In the third of six webisodes that are documenting the making of Shadows Fall’s forthcoming release, ‘Threads of Life’ has been posted online at spin.com. This instalment features drummer Jason Bittner and the studio where he recorded the drum tracks.

Check it out at spin.com and leave a comment!

You can also check out Shadows Fall MySpace page where you can stream their new single ‘Redemption’, Shadows Fall YouTube page, and their official website!

‘The Awakening’ is the forthcoming release by German metalcore masters Caliban, the release date for this awesome album is 28th May! Count down on your calendars!

Blabbermouth reports in a recent interview with Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press, Dave Mustaine explains ‘There’s no more sour grapes’ with Metallica. A sample of their discussion follows:

On the song “A Tout Le Monde” — long misinterpreted as pro-suicide when in fact it was written about the sudden death of his mother — which inspired a deranged gunman who opened fire at a Montreal community college last year:

“The song doesn't belong to the killer. The song belongs to the people of Montreal, if anything it belongs to me and it was my gift to them. It was never meant to be misinterpreted like that.”

On why he chose to record a new version of the song, which has been reworked as a duet (with Cristina Scabbia of the Italian goth/metal band LACUNA COIL) and will be the first single off the band's new album, “United Abominations“:

“The song never got its opportunity to get out and it's a total fan favourite, people love it wherever we're at.”

On his original plans to re-record the song as a duet with tabloid staple Lisa Marie Presley:

“Lisa Marie Presley, there's a certain calibre of talent there that she obviously could sing the song, but I don't know that people would look at it as seriously because of her pedigree. I'm excited that she would even know what MEGADETH is and I'm flattered that she accepted.”

On the 2004 documentary “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”, in which Mustaine berates METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich for kicking him out of the band instead of trying to help him deal with his addiction:

“After the documentary I hated them, but it took some time for this whole thing to kind of reveal itself. There are certain things that I miss in James, certain things that I'm glad are gone with Lars and just there's no more sour grapes. How can you sit in a house on a hill and have gas in your tank and food in your refrigerator and be bitter about something like that, especially so many years ago? . . The good thing about it is that it's finally given proof to the world that I was part of this band. Regardless of whether I was in it for awhile or not, truth was, it was in the formidable stages. I was the only guitar player and James just sang.”

Lars Ulrich, Metallica drummer has praised Roadrunner artists, when he spoke with Eddie Trunk , who hosts a radio show on New York’s Q104.3FM, titled ‘Friday Night Rocks’. Blabbermouth.net has given a partial excerpt of the chat:

Q: Speaking of landmark METALLICA albums, last year was the 20th anniversary of “Master of Puppets”. I know you guys played in Europe and you did the album start to finish, right?

Lars: Yes, we did. We did three weeks' worth of gigs last summer. There's no place better than to visit Europe in the month of June, and we got invited to do a couple of festivals and then it kind of turned into a three-week thing. Kerrang! magazine out of England had done a tribute to the “Puppets” album by having all these awesome up-and-coming bands, like TRIVIUM and BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, and MACHINE HEAD and a few other guys who've been around for a while, doing these, basically covering every song on “Puppets”, and we were kind of sitting there getting caught up in all that misty-eyed emotion of the whole thing as we were sitting there planning the tour and the dates and so on. We were also inspired by my friend Mike [Portnoy] from DREAM THEATER, who was telling me that they used to, back in the day, go out and play all of “Master of Puppets” as an encore. He was definitely part of the inspiration, too. And we went out and played over the course of three weeks the “Puppets” album from start to finish more or less note for note. What happens with us a lot with the older songs is we go through the years, we have a tendency to continue to edit them and re-edit them and put different bits in and kind of take them different places. But we kind of went back and played the album note for note and it was a lot of fun, and in some way I think it kind of set the bar for the record that we're making now in terms of the level that we know we're capable of writing and recording and it was an awesome experience to play that every night for 50, 60, 70 thousand people and feel that kind of love and respect and appreciation. I mean, playing it for 75,000 people at Donington (England), it was unbelievable.

The forthcoming Megadeth album, ‘United Abominations’ will now be released on 14th May.

We’ve teamed up with Rock World TV to bring you the best of the best, a Roadrunner United, Slipknot, and Dresden Dolls special where you can see all your favourite Roadrunner artists. Check out the information below for dates and times:

Roadrunner United special:

Part 1
7pm Sat 17th
1pm Sun 18th
6pm Tues 20th
1pm Wed 21st

Part 2
7pm Sat 24th
1pm Sun 25th
6pm Tues 27th
1pm Wed 28th

Slipknot special:

Part 1
10pm Sat 17th
9pm Tues 20th

Part 2
10pm Sat 24th
9pm Thurs 29th

Dresden Dolls Special:

Part 1
7:30pm Sun 18th
1:30pm Mon 19th
6:30pm Wed 21st
1:30pm Thurs 22nd

Part 2:
7:30pm Sun 25th
1:30pm Mon 26th
6:30pm Wed 28th
1:30pm Thurs 29th

Tune in: Sky Channel 368