Sanctity has taken the next step in anticipation of their new album, Road to Bloodshed. www.sanctityweb.com has been redesigned from the top down, with new forums, easy to track news updates and other goodies, plus a great look and feel.

SANCTITY has finalized the track listing for their debut album, “Road to Bloodshed”, due on April 24.

'Road to Bloodshed' track listing:

01. Beneath The Machine
02. Brotherhood Of Destruction
03. Road To Bloodshed
04. Laws Of Reason
05. Billy Seals
06. Zeppo
07. Beloved Killer
08. The Shape Of Things
09. Flatline
10. The Rift Between
11. Seconds
12. Once Again

Check out the album artwork at this location.

STONE SOUR's video for its latest single, “Sillyworld”, has been posted online.

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The track comes off the group's second album, “Come What(ever) May”, which has sold more than half a million copies in the United States since its August 2006 release.

The Metal Forge recently conducted an interview with TRIVIUM bassist Paulo Gregoletto. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

On mixing new and old material in their set:

“It's been great. I mean, it's so hard to judge who has been a fan since the beginning or not. Judging by the crowd solely, it's awesome. There's definitely a lot of heavy stuff on 'The Crusade'. It ends up making even bigger mosh pits on some of the songs like 'To The Rats' and stuff. I mean, it's just straight up thrash in your face and it always goes down well live. It's cool being able to play the new stuff as well as playing the old stuff too. Down here, we've never played anything to most of these people obviously and unless they've seen us elsewhere. It's cool. It's like every song is a new song and that's kind of a cool feeling to be able to play anything down here and know that people haven't seen it live yet.”

On the differences between their last two records:

“It's been kind of … the press, I've seen many great things. I've seen stuff that said they liked 'Ascendancy' more. I guess that's like an opinion anyone could have. It's hard to say what the overall majority is because there's no way to tell that. I think that people are going to have their personal favorites. Hopefully we're going to be a band that puts out many, many albums and every time you put out a new album, I don't think it's going to be people's favourite every time. Take a band like IRON MAIDEN and ask the four of us in the band 'What's your favourite album?' and we're all probably gonna say different things. It doesn't mean we dislike the other albums at all. It's just that's the one we like. Overall the reaction's been great. Judging on how it's selling, it's doing phenomenally around the world and in some places, it's completely outsold 'Ascendancy' by more than half. I guess that's a good thing. We're just going forward and having fun and playing live shows is where it's at, especially for us I think that's our strongest point.”

“Musically, this album was written a lot differently. One being it was written on the road and two, the writing was done different — we didn't have the luxury of sitting down and writing together. Most of it was written separately besides a few things. We didn't really get together until before recording, y'know, arranging — that's when we sat down together and put the finishing touches on things. Everything was written separately and that was a different thing. So, musically that might've added in a little bit more influences or brought out more of a certain influence than before because we're all very, very different people that just happen to like metal music. I guess that'd be one thing. The vocal change I guess for most people is the biggest difference. I mean, on 'Ascendancy', there's definitely singing like that on it, 'Departure', 'Declaration' and different parts of the CD. What really made us kind of go for that as the main singing was one, on the live aspect screaming was kind of killing Matt's voice, and then two, we just grew tired of it. If you're gonna keep screaming verses and then singing choruses, how much can you do that for people? How many times can you do that song for people before it's like, 'This is getting old!' I guess we just wanted to challenge ourselves to try something a little different. I guess this is gonna be the transition CD where people get used to it or not. I think people are into it. Once they get used to that difference, they're into it.”

On whether the band felt pressure to come up with the follow-up to “Ascendancy”:

“I didn't really feel any pressure with that. It's so weird for most people looking at us. It seems like it would've been like that. But when Ascendancy first came out, it didn't take off or anything. After we kept touring, it just started building. Once we got onto Ozzfest and started doing a few more high profile things, that's when things started rolling, and we started writing before or around that time. So I guess there was no pressure. The only pressure I guess we had was when we were recording was just to meet the final deadline just so we wouldn't have to cut any festivals in the summer. Other than that, I don't think anyone felt it. Once we got in, and once we were recording, we knew we could get it done in time.”

Catch Trivium on tour during April – all the dates here.

MEGADETH shot a video for the new version of the song “A Tout Le Monde “, at a downtown Los Angeles studio on Thursday, March 8. Check out pictures from the shoot at Wire Image, Film Magic, Getty Images.

The track features Cristina Scabbia from Italian alt-metal act LACUNA COIL. “The first singer didn't work out,” Mustaine told Straight.com, “the second one didn't work, and the third one was Lisa Marie Presley. She was on the way to the airport, and we had to call and say, 'Sorry, we changed our minds.' I would have loved to have heard what Lisa Marie Presley would have done, but because of the demographics of the LACUNA COIL fan base, and Cristina's reign in the heavy-metal business, it was the right thing to do.”

“A Tout Le Monde” will appear on MEGADETH's new album, “United Abominations”, due on May 15. The track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. Sleepwalker
02. Washington Is Next!
03. Never Walk Alone
04. United Abominations
05. Gears Of War
06. Blessed Are The Dead
07. Play For Blood
08. A Tout Le Monde (feat. Cristina Scabbia)
09. Amerikhastan
10. You're Dead
11. Burnt Ice

Download Sleepwalker, the opening track from United Abominations here.

The lineup for Stone Sour's UK tour has been finalised, with the addition of Forever Never as the opening act.

The dates played are:

11/03/2007 Birmingham Academy
12/03/2007 Manchester Apollo
13/03/2007 London Astoria
15/03/2007 Glasgow Academy.

Buy your tickets here.

Shock rocker LIZZY BORDEN has revealed exclusively to KNAC.COM DJ Diana DeVille on the specialty show “WildSide” this past Saturday that the next full-length studio album from his namesake band will feature guest appearances by Y&T frontman Dave Meniketti and TRIVIUM guitarist Corey Beaulieu. According to Borden, Beaulieu was recruited to appear on the CD after Lizzy heard his work on TRIVIUM's latest album, “The Crusade”, commenting that “the kid sure can play.” BORDEN did not reveal the name of the new CD or the tracks that either musician will be playing on but did say that the album itself stands to be one of the band's heaviest efforts to date. No release date for the album has yet been set.

Catch Trivium on tour during April – all the dates here.

PORCUPINE TREE main man Steven Wilson has confirmed a one-off instore appearance and performance on April 16, the day new album ‘Fear Of A Blank Planet’ is released. He will be joined by touring guitarist/backing vocalist John Wesley.

Steven and John will do a short acoustic performance for just 100 lucky fans from 6pm at FOPP, 287 Camden High Street, London NW1 7BX. Entrance to the performance will be by special wristband only. Wristbands will be given out free from 9am on April 16 at the store on a first come, first served basis.

Fear not! If you’re not one of the lucky wristband holders, Steven and John will be signing autographs for everyone straight after the acoustic session.

“The first mandatory album purchase of 2007 has arrived.” – Classic Rock

If you are unfortunate to miss the signing and performance, fear not people! You can still catch the emotive rockers live at one of these dates and see them perform the album 'Fear Of A Blank Planet' in its entirety!

18th April – GLASGOW, ABC 19th April – NEWCASTLE, Academy 20th April – PRESTON, 53 Degrees 22nd April – NOTTINGHAM, Rock City 23rd April – WOLVERHAMPTON, Wulfren 24th April – BRISTOL, Academy 25th April – CAMBRIDGE, Junction 26th April – LONDON, Forum

Pick up a copy of this month's METAL HAMER (April '07) for their amazing Machine Head gatefold cover story!!

The awesome Shadows Fall have posted online, photos of the guys during the video shoot of their single ‘Redemption’, taken from the forthcoming album ‘Threads of Life’. The photos are on the official Shadows Fall site in the ‘Photos’ section.

You can also stream ‘Redemption’ via the Shadows Fall MySpace page, check it out!

3 Inches of Bood had this to say as they pointed their weapon-filled long-boats towards European shores, and tilted their flagons filled with ale:

“The Six week U.S. tour is now complete! Cradle of Filth and The 69 Eyes were excellent to tour with. All the shows were either sold out or very near to it. For us it was a great opportunity play in front of larger crowds and make a lot of new fans. We are most grateful for the experience.

“In the next few days we will begin a three week excursion overseas. We will be heavily assaulting England over that time, but will also make sorties to Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. This will serve as a warm up for the impending release of Fire Up The Blades which will now hit unsuspecting victims on June 26.”

Roadrunner wishes the guys happy slaying on this new quest! Stay tuned to RR.co.uk for brand new 3IOB music and info in the coming weeks and months.