New York hardcore legends MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD are preparing for the release of their third full-length release on Trustkill/Roadrunner Records. The album’s tentative title, “Merciless”, encompasses both the lyrical themes and music found on this new release. “The songs are a culmination of years and years of life experience: Betrayal, loss, grief, abandonment but forever trudging on in the face of immortal adversity. Life is merciless as are all the new songs,” says guitarist Justin Brannan. Though it promises to be the most punishing MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD release yet, the band has also expanded their musical repertoire to include orchestral and electronic sounds with production co-handled by themselves and Dean Balutonis. The full tracklisting is as follows: 1. Shark Ethic 2. Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves 3. Driving Angry 4. Damage Control Freak 5. Mad As The March Hare 6. Type A Personality 7. Oxygen Debt 8. Aimed Carefully, Fired Relentlessly 9. Diet For A New America 10. Curse Of The Immortal 11. World War You 12. Narcoleptic Sleepwalker 13. Temporary Solution To A Permanent Problem The release is set for release in late September.

As everyone on the planet is aware, the RIFF-TASTIC DEMONS!!, TRIVIUM are coming to a town near you. As we’ve already said these tickets are almost all sold out so if you don’t want to miss out on the time of your life get moving now and buy tickets. Now many of you may have seen the wrist bands that TRIVIUM are seldom without, well we’ve done a bit of research and have found a shop that can deliver all your www.mammerchandising.com) have them. So CLICK HERE and PIMP your bad-ass up to the max.

The mighty TRIVIUM are about to embark on the UK once again with their magical wands of ROCK!!! If you want to catch these fret wizards, you’ll have to be quick as the tickets are literally flying out the door. The KERRANG MOST WANTED gig at the London Barfly sold out in a mere 2 hours. (It takes me that long to get out of bed!) The dates are as follows. 24/08 – Kerrang’s Most Wanted Night – London Barfly 10/09 – Cockpit (Leeds) 11/09 – Zodiac (Oxford) 12/09 – Concorde (Brighton) 13/09 – TJ’s (Newport) 15/09 – Academy 2 (Manchester) 16/09 – The Garage (Glasgow) 17/09 – Sugarmill, Stoke, United Kingdom 18/09 – Astoria (London) 19/09 – Wulfrun Hall (Wolverhampton) 20/09 – Arts Centre. (Colchester) 22/09 – Spring & Airbrake 23/09 – Music Centre (Dublin) 24/09 – Academy 2 (Liverpool) 25/09 – Rock City (Nottingham) 27/09 – Wedgewood Rooms (Portsmouth)

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This weekend, just passed, Nickelback shoot the video for the first single from their upcoming release (title tbd). Title of the song? You’ll know soon enough. The release is due for release this October.

According to a posting on ILL NINO’s web site, the band have enlisted Dale “Rage” Resteghini (MUDVAYNE, HATEBREED) to direct two videos from their upcoming album, “One Nation Underground”, due on 26th. The shoot for “This Is War” reportedly took place on Saturday (July 23) in Long Island, while “What You Deserve” will be filmed throughout next week in Brooklyn, New Jersey and Manhattan. “This Is War” is available to download HERE in the music section of the site.

The official OPETH forum, which is part of the UltimateMetal.com community, has been closed due to Internet leaks of the group’s new album, “Ghost of Reveries”. “It may reopen once the album is released,” reads a posting from an UltimateMetal.com webmaster. If you do want to hear tracks from the new album please CLICK HERE. Ghost Reveries is scheduled for release on 29th August, the CD was mastered on June 16 at the Cutting Room facilities in Stockholm and features a running time of 66 minutes. Check out the final cover artwork (designed by Travis Smith) on the OPETH section of the site. .

To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, later this year we will be releasing a CD that up until now we have been referring to only as the Roadrunner All Stars. For this historic release, Robert Flynn (Machine Head), Joey Jordison (Slipknot), Dino Cazares (Fear Factory), and Matt Heafy (Trivium) have each written four songs and have assembled their own group of musicians – past and present – that have appeared on RR throughout the years to record ’em. No musician appears on any song more than once (ceptin’ for the four team captians), and over 50 musicians will be recording among the 12 songs. SO, WHAT DO WE TITLE THIS RELEASE? We are asking YOU for the answer. Come the end of July, we will be picking a name from your entries. The person coming up with the chosen name will receive a credit in the CD package liner notes, plus all the RR 25th Anniversary related releases: Sepultura Roots Fear Factory Demanufacture Mercyful Fate Melissa King Diamond Abigail Coal Chamber Coal Chamber Soulfly Soulfly Machine Head Burn My Eyes Killswitch Engage Alive Or Just Breathing + 2 more to be named later enter your choice at www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/freeshit Good Luck, God Bless Us All…

In a recent interview with FearFactoryFans.com Dino Cazares had the following to say about his contribution FearFactoryFans.com: What can we expect on your part of the “Roadrunner All-Stars” project? Dino: “The ‘Roadrunner All-Stars’ was fucking bad-ass. That was really fun. It was a little difficult to get everyone together, but it was worth it. Andreas Kisser from Sepultura flew in from Brazil to jam with me, Paul Gray, the bass player of Slipknot, came down for this, Roy Mayorga (ex Soulfly) played drums on three songs, Dave McClain (Machine Head0 played drums on one song. Marcelo (ex Soulfly), played bass on one song. Nadja from Coal Chamber played bass on one song. Mike, the guitarist of Spineshank, played guitar on one song. Logan Mader, (ex Machine Head), played guitar on one song. “The singers: Mark, the singer from Chimaira on one song. It came out fucking brutal. It’s called ‘Enemy’. Matt Heafy, the singer of Trivium, did one song. It came out amazing. This song might be the first single from the album. It’s called ‘The End’. Dez from Devildriver is doing a song and Cristian from Ill Nino is doing a song. Three of my songs are brutally heavy and one is light. I wanted to try and do something different for the light song.” FearFactoryFans.com: Will we still be hearing your melodic side as well as the brutal heavy songs/riffs? Dino: “My heart is with metal and will always be. I love playing heavy shit, but as most of you know, I have a melodic side, so I will be combining those two styles together always. I love doing the machine-gun riffs with the melodic choruses…” FEAR FACTORY FANS.COM

Every Time I Die have locked in actor Michael Madsen (” Kill Bill “, ” Sin City “, ” Resevoir Dogs “, etc.) to star in the video for their track Kill The Music. It was shot yesterday at the legendary ” Spartacus ” backlot of Universal Studios , complete with real live lions and tigers. Director Darren Doane (Deftones ,Poison The Well ) will be at the helm with the clip expected to begin airing mid-August.