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."

Roadrunner Records have revealed the top albums of the century from their roster – as voted for by you! Slipknot? Lamb Of God? Airbourne? Killswitch? Come inside to find out who made the list!


Roadrunner Records recently published a poll asking users to vote for their favourite albums of the century so far from the Roadrunner roster, and the results are in!

So, according to you lovely people, the top ten Roadrunner albums of the century are as follows…

1. Machine Head – ‘The Blackening’ (2007)
2. Slipknot – ‘Iowa’ (2001)
3. Opeth – ‘Ghost Reveries’ (2005)
4. Slipknot – ‘Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses’ (2004)
5. Alter Bridge – ‘AB III’ (2010)
6. Machine Head – ‘Unto The Locust’ (2011)
7. Slipknot – ‘All Hope Is Gone’ (2008)
8. Trivium – ‘Ascendancy’ (2005)
9. Within Temptation – ‘The Unforgiving’ (2011)
10. Within Temptation – ‘The Heart of Everything’ (2007)

…so basically, if you’re a Machine Head, Slipknot or Within Temptation fan, you should be dead chuffed. If you fancy reading the whole list, head this-a-way, but in the meantime, check out our handy mixtape widget we’ve made celebrating the top ten, which you can listen to and even purchase some tracks from! Nice

According to the Associated Press, Lou Reed and METALLICA have tapped award-winning director Darren Aronofsky to helm a music video for their collaborative track "Iced Honey". Scenes for the clip will be shot in the San Francisco Bay Area and will be available for viewing later this month. Also involved with the project as director of photography will be Aronofsky's cameraman, Matthew Libatique, who has worked on all of Aronofsky's feature releases — which include such Oscar-nominated films as "Black Swan" and "The Wrestler" — and has been a cinematographer for several Spike Lee films.

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich said in a statement Thursday that working with Reed and Aronofsky is "living the dream."

He added, "As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough, now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite filmmakers since his first movie, 'Pi'." Reed, meanwhile, said he hoped that the video would become "his next 'Black Swan'."

"Iced Honey" is featured on METALLICA's collaborative album with Lou Reed, titled "Lulu", which is likely to sell between 12,000 and 15,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double. The estimate was based on one-day sales reports compiled after the record arrived in stores on November 1 via Warner Bros. Records (one day earlier in the rest of the world through Universal Music). By contrast, METALLICA's last studio effort, 2008's "Death Magnetic", sold 490,000 copies in just a three-day sales window after it came out on a Friday, with sales tracked through the following Sunday.

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor says that work on STONE SOUR's follow-up to 2010's Audio Secrecy has begun. "Right now we're just working on demos...and a pretty grandiose idea that I've been kind of chewing on for a long time," Taylor tells Billboard.com. "On a musical scale, artistically, visually, we're going to swing for the fences with this one. If we can pull it off, it would be really cool and...put a lot of people in their place. I'm really excited to get working on it."

Taylor expects to hit the studio with Stone Sour in 2012, between Slipknot's run on February's Soundwave Festival in Australia and a summer tour of North America that's slated to kick off in mid-June. "We've got a lot of great ideas already," Taylor reports. "We've got some people we're looking to work with. Once we have more information on it, we'll let everybody know."

Several students from the Aaron O'Keefe music-instruction school in Ohio recorded a cover version of the JUDAS PRIEST classic "Painkiller" in May 2011 at Starstruck Studios, a world-class recording studio owned by Reba McEntire, in Nashville, Tennessee. You can hear the track as well as watch the accompanying studio footage below.

Commented O'Keefe: "'Painkiller' is by far the most challenging song my students have covered.

"At the studio we decided to not record the song using a metronome, instead opting to have the song groove a little bit and get a more natural performance from the students. And for the credit sequence, we recorded JUDAS PRIEST's 'Cathedral Spires'.

"The vocals were recorded using a vintage AKG C12 microphone.

"Because we had to record 8 songs in a single day with 48 students, we had to save on setup time and record the electric guitars direct. Joe Hubbell used a Digitech RP500 and Drew Lowry used a Vox Tonelab SE. The bass was recorded direct and we used DW drums."

"Painkiller" and "Cathedral Spires" credits:

* Thunder: Kala Scarpinski and Auggie Huber (Age 11)
* Lead Vocals: Noah Stubenrauch (Age 11)
* Drums: Tyler Rogers (Age 13)
* Rhythm Guitar: Drew Lowry (Age 14)
* Bass: Aidan Higgins (Age 15)
* Credit Sequence Vocalist: Emily Leavengood (Age 16)
* Acoustic Guitarists: Robert Doughty and Nathan Clevenger (Age 16)
* Lead Guitar: Joe Hubbell (Age 17)

ALTER BRIDGE is gearing up to play what will be one of the biggest headline shows of its career and all of it will be captured live on DVD for anyone who can’t be there. The band's soon-to-be-sold-out performance at Wembley Arena in London, England on November 29 will be professionally filmed for release in 2012. Longtime ALTER BRIDGE director Daniel E Catullo III ("Live From Amsterdam", "One By One", "Isolation", webisodes, etc.) has been brought in to direct by The Dude Films, a new production and distribution company with offices in Laguna Beach, California and Maui, Hawaii headed up by "One By One" executive producer Stuart Margolis and executive producer Chris LaBabera. Lionel Pasamonte, who produced the band's last DVD, "Live From Amsterdam", will be producing with Catullo.

"I am excited to once again direct ALTER BRIDGE and I couldn't be more honored to be asked by the guys to once again capture their amazing live show," says Daniel E Catullo III. "Wembley is a special place and I know it has been a dream of the band to play there. I couldn't think of a better place to shoot this tour at."

ALTER BRIDGE has just released a special edition of its latest album, AB III". The special edition includes three additional songs — "Zero", "Home" and "Never Born To Follow" — making a total of 17 tracks on the album, as well as an extraordinary hour-long DVD documentary called "One By One".

Rome-based metallers KALEDON have released the artwork and tracklisting to their forthcoming best-of album Mightiest Hits out in January 2011 via Scarlet Records. Check them out below:

Disc 1
Steel Maker (Previously Unreleased)
In Search Of Kaledon
Desert Land Of Warriors
The New Kingdom
A Frozen Dawn
Mighty Son Of The Great Lord
Great Night In The Land
Clash Of The Titans
New King Of Kaledon
The End Of The Green Power
The God Beyond The Man
Surprise Impact
Demons Away

Disc 2
In search Of kaledon (demo)
Spirit Of The Dragon (demo)
Thunder In The Sky (demo)
God Says Yes (demo)
Army Of The Undead King (demo)
Desert Land Of Warriors (demo)
God Says Yes (demo)
Thunder In The Sky (demo)
Desert Land of Warriors (demo)
Home (demo)
New Soldiers For A New Army (demo)

Philadelphia black thrashing filthmongers INFERNAL STRONGHOLD will be joining the mighty ABSU on a string of exclusive East Coast shows in celebration of the Texas USBM institution's latest release, Abzu (Candlelight Records). The initial invocation will be held in Richmond, VA on November 10th, 2011, and take the demonic duo up the East Coast towards Canada, culimating in Montreal's Messe des Morts Festival.

For the upcoming tour, the bands have self-released a split flexi disc that will only be available at these few shows. It will not be available for sale through other mediums whatsoever. This release features one new song from each band, and will be entombed on clear vinyl with 4 different colored silk-screened covers (featuring artwork by NYC artist Dilek). This insanely-exclusive release is limited to 250 copies - don't miss out.

In the cultural world of the Finnish Sami, Saivo is one of the realms of the dead where the departed continue their everyday life, content and in the company of their families and forebears. Saivo is also the title of the new album by Finnish gothic metallers TENHI, that will finally see its release after four years of painstaking work, on November 25th via Prophecy Productions.

With the two tracks, 'Saivon Kimallus' and 'Siniset Runot', the first audio samples for Saivo are made available. In addition, the musicians of Tenhi have created an elaborate video clip for both songs, enticing the viewer into the realm of Saivo with its powerful images. Check out the clip below:

HAIL! — the supergroup featuring a rotating list of musicians, including current and former members of SEPULTURA, JUDAS PRIEST, TESTAMENT and MEGADETH — will play nine shows in Russia in December. The dates are as follows:

Dec. 02 - Megapolis, Irkutsk
Dec. 04 - Che Guevara, Krasnojarsk
Dec. 05 - Moscow, Kemerovo
Dec. 06 - Che Guevara, Barnaul
Dec. 07 - Rock City, Novosibirsk
Dec. 09 - Tele Club, Ekaterinburg
Dec. 10 - DKZhD, Magnitogorsk
Dec. 11 - Xleb, Moscow
Dec. 12 - Planetaryi, Ryazan

THE MAN-EATING TREE’s new video, 'Armed', was filmed by Mutant Koala Pictures, a production company based in the band'’s hometown, Oulu, Finland.

Tuomas Tuominen (vocals) on the song itself: “’Armed’ was one of the first songs written for Harvest. In essence, it's about how precious our time here is. How it sometimes feels as if hours and years could be seized into the wrong hands and pointed at you - as they were a weapon. A weapon that cannot be disarmed. Time is a weapon that will kill everyone. Mercilessly.”

After releasing their debut album, Vine, outside of Finland, Century Media Records signed The Man-Eating Tree - featuring Vesa Ranta (formerly in SENTENCED) and Janne Markus (ex-POISONBLACK) - worldwide.

The Man-Eating Tree recorded their new album, Harvest, with Hiili Hiilesmaa, but with some extra force injected by their additional guitarist Antti Karhu.