The last week has been kind of crazy being back actually working for a living. I’ve tried to update here when I can, but time has been tight. This will be my last Scrap Metal Report and my last post. However, this isn’t the end of my metal blogging. As I’ve said before, blogging has renewed my faith in metal and I want to keep updated on it and have an outlet for that. For that purpose I started my new, personally owned blog called HookInMouth.net. If you would like to continue to read my metal bloggings, you’re more than …read more

Heaven And Hell’s Upcoming release The Devil You Know, being released on April 28th will include a Special Edition DVD, exclusively through Best Buy. Best Buy’s website says that in addition to the 10 tracks you will get a DVD with “22 minutes of studio performances, interviews about making the new album, and other behind-the-scenes content”.
The first single from the album, entitled Bible Black is available for for download (in “Single Edit” format) or you can stream it from Heaven And Hell’s Myspace. I downloaded it from iTunes and I gotta say that I love it. Dio and …read more

Heaven And Hell have announced the title of their newly recorded album as “The Devil You Know” and have set a release date for April 28th via Rhino Records. According to Billboard.com, some of the song titles include: “Rock & Roll Angel”, “Bible Black”, “Atom & Evil”, “Eating the Cannibals.” and “Breaking Into Heaven”.
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How many times do you see this? Some celebrity or musician that’s not metal, was probably never a metal fan and never will be metal, using our patented metal “Horns” hand gesture. Far too many. Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson and even one of the Bush daughters have done it and it made me wish I could take a pair of garden sheers to the index and pinky fingers on both of their hands so this atrocity would never happen again…but it does. Then there are the hipsters…oh, those goddamn hipsters. Sure it’s cute when a toddler does it, but …read more

Tony Iommi recently issued an update concerning progress on the recording of the new Heaven And Hell Album:

Twice in one week is odd for the report but there are a few things I think are news-worthy but don’t feel like writing extensively about them. Also, I was suppose to go see Mudvayne and Snot tonight and get an interview with Greg Tribbett. Unfortunately some things have come up and I can’t make it. It’s about a three hour drive for me and I would have to leave early and I have something that really needs to get done today. Anyway, here are a few things of interest…

Statix X have announce the title and release date for …read more

For al the Heaven And Hell fans, you’ll be glad to know that Ronnie James Dio and crew are laying down the tracks for the new album. According to Billboard.com, they have ‘6 or 7′ new songs new songs for the record.
“We’ve got about six or seven new songs,” Iommi reports, “and then we stopped to do this (The Metal Masters) tour. When we finish that, we’ll take a couple of weeks off, then carry on writing.”
The guitarist adds that he’s “really pleased” with what the group has come up with so far, describing the material as “really good, …read more