Satyricon have posted up the video exclusive for their new video “The Pentagram Burns”, Directed by H퀌«vard Arnstad the video is taken from the bands latest album ‘Now, Diabolical’. CLICK HERE TO WATCH ‘THE PENTAGRAM BURNS’ DON’T FORGET The band will be playing throughout the UK this month. “Tour Diabolical” will hit the following cities: Fri 15th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Birmingham Academy Sat 16th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì London Islington Academy Sun 17th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Manchester Academy 2 Mon 18th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Newcastle Academy Tue 19th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Glasgow Cathouse Wed 20th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Nottingham Rock City

We’ve been so busy celebrating for the last week, we haven’t told you yet. Roadrunner is thrilled to announce that Trivium’s last album ‘Ascendancy’ has been officially certified GOLD in the UK, selling over 100,000 albums. 퉌æ 퉌æ New album ‘The Crusade’ í¢ä‰åäóì out October 9 í¢ä‰åäóì looks set to be certified SILVER the very first day it’s released, with some rave reviews awarding the band top scores! A plethora of UK stores will also be offering a special ‘First Day Cover’ for fans and some killer competitions. Also if you buy the album for iTunes you will receive the bands special cover of Metallica’s ‘Master Of Puppets’ as a bonus track. 퉌æ The album will be preceded by single ‘Anthem (We Are The Fire)’ – out October 2 for 퉌£1.99 – which you might have already caught being spun on Radio 1, amongst other places. The tracklisting also includes 2 exclusive new songs (‘Vengeance’ and ‘Broken One’) not available on the album as well as the video for ‘Anthem (We Are The Fire)’.

Hot on the heels of the release of their brand new album, ‘Come What(ever) May’, STONE SOUR have confirmed a handful of UK shows for November. 퉌æIf you missed them at this year’s Download Festival, now’s your chance! Catch them at the following dates: 퉌æ NOVEMBER 4 – GLASGOW Garage 5 – SHEFFIELD Corporation 7 – WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun 8 – MANCHESTER Academy 2 9 – LONDON Mean Fiddler 퉌æ Tickets are 퉌£13.50 regionally / 퉌£15 London í¢ä‰åäóì and go on sale this Friday 8 September. Support is TBC. 퉌æ The album’s first US single, ‘Through Glass’, is currently exploding at rock radio and this week was confirmed #1 at Active Rock & BDS Mainstream (the overall rock chart for the system) í¢ä‰åäóì topping both previous single ‘Bother’ (#4) and Slipknot’s ‘Duality’ (also #4). Incidentally, it also marks Roadrunner’s first non-Nickelback related radio #1 spot. Check out the video for first UK single ’30-30/150′ on all good music channels and at www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/video.퉌æ

Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON have posted the following message on their official web site: “The booking of the Scandinavian tour in November is coming to an end and will be announced shortly. For now there are three shows already on sale: Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen, Norway. We are looking at approximately 10 shows in Norway, 6 in Sweden and 2 in Denmark. ” “As a part of this tour we will realise our ambition to make the appearance of the brass section on the ‘Now, Diabolical’ album become reality, live in concert. We have already done this in a scaled down version as a part of the P3 sessions show that was a concert broadcast on radio shortly before the release of the album. ” “This time around we have been lucky enough to join forces with the whole cavalry and we have some of the best men from The Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra joining us on stage at Sentrum Scene in Oslo, November 4th. Please note that we are talking about big-ass horns in various shapes and forms. There will be no harps, or violins for that matter! ” “Together with 퀏ìivind Westby that helped arrange brass for three of the songs on ‘Now, Diabolical’, we are arranging brass for old and new SATYRICON songs trying to give the songs a dimension and feel they normally don’t have. We have moved the show to Sentrum Scene to ensure it is an all-ages show. We hope this will be a spectacular night for us the performing musicians, and the fans. The show will also be recorded and filmed.” DON’T FORGET “Tour Diabolical” will hit the following cities: Fri 15th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Birmingham Academy Sat 16th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì London Islington Academy Sun 17th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Manchester Academy 2 Mon 18th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Newcastle Academy Tue 19th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Glasgow Cathouse Wed 20th Sep í¢ä‰åäóì Nottingham Rock City

Tonight (01.09.06) on the XFM Rock Show (104.9FM) Ian Camfield will once again be playing the hardest and fastest metal tunes from 22:00pm í¢ä‰åäóì 1:00am. This week he’ll be giving away a Roadrage DVD before anyone else can get their hands on it (released Monday the 4th!), featuring 29 videos around 2 hours of music from the likes of Slipknot, Trivium, Hatebreed and Opeth. Not only that, Hatebreed’s new album ‘Supremacy’ is also up for grabs! Tune in early, have your dialling fingers poised on those digits and don’t miss this great competition! For more details check out XFM’s Rock Show page.

Chris Byrnes, bass player of Every Time I Die has decided to leave the band. In the meantime, Every Time I Die has enlisted Keller Harbin from the band The Chariot on bass duties. It is not known whether he will be a permanent addition to ETIDí¢ä‰åŒ_.

The Dresden Dolls have just launched their Official UK forum on DRESDEN-DOLLS.co.uk so pop along, sign up and get involved. In other Dolls related news, the band are releasing ‘Backstabber’ as a digital single on Sept 11th. It will feature the previously unreleased track ‘Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner’.

TRIVIUM frontman, Matt Heafy manages to check in, and update his blog to tell the world what they’ve been up to. Or more importantly what they haven’t been up to. CLICK HERE TO READ HIS FULL BLOG.

Prog-metal legends OPETH have been nominated for this years CLASSIC ROCK – ALBUM OF THE YEAR. Obviously this wasn’t completely unexpected as the album is, for want of another word, AMAZING. So now is your chance to show your appreciation for a truly stunning album. CLICK HERE TO VOTE NOW!!

Dave McClain, drummer of Machine Head is on reportedly to be ‘on fire’ at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland CA, tracking no less than 6 out of the 8 songs in one day for the new album, including two tracks of 10 minutes each! Dave was ready to strangle the producer after days and days of trying out a multitude of drum kits, heads, skins and different combinations. The band really felt strongly about having real drum tones on this record, preferring them over the overly triggered drum sound that is so prevalent in metal today. Preferring to mix in some of that triggered sound into the real tones, Rob Flynn comments that, ‘Sure, you gotta have a little bit in there – a bit in the kick, blend some in with the snare, but man, real drums sound fucking awesome when you get ’em dialed in.’ It is argued that there is no comparison for a real drum tone, with triggers often leaving listeners bored from listening fatigue (listening to the same sound over and over). It seems that the preparation time and this method is serving the new record well, Rob is especially pleased, ‘we got the sickest drum tones EVERí¢ä‰åŒ_he’s killing it SO hard. Drum magazine editors take note… your new king is here, and his name is Dave McClain!’ A note to budding producers it is sometimes best not to rush in and recording the first tones you hear, try different mics and placements, mix triggers in if you really need to, experimenting with these methods can radically change a recording and possibly make something generic sounding into a ‘classic’. Machine Head’s new record ‘The Blackening’ is set for release in early 2007.