Dutch brutal death metallers SUPREME PAIN, who feature in their ranks members of SINISTER, CONSOLATION, PUTREFIED and FONDLECORPSE, have parted ways with drummer Toep Duin and have replaced him with Paul Beltman (SINISTER, FONDLECORPSE, INFINITED HATE, WEAPONS TO HUNT, JUDGEMENT DAY). The band states, "Toep decided to quit SUPREME PAIN because of personal issues he need to arrange. And because of that he could not combine that with playing in SUPREME PAIN. It is sad, but we understand his decision and wish him all the best for the future. We had a kick-ass time together and also shredded some sick gigs."

The "premium edition" of SCORPIONS' latest album, "Sting In The Tail", will be made available on November 2 via Sony.

"Sting in the Tail" premium edition track listing:

01. Raised On Rock
02. Sting In The Tail
03. Slave Me
04. The Good Die Young
05. No Limit
06. Rock Zone
07. Lorelei
08. Turn You On
09. Let's Rock
10. SLY
11. Spirit Of Rock
12. The Best Is Yet To Come
13. Dreamers
14. Too Far
15. Miracle (regular version)
16. The Good Die Young (new version)
17. Thunder And Lightning

Bonus DVD

01. Sting In The Tail (live video San Antonio)
02. The Best Is Yet To Come (live video Prague)
03. Sting In The Tail (Video Message - EPK)

"Arctica", the new video from Finnish female-fronted symphonic metallers AMBERIAN DAWN, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by Markus Nieminen of Routafilmi.

"Arctica" comes off AMBERIAN DAWN's third album, "End Of Eden", which is being released today (October 20) via Spinefarm Records. According to songwriter Tuomas Seppälä, the group's new CD is heavier than its predecessors, with a bigger, more polymorphic sound."

"End Of Eden" features a guest appearances by keyboardist Jens Johansson (STRATOVARIUS, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), opera singer Markus Nieminen and vocalist Peter James Goodman.

"End Of Eden" track listing:

01. Talisman (3:41)
02. Come Now Follow (3:47)
03. Arctica (4:59)
04. Ghostly Echoes (5:44)
05. Sampo (3:12)
06. Blackbird (3:58)
07. Field Of Serpents (3:39)
08. City Of Corruption (4:20)
09. Virvatulen Laulu (3:46)
10. War In Heaven (7:24)

In other news, AMBERIAN DAWN has parted ways with Tommi Kuri (bass), Emil Tobias Pohjalainen (guitar) and Joonas Pykälä-aho (drums) and has replaced them with Jukka Koskinen (NORTHER, WINTERSUN), Kimmo Korhonen (WALTARI, HELION, SOLACIDE) and Heikki Saari (NORTHER, NAILDOWN), respectively.

According to Click Liverpool, IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson — who has been flying commercial airlines for more than a decade — ferried the members of the Liverpool FC soccer team to Naples for their Europa League clash tonight.

Commented Dickinson: "We've done a lot of footballers.

"We're one of very few airlines to have the FA cup on board. We flew the trophy back from Cardiff and it had its own seat.

"If people ask me which do I enjoy more, singing or flying, it's difficult to say."

Fan-filmed video footage of Los Angeles-based progressive death metal titans THE FACELESS performing a brand new song on October 16, 2010 at the Grammercy Theatre in New York City during the band's North American tour as direct support to SUFFOCATION can be viewed below. Decibel magazine's "The Decibel Defiance Tour" — also featuring THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, DECREPIT BIRTH and FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE — kicked off in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 15 at the annual Rock and Shock festival.

Regarding the new track, THE FACELESS guitarist Michael Keene recently stated, "I feel [the song] is a great example of the direction in which the new material is headed."

"Unholy Virgin", the new video from Seattle's BLACK BREATH, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's full-length debut, "Heavy Breathing", which was released in March via Southern Lord. The CD was recorded at Kurt Ballou's Godcity Studios (CONVERGE, TRAP THEM, DISFEAR) and picks up where 2009's "Razor to Oblivion" EP left off, infusing the band's rabid punk, metal and hardcore influences to create truly memorable hooks and buildups, yet incorporating more death metal influences this time around. The more brutal, metallic direction of "Heavy Breathing" is like a fired-up blend of POISON IDEA on a whiskey-soaked DISMEMBER bender...

Global Music has announced the latest installment in its "Live & Loud Collection" — THE QUIREBOYS' "Live In London", due for release via DVE on November 8. The two-disc CD/DVD release captures England's best-loved purveyors of good-time rock and roll performing live at the legendary Marquee Club during the 2004 "Monsters Of Rock" tour.

Commented THE QUIREBOYS' charismatic frontman Spike: "The Marquee show is just us having a party with the fans following our 'Monsters Of Rock' arena tour. I remember it as one of funniest shows I've ever done."

Listen and watch the band play all of its greatest hits live, including "Hey You", "This Is Rock 'N' Roll", "7 O'Clock", "Sex Party" and more.

"Live In London" track listing:

01. C'mon
02. Misled
03. Hey You
04. This Is Rock 'n' Roll
05. There She Goes Again
06. Show Me What Ya' Got
07. Tramps & Thieves
08. I Don't Love You Anymore
09. Turn Away
10. 7 O' Clock
11. Whippin Boy
12. Sex Party

High-quality photos of VICIOUS RUMORS and CIRCLE II CIRCLE's October 17, 2010 performances at Bibelot in Dordrecht, The Netherlands can be found at Metal-Experience.com. Also available is fan-filmed video footage of VICIOUS RUMORS's October 16, 2010 concert at at The Rock Temple in Kerkrade, The Netherlands (see below).

VICIOUS RUMORS's setlist for the Dordrecht show was as follows:

01. Worlds and Machines
02. On The Edge
03. Warball/ Soldiers Of The Night
04. Blistering Winds
05. Digital Dictator
06. Minute To Kill
07. Ship Of Fools
08. Abandoned
09. Razor Back Blade (new song)
10. Down To The Temple
11. Hellraiser
12. Don't Wait for Me

In a brand new interview with About.com, JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford was asked about the recent string of highly publicized suicides by gay teenagers and what he thinks can be done to help prevent them. "I think, more than anything, it's a picture of the way life is," Halford replied. "You have all this sexting going on, and cyberbullying going on. It's absolutely heartbreaking when people are driven to the point where they are taking their own lives.

"I'm pleased that talented people like Ellen Degeneres and Neil Patrick Harris are speaking out. They are far more articulate than I am.

"The most imporant thing is to show the love and support that is out there for everybody, whether you're being bullied or not. It's important to look after each other and to nurture each other, especially in your school years.

"I saw bullying when I was a kid growing up in school. It has always been there.

"It's a very peculiar thing.

"It's a shame that it takes horrible tragedies like this to bring the spotlight back on. It has to stay there now. It can't just fizzle out in a couple weeks, like things tend to do in the media.

"Programs need to be installed in schools, or reinforced. Parents need to keep an eye on their kids a little bit more. The social interaction that's available 24 hours a day has to be utilized in a strong, educating, promotional way to let people who are going through those periods of their lives know that there's always somebody you can talk to.

"Don't feel alone. There's a way we can help each other get through these types of difficulties."

Die Leipziger Death Metal / Hardcore Band MYRA haben mit "Said And Done" den ersten Videoclip ihres aktuellen Albums "Godspeed" das im Mai 2010 veröffentlicht wurde online gestellt. Produziert wurde der Clip von Sören Schaller (AlternaStyle). Die Band Sagte; Endlich ist es soweit, nach einigen sehr langen drehtagen und noch viel mehr langen tagen im schnitt ist das neue Video zu Said & Done, vom neuen Album Godspeed, endlich fertig. Wie beim letzten Video haben wir wieder mit Sören Schaller und AlternaStyle zusammen gearbeitet. In diesem Sinne vielen Dank an das gesamte Drehteam sowie alle Komparsen und fleißigen Helfer.

Vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill of Irish dark metal masters PRIMORDIAL has issued the following update:

"It's been a while since my last confession.

"Joking aside, it really has been a long time since our last transmission and the reasons are manifold and really pretty simple.

"This has been one of the most tumultuous years in the band since the mid-Nineties. The wheels very nearly came clean off, so where do I start?!

"We can't go any further without clearing up the drummer situation. Truth is, we had an incident in Greece that if you follow or know anything about the band has been well documented, so we won't go into again. [Longtime PRIMORDIAL drummer] Simon [O'Laoghaire] had some real problems that night.

"Firstly, we thank the Greek fans for their understanding and we will be back in 2011.

"Yes, it's true in the aftermath of that we auditioned some drummers and I must also thank everyone who applied from abroad, the Irish drummers we did play with and everyone who sent us emails and messages wishing us strength and asking after Simon.

"Suffice it to say Simon is the drummer of PRIMORDIAL and I have no doubt this will never change. He is fit and well and we rehearsed yesterday.

"For our own piece of mind, we had to audition people and in hindsight maybe something positive came out of it in that we had to put the album recording back and I feel we will be better prepared.

"We all, of course, have a long history together of over two decades in various personal combinations, and to put it mundanely, you go through ups and downs and this year has had more than its fair share of downs. For the first time in years, we played a few very average shows and by our own admission became unfocused. Yet as always we regroup, our own biggest critics, and in one month we enter the studio to record album number seven.

"We would like to extend massive thanks to Gareth Averill for filling in at short notice for a fistful of gigs over the summer.

"In case you didn't know, he's the guy who shot and edited our DVD, and as you may recognize, my cousin. He stood up to the plate and in a couple of days learned our set, having been a session drummer in the Irish indie/rock scene for a decade.

"The whole experience and auditioning drummers at the very least gave us a greater insight into the dynamic that makes PRIMORDIAL PRIMORDIAL and that dynamic belongs to all five of us. We may have stand-ins for shows now and again because we are not a professional band nor make a living from it and life gets in the way of us all doing every show, but we realized that replace one of the five of us creatively and PRIMORDIAL is not PRIMORDIAL.

"For the foreseeable future Cathal Murphy is going to be behind the kit live, making his debut with us at the end of the month in Spain and Portugal. Simon is just taking a break for a short while, nothing more and nothing less. This will be our first time in Madrid and Barcelona since 2000 when we played with IMMORTAL. Been way too long.

"Touring and festival plans are being thrown about now for 2011; hopefully some more news very soon…

"The new songs are coming thick and fast at this stage as studio time is approaching.

"Sometimes I really wish we made a living from the band so could take more time than the snatches of rehearsal we get but that said we also thrive on some pressure and it seems to give the songs some extra edge.

"Foel Studios in Wales is booked for two sessions in November and December.

"Looking forward to a Welsh Indian Winter.

"Bring on the monsoon season."

Das neue DORNENREICH Album 'Flammentriebe' ist fertig gemischt und gemastert. "Wir sind sehr zufrieden mit dem klanglichen Gewand, das den Stücken mehr als gerecht wird und werden uns nun an die Fertigstellung des Artworks machen." Hier noch die "Flammentriebe" Track List:

01. Flammenmensch (Man of Flame)
02. Der wunde Trieb (The Wounded Sprout)
03. Tief im Land (Deep in the Land)
04. Wolfpuls (Wolf Pulse)
05. Wandel geschehe (Come About, Change)
06. Fährte der Nacht (The Track of the Night)
07. In allem Weben (Within all Weaving)
08. Erst deine Träne löscht den Brand (Only Thy Tear Douses The Fire) 

Reunited hard rockers MR. BIG will release their new album in January 2011 via Frontiers Records. The band recently entered a Los Angeles-area studio with producer Kevin "The Caveman" Shirley (BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, AEROSMITH, JOURNEY, DREAM THEATER, THE BLACK CROWES, LED ZEPPELIN) to begin recording the CD — the first to feature all four of the band's original members since "Hey Man" in 1995.

According to MR. BIG bassist Billy Sheehan, the forthcoming album will feature "impossible bass and guitar stuff" and will be musically similar to the band's 1991 breakthrough, "Lean Into It" — the LP that featured the No. 1 single "To Be With You".

Former MANOWAR guitarist Ross "The Boss" Friedman will release the second album under the ROSS THE BOSS banner, "Hailstorm", in Europe on November 1 via AFM Records (three days earlier in Germany).

"Hailstorm" track listing:

01. I.A.G. (1:15)
02. Kingdom Arise (4:57)
03. Dead Man's Curve (3:33)
04. Hailstorm (3:52)
05. Burn Alive (4:11)
06. Crom (3:29)
07. Behold The Kingdom (5:28)
08. Great Gods Glorious (3:16)
09. Shining Path (4:36)
10. Among The Ruins (4:30)
11. Empire's Anthem (6:18)

Swedish alternative metal act KOREA will release its second album, "The Delirium Suite", on November 12 via ViciSolum Productions.

KOREA was formed in Stockholm in 2003 and was quickly discovered by the American producer Blake Althen who realized the powerful potential that the band possessed. The group recorded a self-titled EP with Blake but eventually decided to part ways with the producer. In 2008 KOREA released its debut album, "For The Present Purpose", which got great reviews from magazines such as Kerrang!, Big Cheese, Rock Hard, Legacy, Orkus, Sonic Seducer and Rock Sound.

Now, two years later, KOREA is back with the sequel, "The Delirium Suite", on which the band raised the bar considerably.

The CD's first single, a hard-hitting version of RADIOHEAD's classic "Street Spirit (Fade Out)", will precede the full-length CD on October 15. It is now available for streaming on KOREA's MySpace page.