Just a quick reminder for all you Bleeding Through and Caliban fans, the guys are starting their UK tour next week, and you will be able to check them out at the following locations:

19/02/2007 Limelight Belfast, United Kingdom
20/02/2007 Temple Bar Music Centre Dublin, Ireland
21/02/2007 Crisian Cork, United Kingdom
23/02/2007 Mean Fiddler London, United Kingdom
24/02/2007 Academy 2 Manchester, United Kingdom
25/02/2007 Garage Glasgow, United Kingdom
26/02/2007 Wolfrun Hall Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
27/02/2007 University Cardiff, United Kingdom
28/02/2007 Rock City Nottingham, United Kingdom

Don’t forget Bleeding Through’s current album ‘The Truth’ is out now!

Back from their tour of Australia and gearing up for their upcoming jaunt with Machine Head, Lamb of God and Gojira, Trivium have posted a new selection of Fan Art on http://www.trivium.org/.

Said singer/guitarist Matt Heaffy, “We would like to take a moment and thank everyone for the amazing fan art that we get every single day. And the great adventurous people who go out and get our name, or our logos tattooed onto your body. We love getting the fan art and we love seeing the tattoos.” Click HERE to view these beauties.

www.myspace.com/trivium

Blabbermouth reports that posted on YouTube.com is a commercial/webisode of Hatebreed guitarist Sean Martin’s Brass City Tattoos. The 10 minute commercial features Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta, you can view it here!

At the spiritual home of rock, Donnington Park, Leicestershire, will once again be hosting the Download festival, set to take place June 8-10th. Confirmed to appear

The awe-inspiring Hatebreed have given a video interview with the guys from 4QRadio.com! Check it out here!

Don't forget you can still buy Hatebreed's 'Supremacy' HERE!

We had to make sure that the artwork for 3 Inches of Blood's next album had enough blades on it – have a look HERE

Roadrunner Records is proud to announce the signing of progressive metal pioneers Dream Theater. A new studio album, Systematic Chaos is due in June. Dream Theater will hit the road in support of the album for a world tour, including major festival appearances in Europe.

Since their first studio release in 1989, this U.S. based five-piece has notched up record and DVD sales in excess of six million and headlined to audiences of 20,000. Having undertaken seven world tours across 42 different countries, Dream Theater has established a live reputation that has swept them to arena-status around the globe. They have appeared alongside acts such as Deep Purple, Iron Maiden and Yes.

Recognized by peers and public alike for their advanced musical expertise, the band (Mike Portnoy, drums; John Petrucci, guitar; John Myung, bass; James LaBrie, vocals; Jordan Rudess, keyboards) has long held the ability to combine complex arrangements with unadulterated songwriting skills, the material often underpinned by riffs as heavy as anything in the Metallica repertoire.

“This album's got all of the elements we've become known for,” reveals 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. By working closely with the label we hope to turn a great many new heads, too.”

“Dream Theater and Roadrunner Records have led parallel careers on the cutting edge of metal for many years,” say A&R men, Derek Oliver & Dante Bonutto, “We're thrilled to be working with a genuine market-leader, and when you add everything the guys bring to the table to the independent spirit and work ethic of the label, the results can only be exciting in the extreme!”

Prior to teaming up with Roadrunner, Dream Theater was signed to a seven-album deal with Warner Music Group worldwide. The deal commenced with the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Images And Words (1992), a Gold-certified US release, and concluded, in equal style, with Octavarium (2005), a Top 40 Billboard outing. In August of last year the band issued Score, a live album/DVD (recorded at Radio City Music Hall in New York), which went straight to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard DVD charts, knocking Pink Floyd from the top!

By the following month, the five were holed up at Avatar Studios in New York, working on the new album with veteran engineer/ mixer Paul Northfield (Rush, Queensr

Blabbermouth reports, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine posted the following message on the forums section of their official website:

“I will have an announcement to make concerning our upcoming tour dates and what follows after that. Have a great time speculating, and love and bruises to you all.

“[By the way], I hope to see a lot of old friends on the upcoming promo tour this month. It won't be long until the reviews [of the new MEGADETH album] start coming in, and I just want to say there will mixed opinions of some of the songs due to subject matter, but I look forward to your thoughts and opinions. I know you are some of the wisest fans in all of music, let alone metal.”

Check out the forums of the Official Megadeth site HERE

Guitarist Phil Fasciana of MALEVOLENT CREATION has slammed the BLABBERMOUTH.NET detractors who have bashed the group for inviting SLIPKNOT guitarist Mick Thomson to make a guest appearance on the upcoming MALEVOLENT CREATION album, “Doomsday X”.

In a statement sent to BLABBERMOUTH.NET earlier today, Fasciana wrote, “After reading some of the bashing towards Mick Thomson's guest appearance guitar solo on the new MALEVOLENT CREATION [album] and the bashing of SLIPKNOT and MALEVOLENT CREATION being sellouts, [it] really make us laugh!!! Mick shreds one guitar solo on the new album and there are tons of other guitar solos on the album provided by guitarists Phil Fasciana and Jon Rubin. Mick is a friend of ours for many years now and it was our choice to have him rip a solo in the new song 'Deliver My Enemy' because that song has tons of guitar solos and Mick offered to do it. If you bashers out there can't handle the fact that a famous musician like Mick did one solo on our album, it's because you probably wish you could play guitar as good as him and forgot the fact that Mick has been a die-hard death metal fan long before most of you little shit-talkers ever heard the term 'death metal'!!!! Grow up and do something worthwhile with your lives instead of crying about bands being sellouts!!!”

The hottest band of the moment Madina Lake, are releasing their digital single ‘House Of Cards’ on 12th March 2007. Show your mates how awesome you are, preorder it now, before the rush!

Preorder Madina Lake’s ‘House Of Cards’ on 7 Digital store