Chicago faves MADINA LAKE have released another of their studio updates for your viewing pleasure.

Filmed during the recording of upcoming album ATTICS TO EDEN late last year, the latest installment gives you a lil more insight into the man, the legend David Bendeth who produced the record, as well as the usual antics from Nathan, Matthew, Mateo and Dan.

The guys are currently on a US tour with Anberlin, before heading to Australia for the Soundwave festival in February.

Watch this space for further updates…

CLICK HERE FOR THE MADINA LAKE NEWS PAGE

ATTICS TO EDEN will hit shelves APRIL 27TH

Check out the list of killer Roadrunner albums that will be available on all the usual platforms as digital special editions with bonus tracks from the 19th JANUARY!!!

36 CRAZYFISTS– SNOW CAPPED ROMANCE
1. At The End Of August
2. The Heart And The Shape
3. Bloodwork
4. Kenai
5. Skin And Atmosphere
6. Song For The Fisherman
7. With Nothing Underneath
8. Destroy The Map
9. Installing The Catheter
10. Cure Eclipse
11. Waterhaul
12. Workhorse
13. Sad Lisa
14. Mother Mary
15. Digging The Grave

CHIMAIRA– CHIMAIRA
1. Nothing Remains
2. Save Ourselves
3. Inside The Horror
4. Salvation
5. Comatose
6. Left For Dead
7. Everything You Love
8. Bloodlust
9. Pray For All
10. Lazarus
11. Disposable Heroes
12. Threnody
13. Clayden
14. Malignant

ILL NINO– CONFESSION
1. Te Amo…I Hate You (explicit)
2. How Can I Live
3. Two (Vaya Con Dios) (explicit)
4. Unframed (explicit)
5. Cleansing
6. This Time’s For Real
7. Lifeless…Life…
8. Numb
9. Have You Ever Felt?
10. When It Cuts
11. Letting Go
12. All The Right Words (explicit)
13. Re-Birth
14. How Can I Live (Spanish Version)
15. Make Me Feel
16. Clear
17. Forever

CHIMAIRA– IMPOSSIBILITY OF REASON
1. Cleansation
2. The Impossibility Of Reason
3. Pictures In The Gold Room
4. Power Trip (explicit)
5. Down Again
6. Pure Hatred (explicit)
7. The Dehumanizing Process
8. Crawl
9. Stigmurder (explicit)
10. Eyes Of A Criminal
11. Overlooked
12. Implements Of Destruction
13. Army Of Me
15. Indifferent To Suffering
16. Power Trip (Live) (CD version)
17. Cleansation (Live) (CD version)
18. Severed (Live) (CD version)
19. Eye For An Eye (Live) (CD version)
20. Down Again (Live) (CD version)
21. The Dehumanizing Process (Live) (CD version)
22. Pure Hatred (Live) (CD version)

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Dave Mustaine of MEGADETH has posted on the bands OFFICIAL SITE about the progress made on the new album so far…”

“We are on the last day or so of drum tracks, and barring the debacle at the top of the session, we have been able to maintain the typical Vic quality with the recording.

I expect James AND Chris to start playing within the next day or so, as well as myself, and I am really excited about going to the NAMM, and after that, there is just the rehearsals and the flights and we are once again … on the Killing Road.

According to a post on BLABBERMOUTH, Dave Mustaine recently told Revolver magazine that MEGADETH’s upcoming CD will contain:

“…stuff that’s melodic like nobody’s business, stuff that’s heavier than hell, and stuff that’s a combination of both…The way I write, I’ll play a riff and tape it and save it. And if I don’t use it now, I’ll use it later. The very first song I ever wrote, ‘Rust In Peace… Polaris’, didn’t appear on anything until the fourth MEGADETH record. Right now, there are about 20 songs that are in the making, and there’s another good 25-to-30 hours worth of guitar riffs on tape. And I’ve also got a lot of old lyrics I’ve assembled over my career. Some of it’s relevant to this day and age; some of it is stuff that, if I released it, would probably get me in a lot of trouble. Those songs deal with a lot of the anger that I felt when I was younger and reading things like [the 1971 underground manual for making homemade explosives] ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’.”

Don’t forget that all the current members of the band are blogging HERE AT THE OFFICIAL MEGADETH MYSPACE on an ongoing basis, so subscribe NOW.

Megadeth tour with Judas Priest and Testament next month. Click HERE for full dates and buy online links.

Check out other Megadeth news HERE.

He’s a man of many talents, Fred LeClercq.

DEVILDRIVER have commenced recording their fourth, as-yet untitled album. The band- vocalist Dez Fafara, bassist Jon Miller, guitarists Jeff Kendrick and Mike Sprietzer and drummer John Boecklin— are holed up in Edge of the Earth studios in Los Angeles, working with producer Logan Mader (Five Finger Death Punch, Gojira, Divine Heresy). The fourth album follows DevilDriver, The Fury of Our Maker’s Hand and The Last Kind Words, all of which earned the band a fiercely loyal legion of fans across the globe. It also marks the band’s re-signing with Roadrunner Records, their longtime label home.

Both DevilDriver and Roadrunner are thrilled to continue their successful working relationship. Roadrunner Senior VP of A&R Monte Conner said

“I am thrilled to welcome DevilDriver back to the Roadrunner family. Dez Fafara and Roadrunner have quite a history together and we are happy to be going back into the trenches with him yet again. I’m extremely proud of DevilDriver’s steady ascent over the course of their first three Roadrunner albums. They continue to evolve and grow with each new record and I know this next album will be the best thing DevilDriver have ever made.”

Fafara concurs, saying,

“I’m proud to say that DevilDriver has resigned with Roadrunner records worldwide. My friend and A&R rep Monte Conner and the entire staff have been like family to me since 1996 and I am looking forward to many more years of working together and putting out music.”

And we here in the UK office are pretty stoked too!

Remind yourself of the wonder of DevilDriver and check out the tracks and vid in the player below

Follow DevilDriver news at THIS LOCATION

The DevilDriver back catalogue available to buy online HERE.

Check out the latest blog from MEGADETH stixman Shawn:

So now it is official, we have started to record our 12th record yesterday. I laid down drum tracks for the 1st 2 songs, which I am happy to say, turned out quite well. Tuesday was spent changing all my drumheads and getting the best possible drum tone Andy Sneap and myself could, as we are going back to the old school on this in terms of natural drum tone – From this record insepction, I had many conversations with Andy expressing how great so many records sounded back in the day with drum tones, etc. and that we both wanted to get certain aspects of that into what we are doing now. You will hear the results of this when this record is released. Anyways, day 2 will have myself playing song’s 3 & 4, (obviously, no song titles as I write this) and if we stay on track, I will have 8 song’s completed on drums by weeks end.
Be well, Shawn.

CHECK OUT MORE HERE.

Megadeth arrive in the UK for Priest Feast with Judas Priest and Testament in February. Full dates are as follows and tickets are on sale now:

Tue 10th Feb – Dublin O2
Wed 11th Feb – Belfast Odyssey Arena
Fri 13th Feb – Sheffield Arena
Sat 14th Feb – Birmingham NEC
Mon 16th Feb – Glasgow SECC
Tue 17th Feb – Manchester Apollo
Wed 18th Feb – Newcastle Academy (headline show)
Fri 20th Feb – Cardiff CIA
Sat 21st Feb – London Wembley Arena

HEAD HERE FOR MORE MEGADETH NEWS

Current album UNITED ABOMINATIONS is available to buy online HERE

We only just got the advances of LAMB OF GOD’S new album WRATH (due out on the 23RD FEBRUARY), but the feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive, and METAL HAMMER are so unable to contain themselves, they have felt the need to post a breakdown of the album, track by track, on their website.

If you would like an insight into what the new album is sounding like, you should head to THE METAL HAMMER BLOG- HERE and have a read.

The first track to be released from the album, Contractor, can be checked out in the player below. First single, SET TO FAIL, will be available digitally from the 2nd Feb.

To pre-order WRATH, and to get a free patch thrown in, head to THIS PAGE

For more Lamb of God new, click HERE

Meet Owen Brown. He’s from the UK heavy metal homeland of the Midlands (like my bad self- web ed), and has always had a bit of a passion for the heavier side of life. And even now, at 82, he’s still dustin’ down his MEGADETH albums and giving them a spin!

Check THIS LINK for the full story.

Looks like he’s into a lil Priest too. Supporting the locals! Top dollar! I think the Roadrunner fairy may have to pay him a visit seeing as how the PRIEST FEAST is rolling into town soon…

Bay area metal titans MACHINE HEAD featured on the Radio 1 Rock Show on Monday giving some advice on dealing with those January blues. You can check it out again in the player below…

XFM have opened up the voting in their New Music Awards for 2009 and KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES have made the long list of debut albums from British Artists who released in 2008 with their killer album SMART CASUAL, which hit the UK mainstream album chart at number 29 when it was released back in May.

Only votes from their fans will see them in the shortlist to be discussed by the panel and see them in the running for the award, so all KIGH fans should click on the image below and get their vote in- and let all their friends know they should be voting too!

You can pick up Smart Casual online at THIS LOCATION

For more news on Kids In Glass Houses, head to their NEWS PAGE