Over on the Machine Head Diary, Robb Flynn has posted an update from Machine Head's recent activities around the festival's of Europe, and the upcoming Black Crusade tour in November!

“But dudes and dudettes… it is the mighty, MIGHTY Glasgow, Scotland that once again raises the fucking bar to unparalleled heights… HOLY… FUCKING… CRAP!!!??? The good people of Glasgow are most certainly and genuinely out of their collective minds, my GOD! Frankly, it was like a friggin' religious experience. It was so fucking HOT in there, yet the sing-a-longs were unreal, and the circle pit during Davidian was just inhuman. Hands down the best circle pit so far (we didn't even have to ask 'em for it!), and I have my doubts as to whether it will be beat by anyone else on this run. It was great seeing the LoG dudes (Willie Adler was CRUNK) and the Chimaira dudes again, had a blast partying with them. Chimaira were especially cool to see since we hadn’t seen those boys in way too long, and they fuckin brought it!!!

Belfast was in-fucking-sane, and was nearly as crazy as Glasgow, unbelievably… those fuckers are ballistic! We ended up having to swap places with our co-headliners Killswitch at the last minute, they closed the show so that we wouldn't miss the ferry to Donington, but holy shit… seriously Belfast, you were fan-fucking-tastic!

But Donington, DUDE, Donington!!!!!! Goddamn!!!!!! It was out of this fucking world!!! We have never gotten a response so rapturous. It was unreal. The jumping, the clapping, the thrashing, the singing, at least 10 circle pits during Davidian (!!!!)… it was easily one of the single greatest shows this band has ever played. WOW!!! Did a radio interview with the mighty Bruce Dickenson of (Download headliner) Iron Fucking Maiden after the show and he declared us “band of the weekend”… and the weekend wasn't even over??!! He then proceeded to tell me how his son and all his mates listen to nothing but “The Blackening” and how sick of listening to “The Blackening” he is, but that he had to give it up to us, he said we had written a phenomenal record that every 16 year-old kid was listening to, and then, went back into how crushing our show just was. My brain basically imploded at that point… literally… it short-circuited… and I spent the rest of the interview having flashbacks to being 14 years-old staring at the Number Of The Beast album for hours on end. Jesus!?”

Machine Head headline the Black Crusade tour in November,

It's well worth your time having a look at Metal Hammer TV if you're a Machine Head fan, as they have just posted a great interview they did with Robb Flynn at Download for achat about all things Machine Head – enjoy!

And whilst you're over there, they have also managed to dig out a video from last year of Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor getting a tattoo done in Birmingham – ouch!

Mark this date in your diaries!!!! Download 2008 is due to take place between 13-15th June 2008!

A limited number of weekend tickets have gone on sale, at the same price as last year…

Keep your eyes peeled for the line up!

Blabbermouth mouth reports Killswitch Engage have covered Dio’s classic track ‘Holy Diver’. They have chosen Brian Thompson to direct the video which was shot in the Calistoga, California area last weekend (16-17th June).

Thompson remarked: “We need a good crowd of medieval period people from the era of the knights in shining armour (please forgive my lack of specific knowledge of what era in time this is; I know that you all are well versed in the history). This is going to be a fun music video and will be played on MTV, Fuse, and also included on the band's special-edition DVD. We need both women and men of all ages. We will be shooting sometime around June 16 or 17 in the Calistoga area. Also if anyone has a horse with the appropriate dress for a horse in that era would be magnificent.”

‘Holy Diver’ is one of

Shadows Fall have now been confirmed as the opening act for what promises to be the tour of the year, nah, millennium, The Black Crusade.

Megadeth's iconic frontman Dave Mustaine spoke to STV earlier this week prior to their gig at the Glasgow Barrowlands, and the interview is now available for viewing on the STV website;

STV Dave Mustaine Interview

Megadeth's stunning new album United Abominations is available in all good record shops now – so pick up your copy today!

Over at Metal Discovery, they've just posted a massive interview with Cradle Of Filth guitarist Paul Allender.

Get yourselves down to Klub Kerrang! at the KoKo in Camden on Saturday 23rd June, as Still Remains will be making a special DJ appearance at the night. They'll be there at the decks from the start, as well as spinning it between the bands playing that night.

Still Remains' brand spanking new album The Serpent is out on July 30, and check out http://www.youtube.com/stillremains for a rather awesome competition to shoot the video for the new track 'The Wax Walls Of An Empty Room'!

All DevilDriver fans should tune into Ian Camfield's XFM Rock Show tonight as he has THREE copies of the awesome new DevilDriver album The Last Kind Words to give away!

To relive all those wonderful memories of a truely spectacular weekend, Channel 4 are broadcasting a range of highlights from the Download Festival this weekend:

01:20 Sunday Morning (late Saturday night)
00:55 Monday morning (late Sunday night)

And even if you weren't there, be worth your while to drop by and see the likes of Machine Head and Megadeth tearing up the main stage in performances worthy of legends!