Metal masters SOULFLY release new album CONQUER on Monday JULY 21st (digitally, 28th JULY as a CD or CD / DVD). The reviews are starting to come in now and Kerrang! have given it a killer KKKK rating! Check out the review below:

Archimedes Once claimed that, given a long enough lever and a solid enough fulcrum, he could move the earth. He could have used Max Cavalera’s career as his pivot. Not everything the man’s put his name to has borne the mark of genius but he has had more brushed with the concept than most and, despite a prodigious output with Sepultura, the suitably explosive Nailbomb, current day-job Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy and a host of one-off collaborations, the dreadlocked Brazilian grower barely has a truly duff track under his belt. Okay, on Conquer you have the largely superfluous Soulfly VI, continuing the tradition of the self titled track on each Soulfly album and closing their sixth in a wash of Santana-style guitar meandering. It’s hardly an earth-shattering conclusion but before the point is a typically rock-solid affair punctuated by flashed of brilliance.

Last album Dark Ages was heralded as being at least a partial revisitation of early Sepultura territory and, while Conquer is not quite as full-on it does retain that sense of blinding ferocity in places. Fall Of the Sycophants is a straight-ahead Slayer-esque thrash-out while Warmageddon does indeed sound like the Apocalypse condensed into a small room with every window bolted shut. This being Soulfly however, there is of course still non-standard music augmentation scattered all over the place, plus those obligatory tribal rhythms and chugga-chugga grooves.

Opener Blood Fire Hate kicks things off like a mantra of destruction, with Morbid Angel’s David Vincent lending his growl to the rumbling, repetitive chant. Guest appearances are another staple of Soulfly albums and Throwdown’s Dave Peters join the party on the jaw-dropping Unleash, which combines what sounds like a theremin with gnashing guitars, swirls of synth and kick-in-the-bollocks brutality. Touching The Void utilises a Sabbathy doom riff with space rock leaning while the ironically far less doom-laden Doom switches from hook-laden hollering to a deep reggae groove.

The individual elements might change but the underlying tendency – one rumbling, head-pounding metal enhanced from a wide palette of experimental colours – remains exactly the same. From that standpoint, this might be ‘just’ another Soulfly album but it’s still one packed with enough invention, aggression and sheer quality tunes to make most other metal bands blush.

PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF CONQUER HERE

In this weeks Kerrang! magazine, SLIPKNOT‘a Corey Taylor talks you through the new album ALL HOPE IS GONE (which is released 25/08) track by track.

‘Our album is gonna shock the fuck out of people’, says Taylor. ‘I’m so fucking excited about it…We just wanted to make something fresh and exciting,’ Taylor continues. ‘And after all the shit that we’ve been through the past three years, it was time to take the gloves off again!’

Read the full interview in issue 1219 (dated July 19th) which is on shelves NOW!

Also, check back here in the next couple of days for news of when and where you will be able to see the new video for current single PSYCHOSOCIAL!

PRE ORDER ALL HOPE IS GONE HERE

As if the news that DREAM THEATER are to release a live DVD isn’t enough, the band

Those Kentucky boys BLACK STONE CHERRY have posted a blog on their official MySpace about what it’s like being back on the road and their experience on their recent european run of festivals and what it was like supporting Whitesnake and Deff Leppard.

The also chat about shooting the video for their current digital single BLIND MAN, which is taken from their upcoming album FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION:

Yesterday, we shot the music video for our brand new single, “Blind Man”! We shot it in Louisville, KY at the famous Waverly Hills Sanitorium! It was so badass!! We’ve always wanted to go to Waverly Hills becuase of it’s history (and because we wanted to find a gohst there..it’s one of the Top 3 haunted places in America!!) So to shoot a video inside was very honoring…

FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION will be released on CD and as a digital download on AUGUST 18th. And let us not forget that the guys return to the UK for a full tour in December. Tickets are on sale now and dates are as follows:

Fri 5th Dec – Manchester Academy
Sat 6th Dec – Newcastle Academy
Sun 7th Dec – Glasgow Barrowlands
Tue 9th Dec – Sheffield Octagon
Wed 10th Dec – Birmingham Academy
Thu 11th Dec – Bristol Academy
Sat 13th Dec – Oxford Academy
Sun 14th Dec – London Brixton Academy

It has been confirmed that Floridians TRIVIUM will have a track featured on the upcoming soundtrack for EA Games’ upcoming Madden NFL 2009.

Into The Mouth Of Hell We March will feature on Trivium’s upcoming release SHOGUN (in stores September 29th) but will premier on the game, which ships August 19th.

The soundtrack will also feature labelmates AIRBOURNE.

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES release new single SATURDAY on the 11th AUGUST and you can now catch the video for the track right here!

The guys are currently in Scotland for T in the Park, and they are psyching themselves up for playing as part of Ripcurl Boardmaster Beach Sessions on the 6th of August. They are also set to play Reading / Leeds (23rd and 24th August respectively) and the K! Awards Week of Rock (matinee show @ London Barfly, 16/08) and will fit in a trip to Japan to play Summer Sonic in there somewhere as well! PHEW!

Some people are a liiiiiitle excited about the SLIPKNOT album ALL HOPE IS GONE being released it would seem!

Check out the YouTube footage of some crazy cats in going a lil mental in Germany… Hilarious!

SLIPKNOT‘s Clown recently

Last night in Seattle, SLIPKNOT played their first show in two and a half years headlining the MAYHEM tour in the US. Check out the fan vids that have been loaded to YouTube overnight. Roll on Reading / Leeds!!!

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DUALITY

DREAM THEATER will release ‘CHAOS IN MOTION 2007/2008’, documenting their “Chaos In Motion” world tour, which kicked off June 3, 2007 at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Milan, Italy and concluded almost a year to the day later on June 4, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on SEPTEMBER 29th. Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 will be available in two configurations: as a double DVD set and as five disc collector’s set which includes two DVDs and three CDs, containing 14 live tracks featured in the DVD set and expanded artwork.

The Chaos in Motion Tour was a trek that found the band traversing the globe, playing 115 shows in 105 cities in 35 countries on five continents to hundreds of thousands of fans. It also included the first annual Progressive Nation Tour, an idea that the band had kicked around for a few years and finally launched into action this past spring.

Drummer and DVD creative director Mike Portnoy plumed his personal archives for footage in order to provide fans with the ultimate tour souvenir. He assembled over three hours of complete live performances, taking footage from shows in Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Boston, Bangkok and Vancouver. The tracks were mixed and effectively brought to life by Kevin Shirley. The second disc is packed with bonus material, including promo videos, live screen projection films, a photo gallery and a 90-minute documentary that’ll make you feel like you’re riding in the passenger’s seat of the band’s tour bus, as it takes you on the road and behind the scenes with the band and crew. It’s like a virtual backstage pass that grants fans further unprecedented access.

The official content and track listing for the DVD are as follows (although are subject to change):

Double DVD Set
Disc One:
“Around The World In 180 Minutes” Live Concert Footage
1. Intro/Also Sprach Zarathustra
2. Constant Motion
3. Panic Attack
4. Blind Faith
5. Surrounded
6. The Dark Eternal Night
7. Keyboard Solo
8. Lines In The Sand 9. Scarred
10. Forsaken
11. The Ministry Of Lost Souls
12. Take The Time
13. In The Presence Of Enemies
14. Medley: I. Trial Of Tears II. Finally Free III. Learning To Live IV. In The Name Of God V. Octavarium

Disc Two:
“Behind The Chaos On The Road” Documentary
Promo Videos: Constant Motion, Forsaken, Forsaken (In Studio), The Dark Eternal Night (In Studio)
Live Screen Projection Films: The Dark Eternal Night (N.A.D.S), The Ministry Of Lost Souls, In The Presence Of Enemies Pt. 2