Category Archives: News

Hear the new In Flames album

In Flames, the once innovative Melodic Death Metallers, have made their new new album Sounds Of A Playground Fading available for streaming at AOL Music. The album is out today in most of Europe, and will be released in other parts of the world later this week (North America tomorrow).

If initial reviews are accurate, I wouldn’t bother listening to the new album, it’ll be as crap as their last million efforts. Ok, so I don’t normally trust reviews (apart from my own, because I’m awesome), but In Flames have been one big yawn fest for years now and I can only imagine them declining further. So listen at your own risk.

Heaven Shall Burn guitarist’s new solo project

Guitarist of Heaven Shall Burn, Alexander Dietz, has a new solo project called Erode. He’s been working on an album, which is scheduled to hit stores on July 19th.

As a big fan of Heaven Shall Burn, I decided to check out Erode, but then I came across one problem. Erode aren’t even Metal. It’s Electronic/Industrial instrumental type music, I guess in a similar vein to Nine Inch Nails. That probably brings with it the question of why I’m even posting this when this site is called Dose of Metal, but I guess it’s to cater to the NIN fans, and to warn the rest of you so you don’t make the same mistake I did and waste 5 minutes of your life if this kind of music isn’t your thing.

You can listen to three of Erode‘s tracks over at Facebook.

Slipknot live footage

As we reported the other day, Slipknot made their live return to the stage in Greece on June 17th. This marked the first time the band had performed since the tragic death of bassist Paul Gray in 2010. Crappy fan footage of the event has made its way onto the internet, and you can check out a video of ‘Duality’ above.

You can find more crappy footage, in which my favorite part is the bit that goes “pfffttt BOOM… pfftt BOOM bOOM.. shhh pffft”, and the setlist over at thePRP.

Chimaira release two new tracks

I don’t know about you, but I have no idea who’s in Chimaira these days, they’ve changed their lineup about four times in the last four months. Is the picture of the band above up to date? Is this “news” even up to date? I have no idea.

Regardless, the band have released two new tracks ‘Trigger Finger’ and ‘Born In Blood’, both of which can be bought from iTunes.

You can check out Youtube streams of the new tracks after the jump.

Down-Loaded

Down and Loaded should get on like a house on fire, in fact they could both merge and form a new band called Downloaded. But lame jokes aside, Duff Mckagan’s Loaded recently joined Down on stage on June 14, 2011 at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium to perform the Down song ‘Bury Me In Smoke’.

You can view a video of the performance above.