DOWNSPIRIT, die neue Band um Symphorce/ex-Freedom Call Gitarrero Cédric "Cede" Dupont, hat einen Vertrag mit METALVILLE unterschrieben. Das vielversprechende Debutalbum "Point of Origin" wird am 23. Juli 2010 in Europa veröffentlich und jetzt gibt es auch eine Trackliste für "Point of Origin":

1. Point of Origin Pt. I
2. Point of Origin Pt. II
3. Love Song
4. Life’s a Bitch
5. Lost
6. Good Times
7. Hollow Words
8. Highway Run
9. Arisen
10. Make my Day
11. The End

Professionally filmed video footage of SLAYER's June 22, 2010 performance at the Sonisphere festival in Sofia, Bulgaria can be viewed at this location. A couple of the clips are available below.

The band's setlist was reportedly as follows:

01. World Painted Blood
02. Jihad
03. War Ensemble
04. Hate Worldwide
05. Seasons In The Abyss
06. Angel of Death
07. Beauty Through Order
08. Disciple
09. Mandatory Suicide
10. Chemical Warfare
11. South of Heaven
12. Raining Blood

Dani Nuutinen, who previously fronted MEDICATED, the Finnish metal band featuring former IMPERANON vocalist Aleksi Sihvonen, has rejoined the group as its new second guitarist.

MEDICATED is currently working on a new EP for a late 2010 release. Video footage from the studio can be viewed below.

Commented Dani: "I was almost freakin' out when I heard that I have the opportunity to join MEDICATED again! Good old pals and awesome music to play! I'm really looking forward to this and waiting to get the EP released and hit the stage with totally new feel and energy! Let's start medication (beer and metal!) immediately!"

342, the second album from French avant-garde metal masters PIN-UP WENT DOWN, will be released through Ascendance Records on June 28th.

In 2006 Alexis Damien, multi-instrumentalist and former drummer for avant-garde metal band CARNIVAL IN COAL launched his new project, Pin-Up Went Down. He brought in vocalist, Asphodel and although they had only met twice prior to recording, together they went on to create 2 Unlimited, an album that managed to combine gothic metal with funk, jazz, punk, and a whole host of other experimentations into the mix, melding together to create an utterly unique and bizarre blend of styles and moods.

If 2 Unlimited surprised by its originality, 342’s most significant feature might be its maturity. 342 is an un-inhibited display of eccentricity, pushing the genre to new and unchartered waters. Inventive musicianship coupled with Asphodel’s vocal gymnastics strike the balance between unrestrained sickness and emotional beauty. The track 'Vaginaal Nathrakh' features Andy Schmidt from German band DISILLUSION (courtesy of Metal Blade).

ACCEPT werden ihr neues Album "Blood Of The Nations" über Nuclear Blast Records zu den folgenden Terminen veröffentilchen. "Blood Of The Nations" wurde in den Backstage Studio in Derbyshire, England mit Produzent Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE) aufgenommen! Jetzt wurde auch das "Blood Of The Nations" Cover Artwork und die Track List enthüllt.

August 20: Europe
September 14: North America

"Blood Of The Nations" Track List:

01. Beat The Bastards
02. Teutonic Terror
03. The Abyss
04. Blood Of The Nations
05. Shades Of Death
06. Locked And Loaded
07. Kill The Pain
08. Rollin Thunder
09. Pandemic
10. New World Comin
11. No Shelter
12. Bucketful Of Hate

Das neue MURDERDOLLS Album "Women & Children Last" erscheint im Spätsommer 2010. Auf der offiziellen MURDERDOLLS Homepage enthüllen die Herrschaften um Joey Jordison & Wednesday 13 Schritt für Schritt das Cover Artwork. Die ersten Teile sind bereits zu sehen.

Die Tracklist des Albums liest sich übrigens wie folgt:

01. The World According To Revenge
02. Chapel Of Blood
03. Bored 'Til Death
04. Drug Me To Hell
05. Nowhere
06. Summertime Suicide
07. Death Valley Superstars
08. My Dark Place Alone
09. Blood Stained Valentine
10. Pieces Of You
11. Homicide Drive
12. Rock N Roll Is All I Got
13. Nothing's Gonna Be Alright
14. Whatever You Got, I'm Against It
15. Hello, Goodbye, Die

Professionally filmed video footage of ANTHRAX's June 22, 2010 performance at the Sonisphere festival in Sofia, Bulgaria can be viewed below.

The band's setlist was reportedly as follows:

01. Caught In A Mosh
02. Got the Time
03. Madhouse
04. Be All, End All
05. Antisocial
06. Indians
07. Heaven And Hell (BLACK SABBATH cover) (not full song)
08. Medusa
09. Only
10. Metal Thrashing Mad
11. I Am The Law

Canadian rock legends RUSH received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday (June 25) in front of the Musicians Institute on Hollywood Boulevard.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, on hand to induct the musicians were SMASHING PUMPKINS singer Billy Corgan and Donna Halper, a former music director at Cleveland's WMMS-FM who was among the first to champion the enduring band's 1974 self-titled debut album.

"RUSH always stayed true to themselves and true to their music, and never lost their integrity," Halper said to cheers from the crowd that ranged from toddlers in RUSH T-shirts and baby boomers in tattered vintage "2112" tour jerseys.

Frontman-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson were in attendance to claim the 2,412th star on the Walk of Fame. Noticeably absent was drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, who was riding a motorcycle to the band's first tour date in Albuquerque on Tuesday.

Danish death metallers THE CLEANSING have announced the addition of bassist Mads Haarløv (INIQUITY, STRANGLER, SACRIFICIAL, SWOLLEN) to the group's ranks.

In other news, THE CLEANSING is currently in the studio recording its second album for a tentative late 2010/early 2011 release. The band states, "Toke [Eld] is — as we speak — laying down vocal tracks for this slap of brutality that will be our next punch in the face! He's been doing a great job so far — it sounds KILLER! The drums were recorded in February at CB studios in Denmark. Needless to say, Morten [Løwe Sørensen] did an amazing job recording the drums! Expect nothing but over-the-top drumming! We still need to record a lot of guitar stuff but plan to get all guitars, solos and bass done by mid-August."

"Goodnight Insomnia", a brand new song from Germany gothic rockers END OF GREEN, is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's seventh album, "High Hopes in Low Places", which is scheduled for an August 20 release in Germany, Austria and Switzerland via Silverdust Records. The CD was recorded at Munich's Weltraumstudios with producer Corni Bartels.

The track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. Blackened Eyes
02. Goodnight Insomnia
03. Carpathian Gravedancer
04. Under The Sway
05. Tie Me A Rope… While You're Calling My Name
06. High Hopes In Low Places
07. An Awful Day
08. Saviour
09. Slaves
10. Starlight

German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN will release their new album, "At The Edge Of Time", late summer via Nuclear Blast Records. A single, "A Voice In The Dark", preceded the full-length CD on June 25.

"At The Edge Of Time" track listing:

01. Sacred Worlds (9:17)
02. Tanelorn (5:58)
03. Road Of No Release (6:30)
04. Ride Into Obsession (4:46)
05. Curse My Name (5:52)
06. Valkyries (6:38)
07. Control The Divine (5:26)
08. War Of The Thrones (4:55)
09. A Voice In The Dark (5:41)
10. Wheel Of Time (8:55)

Andrew Paine of Billboard.com reports that the Sonisphere cinecast from the Sofia, Bulgaria leg of the touring rock festival was seen by more than 100,000 fans, according to promoter Stuart Galbraith.

The global June 22 cinecast featured the "Big Four" of 1982 thrash metal — METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX — and was beamed via satellite in HD to cinemas. It was distributed globally into hundreds of cinemas by New York-based BY Experience.

In the U.K. it was screened in 79 cinemas. "At the Odeon in Leicester Square in London there was a mosh pit, and at the end of the show they had a stage invasion, which is just phenomenal to even think about," says Galbraith. "Not only are we hitting the territories that we're playing with this tour, [with the cinecast] we've taken the Big Four and Sonisphere into countries we haven't been able to get to this year."