Latest News On The Heavy Metal Front

* Mastodon will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight, October 29th. Tune in at 12:30am! Click HERE for more information.

* The Oakland-based band High On Fire is slated to release their much-awaited 5th album in early 2010. The band stated, “We look forward to sharing the dark seas of our new riffs and tragic stories. Soon the next saga of High on Fire's world will be known.” The new material will be "heavier, louder, and more intricate."

* The new Iron Maiden 2010 calendar is now available from the Official Iron Maiden Shop. This would make a great Christmas present for a fellow metal-head!

* Play Call Of Duty 4 with Slipknot... Tonight, October 29th, at 6:00pm EST Chris Fehn of Slipknot will be taking part in XBox's Game With Fame, so everyone out there that is an Xbox Live Gold Member will have the opportunity to play Call of Duty 4 with Chris!
Send a friend request to the following Gamertag SlipKnot GwF and be online half an hour before (5:30 P.M. EST) the Game with Fame session starts.
For more details click HERE.

Awesome concert tour underway!

Mastodon, Dethklok, High On Fire, and Converge... North American tour.

Are you ready for a kick ass metal show?!!? This show will kick your ass and leave you as satisfied as a nympho in a cat house. Check out one of these shows near you.

Official band websites:
Mastodon
Dethklok
High On Fire
Converge

Remaining tour dates:
October   29 ~ New York, NY (Hammerstein Ballroom)
October   30 ~ New York, NY (Hammerstein Ballroom)
October   31 ~ Washington, DC (Patriot Center)
November  1 ~ Philadelphia, PA (Electric Factory)
November  3 ~ Norfolk, VA (The Norva)
November  4 ~ Charlotte, NC (The Fillmore)
November  5 ~ Atlanta, GA (Tabernacle)
November  6 ~ Myrtle Beach, SC (House of Blues)
November  7 ~ Orlando, FL (Hard Rock Live)
November  8 ~ Pompano Beach, FL (Pompano Beach Amphitheatre)
November 11 ~ Dallas, TX (House of Blues)
November 12 ~ Houston, TX (Verizon Wireless Theater)
November 13 ~ Austin, TX (Austin City Music Hall)
November 14 ~ Tulsa, OK (Brady Theater)
November 16 ~ Las Cruces, NM (Pan American Center)
November 17 ~ Mesa, AZ (Mesa Amphitheater)
November 18 ~ Las Vegas, NV (House of Blues)
November 19 ~ Los Angeles, CA (Palladium)
November 20 ~ Los Angeles, CA (Palladium)
November 21 ~ San Jose, CA (Events Center)

Sample these groups' music below...
Mastodon

Dethklok

High On Fire

Converge

Metallica - Death Magnetic

This week's band of the week. The masters of thrash themselves... Metallica!

They are currently on tour with their latest album, Death Magnetic. You can sample it below.






Official Metallica Website

Korn - Playlist, The Very Best of Korn

One of the greatest collections of Korn... the 2008 release of Playlist - The Very Best of Korn. Listen to it below...


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Official Korn Website

Lamb of God - The Wrath Album

Lamb of God, interesting name, even more interesting latest album. Wrath is the sixth and latest work from Lamb of God. This album is awesome! It hit #2 on the Billboard 200 within a week after it was released. It has sold over 230,000 copies since it was released on February 23rd of this year. Here is more than just a sample of the album. Below is the album for you to listen to... Enjoy!

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Official Lamb of God Website

Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

My absolute favorite Heavy Metal band... Iron Maiden.
These guys rock like none other! They have been around since 1975 cranking out their signature heavy, melodic sound. When an Iron Maiden song comes on the radio, there is no mistaking who it is. Although Bruce Dickenson was not the original lead singer, his operatic vocals have become a signature of Iron Maiden… of course there is also the melodic trio of guitar riffs from Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Janick Gers in every Maiden song that would fit no other band. Almost 35 years later these guys are still cranking out the jams. Selling out shows, making movies, traveling around in their own jumbo jet... flown by Bruce Dickenson himself, (a licensed commercial airline pilot). When you look up the phrase "bad asses" in the dictionary, you should see the picture above. These guys are true bad asses!
Here is a video of one of my favorite Iron Maiden songs (there are many)... Wasted Years.

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Official Iron Maiden Website

Slipknot - Psychosocial

Very few songs grab me the way that Slipknot’s Psychosocial does. This song has a very unusual sound for being heavy metal. Mixed with ‘psychosocial!’ being grunted in true death metal style, there are lyrics being sung that sound like they could be from an 80’s glam-rock hair band... not that there is anything wrong with 80’s glam, after all, what else was there to listen to then? But this song is a real stretch for a metal band... and man did they pull it off! The song is nothing less than awesome! The group has come a long way from their humble 1995 beginnings when they were playing under the name “Meld”. This year, Slipknot received a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Metal Performance’ and VMA’s ‘Best Rock Video’ for the song Psychosocial. They have been nominated seven times since 2001, winning in 2006 for the song “Before I Forget”.
These guys are not lightweight rockers by any stretch of the imagination. They are extremely talented musicians... and there are a lot of them... 9 members, wow! Very unusual for a modern metal band.
Something else strange that I noticed about these guys... one of the guitarists is playing a Fender Telecaster. I have NEVER seen a telecaster played in heavy metal... until Slipknot.
Here is Slipknot’s latest video that was nominated for ‘Best Rock Video’... “Psychosocial”

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Official Slipknot Website

Pantera - Walk

Here is a true legend of Heavy Metal… Pantera, with the gone but never forgotten Dimebag Darrell. They were true Metal Gods!
Dimebag was tragically killed on stage at a concert in Columbus, Ohio in 2004 at the age of 38… he will forever be remembered as one of the greatest Heavy Metal guitarists of all time.

Here is “Walk” from their 1992 album Vulgar Display of Power

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Official Pantera Website

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