Posted on the official Soulfly website is the following update:

“SOULFLY's mainman Max Cavalera is soon coming up with his new recording premiere. In just two weeks, on Tuesday, May 1, 2007, he will release his is latest work is a piece of art created in his aggressive-metal home factory directly to you as an mp3 download through www.soulflyweb.com and www.myspace.com/soulfly. Developed from a four-track home recorder, 'After the Slaughter' is going to be released in its original version, without any kind of post-production from the studio.

“Presenting his notebook to the public, Max opens his devotion and hopes to expand views of both writing and recording. Starting with rhythms, he records drum machine first and basic guitars, after he bounce the tracks back to one line, making space for more guitars, vocals, and other sounds which creates the atmosphere Max's music is known for. His style erupts with the vocals that are recorded with headphones used as a microphone! Also, Max's 12 year-old son Igor makes his premiere appearance in 'After the Slaughter', recording the bass guitar. This type of recording is well known for Max. It is the same four-track recorder for the songs he recorded starting from early SEPULTURA time. This way of recording is old and primitive, comparing to new technologies, and also requires good recording skills. Still, thanks to Max's wish to share his performance outside studios and venues, SOULFLY fans will be able for the first time to get close to the uniqueness, and hear the original, unpolished mix of Max Cavalera's writing/recording masterpiece.

“In 'After the Slaughter' Max Cavalera brings brutally raw guitar riffs creating a new, reborn aggressive energy that today's metal scene lost. Subconsciously Max has essentially developed a new metal sub genre — 'aggro-metal.' 'After the Slaughter', in this version as a four-track, will be only available for a limited time download at www.soulflyweb.com and www.myspace.com/soulfly on May 1, 2007 for a mere $0.99 through SOULFLY's SNOCAP store. That's less than one dollar for brand new SOULFLY shit straight from the mind of Max Cavalera to your ears!”

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH

Blabbermouth reports that Iron Steel – a new project which features DragonForce bassist Frederic Leclercq has released exclusive video footage of the project and you can view it at this location.

A track on the Iron Steel MySpace page called ‘Attack’ features appearances by members of Chimaira, Killswitch Engage and DragonForce, you can hear the song on their MySpace page.

Commented recent Killswitch Engage

Members of Trivium will be making special appearences at PMT Music in

DREAM THEATER'S upcoming release “Systematic Chaos” will be released on Monday June 4th (date may vary in different countries) and will be available in two formats:

SPECIAL CD/DVD STANDARD CD

The Special Edition DVD will include:

– the entire album mixed in 5.1 surround sound

– “Chaos in Progress – The Making of Systematic Chaos”

(a 90-minute documentary directed by Mike Portnoy)

Blabbermouth reports Within Temptation have been confirmed to appear at Romania’s Artmania Festival taking place June 15-17 in Sibiu, Romania.

Within Tempation's fantastic new album, 'The Heart Of Everything', is out now, so get down to your local record store to pick up a copy!

Still Remains have released the artwork for their forthcoming album ‘The Serpent’, due for a July release.

The tentative track listing for ‘The Serpent’ is shown below:

01. Anemia in Your Sheets
02. Stay Captive
03. Dancing with the Enemy
04. Avalanche
05. Maria
06. Dropped from the Cherry Tree
07. The Wax Walls of an Empty Room
08. An undesired Reunion
09. The Serpent
10. I Could Never be Your Lover
11. Eye of the Storm
12. Float like a Feather
13. What is Love?
14. The River Song
15. Sleepless Nights Alone

Check out the Still Remains MySpace page!

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH

Well into their tour of smaller venues alongside Twelve Tribes, Onemetal.com caught up with

Sound & Vision magazine, the world's biggest circulating audio/video magazine have posted a fantastic review of the surround-sound version of Porcupine Tree's stunning new album Fear Of A Blank Planet.

“The soundscape of this Planet couldn't be more alive. Porcupine Tree is at the height of its powers, with down-to-earth lyrics and panoramic music by Steven Wilson and transcendent playing by everybody, especially drummer Gavin Harrison. And the way to hear it is in surround sound, a format that, once again, Wilson proves he has mastered…you'll know that Wilson has gone beyond the craft of sound mixing to the art of sound painting.”

You can read the full review on the Press page, and the album Fear Of A Blank Planet is out next Monday – mark your diaries!

Many thanks to Aubrey for spotting a rather brilliant review of Within Temptation's recent sold-out gig in the Manchester Evening News, as well as a nice chat with guitarist Ruud Jolie.

Hey everyone!

We are a few dates into our headline run here in England and so far it has been amazing! Kicking it off in Ireland was great both nights in Dublin were fucken crazy!

Every show has been killer , Manchester was for me one of my fav shows we have ever done I had a blast and everthing about that show was just off the hook! all the opening bands have been killer and going down really good!

I have been having a blast watching Jeff Waters shred it up everynight wow! and we have been jamming and trading licks and tricks so that has been fun.

I'm going to be going onstage and jamming a song with them during the set so im looking forward to doing that! total fan geek time for me! can't wait to hit all the other dates on the tour cause I know they will be a blast , and want to thank everyone at the first handfull of shows who have made this tour kick off in an amazing way!

Thank you so much!

Corey