Drowned in Sound (online ‘zine) has given the forthcoming Daath album, ‘The Hinderers’ an awesome review, check it out at this location.

DEVILDRIVER are set for a few ‘extra’ shows surrounding their appearance at this year’s Download Festival (www.downloadfestival.co.uk). The boys will be showcasing a few new tracks from their third album, ‘The Last Kind Words’ which is scheduled for an 18th June release in the UK.

Ticket to the following shows are on sale now, from box offices and all usual agents. You can also pick them up online at www.aloud.com and www.ents24.com (for Southampton).

Tue 5th June – SOUTHAMPTON Nexxus
Wed 6th June – GLASGOW Cathouse
Tue 12th June – WOLVERHAMPTON Little Civic

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On their recent European tour, Caliban had a quick chat with Planet Loud about the tour, and their brand new album The Awakening.

“German metalcore outfit Caliban are about to issue their new album, The Awakening, through Roadrunner Records so, while they were over in the UK supporting Bleeding Through, Planet Loud caught up with the band to get the lowdown.

Planet Loud – You’ve only played in Ireland so far on this tour. How did those shows go?
Caliban – Yeah, Ireland was pretty nice, pretty cool yeah, the crowds were awesome but this tour didn’t draw that many people in Ireland, I don’t think Bleeding Through have ever been there and we’ve played once with Hatebreed on the last tour but its getting better every time we go back to Ireland. It was nice and the weather was shitty like always.

Planet Loud – How are you getting on with the other bands on the tour?
Caliban – We knew I Killed The Prom Queen as they toured with us in the States for 4 weeks so we are very good friends with them and we have been friends with Bleeding Through for many years so it’s all been great.

Planet Loud – You guys have recorded a new record, any plans to play any new songs on this tour?
Caliban – We want to play new material at these shows but I’m pretty sure we won’t because we have had absolutely no time to practice because we finished our new recording for the album on Thursday and got picked up for the tour on the Saturday so we had one day back home and that’s it and now 5 weeks all over Europe.

Planet Loud – How’s the new album sounding?
Caliban – The new album is very, very hard and fast and we have definitely done on this album all that we could do best. It has less clean vocals but not because we don’t want to do clean vocals anymore it’s just because we thought, okay, lets focus more on every single vocal part and lets make it strong and catchy, so there is maybe only 4 songs on the entire record with clean vocals unlike previous albums.

Planet Loud – How was the recording process on the new album compared to that of previous recordings?
Caliban – We had Anders help us out on the last couple of records but we did this production mostly by ourselves. We had a producer called Benny Richter from Germany, he’s really into our music. He has very, very good ideas and is a real perfectionist. Mark was writing songs with him and hanging out and playing music and creating great ideas together, that’s not to take anything away from Anders though as he was on tour.

Planet Loud – Where did the name The Awakening come from for the album?
Caliban – We had at first the title From Sorrow To Serenity because we wanted to do a concept album. Our lyrics aren’t that sad or about heartache and stuff you know? The lyrics get stronger from every song, but The Awakening is like our resurrection.

Planet Loud – How was it working with Anders previously? Do you think it helped you guys in the long term?
Caliban – He helped us a lot in writing songs as we didn’t have the best structure to every song and he brought it to the point you know which really helped us out.

Planet Loud – Caliban put out records really quickly it seems. Five, soon to be six albums and 2 split EP`s in 8 years. Is putting out new material quickly something that’s really important to you guys?
Caliban – It’s not that quick no. We knew we would be really busy in 2007 so we thought OK we have two and a half months off because we did Australia in November and we came back home and we knew we had time off before this tour so we thought this is the best moment to record an album because we know we are on the road all year again so lets do it.

Planet Loud – Is playing in America important to you guys or do you prefer shows in Europe?
Caliban – I don’t know what I prefer really. The reaction is the same but the treatment in Europe is so different than the States.

Planet Loud – Better?
Caliban – A lot better yeah. Better clubs in Europe than the US, you can speak to every American band and they all say it’s so awesome to tour Europe because you get your backstage rooms and your catering and it’s a lot better.

Planet Loud – So what’s the plan for the rest of the year?
Caliban – Well first of all we will finish this tour and then hopefully do all the festivals in Europe. I hope we will be doing Download Festival but it is very hard to get on it. I want to play every festival and then we will go to the States again and hopefully Australia again then I’m pretty sure we will do another UK tour.

Planet Loud – Thanks for your time and best of luck on the rest of the tour.
Caliban – Perfect. Thank you very much.”

The Awakening is released on May 28th – keep checking back in the coming weeks for some tasty soundbites!

Reported on MTV.com:
DAATH guitarist Eyal Levi is issuing a stern warning to those planning to attend this year's free Ozzfest, which his six-piece death-metal outfit will be playing with the likes of OZZY OSBOURNE, HATEBREED, LORDI and LAMB OF GOD: “No one better f— with us.”

You see, Levi supports the old maxim that the best defense is a strong offense, and after the kind of tour the band shared this winter with GOATWHORE, THE ACACIA STRAIN and JOB FOR A COWBOY — the theme of which, he said, was “staying alive” — DAATH are in dire need of a strong offense. Not that they're proponents of rampant acts of violence — it's more about protection, Levi explained.

“I don't like getting into fights — it's not what I'm into,” he said. “But that last tour was so crazy, as far as violence goes, I just figure we've got to be ready. … After this last tour … I mean, there were fights every single night. One night, there were nine fights — nine f—ing bloody fights.”

During one gig, Levi said, an audience member tried to attack frontman Sean Farber after he drenched the crowd with water.

“I guess some dude didn't like it, and he told us to stop — in the middle of a song, mind you,” the guitarist recalled. “First of all, we're not going to stop. Secondly, how do you expect a band to hear that? So he charged the stage and spit in Sean's face. Sean saw him rushing towards the stage and hit him in the face with his microphone. After the show, the dude jumped our merch guy because he thought it was Sean. So let's just say I'm going to be ready next time.”

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH

Trivium’s Matt Heafy talks about their forthcoming tour with Korn:
Says Heafy: “Over the past three years TRIVIUM has had the pleasure and honor of touring, supporting, as well as headlining many diverse tours and festivals along with so many different bands, so being invited by KORN to play this year's Family Values 2007 tour and get out in front of a diverse crowd and play is going to rock.

“This tour is a chance for us to finally be able to play for TRIVIUM fans that may have never had the ability to see us before as well as other people who may not normally get to go to metal shows.

“What a great opportunity for us to play with one of the bands some of us grew up with — KORN. We had the honor of supporting KORN last June at the Download Festival in the U.K.

“KORN was one of the first bands I was into as a kid. I bought the first family values DVD back in the day (I know I wasn't the only one!). For a lot of the younger fans out there these big summer tours open doors to different music genres. At the end of the day, if we can help get some new kids into metal then that is awesome.

“So anyways… it's going to be a fucking amazing tour for the fans and we will do our best to do what we do best — which is rock out live and we hope to make some new friends along the way.

“So to wrap it all up, I hope all our fans come out the Family Values tour to these shows and support TRIVIUM — do that and we will deliver a balls-out-metal-as-fuck set to tear the fucker up (we're gonna mix it up and play songs we've never played before.)

“You guys fucking rock. This tour is gonna be a big outdoor summer party — come out and rock out.”

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH

Conduced in Amsterdam, Holland, is a video interview with DevilDriver mainman Dez Fafara, the interview was performed by Toazted.com, Blabbermouth reports.

The guys forthcoming album ‘The Last Kind Words’ is due for release 5th June and includes the song titles: “Damning the Heavens“, “Cattle Call“, “The Last Kind Words” and “Monsters of the Deep“.

Blabbermouth reports Italian news blog, Musica Metal, has posted four short video clips of Within Temptation’s concert held on 29th March. The show was sold out and had a set list of 18 songs, you can view the footage here!

Within Temptation’s latest single, ‘What Have You Done’ features Life Of Agony’s Keith Caputo and the video can be viewed at this location.

Hosting an exclusive video performance of Black Stone Cherry is UGO, the guys perform two of their awesome tracks, “Lonely Train” and “Hell and High Water” live, acoustic, and stripped down. You can also watch the bands Muddy Waters medley, and an interview with the guys, all this is available at this location!

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH

In anticipation to the bands forthcoming UK tour, Jamey Jasta of hardcore heroes HATEBREED, talks exclusively to Mike Davies on the BBC Radio 1 Punk Show this evening (2am-4am).

Tune in to catch the frontman detailing what the band have been up to since their last UK tour, and also be in with a chance to win your tickets to the shows in April.

And for those who cant listen live, can catch the show via the BEEBs listen again facility here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mikedavies/

And for your chance to enter the ticket competition, click