Slipknot - Psychosocial - Video

By Elric on 9:19 AM 28 July 2008

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"Psychosocial", the new video from Slipknot, premiered last night (Friday, July 18) on MTV's "F'N MTV" program. Watch the clip below.

In a recent interview with MTV News, Slipknot percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan stated about the video, "More or less, we have these giant masks that we're wearing, called 'purgatory masks.' They're like giant death masks, and they represent ego. So the video is based on letting things like that go, and getting back to what we more or less do, which is rock out. With me, the idea was based around going to extremes. I wanted to get a phantom camera, which can shoot 1,000 frames per second; it's psychotic. Then I wanted to get a 35 mm hand crank, like it's Vietnam or some sh--. We have both worlds — we have the most extreme on both ends, with nothing in the middle. That's what the video is, and nobody does that. There's an art form behind it. The video's got live performance footage, with serious consideration of location, color and just art, man. It's pretty awesome."

Slipknot's new album, "All Hope Is Gone", will arrive on August 26 via Roadrunner Records. The title track was made available last month, while "Psychosocial" arrived at rock radio on June 30.





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Dragonforce - Heroes Of Out Time - Video

By Elric on 9:49 AM 19 July 2008

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Check out the latest video from Ultra Beatdown, the forthcoming studio CD from Dragonforce. The track is called Heroes Of Our Time.






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Alice Cooper's New Album Available For Streaming

By Elric on 4:12 PM 18 July 2008

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Alice Cooper's entire new album, "Along Came A Spider", is available for streaming on his MySpace page.

Co-produced by Danny Saber, Greg Hampton and Alice himself, "Along Came A Spider" manages to marry both vintage and modern-day Alice.

As theatrical as ever, the album is a sonic combination of familiar Alice musical elements from albums as diverse as "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Brutal Planet", with the storytelling of "Welcome To My Nightmare", capturing the historic dark side of Alice in peak form, an instantly recognizable presence that will be welcomed by his fans. Joining Alice on the album are members of his touring band — longtime Alice drummer Eric Singer, bassist Chuck Garric, and guitarists Keri Kelli and Jason Hook, with additional contributions from others, including Saber, Hampton, and renowned backing vocalist Bernard Fowler. Slash also lends some guitar style to "Vengeance Is Mine".

Saber and Hampton co-wrote several of the album's songs with Alice, while others were collaborations with Alice's band members.

Who else but Alice Cooper, with "Along Came A Spider", would create a "love story" about a serial killer named Spider? His trademark is wrapping his victims in silk, and his victims are specifically chosen to feed his hunger to kill. But, upon meeting his (possibly) last victim, he falls in love with her and cannot kill to complete his plan. That could be his demise.

Though it is often said about artists with as rich a history as Alice that their newest albums capture the essence of their greatest work, it may honestly be proposed that "Along Came A Spider" does exactly that. It's got hard rock with hooks, an Alice trademark ("Vengeance is Mine", "I Know Where You Live"), classic balladry, another Alice trademark ("Killed by Love", "Salvation"), and always with an overtone of evil, yet another Alice tradmark. Throughout the album, Alice BECOMES Spider, telling the story of a cold-blooded killer to life vocally, as if this were the soundtrack to an as-yet unmade horror film.

"Along Came A Spider" track listing:

01. Prologue/I Know Where You Live
02. Vengeance Is Mine
03. Wake The Dead
04. Catch Me If You Can
05. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side
06. Wrapped In Silk
07. Killed By Love
08. I'm Hungry
09. The One That Got Away
10. Salvation
11. I Am The Spider/Epilogue

"Along Came A Spider" is scheduled for release on July 29 via SPV Records.


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AC/DC - New Album On The Way

By Elric on 10:40 PM 15 July 2008

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According to a posting on the unofficial AC/DC web site AC/DC Electric Shock, AC/DC's new album, whch will most likely be called "Black Ice", will be released by Columbia Records on October 28 in North America and October 27 in the rest of the world. The first single, "Runaway Train", which was also a contender for the album's title, will be released in late August. Details for a world tour starting in late 2008 should be announced in the coming days.

AC/DC's new album will follow 2000's "Stiff Upper Lip". It was recorded at a Canadian studio with Pearl Jam and Sringsteeen producer Brendan O'Brien.

Sony BMG, Columbia's parent company, recently revealed that the disc will be sold exclusively through Wal-Mart stores, which has caused controversy with critics and fans.

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Moonspell - Night Eternal - Video

By Elric on 11:20 PM 13 July 2008

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Moonspell has just finished shooting their new video for the song "Night Eternal". Like the "Scorpion Flower" clip, "Night Eternal" was shot by Ivan Colic (Type O Negative, Symphony X, Hammerfall) in Belgrade, Serbia. Colic previously worked with the group on the "Memorial" video for "Finisterra".

"Night Eternal" is the title cut of Moonspell's new album, which sold around 800 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

As previously reported, the CD entered the national chart in Portugal at No. 3 and in Germany at No. 62.

The follow-up to 2006's "Memorial" was recorded at Antfarm studios in Denmark with producer Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Dark Tranquillity, Halford).




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Blaze Bayley's New Album Info

By Elric on 1:04 PM 12 July 2008

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The highly anticipated "The Man Who Would Not Die" is to follow up to 2004's "Blood and Belief", and marks the beginning of a new era on the history of his own band now under the moniker of Blaze Bayley. This band comprises a completely new line up that have created a fresh sound, leaning towards a heavier direction that promises to take the band to a new level in Blaze Bayley's already rich professional history. The album was engineered by James Dunkley and produced by Blaze Bayley himself. It is also the first recorded showcase for the line-up that comprises Nico Bermudez and Jay Walsh on guitars, David Bermudez on bass and Lawrence Paterson on drums. "The Man Who Would Not Die" promises to take Blaze in new song writing directions, ushering in a new phase of an already renowned career. It's the proof that heavy metal is still up to date in 2008 and is not really ready to die !

The new album by Blaze Bayley is the first due for release on his own independent label with additional licensing to various countries. Metal Mind Productions will release the album on 21st July 2008 in the following territories: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Greece.

Tracklist:
1. The Man Who Would Not Die
2. Blackmailer
3. Smile Back At Death
4. While You Were Gone
5. Samurai
6. Crack In The System
7. Robot
8. At The End Of The Day
9. Waiting For My Life To Begin
10. Voices From The Past
11. The Truth Is One
12. Serpent Hearted Man

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Scars on Broadway - They Say - Video

By Elric on 7:52 AM 09 July 2008

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"Chemicals", another track from Scars On Broadway — the new band from System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan — is available for streaming on the group's MySpace page.

Scars On Broadway will release its self-titled debut on July 29 via Interscope Records. Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan held off on shopping for a record contract until completing the CD. Malakian told The Pulse of Radio that the music won't be as heavy as his work with System. "There are your aggressive moments, but I don't see it as being as metal as it is rock. It's just as eclectic as anything that I've done with System, so it goes place to place. I think you'll hear my style there, you know, you'll hear touches of what you've heard from me before in some ways, and like I said, I think it drives more in a rock way than it does in a metal way."

The track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. Serious
02. Funny
03. Exploding/Reloading
04. Stoner-Hate
05. Insane
06. World Long Gone
07. Kill Each Other/Live Forever
08. Babylon
09. Chemicals
10. Enemy
11. Universe
12. 3005
13. Cute Machines
14. Whoring Streets
15. They Say

"They Say", the first video from Scars On Broadway, can be viewed below. The clip, shot in Los Angeles last month, was directed by Paul Minor and incorporates performance footage cut with an evocative potpourri of startling images from our world's culture — occurrences in nature, war, natural and man-made disasters, animals in the wild, human interaction, weather phenomenon, and so on.





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