"What We All Come To Need", the fourth full-length album from Chicago's PELICAN, is being streamed in its entirety on the band's MySpace page.

"What We All Come To Need" is scheduled for release on October 27 via Southern Lord Recordings. Described by guitarist Laurent Lebec as "the most perfect synthesis of everything we've done to date, sonically," the CD is "a giant step forward within the complex, intricate, beautiful and crushing sound PELICAN is famous for," according to a press release. The album features more guests than have ever appeared on a PELICAN album before: Greg Anderson of SUNN O))), Aaron Turner of ISIS, Ben Verellen of HARKONEN and Helms Alee and Allen Epley from THE LIFE AND TIMES and SHINER. Content-wise, Lebec says "there is a current of inspiration that feels particular to each album's music and titles. Though we lack a singer, the song names are often conceptual. This new album speaks to a rapidly decaying world, the fulfillment we find in each other, as well as the resolve to move beyond disillusionment."

"What We All Come To Need" track listing:

01. Glimmer
02. The Creeper
03. Ephemeral
04. Specks Of Light
05. Strung Up From The Sky
06. An Inch Above Sand
07. What We All Come To Need
08. Final Breath

"Falling World", a brand new song from Finnish doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN, is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's fifth album, "New Moon", which is scheduled for release on November 10 via Spinefarm Records. The CD was recorded at Fascination Street studios in Örebro, Sweden with Jens Bogren, who has previously worked with such acts as KATATONIA, OPETH, PARADISE LOST and AMON AMARTH. Kai Hahto (WINTERSUN, ex-ROTTEN SOUND) has been recruited to play drums on the album following the recent departure of longtime skinsman Pasi Pasanen.

"New Moon" track listing:

01. These Woods Breathe Evil
02. Falling World
03. Sleepless Swans
04. And Heavens Cried Blood
05. Lights on the Lake (Horror Pt. III)
06. New Moon
07. Servant of Sorrow
08. Weight of the Dead

A mini-site for the CD can be accessed at this location.

Liechtenstein-based gothic metallers ELIS have posted audio samples of two new songs — "Firefly" and "I Come Undone" (JENNIFER RUSH cover) — on their MySpace page. Both tracks will appear on the band's new album, "Catharsis", which will be released via Napalm Records on the following dates:

Nov. 25 - Finland & Spain
Nov. 27 - Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux & Italy
Nov. 30 - Rest of Europe
Dec. 15 - USA
Jan. 12 - Canada

The follow-up to 2006's "Griefshire", "Catharsis" was recorded at Mastersound Studio in Germany with producer Alex Krull (ATROCITY, LEAVES' EYES) and marks the band's first full-length recording with Sandra Schleret, who joined ELIS in December 2006.

MEDICATED, the Finnish metal band featuring former IMPERANON vocalist Aleksi Sihvonen, has parted ways with guitarist Jesse Soiletsalo. The group says in a statement, "For a while, [Jesse] has been thinking what it is that he wants to do. This has led him to realize that MEDICATED isn't quite the band for him anymore. He will still continue making music through his own projects.

"Jesse is a great guitarist and we hope all the best for him. We have to continue on our own ways but the friendship between us will remain.

"Although our group is incomplete at the moment, it will not affect our process of making new music. So now we are working to get our songs ready and we will begin recording somewhere around turn of the year, as scheduled."

Formed in 2005, MEDICATED describes its music as "thrash/death metal with big choruses, screaming and clean vocals, hard rhythms and fast lead guitars."

The band's current lineup is as follows:

Aleksi Sihvonen - Vocals
Samuli Hyttinen - Guitar
Jani Kinnunen - Bass
Pertti Pätsi - Drums

Earlier in the year, MEDICATED teamed up with STAM1NA, Timo Rautiainen, Timo Kotipelto (STRATOVARIUS) and LEVERAGE for a short Finnish tour called "Kaveria ei jätetä" (translation: "Never leave a friend behind!") which collected money to help the voluntary youth mental healthcare in Finland.

NWOBHM legends CLOVEN HOOF have issued the following update:

"Russ North [vocals] has left CLOVEN HOOF to pursue a solo singing career away from heavy metal. The band wish him luck in his new venture. The Barbaars festival in Holland and the Newcastle Cluny shows will have to be cancelled as result of Russ's departure, but a vocalist will be in place for the Hard Rock Hell festival in December. A new singer will be announced shortly.

"Lee [Payne; bass], Jon [Brown; drums] and Ben [Read; guitar] are currently in pre production working with producer Tom Galley (PHENOMENA) on the next album. It is scheduled for release in the spring of 2010 and will be CLOVEN HOOF's darkest and most epic-like opus yet."

CLOVEN HOOF recently announced the addition of guitarist Mick Powell to the group's ranks. He made his live debut with the band at the Rock of Ages festival in Belgium on October 17.

CLOVEN HOOF re-recorded 24 of its classic songs for a two-part "best-of" compilation, "The Definitive Part One" and "The Definitive Part Two".

After several delays, the new AXEMASTER CD, "The Inner Terror", is very close to completion.

The track listing for the album is as follows:

01. Eternal Darkness
02. Behold the Inner Terror
03. Unresting Place
04. Techno Slave
05. Your Life
06. Self Human Genocide
07. The Perfect Killing Machine
08. Batlleground
09. The Mark
10. Harder they Fall
11. Immortality
12. Winds of Death

To give everyone a taste of what to expect from the disc, the Akron, Ohio-based band has chosen to release the song "Unresting Place" and feature it on as many Internet sites as possible. The track will also be available for free download on all sites that allow it.

For those of you who remember the old version of this song (with the previous singer) that was featured on the band's MySpace page a couple years ago, you should know that this is a new and very improved version. Not only is the recording much better and features current vocalist Dan Kaisk, but the lyrics and vocal lines have been completely revised. The song has been enhanced in almost every way.

To check out the track, go to www.myspace.com/thebandaxemaster.

Artist extraordinaire Joachim Luetke has released an exceptional DVD-Rom featuring his artistic collaborations with DIMMU BORGIR, KREATOR, ARCH ENEMY, DIVINE HERESY, PAIN, MESHUGGAH, RAGE, SIRENIA, THE KOVENANT and SOPOR AETURNUS.

A matchless release containing 26 killer songs, nine killer videos plus two interactive books (Dimmu Borgir - 36 pages, Sopor Aeternus-128 pages) all embedded in tons of breathtaking interactive artworks created by Joachim Luetke with a preface by Silenoz (Dimmu Borgir).

Luetke states: "Our goal was to push the artistic boundaries of music-packaging and presentation beyond all known possibilities. The result is Transformer, a DVD-Rom, combining digitized music with consistently digitized, interactive artworks and animations. A powerful combination, created for people who are looking for offers beyond regular CDs and DVDs."

Transformer is exclusively available at Nuclear Blast Online Shop here. Go to this location for more information.

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist SLASH says that he has one final song to record for his anxiously-awaited solo album. "This song is really cool and the singer is amazing," he adds.

Slash will release a two-track CD single in Japan on November 11th via Universal Music containing the song 'Sahara' (featuring singer Koshi Inaba from B'Z) and a cover of the Guns N' Roses classic 'Paradise City' featuring CYPRESS HILL and Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson from the BLACK EYED PEAS.

'Sahara' is expected to appear on Slash's new solo album – called Slash & Friends – which is due for release in February/March according to a new Twitter update from the guitarist.

Slash has been recording his new solo album with producer Eric Valentine in Los Angeles with drummer Josh Freese (A PERFECT CIRCLE) and bassist Chris Chaney (ex-JANES ADDICTION).

The album is set to feature a number of guest musicians, including ALICE COOPER, former Guns N' Roses men Duff McKagan (LOADED), Steven Adler and Izzy Stradlin, Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS), Flea (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS), IGGY POP, NICK OLIVERI, RONNIE WOOD, JASON BONHAM, FERGIE and MAROON 5 singer Adam Levine and WOLFMOTHER's Andrew Stockdale.

A new KISS Bingo game is now available through KISSMuseum.net. A product description is available below. go to this location for more information and to order.

"This 11" tall box has everything you need to play the KISS version of this classic game. The beautiful Love Gun themed packaging contains: KISS Tally Board, 200 KISS Bingo Chips, 20 KISS Bingo Cards, 75 KISS Bingo markers and it's all topped of with an KISS Logo embroidered cloth bag to hold your chips."

As previously reported, KISS' new Sonic Boom is currently at the top of the Billboard Rock Albums, Hard Rock and Independent charts. The album has not even been officially released yet in Japan and Australia.

It was only a matter of time before SLAYER's lyrics leapt off the printed page and made their wanton way to the visual medium. The band's discography is gorged with tales of mass murderers, serial sadists and drooling deviants of every stripe — vicious mental cases just begging for a cinematic reception.

Enter "Metalocalypse" director and big-time SLAYER fan Mark Brooks who created a 20-minute DVD titled "Playing with Dolls", a 12-episode video-graphic novel that will be included exclusively in SLAYER's "World Painted Blood" deluxe edition, out November 3 in tandem with the "World Painted Blood" standard edition. Inspired by the songs on "World Painted Blood" — in particular Jeff Hanneman's "Playing With Dolls", from which the horror short takes its title — the film blends elements of animation and still-photography into a visual style similar to that of a graphic novel. A trailer for the short can be viewed below. The soundtrack for the "Playing With Dolls" short features clips from all 11 of the songs on "World Painted Blood"; in addition, the music bed for episode No. 7 is taken from "Atrocity Vendor", a new song that is not on the album.

"It's not live action and it's not animated," Brooks explains. "It's a weird hybrid of the two, and I haven't seen a lot of things done this way."

No mere music video, "Playing with Dolls" is a stark, 12-part nightmare that breathes corrupt life into SLAYER's latest syllabus of stalkers, psychopaths and serial killers, merging their aberrant psyches into the supremely focused desire of a single, merciless malcontent. A methodical distillation of one man's lethal frenzy, the film follows the gruesome outbursts of a nameless protagonist. He is not an indiscriminate murder junkie, but rather a highly creative snuff-artist with a deeply personal sense of purpose — a man for whom murder is the only conceivable way forward. With a black heart hardened by tragedy, he chooses his victims carefully. His methods are as grisly and varied as they are poetic.

"It's a little weirder than your regular blood n' guts type thing," Brooks says of the storyline, "which I think is a reflection of SLAYER's music."

But make no mistake: There will be blood, and plenty of it. As the real-life boyfriend of one of the film's "victims" told Brooks after a private screening, "I almost threw up while I watching that. And I think that's a compliment."

SLAYER — bassist/vocalist Tom Araya, guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, and drummer Dave Lombardo — started recording "World Painted Blood", the band's 10th studio album, last October in a Los Angeles studio with producer Greg Feldeman, and completed it this past May. Recording "World Painted Blood" was a unique experience for SLAYER who has historically begun the recording process with all songs written and fully rehearsed. This time, they did the bulk of writing and song development while in the studio. According to drummer Dave Lombardo, "On this record, we worked a lot more collectively, we were more attentive to each other's ideas and willing to try them, which only benefited the album." "World Painted Blood" is indeed a SLAYER album, and consequently deals with topics such as death and destruction, war, serial killers, and the Apocalypse. "Psychopathy Red", leaked online a year ago, was inspired by the heinous Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, a.k.a. the Rostov Ripper, who confessed to brutally murdering 56 children. "Beauty Through Order" (Kerry King: "one of Jeff's songs, it has a very heavy 'do me' intro to it then explodes with a really cool vibe,") "Unit 731", "Playing With Dolls" (Lombardo: an awesome track, great song structure, great vibe"), "Public Display of Dismemberment", and "Americon", a King composition. Of "Americon", King explains, "It's about what I think the rest of the world thinks of America. We may not be big on a lot of people's lists, but I don't care what you think of my government, of my economy, or whatever. I live here and this is one of the best places that I've ever found to live. So f*#k you if you don't like it."

"World Painted Blood" will initially ship with four special collector's edition CD covers (1, 2, 3, 4). Each of the four covers will display one-fourth of a provocative continental map illustrated with human skulls and bones; when placed together, the four images form a complete and grisly map of the world.

On November 10th, Micro Werks/Conveyor Canada is releasing a new APRIL WINE collection called The Hard & Heavy Collection.

According to a press release, "the rock of this band has always been heavy, and their melodic hooks have always been hard to resist - so that's a fine title for this perfect single-disc 'best-of.' This 13-track collection plucks the most raging rockers and most powerful power ballads off April Wine's hit '70s and '80s albums."

Tracklisting:

'Anything You Want, You Got It'
'Future Tense'
'Crash And Burn'
'Before The Dawn'
'Waiting On A Miracle'
'Wanna Rock'
'All Over Town'
'Say Hello'
'Bad Boys'
'Hard Rock Kid'
'Hot On The Wheels of Love'
'Rock & Roll Is A Vicious Game'
'Love Has Remembered Me'

Indie Recordings has confirmed that BORKNAGAR’s upcoming album, Universal, will be released worldwide on February 22nd.

The album will be released in 4 different formats: regular jewlcase CD, limited digipack including bonus disc, CD box with extras and gatefold LP with double vinyl.

Cover art and more information will be revealed shortly.

Some recent words from mastermind/guitarist Øystein G. Brun: "Making of Universal was recorded, edited and produced by the band in order to satisfy you - the fans! This will grant you with a glimpse into the process of making our new album Universal and even a small taste of what is about to come. Four episodes will be launched during this autumn, towards the actual release in early 2010. Hope you enjoy this ride throughout the making of this grandiose album, we certainly did!"

So here it is! Part 1 of the Borknagar Universal studio report!"

UK-based British female fronted symphonic metallers WINTER IN EDEN have announced the release of their debut digital EP, At The Edge Of The World.

At The Edge Of The World was recorded at Trinity Heights studio in Newcastle upon Tyne and produced by Fred Purser (ex-TYGERS OF PAN TAGE, PENETRATION). The EP showcases three tracks of searing metal combined with enchanting vocal and orchestral melodies. A full album will begin recording in January 2010.

Tracklisting for At The Edge Of The World:

'Fate Will Oblige'
'At The Edge Of The World'
'Cry'

The EP is available on iTunes and can be purchased from here.
Winter In Eden are:

Vicky Johnson - Vocals
Steve Johnson - Keyboards
Sam Cull - Guitars
Ian Heddle - Bass
Wayne McAloon ? Drums

Metal vocalist Al Atkins (HOLY RAGE, ex-JUDAS PRIEST) has posted the following message:

"Our new song, 'A Void To Avoid', is now uploaded for all you metalheads to have a listen to. The song features a cameo solo by the incredible Bernie Torme (OZZY OSBOURNE, IAN GILLAN, GMT).

This song, along with 'Give Them Hell' are bonus tracks on the global release of Demon Deceiver Plus, which is available worldwide right now, but will also be featured on the new Holy Rage album to be completed around March 2010.

The band are still in talks with various lables to make this happen. We are confident that by March we will have a brand new release for you all."

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have unveiled the artwork for their new album, Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus - click photo to enlarge.

The album will be released on November 18th via Regain Records.

According to a band update: "The album will be released in a couple of different formats. One of the first officially confirmed information is that the very first editions will be a 2 Disc Limited Edition (containing 1 CD + 1 Live DVD). The bonus live DVD offers approx. 55 minutes of all previously unreleased material. Professionally filmed with six cameras during the band’s highly acclaimed 15th anniversary special show, which has been commended as a 'firestorm' during the P&L Festival in Sweden 2008, cannot be missed! The album will also include the brand new video for 'My Funeral'."

AEROSMITH climbed back in the saddle on October 18th at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Boston rockers are performing two make-up concerts after cancelling a Maui concert two years ago that resulted in a class action lawsuit, then recently cancelling the remainder of their recent tour due to injuries to lead singer Steven Tyler.

The band's setlist was as follows:

'Eat The Rich'
'Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)'
'Rag Doll'
'Walkin' The Dog'
'Dream On'
'Last Child'
'Same Old Song And Dance'
'Stop Messin' Around'
'Love In An Elevator'
'Cryin''
'Draw The Line'
'Livin' On The Edge'
'Walk This Way'
'Sweet Emotion'

Encore:
Joe Perry Guitar Duel'
'Train Kept A Rollin''

On December 14th, Ironbird via Cherry Red Records will be releasing a double CD package bringing together two of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s albums, Deliverance (1994) and Wiseblood (1996).

CD1 – Deliverance
With guitarist Pepper Keenan taking over at the helm as lead singer and principal songwriter, Corrosion Of Conformity abandoned most of the punk influences of their crossover past and turned into a fully-fledged, SABBATH-inspired metal band with the album, Deliverance. Most of the songs on the album are built on monolithic power chords, which range from ferocious speed on Heaven’s Not Overflowing and Senior Limpio to slower, groovier numbers such as 'Broken Man' and 'Albatross'.

Tracklisting:
'Heaven’s Not Overflowing'
'Albatross'
'Clean My Wounds'
'Without Wings'
'Broken Man'
'Senior Limpio'
'Mano De Mano'
'Seven Days'
'#2121313'
'My Grain'
'Deliverance'
'Shake Like You'
'Shelter'
'Pearls Before Swine'

CD2 – Wiseblood
Wiseblood is the closest Corrosion of Conformity got to old school heavy metal yet their fondness for industrial soundbites and thrash-metal kept the group sounding contemporary.

Tracklisting:'
'King Of The Rotten'
'Long Whip/Big America'
'Wiseblood'
'Goodbye Windows'
'Born Again For The Last Time'
'Drowning In A Daydream'
'The Snake Has No Head'
'The Door'
'Man Or Ash'
'Redemption City'
'Wishbone (Some Tomorrow)'
'Fuel'
'Bottom Feeder'

Swiss success Rockers GOTTHARD will visit the holy halls of the Vatican before playing Rome, Italy. The group has been invited by Swiss guardians to come and have a look in the Pope's home.

According to a press release, with the successful album Need To Believe, Gotthard have taught us the belief into true rock music - now the musicians are going to the place that is standing for belief more than anything else. And the visit already takes place on the first day of the tour: On October, 23rd, Gotthard, who just came back from a show in Japan, will start their two months lasting European tour in Rome. Before going on stage for the first time on this tour, the Swiss gentlemen will meet up with Swiss guardians in Vatican - a more than impressive start for a tour that offers a lot of exciting moments - including the German shows with EUROPE as a special guest as well as the France shows with DEEP PURPLE as a headliner.

METALLICA have issued the following update:

On July 7th of this year we were honored to perform at Arenes de Nimes, the historic Roman amphitheatre in Nimes, France, easily one of the most spectacular venues in the world. We thought it would be a memorable night, so we asked our friends in France to bring along a film crew to document the festivities. The result is Francais Pour Une Nuit (translation: French For One Night), the DVD of the evening including the full show, interviews with us, and five videos shot by YOU, our buddies in the audience. All this and more will be available starting November 23rd, 2009!

Francais Pour Une Nuit was extra special for us because not only was it filmed in France, but ALL aspects of the project are French as the show was filmed, recorded, and edited with French camera and recording crews, the artwork on the package and special box set (more on that in a minute!) were created by a French design team; even the credits are in French. The only non-French parts: the three Americans and one Dane on stage and the photos shot by Englishman Ross Halfin.

The DVD will be available in retail stores in France only, at metallica.com, or you may order online through the record company at metallicanimes.com. There will be three formats available: Standard DVD in a digipack including a 16 page booklet, Blu-Ray DVD, also in a digipack with the booklet, and the deluxe limited edition box set (it's actually a tin) that includes the DVD, a copy of Death Magnetic on CD, a T-shirt, laminated pass, and five exclusive photos.

And just in case you couldn't join us that night, here is the set list."

Metallica - Francais Pour Une Nuit DVD tracklisting:

1. Blackened
2. Creeping Death
3. Fuel
4. Harvester Of Sorrow
5. Fade To Black
6. Broken, Beat & Scarred
7. Cyanide
8. Sad But True
9. One
10. All Nightmare Long
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Dyers Eve
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
16. Stone Cold Crazy
17. Motorbreath
18. Seek & Destroy

HE 11TH HOUR, featuring Ed Warby (GOREFEST/HAIL OF BULLETS) and Rogga Johansson (RIBSPREADER/PAGANIZER), have issued the following update:

"Since the album (Burden Of Grief) will be released next week, we're giving you a special treat for this 4th and final preview: the full album version of the song 'Atonement'!

This was the first song to be previewed with a 2 minute teaser, so now you can experience the complete graveyard scene and its conclusion..."

Check out 'Atonement' at this location/

NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon has issued the following update:

"I am at my hotel room in Stockholm after a day full of creating songs in the studio together with Stefan and Johan. Its been really nice and also fun to sit down and making songs together. We have one song that is ready to record some vocals on tomorrow and then two more ideas that we will work more with. Now I just need to write some more lyrics to them, in my own private space.

This will be so great and its so nice to have such great songwriters and musicians to help me with the songs. We work that way that we sit down by the piano and the guitar and just try melodies etc and then I write down lyrics and we try and test the structure of the song. Then Johan goes and puts drums, bass etc in the computer to get the music recorded for me to test-sing it. Then we work from there. It's so nice to create songs like this, I haven't done that since we started ALYSON AVENUE, so its been a while but I'll soon get a hang of it again.

And I really like the sound of it already!

Now: time to write some lyrics writing before I fall asleep...my head's tired.

Sleep well!"

Audio samples from BON JOVI's forthcoming album, The Circle, are currently available at this location. The final tracklist for the album in the North America, Europe, UK and Japan are listed below.

North America:
'The Circle'
'Don't Walk'
'Work For The Working Man'
'We Weren't Born To Follow'
'Thorn In My Side'
'This is Our House'
'Live Before You Die'
'Bullet'
'Broken Promise Land'
'Fast Cars'
'Happy Now'
'Learn To Love'

Europe:
'The Circle'
'Don't Walk'
'Work For The Working Man'
'We Weren't Born To Follow'
'Thorn In My Side'
'This is Our House'
'Live Before You Die'
'Bullet'
'Broken Promise Land'
'Fast Cars'
'Happy Now'
'Learn To Love'
'Time Machine' (bonus track)


UK:
'The Circle'
'Don't Walk'
'Work For The Working Man'
'We Weren't Born To Follow'
'Thorn In My Side'
'This is Our House'
'Live Before You Die'
'Bullet'
'Broken Promise Land'
'Fast Cars'
'Happy Now'
'Learn To Love'
'Time Machine' (bonus track)
'When We Were Beautiful' (bonus track)


Japan:
'The Circle'
'Don't Walk'
'Work For The Working Man'
'We Weren't Born To Follow'
'Thorn In My Side'
'This is Our House'
'Live Before You Die'
'Bullet'
'Broken Promise Land'
'Fast Cars'
'Happy Now'
'Learn To Love'
'Superman Tonight' (bonus track)
'Escape From The City' (bonus track)
'Love's The Only Rule' (bonus track)

German melodic/power metallers MOB RULES have issued the following:

"Here it is! Our new video clip, 'Astral Hand' (see below), taken from the new album Radical Peace, that will be released on November 13th. EP Astral Hand (incl. 4 non-album tracks) is out now!

BTW: this clip entered position #2 in the voting charts on Imusic1 TV. Thank you all for your support and keep on voting."

Mob Rules recently revealed the cover artwork (click image at left to enlarge) for their new album, Radical Peace, which will be released on November 13th (AFM Records).

According to Contactmusic.com, SLAYER's Dave Lombardo is working on a new solo album of world beats.
The drummer is currently touring Australia with the metal band and fellow rockers MEGADETH, but he can't wait to head back to the US and finish his new project, which will be ready for release in 2010.

Lombardo tells Classic Rock magazine, "It will showcase a very different side of me. If you're a metalhead then you may not appreciate a lot of what'll be on it. It's really world music with an edge. It's an opportunity for me to reveal a different side to my playing - much more avant-garde. It won't have any singing, or other instruments apart from drums and percussion. It's my vanity project, I suppose. I've been working on it for a while, and hope to get it finished soon."

EPICA have checked in with the following update:

"Epica has won a Metal Female Voices Fest Award!

Epica has won the first prize in category Best Show and received the award right before the encores of their show at MFVF (last Saturday, October 17th). We would like to thank all fans who have voted for Epica and we would also like to thank Philty and the whole MFVF crew!

Drummerzone.com has posted an online drum clinic with Ariën van Weesenbeek on their website, in which Ariën explains some of the drum parts on Design Your Universe, shares tips and tricks to warm up, goes from a berserker metal style to samba on his kit and reveals some other talents as well. Watch this video footage here."

Ex-AFTER FOREVER vocalist Floor Jansen has returned with a new band, REVAMP, also featuring guitarist Waldemar Sorychta (GRIP INC., ENEMIES OF THE SUN) and keyboardist Joost van den Broek (ex-AFTER FOREVER, STAR ONE). Go to this location for the band's official website.

Following is the official ReVamp bio:

After the break of After Forever, singer Floor Jansen soon decided she wanted to start over and present a new band to the public as soon as possible. To accomplish this she joined forces with two additional songwriters to first compose, then record an album. A live band is soon to be formed after completion, which will get her back on stage where she belongs!

The first composer to join this new collaboration was soon found when Waldemar Sorychta contacted her to inquire about her current activities and potential future cooperation. Being a fan of Grip Inc. this idea of working with Waldemar was a big honor and a first step in creating a sound! Waldemar’s unique style combined with his experience as songwriter/producer made her dream come closer to reality.

The second composer was found in After Forever colleague Joost van den Broek. Asking Joost to join seemed logical because of his great keyboards and arrangements, and therefore his potentially valuable contribution. Despite his busy schedule, he wanted to join and get started immediately. With him on board the songwriting team was complete!

The ReVamp sound will become a unique blend of the personal style we will recognize from these musicians. Combining these individual sounds in one album promises to result in heavy and very metal!

Songs are currently being written and we will soon upload some short samples!"