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Metallica have announced that they will released a live, eight track, limited EP to celebrate their return to Australia and New Zealand next week. The band has posted the following update on their website along with the artwork for the EP.

Starting today, Grammy award winning alternative rock band Weezer will be streaming their forthcoming new album, ‘Hurley’, in its entirety online at http://www.myspace.com/weezer. The album is currently available for pre-order at EpitaphStore.com, Amazon.com and iTunes.com and will be released everywhere on Sept. 14. Already receiving mass critical acclaim, Weezer’s eighth studio album and first with [...]

Rise Against have announced the release of their new DVD ‘Another Station: Another Mile’ on October 5, 2010 on DGC/Interscope Records. The DVD, which will be available worldwide and also digitally through iTunes,  features performances of 14 songs recorded in locations throughout the world. These performances are interspersed with interviews with each band member of [...]

Reactivated San Francisco Bay Area thrashers Forbidden have released the artwork to their new studio album, Omega Wave, on their official MySpace page. Forbidden guitarist / songwriter Craig Locicero checks in about his collaborative process with artist Kent Mathieu, the visual elements that can be found in the album’s artwork, and his concern for the future of the [...]

Methods of Mayhem have premiered a brand new video for ‘Time Bomb’ off of the upcoming September 21st release ‘A Public Disservice Announcement’.  Watch the video that sees Methods main man Tommy Lee starring in several fast-paced vignettes coupled with futuristic visual effects — a stunning optical companion to the ferociously catchy song. Pre-order ‘A [...]

Swedish guitarist Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear, Starbreaker, Last Tribe) has finished laying down his parts for the forthcoming solo album from Ralf Scheepers of German power metallers Primal Fear. According to a posting on the Primal Fear web site, “Magnus delivered his guitar parts on some songs of the album and did a killer job [...]

Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the signing of Vega, a very exciting new Melodic Rock band from the UK, featuring former Kick vocalist Nick Workman and the successful and respected songwriting partnership of Tom and James Martin (House of Lords, Ted Poley of Danger Danger, Khymera, Sunstorm to name but a few), together with [...]