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Friday headlines

Jeff Kendrick (pictured above) of Devildriver got interviewed.  He talks about how you can stay fresh with fresh material. He sounds like a black guy, really.

Avenged Sevenfold are doing something wonderful. No, not breaking up, stop wishful thinking. They are playing for the troops in the Middle East. Aww, so nice of them.

Holy Grail is organizing a meet and greet at ‘Duff’s Brooklyn‘ after their NY date. Isn’t that awesome? $5 says the Pope shows up.

Deadlock made it official. Their new album is called ‘Bizarro World‘ and if you want to know when not to buy it, it’s coming out February 28th of next year. Unless you live in Germany, then it’s February 25th. Racists.

Annihilator almost got annihilated

Annihilator may have a tough name, but apparently they can’t “fight fire with fire” like Metallica because when a fire broke out next door, they ran like crazy.

Fortunately the only thing that got hurt was their ego, as being named ‘Annihilator‘ and running for your life screaming for mommy isn’t exactly ‘good PR,’ but luckily nobody was injured and they could even retrieve their instruments.

More info and some photos of the fire here, because that’s a proper informational site, this is just a few kids with too much time on their hands and way too much access to amateur (German Scheisse) porn.

Def Leppard isn't really def if it's doing radio

Def Leppard‘s drummer Rick Allen can play drums with only one hand. So that begs the question, how come Lars Ulrich can’t play drums with two hands? Although Lars can clap his hands so I guess that evens it out.

Anyway, Rick and his wife, Lauren Monroe, hosted an episode of some radio show and interviewed Billy Idol and Serj Tankian there.

More info here, I guess, if you like searching through text (I don’t). or make the jump and listen to the episode.

Some headlines, yo

Anthrax have a new song, which they performed live with Joey (pictured above). A decent clip of it from Chile, after the jump.

If you like Dimmu Borgir and you want to check out their full Atlanta gig, from November 10th, you’re in luck. You can find it here.

(Super) Mario Duplantier of Gojira has an art show. The good news is that it’s free. The bad news is that it’s in Bordeaux, France. More info here.

Jörg Michael of Stratovarius has cancer. Their keyboardist, Jens Johansson, wrote an update on their official site.

James Hetfield interprets traffic

In a theory that could one day rival Freud himself, Metallica frontman and biker James Hetfield told some Japanese guy how he looks at traffic before a gig, and knows what to expect from the crowd based on what he sees there.

I could transcribe what he said and quote it here, but you’ll think I’m making it up. So see for yourself, after the jump.