In This Moment guitarist Chris Howorth has dropped the following update from the road:
“As I write this update we are 11 days away from the end of Warped Tour 2009 – I am in a hotel room in Boise, ID on one of our last days off for the tour. We went into Warped Tour thinking we knew what to expect (we’ve done two Ozzfest’s and numerous other festivals) but we quickly realized that Warped Tour is a completely different animal. For starters it’s bigger than any other traveling festival out there – we are talking 600 plus people traveling …read more

Thanks to Blabbermouth.net, we have a soundboard quality recording of Metallica performing Cyanide at Ozzfest from their upcoming Death Magnetic. Right now all I can say is that it’s 1000 times better than anything from St. Anger, but what will the studio, pro-tooled version sound like? Not too shabby. Back to the 90’s-ish but not too shabby. A little over-use of the wah as usual though.

So what do you think?

If you have been following along, you have seen me post press releases for Black Tide, the young thrash metal band out of Florida that has been touring with Avenged Sevenfold (you know how I feel about A7X) and did some time on Ozzfest.
Yesterday I received the 2 song ep. While I feel this band has a lot of potential I do have just one complaint, but I’ll get to that in a second. If you’ve watched the video you can see that they are obviously very young and extremely talented and have that sound of an 80’s thrash band. …read more

Get an inside look into Black Tide as Gabriel, Alex, Zakk and Steven talk about their influences, the Ozzfest rollercoaster ride, and the forthcoming album Light From Above. The video showcases some killer live footage and behind the scenes clips of the band skate boarding, hanging out and gearing up for shows.
Black Tide’s two-song EP is available now at Hot Topic. The full length debut Light From Above will be in stores February 2008.
Here is the video http://dam.dvs.tv/IGA/UNCENSOREDblackTIDE.mpg

Remember back in the day when thrash was thriving and our ears were starving for new bands to take the scene by storm? Black Tide is a bit late coming to the scene but they were a bit young back then, hell a few of them were not even born yet.
Black Tide have just unveiled the video for their blistering single “Shockwave.” The live footage in the clip was taken during their main stage run on this past summer’s Ozzfest tour. The Miami band’s blend of aggressive yet contagious hard rock has been winning over fans …read more

Welcome to the last Metal Shavings for August. It’s been a busy and hectic month for me and I hope everyone had a great summer as we start to roll out the fall welcome mat. Lets get to the news:
Glenn Danzig will be heading out to do some U.S. shows this fall and has just wrapped up production on the debut recording of Misfits Guitarist Doyle’s band Gorgeous Frankenstein. Not sure what to make of these guys yet. Glenn does not have any planes of rejoining his former misfits counterparts and has just recently released The Lost Tracks Of Danzig.

I have a busy weekend with my daughters 1st birthday so I’m going to try to squeeze in some news and not much more.
Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) has announced that they have been working on the line-up for Gigantour and are about halfway done.
A lot of crazy shit has been happening at and around Ozzfest this year, a few deaths at, leaving and going to Ozzfest, But the latest

As we all know this years Ozzfest is “Free”. I put free in quotes because tickets are not that easy to get and the line-up really isn’t that good. So even though its free is it still worth it to sit or stand out in the blazing sun to watch a less than mediocre show?

What a weekend! I’m glad to be back. I’ll save you guys my sob story of how grueling the drive was and get right to the news.
Down promises the new record in September and Bassist Rex Brown says its going to be “the most f***’n amazing and classic Down record ever made.” This is actually old news but I guess they want to reassure everyone that they are still out there.

Welcome to the debut edition of Metal Shavings. This will be an every other day thing where I summarize news in heavy metal. So without further adieu…