According to The Pulse Of Radio, SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell says in a new video interview with RollingStone.com (see below) that the band's first album in almost 16 years is "mostly done" and that it feels like the band "haven't missed a beat." Describing the "personality" of the new disc, Cornell said, "It's very warm to me and adventurous like all our albums were. It doesn't sound like a throwback to any previous period and we're definitely approaching songs in different ways than we've done... but we always did that from album to album so it feels like the genuine next step to me. It doesn't feel nostalgic, it feels forward."

Cornell said the new album should be out in the spring of 2012.

The vocalist also said he doesn't really know why it took the band 12 years to reunite, explaining, "I feel like SOUNDGARDEN can continue... and probably should have always had the attitude of being a formed functioning band that just needed a break. With SOUNDGARDEN my feeling always was that as long as it was a unanimous decision and everyone was really into it that it was always possible that we could get back together."

SOUNDGARDEN reunited last year after disbanding in 1997. The band's last album of all-new material was 1996's "Down On The Upside".

Norwegian metallers SUSPERIA will release a CD celebrating their 10-year anniversary as a recording artist, "We Are The Ones", on November 11. According to a press release, "This album marks 10 years of releases, and at the same time a nice end of a circle where Mustis (ex-DIMMU BORGIR), who participated on SUSPERIA's first demo in 1999, now returns after 12 years to once again put his magical touch on new, as well as old songs. A very fruitful cooperation which now has led to some fantastic re-recordings of some very popular, classic songs, now in complete symphonic versions. A brand new song has been recorded, with a massive orchestral theme. The contribution to this year's Eurovision Song Contest is of course featured. And to round up a celebratory album of this magnitude the right way, here it is finally, the entire infamous demo recording from 1999; 'Illusions Of Evil'! Remastered and officially released for the very first time. Øyvind 'Mustis' Mustaparta has been a guest musician in the band for a period of six months, and the result of this junction is finally ready. Really just a huge celebration of the longtime brotherhood of the band, and an even bigger thank you to the devoted fans worldwide. What contributes to making this album so special now is the fact that SUSPERIA, in their 12-year existence, have had the same lineup of members, without exception. This is very rare, and quite special not only in the metal genre, but in the whole music industry in general. Especially within bands consisting of five or more members. This will also be vocalist Athera's first release with SUSPERIA since the near-fatal heart attack in March 2009, and the subsuquent open-heart surgery."

"We Are The Ones" track listing:

01. We Are The Ones (new song composed with Mustis, 2011)
02. Devil May Care (orchestral version, 2011) (originally from "Unlimited", 2004)
03. The Bitter Man (orchestral version, 2011) (originally from "Vindication", 2002)
04. Cut From Stone (orchestral version 2011) (originally from "Cut From Stone", 2007
05. Nothing Remains (Eurovision Song Contest contribution, 2011)

1999 "Illusions Of Evil" demo remastered:

06. The Hellchild (demo version, 1999) (re-recorded on "Predominance", 2001)
07. Illusions Of Evil (demo version, 1999) (re-recorded on "Predominance")
08. Of Hate We Breed (demo version, 1999) (re-recorded on "Predominance")
09. The Coming Of A Darker Time (demo version 1999) (re-recorded on "Predominance")
10. Behind Consecrated Walls (demo version 1999) (previously only available as bonus track on South Korean version of "Predominance")

It's been 10 years since SLIPKNOT unleashed its second album, "Iowa", on the world. SLIPKNOT had impacted the music scene in revolutionary, unpredictable ways and established themselves as a way of life for their fans with their self-titled 1999 debut. But "Iowa" was the album that further proved the band had fully arrived and had no intentions of leaving. It was the band's statement that that they would continue to make music their way, according to their rules and always for their fans, with their middle fingers pointed firmly at the rest of the world.

To celebrate the album's decade of existence, the band is releasing a special, tenth-anniversary edition of this landmark release, which will drop on November 1.

The anniversary edition will include plenty of extras for the maggots and beyond to feast upon. Disc One will comprise the original "Iowa" album along with a remix of "My Plague" as an added bonus track. Disc Two will include the full live audio from the legendary "Disasterpieces" DVD, where the band's 2002 show at the London Arena was captured by 30 cameras and released as a concert film. The DVD will include "Goat", a new film directed by M. Shawn Crahan featuring never-before-seen interviews and footage showing the madness that surrounded the "Iowa" era, plus four music videos.

The official track listings are as follows:

Disc 1:

"Iowa"

01. (515)
02. People = Shit
03. Disasterpiece
04. My Plague
05. Everything Ends
06. The Heretic Anthem
07. Gently
08. Left Behind
09. The Shape
10. I Am Hated
11. Skin Ticket
12. New Abortion
13. Metabolic
14. Iowa
15. My Plague (New Abuse Mix)

Disc 2:

Disasterpieces - Live In London 2002

01. (515)
02. People = Shit
03. Liberate
04. Left Behind
05. Eeyore
06. Disasterpiece
07. Purity
08. Gently
09. Eyeless
10. Drum Solo
11. My Plague
12. New Abortion
13. The Heretic Anthem
14. Spit It Out
15. Wait And Bleed
16. 742617000027
17. (sic)
18. Surfacing

Disc 3:

* Goat (hour-long film capturing the insanity of Iowa, directed by M. Shawn Crahan.

Music Videos:

* My Plague
* Left Behind
* The Heretic Anthem (Live)
* People = Shit (Live)

A new video teaser for the 10th-anniversary edition of "Iowa" can be seen below.

In other SLIPKNOT news, the band is bringing four tracks spanning their career to the Rock Band video game. Fans can download and play along to "Wait And Bleed", "Left Behind", "Pulse Of The Maggots" and "Snuff" in Rock Band 3, available on September 27.

The special-edition CD/DVD reissue of SLIPKNOT's self-titled debut album — which came out in September 2009 — sold around 4,600 copies in the United States in its first, shortened week of release (the set came out on Wednesday, September 9 whereas new albums usually go on sale on Tuesdays in the U.S.). The album has shifted more than two million units domestically, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

SLIPKNOT completed a European festival run earlier this summer, which marked the band's first live gigs since bassist Paul Gray's passing.

SLIPKNOT's last record, "All Hope Is Gone", was released in 2008.

Second teaser for the 10th-anniversary edition of "Iowa":

Maryland-based extreme metallers DYING FETUS will release their first-ever tab on November 25. The book for 2009's critically acclaimed album "Descend Into Depravity" contains the tablature for all the albums rhythm and lead guitar parts as well as bass guitar parts for each song. It also includes a digital download of "Descend Into Depravity" plus isolated guitar and bass tracks to play along to. Pre-orders are available now at this location.

DYING FETUS will play a series of special shows in Germany, Central and South America and the Eastern U.S. before heading into the studio to record the follow-up to "Descend Into Depravity".

"Descend Into Depravity" sold around 2,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 166 on The Billboard 200 chart. The effort landed at position No. 4 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200. Released on September 15, 2009 via Relapse Records, the follow-up to 2007's "War Of Attrition" was recorded at Wright Way Studios in the group's hometown with producer Steve Wright.

METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield was interviewed by the Argentinian radio station Rock & Pop 95.9 FM before the band's performance at the Rock In Rio festival in on September 25, 2011 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. You can now listen to the chat below.

(Hetfield's answers below were transcribed from the original audio by BLABBERMOUTH.NET.)

On how METALLICA's collaboration with former VELVET UNDERGROUND frontman Lou Reed came about:

Hetfield: "Well, at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, we jammed with him on the 25th-year anniversary, and after the playing, he felt so good, he felt so alive that backstage there were some friends of his coming up to us and saying, 'What did you do to him? We've never seen him smile so much.' And then he just yelled down the hallway as we were leaving, 'We should do a record together.' And we thought, 'Yeah, right. Is he talking to us?' [Laughs] But he was serious. He had told us that we're the band he always wanted to have. And I agreed — METALLICA is the band I always wanted to have as well. [Laughs]"

On some METALLICA fans' concern that the band's collaborative album with Lou Reed, "Lulu", will sound nothing like the METALLICA they know and love:

Hetfield: "It's definitely different. This is not the new METALLICA studio record. This is 'Lulu'. And that's why we named it 'Lulu' — it's not METALLICA [and] it's not Lou Reed; it's us together making something called 'Lulu'. I'm sure there's some METALLICA fans that will think that 'This is the new METALLICA record. I don't like it. I'm scared.' And it's not. This is a project that was presented to us that we wanted to challenge ourselves with. I mean, there's some great riffs on there. There's not a lot of singing from me on it. [It's] Lou and his lyrics, with us writing background music for Lou. So that's what we did. There will be fans that it will be difficult for them to understand, but we can't stop being METALLICA, we can't stop exploring what we wanna do as an artist. We don't like limiting ourselves. But we're not doing it just to mess with the fans; that's for sure. If they don't like it, wait until the next record where we're fully focused on METALLICA, which we're actually writing right now."

On METALLICA lead guitarist Kirk Hammett's recent revelation that he and Hetfield were both brought to tears during the sessions for "Lulu" while they were recording a song called "Junior Dad":

Hetfield: "[Kidding around] Yeah, Lou, he dropped his guitar on my foot and I started crying. [Gets serious] No… It was just a moment. When music moves you in a certain way, and I was totally shocked by it. Lou came out and said, 'Oh my God, you two have to listen to this.' And [I was like], 'Yeah yeah yeah, I'll be in there in a minute. I'm eating.' And then I went in and we started listening and, you know, tears started and I couldn't stop them. It was like, 'Oh my God. I have to leave.' I had to leave. Somebody came up to me and said, 'James, you've gotta come to Kirk. He's…' 'Oh, you too.' It hit us, man. That was a sign that it was the right thing to do."

On whether there are any plans for METALLICA and Lou Reed to take their collaboration on the road:

Hetfield: "We would love to do some shows — I don't know how many, I don't know where. How many can we do together? It doesn't need to be 20 shows and it doesn't need to be one show — somewhere in the middle there, I think, to give everyone a taste of it and just see what it's like. It's an intense record and Lou has stated that he doesn't know if he can do the whole thing. But I think he will and I think he certainly can. It's a very unique concept — it's not a METALLICA concert; it's not anthem rock whatsoever. This is kind of lonely... It's like one-person music, in a way… for me. I don't need to listen to it with other people; it distracts me, actually. I like listening to it by myself. So it will be probably small, dark places. [Laughs] Like my mind. [Laughs]"

Norwegian "blackjazz" outfit SHINING (not to be confused with the Swedish extreme metal band of the same name) will release its first-ever live DVD and CD, "Live Blackjazz", on November 11 via Indie Recordings. The effort was produced by SHINING frontman Jørgen Munkeby and was mixed by Sean Beavan (MARILYN MANSON, NINE INCH NAILS, SLAYER). The mastering duties were handled by Tom Baker (MARILYN MANSON, NINE INCH NAILS)

For the first time ever, the raw energy of SHINING's legendary live performances has been captured on tape in a setting organized solely by the band itself. Produced by Munkeby and backed by the same mixing and mastering team as on their previous "Blackjazz" studio album, we could not get a truer version of what "Blackjazz" is meant to be. Straight from the horse’s mouth, this is the new standard that bands will strive to match for the next 10 or 20 years to come.

"This is basically the 'Greatest Hits' album we have always dreamed of, now beautifully combined with breath-taking film footage vibrating with power. It feels good to know that people can now truly experience how much fire and effort we pour into our live shows. It could not have been better!" stated Jørgen Munkeby.

A video trailer for "Live Blackjazz" can be seen below.

Over the course of its impressive 10-plus-year career, SHINING has created its own unique and bizarre hybrid of jazz and extreme metal, which is easily distinguishable from the musical world of their Swedish counterparts sharing the same band name.

The president of Poland's public TV broadcaster TVP has asked the producer of the Polish version of the hit singing competition "The Voice Of Poland" to provide a detailed explanation for the "provocative behavior" of one of the show's judges, BEHEMOTH frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski.

According to reports in the Polish media, Nergal made a special guest appearance during the October 1 performance by the Polish band TIMES NEW ROMAN at the Hydrozagadka club in Warsaw (see video below). A couple of the TIMES NEW ROMAN members turned up on stage in wheelchairs, wearing hospital pajamas and accompanied by nurses. A stage announcer proceeded to inform the audience that the musicians were physically unable to play the show unless they were "healed." At that point, Nergal appeared on stage dressed as a clergyman, wearing a sash around his neck resembling a stole (a liturgical vestment of various Christian denominations, particularly within the Catholic Church and among the various Protestant communions of Anglicanism and Lutheranism). He then laid his hands on the heads of the musicians and "healed" them, making it possible for them to continue the concert.

In his statement, Braun wrote that Nergal's "provocative behavior" showed a lack of respect not only for others' religious beliefs but also for the sick and the disabled. Braun said that he considered such actions to be unacceptable and asked Darski for clarification on the matter. The TVP president also said that the current season of "The Voice Of Poland" will wrap in the coming weeks.

When asked why TVP only now decided to make a public statement about Darski's "reprehensible behavior" while the current season of "The Voice Of Poland" is still in production, the station spokeswoman Joanna Stempien-Rogalinska explained that the Programming Council Of TVP in late September refused to condemn Darski's employement as a juror on the show after determining that it did not break any existing laws. In addition, the makers of the program, Rochstar, have defended Darski's participation in "The Voice Of Poland", calling him "a warm and friendly man with a great sense of humor."

Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (officially known in English as the National Broadcasting Council and also commonly referred to by its Polish acronym KRRiT) — the Polish broadcasting regulator, which issues radio and television broadcast licenses, ensures compliance with the law by public broadcasters, and indirectly controls state-owned media — last month reviewed a number of "The Voice Of Poland" episodes featuring Nergal and stated that there is no basis for intervention. According to Radio ZET, KRRiT released a statement underscoring that apart from his controversial pro-satanic activity at the concerts, Nergal is an honorable activist supporting the fight against cancer and promoting hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

His participation in the TV show divided Catholic Church. More liberal priests like, father Adam Boniecki, editor-in-chief of the Tygodnik Powszechny Catholic weekly defended the right of the musician to stay in the show arguing that he plays an entirely different role on TV.

This attitude was slammed by conservative bishop Wieslaw Mering who said that the Catholic journalist "needed his eyes testing."

Reunited U.K. rockers WOLFSBANE — featuring former IRON MAIDEN frontman Blaze Bayley — recently finished recording their new CD for a tentative late 2011/early 2012 release.

Commented guitarist Jase Edwards: "You can never really tell what a record is gonna be like 'til it's all recorded and you have some decent mixes to listen to. So you can hear what the record will actually sound like and how well (or not) ya've done!!

"Happy to report my mood on doing just that with the new WOLFSBANE record is one of ecstasy and excitement!! It's also being a little darling to mix!

"If ya have the right parts and sounds tracked, then it's just a balance and sonic power injection job!! And rest assured WOLFSBANE will be pushing the limiters to the maxxx!"

WOLFSBANE — which features Bayley, Jase Edwards, bassist Jeff Hateley and drummer Steve Danger — released its first record in 17 years in April. Entitled "Did It For The Money", it contained the brand new title track along with re-recordings of four old WOLFSBANE numbers.

Commenting on the reunion, Blaze said, "Although we have done other things over the years, we always had WOLFSBANE in our hearts and following our tour with THE QUIREBOYS last year, we had so much fun and have had so much interest that we decided to get back in the studio."

Razor & Tie has announced the signing of the Christian hard rockers P.O.D. (PAYABLE ON DEATH) to an exclusive, multi-album, worldwide deal. The band's as-yet-untitled new album will see the band reunited with longtime producer Howard Benson who also produced the group's massive "Satellite" CD and has worked on major hit releases for such artists as 3 DOORS DOWN, KELLY CLARKSON, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, DAUGHTRY, ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE. A spring 2012 release is expected.

"We are really excited to be starting a new chapter of our career with Razor & Tie," says P.O.D. vocalist Sonny Sandoval. "We just can’t wait to put out the new album and show everyone what we’ve worked so hard on."

Add Razor & Tie co-owners Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam in a statement: "P.O.D. is a relevant, legendary, iconic band and we are very excited that they have decided to work with us. We have made a real commitment to releasing quality music from the best rock bands and signing P.O.D. is a serious statement about how serious and passionate we are."

A new P.O.D. song, "On Fire", was made available for free download in July and can be streamed in the YouTube clip below.

Rite Of Passage/Mediaskare Records has announced the signing of the Bradenton, Florida-based band ADALIAH. The group entered The Brick Hithouse today with producer Shane Frisby (BURY YOUR DEAD, THE GHOST INSIDE) to begin recording its debut album for an early 2012 release.
"Rite Of Passage / Mediaskare has a reputation of supporting a band to create success with them, all while maintaining a trusting and non-intrusive relationship with the bands creative output," stated ADALIAH drummer Mark Abbacchi. "They actually care about the music."

Formed in 2008, ADALIAH has been amassing a loyal fan base on the East Coast through constant touring in support of its indepdently released EP.

"Our goal is to get listeners to feel emotion," said the band. "We put our own hearts into every song we write, and every song is about something that has impacted our lives in a certain way. We want our listeners to relate to our songs and feel something, whether it be anger, happiness, or regret."