Blabbermouth reports that Indie 103.1's specialty metal show, “Chaos,” will broadcast live from Machine Head and Trivium's Hollywood stop on the tour in support of Lamb of God. Full Metal Jackie will interview all of the bands on the bill, spin their recent releases, and give away concert tickets for upcoming shows, including Killswitch Engage's current tour.

Dez Fafara has announced that DevilDriver will be playing at this year’s Download festival, Blabbermouth reports. Also appearing at the festival which takes place 8-10 June, at Donnington Park, Leicestershire, are Killswitch Engage and Iron Maiden.

http://www.devildriverworld.com

Cradle of Filth guitarist Paul Allender, recently gave an interview with Sascha Campbell of Canada’s Imprint newspaper.

Below a few snippits of the interview:

On touring:

“[Being on the road] is brilliant. I love it. I've done it so much that being on tour is like second nature. It's like a completely different world — I've had friends come out to help us and at the end they say, 'I never want to do that again!' You have to be in a certain frame of mind to do it. It's a pretty crazy environment. It's pretty mad.”

On the craziest experience he ever had while touring:

“We did a signing session at Ozzfest when someone put a baby with a white T-shirt on the table. The baby moved from person to person, everybody signing the T-shirt. Also, someone took their wooden leg off and got us to sign it as well.”

On his love of martial arts:

“There's a lot that was in [martial arts] when I was learning that isn't there anymore. It's become really commercialized. There's a traditional side I have to show for grading and stuff, but when there's only a handful people in the class I teach it on a streetfighting level, putting back the nasty stuff people don't see anymore. A lot of people get really grossed out, but I tell them, 'If you want to learn it properly, this is the way it is.' I've got some really great kids I'm teaching now, some of them are absolute shit hot.”

On CRADLE OF FILTH's makeup:

“We do our own makeup. For live shows we do it all ourselves, but for videos and photo shoots, there's a makeup artist that comes in. We sit there [with the artist] and sketch and make it up as we go along. We look through magazines, all that fantasy artwork and stuff, and by the time we're finished it usually looks pretty fucking kickass.”

On the state of the metal scene today:

“Personally I'm more of an old-school fan. PRIEST, MAIDEN, old thrash and stuff. To be honest I don't like anything that's out there at the moment. The magic's not there for me; I look for that music that actually makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck, and that feeling is gone now.

“MAIDEN and PRIEST are probably the most important influences on my guitar playing. The thrash bands I was listening to as a kid… I still listen to them now. I've never really had guitar heroes as such — I started playing guitar at 14 and I could never really work out playing stuff [by ear] from records, so when I first started playing I used to make up my own stuff because I couldn't play anything else. [Laughs] I'd write in the vein of bands I was into and that's basically what I've done since, how I learned to play and write my own stuff.”

On his contributions to CRADLE's music:

“I don't write lyrics, just music. It's just Dani [Filth, lead singer], because the rest of us can't be arsed to do it! The lyrics and the music correspond because all the music is written first. When we're finished a track, we give it to Dani and he writes the vocal lines to fit the music. With some songs he'll come back and say 'Oh, can you change this riff, make it a little bit longer or shorter?' or want us to move stuff around to fit in with the lyrics, swap bits around to suit the vocals.”

On the band's future:

“We've got some ideas for some new stuff. After this tour we're touring England again, then Japan, Malaysia, South Africa and Australia, then revisiting the States two more times this year. We're pretty much touring for the whole year! Towards the end of next year we're going to lock ourselves away and start coming up with a new album.”

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH

Blabbermouth reports that in the ‘Ask CKY’ section of their official website, guitarist/vocalist Deron Miller called Slayer a “bullshit” band who “always followed trends” and that they are “just a parody of themselves” after a fan asked his opinion on the band.

Following a tremendously negative response to Derons comments, who accused him of creating a publicity stunt or just being jealous, Deron issued the following statement:

“I did not expect my SLAYER rant to be newsworthy enough for a Blabbermouth post. And I dont think it is at all. I did not submit this statement to Blabbermouth to be listed as a 'publicity stunt' (that accusation always makes me laugh, because I have no interest in publicity), or 'jealousy' (I wish I wrote [METALLICA's] 'Master of Puppets', not [SLAYER's] 'God Hates Us All'). It's this simple… a fan asked for my opinion on CKY's website about SLAYER and I answered it in my opinion. Too fucking bad… that's what I think. All the Blabbermouth morons get to spew their moronic statements, so why can't I? The only difference is, people read mine. Otherwise there wouldn't be hundreds of responses that all say the same thing, I'm sure (I could only get through two): 'SLAYER rules!!!!' 'Fuckin SLAYER, MAN!'… So go crack open a Pabst and dig out one of your old 'Reign in Blood' tapes and have a fucking blast. I'd rather throw on 'Master of Puppets' [METALLICA], 'Bonded by Blood' [EXODUS] and 'The New Order' [TESTAMENT], because they're just better bands. And thanks for caring about my opinion even after 1) It wasn't meant to be posted here, and 2) You all say that you don't care about me, my band, or what I say, but… YOU DO, DONT YOU! I'M SORRY… I DON'T LIKE SLAYER!!!”

'Sleepwalker' from the forthcoming 'United Abominations' is now available?

Get over to MegaFanClub and check out the track. You must be a member, and hell, why wouldn't you want to be?

A membership provides a ton of exclusive merchandise such as a Deluxe MFC Vic T-Shirt, MFC Laminate, hand signed 8×10 photo, personalized membership card, MEGADETH postcards, MFC metal keychain, genuine MEGADETH guitar picks, gold stitch MEGADETH patch, a season's greetings card mailed to you in December, and a letter from Dave Mustaine!!! Also included is access to the MegaFanClub web site with exclusive media, private forums and chat room, live chats with the band, auctions, contests, giveaways, blogs, news and photos, pre-sale tickets, your chance to meet MEGADETH, and more!

“United Abominations” is out in soon.

The Megadeth site

Opeth, Machine Head? many bands write long songs? how about 25 minutes long?

Progressive metal pioneers DREAM THEATER have announced the track listing for their June slated new album, “Systematic Chaos“.

“This album's got all of the elements we've become known for,” said drummer and co producer Mike Portnoy. “The focus on musicianship, the skull-crushing riffs, the big progressive epics and the heart-wrenching melodies. We've got one of the strongest and most devoted fan bases in the world, and they should certainly be happy with the new material.” The disc sports seven new songs, one of which runs 25 minutes.?

The track listing is as follows:

01. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.1
02. Forsaken
03. Constant Motion
04. The Dark Eternal Night
05. Repentance
06. Prophets of War
07. The Ministry of Lost Souls
08. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.2

The Dream Theater site

‘Rain Wizard’ is a track from recent Roadrunner signings Black Stone Cherry, check it out at this location!

The second webisode documenting the making of SHADOWS FALL's new album, 'Threads of Life' has now been posted online at this location.

As previously reported, SHADOWS FALL was featured in last week's Kerrang! Audio Podcast, which can be downloaded at this location. In the episode, SHADOWS FALL stops by and gives the listeners the lowdown on its forthcoming album, “Threads of Life”. Frontman Brian Fair also reveals which film makes him cry like a tiny baby. There's music from CLUTCH, GLASSJAW and MACHINE HEAD as chosen by K!'s Terry Bezer.

SHADOWS FALL's new single, “Redemption”, is available for streaming at the band's MySpace page,

Enter the studio with MACHINE HEAD in the third and final part of “The Blackening Sessions”, a behind-the-scenes look at the band as they recorded their new album, “The Blackening”. Head on over to the band's official web site at this location to watch all three parts.

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn has been commenting on the band's decision to release “Now I Lay Thee Down” as the first video/single from the group's new album, “The Blackening”.

Said Flynn: “It's a tough choice. The problem is that, most video stations in the U.S. will absolutely not play anything past 5 1/2 minutes (unless you're double platinum… which we ain't). Some stations in the U.K. won't play anything past four minutes (?!), and they wil do their own video edits without the bands' consent (which is fuckin lame). And in Germany there are almost no major video stations for metal at all.

“We tried editing 'Clenching the Fists of Dissent' and 'Halo', both 10 minutes, and it was just WACK. I mean where do you start? You literally have to cut out half the song. It just didn't make sense as a song anymore… So then we looked at how much play 'Imperium' and 'Days Turn Blue To Gray' got in the U.S., five spins each… on MTV2… that's it!! Not main MTV like the 'Davidian' video did all over Europe (when 'Headbanger's Ball' was still on MTV) … MTV2. And the 'Days' vid got those five spins over the course of six months, which is just crazy, considering what it cost to make a video. We have to give them something they want play more than that, or financially, we might as well just not make one.

“So we kinda look at it like this, MH 2007, hardcore fans wil have heard the album, most likely from more web-savvy sources / street sources, the tour will spread the news in another way — as that is always how we've made fans, the album will speak for itself, and if someone is just seeing our MTV2 video as the first taste of the new album they are obviously out of the main loop of our fanbase, because let's face it, were not a new band, so hopefully, we trick them into thinking we are a new band and get some new fans, and turn some of the MTV2 generation into metalheads instead of fucking emo kids!!”

A crushingly heavy new MACHINE HEAD song, entitled “Aesthetics of Hate”, is available for download at this location (free registration required). The track, which comes off “The Blackening”, was inspired by an article called “Aesthetics of Hate: R.I.P. Dimebag Abbott, & Good Riddance”. The article, written by William Grim for the conservative web site the Iconoclast, basically kicked fans of the slain PANTERA guitarist while they were down, just days after he was killed onstage. The song is a “fuck you” to Grim, from MACHINE HEAD mainman Robert Flynn.

Due on March 26 'The Blackening' (view cover here) was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA, with MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn returning to the producer's chair, and Mark Keaton once again handling engineering duties. Longtime MACHINE HEAD collaborator Colin Richardson (CANNIBAL CORPSE, TRIVIUM, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE) mixed the record in London.

Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON have issued the following update:

“As many of you already know, we are confirmed to perform at Germany's With Full Force and Battle of Metal festivals, plus Brutal Assault in the Czech Republic. The actual days we will be playing has not been set in stone yet at any of these festivals, but the time period of each festival is listed here.

2007 is a year of songwriting and hopefully also recording, but we will make a few appearances here and there throughout the year. There will be a couple more festivals in the summer as well.”

SATYRICON's video for the song “The Pentagram Burns”, taken from