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Dream Theater's next magnum opus, Systematic Chaos, now has a visual (music will be next!). We've posted the final and confirmed cover for the soon-to-be-released album HERE . Log onto In The Pit and let us know what you think.

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3 Inches of Blood, famous for music about fantastic creatures and battles, have relaunched their web site ahead of the June release of their next album, Fire Up the Blades. We think it looks beautiful, and you will, too.

www.3inchesofblood.com

“This is Absolution” from Killswitch Engage's As Daylight Dies is now available as a free download for a short time. You'll find it HERE.

You can also get video commentary on “This is Absolution” and all the other As Daylight Dies tracks by Adam and Howard by following THESE LINKS.

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Blabbermouth reports in a recent interview with Guitar & Bass magazine, Dave Mustaine gives his reasons why he wants ‘United Abominations’ to be the best Megadeth album ever!

“This is my last real shot at achieving anything significant,” he said. “If I don't do it this time, there probably will never be a next time. I'm 45, I have a nerve disorder in my back called stenosis” — an overgrowth of bone closing off the hole in the vertebrae where the nerve emerges to go to the arm — “and it's making it harder for me to play. Prior to the damage to my arm, I was already starting to feel weird things happening [and] my arm was starting to go numb. But I've got two black belts in karate. I'm a tough guy,” he winked. “I can handle it.”

Having already faced the unimaginable prospect of never playing again, Mustaine is surprisingly calm about his possible fate. “I have faith that I will be healed,” he said simply. “But if that doesn't happen, I'm in a place in my life where, if it all ended tomorrow, I'd be pretty happy.”

Mustaine said that some of the fire in his belly returned after a particularly vital conversation with an old friend back on the 2005 Gigantour.

“Frank Bello [bass] from ANTHRAX sat me down one night after a show and said, 'Dave, I really like MEGADETH, but we really need you to get pissed off again. MEGADETH is important music and the best stuff you ever wrote was when you were pissed off.'

“The thing is, as I said to Frank, I'm not an angry person anymore! But then I figured that there was a lot of things in the world to be angry about as well that had to be spoken out against. In my personal life, I stopped fighting and started to seek reconciliation where I could.”

‘United Abominations’ is due for release on 15th May, the cover artwork is available here! You can get a taster for the new album by heading to the Megadeth MySpace page and listen to ‘Sleepwalker’, also available online is ‘A Tout Le Monde' at this location (Windows Media).

Blabbermouth reports that Bleeding Through have parted ways with guitarist Scott Danough. In a statement by the band:

“We felt that we had grown apart and it was time for both parties to move on,

“We wish him the best. We are already writing new material and looking forward to our next tour, which will be in Canada. Our friend Jona [Weinhofen] from I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN will be stepping in [as Danough's replacement].”

The third video from ‘The Truth’ is ‘Line in the Sand’ and is due to make its debut on Music Choice On Demand, a cable channel that specialises in video-on-demand services. The video will be broadcast between 16th April until 22nd April.

Hey everyone!

We’ve been home for a couple days getting our shit together before heading off to Ireland to start our European and UK headlining The Crusade World Tour 2007 along with very special guests and thrash kings Annihilator with our friends Gojira and Sanctity.

Would like to thank everyone who came out to see the Lamb of God tour, we had a blast! The guys in LOG treated us great and were super cool guys to tour with , they killed it every night! It was a great pleasure to be back on the road with our good friends in Machine Head we had many nights of drinking with those guys and can’t wait to tour with them again, hopefully very soon! Our last day of the tour was in Ft. Lauderdale and besides an amazing show it was also Phil’s birthday so we went out with a bash!! (happy bday phil). The dudes in Gojira were awesome and looking forward to seeing them again in a few days overseas for another few weeks of metal mayhem.

We are really stoked to be coming back over and playing for all over fans overseas. Everyone in Ireland and the Uk will be getting our biggest stage show we have done to date so you are in for a treat. If you haven’t picked up a ticket yet def do before they are all gone ‘cause it will def be a killer show.

We will be playing a lot of songs from all the records so it will be a good mix for everyone to enjoy!

I would also like give a big shout out to our message board and Myspace regulars admins’s, mod’s we do read as much of your mail as we can and appreciate all the comments, pictures, videos of some of you have created covering our music as a band or just jamming on a Dean, fan art – its all fucking great and keep it coming we love it and thanks to everyone who has came out to the shows and has picked up The Crusade; we appreciate your support and love you for everything! ‘cant wait to bring the metal to you town and have a great night of thrashing out.

See you soon and Thanks again!!

Corey

DATE COUNTRY CITY VENUE
4/8/07 IRELAND DUBLIN AMBASSADOR
4/9/07 IRELAND DUBLIN AMBASSADOR
4/11/07 UK BRADFORD ST GEORGES HALL
4/12/07 UK MANCHESTER APOLLO
4/13/07 UK GLASGOW ACADEMY
4/14/07 UK NEWCASTLE CITY HALL
4/15/07 UK LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY
4/17/07 UK NOTTIGHAM ROCK CITY
4/18/07 UK CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE
4/19/07 UK PORTSMOUTH GUILD HALL
4/20/07 UK PLYMOUTH PAVILIONS
4/22/07 UK NEWPORT NEWPORT CENTRE
4/23/07 UK WOLVES CIVIC HALL
4/24/07 UK IPSWICH REGENT
4/25/07 UK LONDON HAMMERSMITH APOLLO

Make sure you pick up your copy of Porcupine Tree's forthcoming masterpiece Fear of a Blank Planet. Don't take our word for it check out some of the awesome reviews . And the bands ECARD

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As spotted by the eagle-eyed Kayleigh Fung, More! magazine have

The sixth instalment of the Shadows Fall webisode series is now available online at Mp3.com, also available is a listening party for ‘Thread of Life’. You can view the webisode at this location.

www.shadowsfall.com