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Devin Townsend news and free shit!

If you’re not familiar with Devin Townsend’s work, chances are good that you’re going to find something in his back catalogue that you’ll like. Steve Vai’s ‘Sex & Religion,’ Strapping Young Lad, his solo work, The Devin Townsend Band and Devin Townsend Project all feature all kinds of genres and styles.

With Devin Townsend Project, Devin released ‘Ki’ and ‘Addicted’ in 2009 and they’re going to be followed by ‘Deconstruction’ and ‘Ghost,’ that will both be released in June of this year.

In a series of tweets, Townsend hinted at possible features with Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt and Joe Duplantier of Gojira, also Ihsahn will be featured on ‘Deconstruction’.

Now on to the free shit. A couple of days ago, Devin Townsend Project released a free live EP, you can get it here. Tracklisting after the jump.

Possessed unveil new lineup

What you see up there, is the new lineup of Possessed. Recognize anyone in the picture? The guy on the left, with the epic beard, is Tony Campos, former bassist of Static-X and vocalist of Asesino. The guy at the bottom is Jeff Becerra, the legendary vocalist of Possessed who is bound to a wheelchair since 1989 when he was robbed and shot by two drug addicts. Honestly, I’ve never seen the other three guys, which doesn’t mean that they’re not capable, I just don’t know them.

Jeff Becerra – Vocals
Emilio Marquez (Sadistic Intent) – Drums
Tony Campos (Static-X, Prong, Asesino) – Bass
Kelly Mclauchlin (Diabolic, Unholy Ghost, Pessimist) – Guitar
Daniel Gonzalez (Nailshitter, Occisas) – Guitar

With this lineup, Possessed are writing new material, maybe for a new album? It would be Possessed’s third album after ‘Seven Churches’ from 1985 and ‘Beyond the Gates’ from 1986.

Kiss are underground

Kiss are so original and groundbreaking, that they’ve even started running out of original non-music products to sell. Even that picture above is taken from a Samsung hi-fi ad. We’ve already mentioned most of them, from condoms to caskets. So, what do they have for us now?

Caskets. Again. My mind is blown. And while I try to act shocked and surprised, you can make the jump and see a pretty picture of something only a dead person would choose to be buried in (because they couldn’t make the choice in the first place).

Darkest Hour also like streams

It seems Melodic Death Metalcore-r’s (or something…) Darkest Hour may have read my earlier post on bands’ like for releasing streams. The band have released a brand new song called Love as a Weapon (aww and it’s Valentine’s Day too, how nice) for streaming and can be heard on the band’s Facebook page.

They’re crafty dude’s though, as you’ll have to ‘like’ the band first before you can listen to the song. The sneaky bunch.

In other news, as reported earlier, the band will be playing this year’s UK Sonisphere festival.

Sonisphere UK adds more bands

Sonisphere in the UK has made another announcement, adding more bands to their already fantastic lineup.

Legendary Nu-Metal band (a bit like saying legendary 40 year old virgin really – not cool and a bit of a paradox) Limp Bizkit will be making their return to the festival this year, playing before headliner Slipknot on the Sunday night. So you can party the night away like it’s 1999.

Joining Limp Bizkit will be Kids In Glass Houses, Gallows, One Minute Silence, Volbeat, Gojira, Inme, Darkest Hour and numerous other bands.

Of course, the biggest reason to check out the festival this year though, remains The Big Four. Check out our interview with Mr David Ellefson of Megadeth right here. And you can find all your UK Sonisphere news here.