‘The Goatrider’s Horde’ is the latest video to be made by 3 Inches Of Blood and can be viewed online: High-Quality, YouTube.

The new album ‘Fire Up the Blades’ is currently being streamed by MP3.com and can be accessed at this location.

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Hatebreed have issued the following update:

“The summer of supremacy has begun!!! We have been getting insane footage here in Europe for our 'Destroy Everything' video as well as the DVD which we promise will eventually come out, haha!

“Thank you to all you diehards out there who actually bought our album 'Supremacy' and read the inside booklet. Your messages and emails of support and inspiration are so amazing!!! You all rule!

“This last year of touring has been absolutely unreal and we owe it all to the fans who truly support us, you make it possible! Now we are ready to destroy Ozzfest and many cities all over the U.S. with our pals Lamb of God. This is the package that everyone has been waiting years for.”

You can view footage of Hatebreed’s set at this years’ Download Festival at this location.

Hatebreed’s current album ‘Supremacy’ has sold around 100,000 in the United States since it’s August release, according to Nielson SoundScan.

You can view a video for the track

Blabbermouth reports when Machine Head performed at the Nova Rock festival in Austria, a fan filmed the guys performing ‘Davidian’, you can watch it at YouTube.

Also online is the guys entire performance at this years’ Download festival, you can view the footage online at this location.

Mainman Robb Flynn was interviewed recently for Metal Hammer TV and you can watch the interview online at this location.

Check out the cover story on the new issue of Drummer magazine (July edition), in shops now.

Following phenomenal ticket sales for their Sept/Oct headline tour – which saw Madina Lake sell over 60% of the tickets for the entire tour within the first 7 days – the band are pleased to confirm they have upgraded some of their shows. Tickets continue to fly…

The revised dates are as follows:

Mon 24th Sept – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Tue 25th Sept – Yeovil Ski Lodge
Wed 26th Sept – Oxford Zodiac
Thu 27th Sept – Norwich Waterfront
Fri 28th Sept – Birmingham Academy 2 (Academy – now in the main room)
Sat 29th Sept – Leeds Cockpit
Sun 30th Sept – Glasgow King Tuts

DevilDriver’s highly anticipated third album ‘The Last Kind Words’ is due for release at the end of July and you can now get the e-card at this location.

The guys recently filmed a video for the track ‘Not All Who Wonder Are Lost’ with director Nathan Cox (Queens of the Stone Age, Marilyn Manson).

Frontman Dez Fafara was recently interviewed by MTV.com while he spoke about their forthcoming album, “The 'last kind words' could be 'f— you' before complete annihilation. For me, this album is about being motivated to stand up to the punishment of being a human and to have the character in you to go on when all people want to do is hold you down.”

“Lyrically, it's dark and foreboding,” Fafara added. “But it's gonna give you inspiration to go through this earthly experience and keep kicking.”

“I think we knew we had to reach within ourselves as a team and pull something out that was really different. Everyone totally put aside their egos and stepped up to the plate to do what needed to be done. In America right now, there's so much of that sing-songy metal going on, so we knew if we did something totally balls-out it was going to be well-received.”

“The Last Kind Words” track listing:

01. Not All Who Wander Are Lost
02. Clouds Over California
03. Bound By The Moon
04. Horn Of Betrayal
05. These Fighting Words
06. Head On To Heartache (Let Them Rot)
07. Monsters Of The Deep
08. Tirades Of Truth
09. Burning Sermon
10. When Summoned
11. The Axe Shall Fall

You can check out the guys performing new tracks live at YouTube.

Blistering.com recently interviewed Dream Theatre drummer Mike Portnoy. Excerpts from their chat are below:

Blistering.com: What made you decide to go with Roadrunner?

Mike Portnoy: After spending 15 years with the Atlantic Group and Elektra, we had gotten a taste of the ups and downs of what the corporate major label has to offer. At this point in our career, we've really built up our audience very well on our own and have a great, great, great fan base that has sustained us through all these years and enables us to really continue what we're doing without any kind of mainstream exposure. So we wanted to get away from that whole kind of corporate major-label approach, and Roadrunner is really I think the best label out there right now in terms of their roster. I really respect the bands on the label. They range from more commercial stuff like NICKELBACK to the extreme stuff like SLIPKNOT and everything in between, so musically, they're a great label. But also they have the muscle of the major labels out there, but they really have a very independent spirit, which really helps [for] the whole camaraderie when it comes to working with a label and being hands-on with their bands. A perfect balance, really.

Blistering.com: I was surprised that once the Atlantic Group absorbed Elektra that it didn't let you out of your contract because it didn't actively promote you guys for the longest time.

Portnoy: No. Oh, no.

Blistering.com: What was behind that?

Portnoy: Album after album they kept renewing our contract, and [laughing] we kept hoping they would let us go, you know? But I think the reason they kept picking up the option is because our fan base is so strong that they're gonna sell half a million records worldwide every single time with absolutely need to market or promote us. Basically for the last several albums cruised on the strength of the fan base and basically just funded the record and put it in stores, but from there, we did all the work for a year at a time on the road, through the strength of the Internet and our fans, so, for them, it was an easy money-making situation. We would have loved to have been let go, really; we would have loved to. We were trying to get out of there many years ago and get with a label that really could further this career rather than just simply maintain it . . . Another problem with the labels every time around is they would shift personnel and staff. We started the contract with Atco Records, then it turned into EastWest, then it turned into Elektra, then it turned into Atlantic, and each and every time something like that would happen there was never time to re-establish relationships with any of these people because it was always constantly changing.

Blistering.com: Is there an overall theme to this album, or how would you say “Systematic Chaos” is different from your other albums?

Portnoy: I think it's different because there is no overlying theme or concept. [Our] last album [2005's “Octavarium“] and several of our last albums were kind of all tied together by these grand concepts, and this time around we made a conscious decision to not have a grand concept, to just have a group of individual songs, which was the way we used to write when we were younger . . . we weren't thinking of writing albums, because at that point we were just writing songs. So this album is very much in that kind of old spirit of just bangin' it out, and each song is a whole individual journey.

Blistering.com: With the song lengths you guys work in, how are you able to tell, “OK, this is long enough”?

Portnoy: Obviously, we don't have a very good gauge of that [laughs] because all the songs are in excess of 10 minutes. You know what, every once in a while we'll purposely go out of our way to try to write a short song, and those are the experiments for us, to write a short song. But the times when we [let] ourselves write without any limitations, you know, they end up being long songs. But we go until we feel that the journey is complete and the ideas that are all on the table have been fully realized and worked on. So we don't really limit ourselves. We try to just let the song go naturally where it wants to go, and for us writing long songs is totally natural. The struggle has never been to play, the struggle has always been to not play. And those are the challenges. Once in a while we'll purposely try to write a [shorter] song, and that's when we'll write something like “Forsaken” or “I'll Walk Beside You”. But for the most part we let the music naturally run its course, you know, that's when we end up with the typical DREAM THEATER songs.

Blistering.com: Your product manager at Roadrunner says the label is going to give radio a shot with one of the album's songs. Since you've built a career on not having radio since “Images And Words“, do you think you could break through to an extent?

Portnoy: I think every one of our albums have had songs with radio potential. If you walk back to the last few, “Octavarium” had several tracks that totally could have been on the radio. Same with “Train Of Thought“; we've always had that. Whether or not the label chooses to pursue it or radio chooses to play it, it's out of our hands. We write what we write, and we don't write singles and radio songs. But I think if you look at our catalog, they're there if people want to pursue that. I think it's a natural. This album, a song like “Forsaken“, I think is a natural song and can easily sit beside any of the stuff that's on the radio today. But we don't over-concern ourselves with that aspect. We're not in the business of writing singles. We're in the business of writing albums, and if radio or mainstream media chooses to play any of 'em, then that's a bonus. But I think the reason that our band has sustained this far is because we haven't relied on that.

Blistering.com: What is it about “Images And Words” that you think brought you guys to the mainstream, but then subsequent albums you guys were separated from it?

Portnoy: That's a good question. I think it was it was the right album at the right time, and you think it would have been the wrong time, because that was when grunge was breaking through, but maybe we were kind of that response to grunge . . . I guess maybe a lot of musicians felt frustrated because bands weren't playing anymore, so maybe they reacted to that album because of that time. It was also our first album on a major label, so I guess there was an inevitable first push into the mainstream, which opened a lot of doors. But I don't know. I don't think it's a formula, because the way we wrote then is the same way we write now, so I don't think there was a formula or an equation.

Read the entire interview at Blistering.com.

Still Remains are to guest on Bruce Dickinson’s (Iron Maiden) BBC Radio 6 radio show, “The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show”. You can listen to the show live via the internet between 10.00p.m. and 1.00a.m. at BBC.co.uk.

Still Remains have issued an e-card in support of their new album ‘The Serpent’ which you can access at this location. You can also listen to two tracks from their second studio album “The Wax Walls of an Empty Room” and “Aenima in Your Sheets” which are available for streaming on the Michigan band's MySpace page.

The album was recorded with much-admired producer Steve Evetts. “Expect the unexpected with 'The Serpent', as these songs are faster, darker, heavier and more melodic; truly the most honest thing we have ever written as a band,” the band's frontman, TJ Miller, previously said.

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Shadows Fall wowed fans at this years’ Download Festival at Donnington Park, you can watch the performance too on YouTube.

The guys were interviewed by PureVolume.com as part of their ‘Beyond the Disc’ feature; it has been posted online at this location.

Shadows Fall’s latest album ‘Threads of Life’ has sold 63,000 copies in the United States since its April release according to Nielson Soundscan.

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Metalhead TV has posted a video interview with Within Temptation plus footage of their performance at the Artmania Festival in Sibiu, Romania. Check it out at this location.

Within Temptation also performed at Holland’s Pinkpop festival, footage of their performance has been posted at YouTube.

‘The Heart of Everything’ is Within Temptation’s new album. The video for ‘The Howling’ taken from their latest album has been posted online at YouTube.

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