Did you know that there is a digital special edition of ‘Hellbilly Deluxe 2’, the new album from ROB ZOMBIE?? Well there is and it is complete with the following exclusive remixes by Frank Gryner and Rhys Fulber:

What ? (The Naughty Cheerleader Mix)
Jesus Frankenstein (Halfway To Hell And Loving It Mix)
Sick Bubblegum (Men Or Monsters…Or Both? Mix)

The special edition is available on iTunes and on all other digital platforms!

You can pick the regular edition on CD HERE.

Kris from DOMMIN has checked in from the road again! Currently on tour in the UK for the first time, supporting Lacuna Coil, the vocalist has been giving us daily updates of how things are going for the band whilst here in Blighty. Seeimingly, Glasgow was the best date thus far…

Day #3 Glasgow,Scotland

It was a 6 hour rainy drive from Birmingham to Glasgow. On the way up, we stopped at a gas station where I saw a very cool feature in Rocksound magazine. Right next to it was Metal Hammer Magazine that had one our songs on their CD sampler. Its a bit weird but very very cool.

When we arrived in Glasgow, the sun came out and Konstantine and I split from the band to do an intimate acoustic performance for 30 or so radio contest winners from 96.3, the rock station there. Apparently they had been playing us for a while which is awesome to receive such support. The rest of the guys went to the venue ABC to load in.

Though my voice was feeling a bit tight, I think we did OK. The audience seemed to really enjoy it. I always feel like the acoustic performances are something special. We got to stay and meet the fans which was great but we had to be rushed out of there to get to the venue where I walked into Billy soundchecking my guitar- we arrived just in time.

Through soundcheck, my voice was still feeling very tight and worked. Tomorrow will be a much needed day of rest. I tend to perform each day as if it were my last performance on earth so I probably push my voice a little too hard. Needless to say I did a lot of praying before the show. We hit the stage and unlike the previous night, the Glasgow fans were alive right from the start. We rocked the set and my voice was good as it could ever be. I was so relieved!

Throughout the day I was getting slammed with emails relating to the BIG day! Yep, February 2nd was our release date for “Love Is Gone” back home in the States. Not only were we getting emails from friends, fans and family, we received a lot of good news that we were getting a lot of support from iTunes, Yahoo, and various other sites that were featuring us. It was a bit of a dream of mine to walk into a store and buy the the CD the day it was released but that is not going to work out this time. It was a very exciting day for us. Great show, monumental accomplishment and we had plans to go out and celebrate. But we celebrated in a way I prefer. We headed back to the hotel, got comfortable, crowded into one room and enjoyed just hanging out. Each band member threw back a beer or two except myself while we just talked amongst ourselves and critiqued pop music videos.

In my heart, I was celebrating this moment with certain special people at home and with fans around the world. Its been a long road, but hopefully this is only the beginning…

If you missed the previous updates, click on the links below to play catch-up!

Day #2- Birmingham
Day #1- Manchester.

The band release their debut album Love Is Gone on February 15th. Pre-order online HERE.

DEVILDRIVER have revealed their brand new video- for the crushing track ‘Another Night In London’ over at Metal Hammer’s official website!

So, if you like bruisingly heavy metal, and would like to see some Brits in a video showing the rest of the world how it’s done (the video was, fittingly shot in London), then head on over to THIS LOCATION now to check it out.

DevilDriver will be back on British soil in March for HAMMERFEST, which takes place 11-13 March at Pontins, Prestatyn. Click here for more info / tickets!

Another Night In London is taken from the bands current album Pray For Villains, which is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.

COHEED & CAMBRIA have confirmed April 12 as the release date of ‘Year Of The Black Rainbow’, their heavily anticipated fifth studio album. The eagerly awaited prequel to ‘The Amory Wars’ tetralogy, ‘Year Of The Black Rainbow’ will be released by Roadrunner in both a standard format and a special edition including a 352-page ‘Year Of The Black Rainbow’ novel, penned by the band’s Claudio Sanchez and New York Times bestselling author Peter David. Sneak peeks at the new album’s artwork and other exclusive visuals can be seen at the official Coheed website. More information about the special edition and novel will be revealed in the coming weeks.

‘Year Of The Black Rainbow’ is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). According to the Sanchez, “They have helped us evolve our sound to be more powerful and dynamic than ever and we think it’s definitely our best work to date.” The new record also features the studio debut of Coheed and Cambria drummer Chris Pennie, who has been playing alongside Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever and bassist Michael Robert Todd since 2007 and was featured on ‘Neverender: Children of the Fence Edition’, the CD/DVD box set documentation of the autumn/winter 2008 four-night stands during which the band played their catalogue in its entirety, one album per night, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and London.

The album’s release will be preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs in the USA. Coheed and Cambria are also confirmed for Coachella on April 17. UK dates will be announced shortly.

The complete track listing for ‘Year Of The Black Rainbow’ is as follows:

1. One
2. The Broken
3. Guns Of Summer
4. Here We Are Juggernaut
5. Far
6. The Shattered Symphony
7. World Of Lines
8. Made Out Of Nothing
9. Pearl Of The Stars
10. In The Flame Of Error
11. When Skeletons Live
12. The Black Rainbow

See a video teaser HERE…

Kris checks in from day 2 of DOMMIN’S tour of the UK…

Day #2 started once again with a snow covered Manchester. Because the distance wasn’t so far we didn’t have to wake ourselves up too early. We were all excited to visit Birmingham for the 1st time. In random conversations were told its more of a rock ‘n’ roll town. We arrived there with a lot of time to kill. Rather than brave the cold, we opened our laptops. I proceeded to check emails and make announcements on all our websites. Tomorrow is a big day for us; our album is released in the USA.

When it came time to load our gear on stage, I was happy to see that the stage had more depth, which means that we wouldn’t have to place the drums on the side of the stage like we did in Manchester. I made an ass out myself as I was adjusting the sound out of my amp. I couldn’t get any significant volume out of the speaker. Thank goodness for the guitar player from Dirty Little Rabbits…yeah…he came and turned up a volume nob. Hey its a new amp for me and how was I to know there are 3 volume nobs!!!

Anyway, we hit the stage at 7:30, and while I felt like I was much more “on” tonight with my energy, my voice and guitar playing, the crowd was a bit subdued…a bit luke warm. It was a surprise from what we were told a day earlier. Manchester seemed much more receptive. But in the end, I think we won them over and proved ourselves once again.

It’s a long way too Glasgow tomorrow so we will need to be up early. I took one more opportunity to blast my excitement about the album release before I left the conscious world. Tomorrow is a busy day. We have an acoustic performance that I hope we are prepared for. I fall asleep listening to Konstantine tap away on his keyboard with his headphones on as he freshens up on the acoustic versions of the songs….and I’m out.

If you missed Day 1 (Manchester), you can check it out HERE.

The guys are playing tracks from their forthcoming debut album Love Is Gone which is released in the UK on the 15th February. Pre-order online HERE.

TAKING DAWN are giving you Time To Learn ‘Time To Burn’ in a cool online guitar tutorial with the band’s shredders Chris and Mikey.

Filmed in Chris’ boudoir, this is part 1. Watch out for tips on lubrication, cheating on your vocals, using amps to make bad players sound good and how ya’ll are way better than them anyways…

It’s been a while since legendary rockers RATT have revealed brand new material- their self titled opus and last release was 1999- so with this years forthcoming release ‘Infestation’ announced the anticipation has been building.

Today, the band have revealed a track from the album, and so right here, right now, you can get your laughing gear around some new Ratt material. So, click on the player below and sit back and enjoy ‘Best Of Me’.

Well come WEDNESDAY 3RD FEBRUARY, you CAN! When DEVILDRIVER were in the UK on their headline tour in October, the guys shot a video for the track ‘Another Night In London’ off their current album Pray For Villains and you will be able to check this out EXCLUSIVELY on MetalHammer.co.uk on Wednesday at 4pm UK time.

Prepare for CARNARGE!

You can pick up Pray For Villains now at your local store, or online HERE.

DOMMIN have hit the UK and are playing their first ever shows on our soil in support of Lacuna Coil. Vocalist Kris has checked in with an update from their first show…

Day 1- Manchester

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