Category Archives: News

Skindred Union Black

Welsh Reggae-Ragga-Punk-Nu-Metal crossover rockers (and that is as horrendous as it sounds – think P.O.D. but without the religous propaganda), Skindred, have announced the title for their forthcoming album. It will be ‘cleverly’ titled, Union Black.

Expect it to be their darkest/heaviest/catchiest/best/hardest album yet… (in their words of course)

Metallica will write a new album…

Cover your ears and hide your children, Metallica will go back to the studio in 2011.

“There’s a bunch of balls in the air for 2011, but I think the main one is we really want to get back to writing again. We haven’t really written since, what, ’06, ’07, and we want to get back to kind of just being creative again. Right now we are going to just chill out and then probably start up again in, I’d say, March or April, and start probably putting the creative cap back on and start writing some songs.“ said Lars Ulrich while polishing his paintings

Read full article here.

When asked what new genre/look they’ll try to emulate now in an attempt to ‘connect’ with the kids, Lars Ulrich had no comment. He just pointed to his Fall Out Boy poster.

Free Rolo Tomassi gig

UK noisecore crew, Rolo Tomassi, will be playing a free show at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom on December 19th. In addition, the show will also be filmed for a forthcoming DVD from the band in 2011.

Interested in free tickets? Just submit your email address here and they will let you know if you’ve been successful later.

Dave Mustaine wants quality

Apparently Dave Mustaine, of Megadeth (but you already knew that didn’t you?) wants to keep putting out “quality” stuff. Who doesn’t Dave? I would have thought that’s the idea of writing music, right?

Dave’s also still pretty modest. When asked about the Guitar Hero exclusive song, Sudden Death, he responded “The truth is, if you’re a music fan and you don’t like Megadeth, which I find hard to imagine, ‘Sudden Death’ can take things to a higher level for you.”

Read more over at Blabbermouth.

Win some Motorhead goodness

Good news for Motorhead fans (they still exist?). Apparently, in celebration of Motorhead’s forthcoming album and UK tour (really, this is something to celebrate?) Metal Hammer are offering you and a buddy the chance to win a prize of a life-time (their words, not mine).

If you fancy your chances at winning the opportunity to watch the band live from the side of the stage in London (Nov 26th), and then basically a load of crap you probably don’t care about (Signed picks, t-shirts etc), then just head over to Metal Hammer and post your favorite Motorhead song in the comments section. Metal Hammer will then pick a winner at random.

I’d enter, but to be honest, I don’t even know any Motorhead songs besides Ace of Spades. Come to think of it, I don’t even like Metal. I’m off now to see what Lady Gaga’s been up to.