of two things. Either illegally downloaded the song of bought it legally.

I have no problems if they try to hit up the video game developers for more money if it is going to the bands, but if it’s just lining the pockets of the assholes at Warner Records then I think it’s B.S.

Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman drew comparisons between MTV’s launch 25 years ago or Apple Inc’s iPod launch five years ago, and today’s video game companies like Activision Blizzard Inc and Harmonix, a unit of Viacom Inc.

“The amount being paid to the music industry, even though their games are entirely dependent on the content we own and control, is far too small.”

Notice that word…’Control’.

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• HATEBREED – LIVE FOR THIS (live)
• THE GATES OF SLUMBER – TRAPPED IN THE WEB
• LAMB OF GOD – WALK WITH ME IN HELL
• DRAGONFORCE – HEROES OF OUR TIME
• STRAIGHT LINE STITCH – BLACK VEIL
• HATE ETERNAL – I, MONARCH
• ARISE AND RUIN – BOUND BY BLOOD
• MESHUGGAH – BLEED
• IMPENDING DOOM – MY NEMESIS
• KORN – BLIND
• THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA – HTML RULEZ DOOD

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By the time we got back to our seats Dragonforce was on their second to last song and went in to Through The Fire And Flames. I gotta say for the 10 or 15 minutes I got to see them play, it was pretty good. I don’t know if I would have like to see their full 40 minute set though. We tried earlier in the day to get a picture of my son with the band but they didn’t stay at the Roadrunner tent very long before moving on so the picture at the top was the best I could do.

Dragoneforce finished up about 10 minutes early and Disturbed came on about 10 minutes early. They rolled David Draimen out on a hand truck like Hannibal Lechter. Facemask and everything. I thought it was a pretty cheesy start. After all, I was not really looking forward to seeing Disturbed play. I only like a handful of their songs, I don’t own any cd’s and I normally don’t have anything good to say about them.

Disturbed put on an amazing show. They played all the ones I expected to hear, even the Genesis cover. The crowd was in a frenzy, fists and horns pumping, people singing along to every chorus. It was quite a show and I was quite impressed. Does this mean I’m a new fan that’s going to going to run out and buy all their cd’s, find me a big ole pair of those ‘nu-metal pants’ and start kissing their ass and talking about them and posting every bit of news I see on them. No. It was a great show and that’s all there is to it. ON a side note, if you read in the Scrap Metal Report, their bus carrying their crew and some equipment blew a tire and ran down an embankment in South Carolina, sending one crew member to the hospital and shaking up the rest of the crew, but they still got up to VA beach the next day and made sure the band was ready to go.

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Dragonforce

01. Heroes Of Our Time
02. The Fire Still Burns
03. Reasons To Live
04. Scars Of Yesterday
05. Heartbreak Armageddon
06. The Last Journey Home
07. Inside The Winter Storm
08. The Warrior Inside

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From Roadrunner Records Myspace Post:

Organizers of the first-ever Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival have announced dates, venues and on-sale information for the highly anticipated all-star thunderfest.

Multi-platinum rock acts Slipknot and Disturbed will lead the much-buzzed-about amp-shattering road show, which will feature hard music’s most influential bands and its new wave of heavy-hitting acts. The tour is set to kick off July 9 at the White River Amphitheatre in Seattle and will hit Live Nation Amphitheaters in 30 cities in the U.S. and Canada between July 9 and August 19, 2008.
Fans can purchase tickets beginning April 4 at 10AM local venue time via the Official Mayhem Fan Community at http://mayhemfest.tickets. musictoday.com.
Pre-sale orders also allow fans to hear tracks from Mayhem bands, receive early entry venue passes, purchase a discounted subscription to Revolver magazine and receive a Mayhem t-shirt.
In addition, pre-orders enroll fans into a contest offering one grand prize winner an electric guitar and two meet & greet
passes to get the six-string signed.
Fans that pre-register to be a part of the Mayhem Fan Community before April 4 can purchase tickets upon immediate availability. And by pre-registering, they’ll also be entered into a contest to win a merch pack featuring CDs from every band on the tour.
Tickets go on sale nationally beginning April 19.
You can get more information at www.Mayhemfest.com or www.livenation.com.
In addition to Slipknot and Disturbed, the main stage features Dragonforce and Mastodon, as well as a Jagermeister second stage with Machine Head, Airbourne, Five Finger Death Punch, Walls of Jericho and the Jagermeister Battle of The Bands Winner. There will also be a Hot Topic Stage featuring Underoath, Black Tide, Suicide Silence, The Red Chord and 36 Crazyfists.

Tour Dates:
7/9 Seattle, WA – White River Amphitheatre
7/11 Sacramento, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheatre
7/12 San Francisco, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
7/13 San Bernardino, CA – Glen Helen Pavilion
7/15 Fresno, CA – Save Mart Center
7/16 San Diego, CA – Coors Amphitheatre
7/18 Phoenix, Az – Cricket Wireless Pavilion
7/19 Albuquerque, NM – Journal Pavilion
7/20 Denver, CO – Coors Amphitheatre at Fiddler’s Green
7/22 Kansas City, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7/23 St. Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St.
Louis
7/25 Dallas, TX – www.Superpages.com Center
7/26 San Antonio, TX – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/27 Houston, TX – Sam Houston Race Park
7/29 Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre
7/30 W.
Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheater
8/1 Virginia Beach, VA – Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
8/2 Pittsburgh, PA – Post-Gazette Pavilion
8/3 Uniondale, NY – Nassau Coliseum
8/5 Boston, MA – Tweeter Center for Performing Arts
8/6 Scranton, PA – Toyota Pavilion
8/8 Toronto, ON – Downsview Park
8/9 Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
8/10 Chicago, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
8/12 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
8/13 Indianapolis, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis
8/15 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
8/16 Hartford, CT – New England Dodge Music Center
8/17 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
8/19 Buffalo, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

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