SCORPIONS, DEEP PURPLE, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION and Michael Monroe were among the honorees at the seventh annual Classic Rock Roll Of Honour, which was held last night (Wednesday, Novemebr 9) at the world-famous Roundhouse in Camden, England. The ceremony was hosted by KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons. Guitarist Jeff Beck was awarded the highest accolade of the evening, The Living Legend Award, presented by Roger Taylor from QUEEN.

The full list of winners is as follows:

* The Living Legend Award: Jeff Beck
* Event Of The Year: Roger Waters' The Wall Live Tour
* Breakthrough Act Of The Year: BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION
* The Spirit Of Prog: JETHRO TULL
* The Innovator Award: DEEP PURPLE
* Musicians' Union Maestro Award: Steve Winwood
* Tommy Vance Inspiration Award: Steve Marriot
* Classic Songwriter: MANIC STREET PREACHERS
* Outstanding Contribution: Bob Zrin
* Metal Guru Award: SCORPIONS
* Classic Album Award: THE WHO - "Quadrophenia"
* VIP Award: Baron Wolman
* Best New Band: VINTAGE TROUBLE
* Album Of The Year: Michael Monroe – "Sensory Overdrive"
* Reissue Of The Year: QUEEN reissues package of their five albums
* Film/DVD Award: Lemmy
* Band Of The Year: FOO FIGHTERS

MOTÖRHEAD's Lemmy, who picked up an award for his documentary "Lemmy", told BBC 6 Music he felt "fine" after getting the prize but was shocked the film was received so well. "It was flattering they wanted to do it, I didn't think it had a pony's chance in hell of making it do anything and then it did," he said.

Beck took his "Living Legend" award in his stride, saying "It's a bit overblown, it's a bit over the top, I am me and I am never going to forget who I am and I am glad I am rooted on the ground and my mum would never have tolerated that rubbish."

Fans voted QUEEN's reissues package of five albums the best reissues of the year, fighting off competition from THE WHO's "Live at Leeds" and DAVID BOWIE's "Station to Station" deluxe.

"It's a very nice surprise to me," QUEEN guitarist Brian May told BBC 6 Music. "You do beaver away on these projects and a lot of time and effort went into this and you think will anyone actually notice how brilliant they are and appreciate them and the good news is they do."

FAITH NO MORE singer Mike Patton joined THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN on stage on November 3 at The Warfield in San Francisco, California to perform their collaborative track "When Good Dogs Do Bad Things". Multi-camera video footage of his appearance can be seen below.

The studio version of "When Good Dogs Do Bad Things" originally appeared on THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN's third EP, "Irony Is A Dead Scene", which came out in August 2002 via Epitaph. The material included on the effort was recorded after the departure of THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN's original vocalist, Dimitri Minakakis, but before a replacement (Greg Puciato) had been chosen. The plan to record with Patton was in place before a replacement vocalist had been found. By the time Mike Patton had recorded vocals and the EP was released, the band had been touring with Puciato for nearly a year.

MASTODON's Brent Hinds, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN guitarist Ben Weinman, former MARS VOLTA drummer Thomas Pridgen and ex-JANE'S ADDICTION bassist Eric Avery have joined forces in a new project called G.T.O. (GIRAFFE TONGUE ORCHESTRA). Weinman states, "Brent and I have already got new material. The guy just spits out riffs like a riff machine. [We have a] day off tomorrow [during the ongoing MASTODON/THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN tour] in Colorado and we shall be working all day on sweet, sweet melodies sure to make the young girls cry and the old ones scream (not necessarily in that order)."

A photo of Weinman and Avery working on material for the G.T.O. project can be seen below.

Finally, after all these years, we have found the time to gather our most worthy songs into a best of compilation, representative of our career’s first 25 years. From the very beginning it was important for us to undertake this project only if we could put the necessary time and attention to detail into it. With overwhelming nostalgia we have looked back on 25 years and came up with Memories of a Time to Come, an organic mixture of some of our greatest songs.

With the exception of “Sacred Worlds”, all songs on Memories of a Time to Come have been remixed while “The Bard’s Song – The Hobbit”, “Valhalla” as well as “And Then There Was Silence” have been re-recorded. This album contains some very pleasant surprises for the die-hard Blind Guardian fan and delivers a perfect image of our musical spirit to those who are not, or just loosely, familiar with the band. Memories of a Time to Come precisely defines our progression and the long-standing dedication to our music. We are proud to present an album that will take the listener on a musical voyage. This year’s Christmas will be in January!

Memories of a Time to Come, the ultimate collection of Blind Guardian music from 1987 to 2011, will be released on January 20, 2012 via Virgin/EMI. It will be available as a double CD, 3 CD deluxe limited edition including the legendary Lucifer’s Heritage demos and as download.

CD 1:
Imaginations from the Other Side (7:11) *
Nightfall (5:34) *
Ride into Obsession (4:46) *
Somewhere Far Beyond (7:32) *
Majesty (7:29) *
Traveler in Time (6:01) *
Follow the Blind (7:11) *
The Last Candle (6:03) *

CD 2:
Sacred Worlds (9:17)
This Will Never End (5:07) *
Valhalla (5:13) **
Bright Eyes (5:15) *
Mirror Mirror (5:09) *
The Bard’s Song (In the Forest) (3:26) *
The Bard’s Song (The Hobbit) (3:41) **
And Then There Was Silence (14:06) **

CD 3: (only available with the deluxe limited edition)
Brian ***
Halloween (The Wizard’s Crown) ***
Lucifer’s Heritage ***
Symphonies of Doom ***
Dead of the Night ***
Majesty
Trial by the Archon
Battalions of Fear
Run for the Night
Lost in the Twilight Hall
Tommyknockers
Ashes to Ashes
Time What is Time
A Past and Future Secret
The Script for My Requiem

* Remixed 2011
** Re-recorded 2011
*** Re-worked 2011

"Dawn Of Armageddon", the new video from EVIL UNITED — the Austin/San Antonio, Texas-based band featuring Jason McMaster (WATCHTOWER, DANGEROUS TOYS, BROKEN TEETH) on vocals, a double guitar assault of T.C. Connally (PB/DC, CULT TO FOLLOW) and John Valenzuela (PB/DC, URIAL) as well as the brutal rhythm section of Don Van Stavern (RIOT, S.A. SLAYER) on bass and "Shakes" West (MURDERDOLLS, NEUROTICA, SEBASTIAN BACH) on drums — can be seen below. The song comes off the group's self-titled debut album, which was released on September 13 via MVD Entertainment Group.

Commented Connally: "When we started to scout locations for the 'Dawn Of Armageddon' video shoot, we really didn't have to go far from our Texas home base. Texas has had record droughts and hellish high temperatures this year and at times it really felt like the dawn of armageddon.

"Most of the video was shot at a dried up lake bed during the 110-degree drought. We also drove out to Bastrop, Texas and got some footage of the damaged caused by the Bastrop fires.

"The Bastop Texas fire was a major wildfire that struck Bastrop county Texas on September 2011 and was extinguished in October 2011. Thousands of homes were destroyed making it the most destructive single wildfire in Texas history.

"We feel the video captures a glimpse of the destruction most of the world is seeing in 2011 but through the eyes of our home state of Texas."

MEGADETH kicked off its "TH1RT3EN" world tour last night (Wednesday, November 9) at Estadio Cubierto Malvinas in Argentina.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Trust
02. In My darkest Hour
03. Hangar 18
04. Wake Up Dead
05. She-Wolf
06. A Tout Le Monde
07. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
08. Public Enemy No. 1
09. Head Crusher
10. Sweating Bullets
11. Symphony Of Destruction
12. Peace Sells… But Who's Buying?!
13. Holy Wars

Official Metallica.com footage of METALLICA's pre-show meet-and-greet, tuning-room jam and performance at the October 30 first-ever concert in Bangalore, India can be viewed below.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Creeping Death
02. For Whom the Bell Tolls
03. Fuel
04. Ride the Lightning
05. Fade to Black
06. Cyanide
07. The Memory Remains
08. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
09. Sad But True
10. All Nightmare Long
11. One
12. Master of Puppets
13. Blackened
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman

Encore:

16. Am I Evil?
17. Battery
18. Seek & Destroy

MAEL MÓRDHA, the world's only Gaelic doom metal, band has arrived at Foel Studios in Wales to begin recording the band’s fourth album. The band will work with producer Chris Fielding on seven new tracks which continue the concept and themes of the band’s previous work.

Guitarist Gerry Clince states: “We are looking forward to recording at a location like Foel. It’s very secluded, miles from anywhere and that means we’ll be completely free from distractions and can live and breathe this album 24/7 for the two weeks we are here. We are excited about working with Chris too. He has some great ideas about how to do this one differently and we can’t wait to get started.”

The album name along with other details will be revealed in the coming months. Producer, Chris Fielding, has previously worked with acts including ELECTRIC WIZARD, MOSS, PRIMORDIAL and DARKEST ERA.

Mael Mordha will appear at Springdoom Depression in Vienna, Austria on April 7th, and the Ragnarök Festival at Lichtenfels, Germany on April 14th.

Italian metallers FOMENTO have set To Persevere Is Diabolical as the title of their new full-length album, due in early 2012 via Coroner Records.

Production duties were once again handled by frontman Marco Krasinski and the album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Matteo Gabbianelli at Kutso Noise Home Studio in Rome, Italy.

To Persevere Is Diabolical features 11 new tracks and as frontman Marco Krasinski said: "Each song takes you by surprise and slams you in the balls with punishing riffs and brutal drum assaults".

After their anti-emo single, 'Kill FashionCore', Fomento's got also a new anathema called 'Necropotency', which is a blistering attack against reunion bands and what they stand for in today's music industry.

Earache Records has announce the new Earache Grind Collection, a limited edition CD set featuring four indispensable grindcore albums, which is available to pre-order now for a special low price.

Due to be released on November 14th, the Earache Grind Collection features four furious albums from the likes of old-school grindcore legends NAPALM DEATH and the modern-day leaders of grindcore WORMROT. The albums are all housed together in an awesome limited edition sleeve, offering unbeatable value at the price of just two regular CDs.

The Earache Grind Collection includes these must-have albums:

* NAPALM DEATH - From Enslavement To Obliteration
* INSECT WARFARE - World Extermination
* WORMROT - Abuse (limited edition including bonus disc featuring 34 extra tracks)
* NARCOSIS - Best Served Cold: Discography 1998 - 2007

UK extreme metallers MITHRAS are set to release their new, highly anticipated Time Never Lasts EP, through Galactic Records.

A precursor to a new studio album forthcoming in 2012, Time Never Lasts shows the indefatigable duo of Leon Macey and Rayner Coss going from strength to strength, taking the template laid out by their two critically acclaimed albums for Candlelight Records - 2007's Behind the Shadows Lie Madness and 2003's Worlds Beyond the Veil - to their most extreme ends: the light-speed battery more punishing, the melodies more triumphant, the atmosphere more otherworldly.

Time Never Lasts comprises two brand-new studio tracks and three live ones, the latter proudly displaying the band's ability to pull off everything they do in the studio but in a live environment - hearing is believing.

Time Never Lasts EP tracklisting

'Time Never Lasts'
'Inside The Godmind'
'Tomb Of Kings' (live)
'Wrath Of God' (live)
'Beyond The Eyes Of Man' (live)

Further details to follow. Audio samples can be heard below:

The pieces of the puzzle continue to come together. French metallers ALCEST have now revealed the tracklisting for their third album, Les Voyages De L'Âme, due out on January 6th, 2012.

'Autre temps'
'Là Où Naissent Les Couleurs Nouvelles'
'Les Voyages De L'Âme'
'Nous Sommes L'Emeraude'
'Beings Of Light'
'Faiseurs De Mondes'
'Havens'
'Summer's Glory'

On November 8th, DANKO JONES released a new EP entitled Mouth To Mouth featuring rare b-sides and unreleased tracks. The tracklist is as follows, an audio player is available below:

'Rock'N'Roll Proletariat'
'She's Too Pretty' (previously unreleased)
'The Kids Don't Want To Rock'
'Guest List Blues'
'Mouth To Mouth' (previously unreleased)

NECRONOMICON, one of Germany’s longest running thrash metal bands, has inked a new deal with Massacre Records. The band have been busy writing new songs for the anticipated new album, Invictus which will be produced at the Arsen Music Studios in Breisach and Berlin. Sound guru Achim Köhler (PRIMAL FEAR, BRAINSTORM) will once again handle the mix and mastering.

The guest musicians are none other than Randy Black (ex-ANNIHILATOR) and Ben Krahl (FINAL KINGS).

For more details and an audio sample from Invictus visit the band's Facebook page.

Austrian black/thrash metallers IRDORATH have signed with Massacre Records.

The history of the band started in 2005, when Markus (guitar) and three other musicians formed the group. The first demo, Erwachen, and the first album, Götterdämmerung, were recorded and the first gigs were played.

During the work on the second album some lineup changes happened. Since then Thomas is playing the drums and Esche is playing the rhythm guitar.

The second album, Dekonstrukteur Des Fleisches, was recorded at the Soundtempel - Studio and was produced by Stefan Traunmüller. After finishing the record the singer and the bassist left the band.

Markus took over the singing part in addition to the lead guitar and Mario joined the band as the new bassist. Now the lineup is complete again and stronger than ever.

Dekonstrunkteur Des Fleisches is going to be released in late January, 2012.

Lineup:

Markus - Guitar, Vocals
Esche - Guitar
Mario - Bass
Thomas - Drums

Legendary BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi revealed to VH1 Classic Rock Nights that SABBATH was appraoched years ago with the idea of using the band's catalog to create a musical. It is a concept that has proven to be quite successful in recent years, with QUEEN's "We Will Rock You" and ABBA's "Mamma Mia" being two of the most notable examples.

"I remember years ago when we were approached to do a BLACK SABBATH [musical], like 'We Will Rock You', many years ago," Iommi said. "The chap who'd done THE WHO, I forgot his name now, who'd done 'Tommy', the producer, he wanted to do something with us many years ago. We never did, because we thought, 'Oh, that's a weird idea.' Of course now, he was way ahead of his time."

So would the guys ever agree to it today? "Well, I don't know," Tony said. "Maybe. We might be jumping on the bandwagon then at that point."

Iommi's memoir, "Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven And Hell With Black Sabbath", was released in the United States on November 1 in hardback by Perseus Books/DeCapo Press.

Regina, Saskatchewan-based Canadian extreme progressive metallers INTO ETERNITY have issued the following update:

"As everybody already knows, our longtime singer Stu Block has joined ICED EARTH. We are very excited for him and he is killing it on tour in Europe right now! In the meantime, we are still getting gig offers from promoters. This means, we are looking for a touring-ONLY singer. It will not be an easy task to get someone like Stu, so it should be interesting to see who might be able to fill in!

"To audition, we're going to need to see a video of you singing an INTO ETERNITY song. In addition, we'd like to hear you sing our new single, 'Sandstorm'. Justin can email you the (instrumental) version of 'Sandstorm' to record vocals over."