Roadrunner Records has announced the signing of British progressive rock band PORCUPINE TREE.

One of the most difficult-to-categorize yet innovative acts making music today, PORCUPINE TREE's music ranges from psychedelic trip-hop to progressive rock, and a compendium of other sounds in between.

PORCUPINE TREE has already been a part of the international Roadrunner family; they have been signed to Roadrunner since 2006 and are now transitioning to all territories outside Japan.

Senior VP of A&R for Roadrunner, Monte Conner, says, "PORCUPINE TREE have been making vital and important music for many years now but over the last few years in particular, that musi ...

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Nine-year-old guitar prodigy Yuto Miyazawa performed OZZY OSBOURNE's "Crazy Train" on yesterday's (Monday, May 11) episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". Yuto was then surprised when Ozzy himself was brought out to meet the boy.

Check out video footage below.

Born February 21, 2000 in Tokyo, Japan, Yuto Miyazawa has been playing guitar since the ripe age of three. Although he has had a few guitar lessons, the bulk of his expertise comes from truly wanting to play… all the time. Generally, if he is not in school, he has a guitar in his hands. That love of guitar is quickly making Yuto the Internet's latest addiction, as his videos rack up views on YouTube and Vimeo, an ...

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Veteran Maryland rock quartet CLUTCH is putting the finishing touches on its ninth studio album, titled "Strange Cousins From the West". Produced by CLUTCH and J. Robbins at Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore, the effort is the first CLUTCH studio LP to be released on the band's own Weathermaker Music, through RED Distribution. It will be available both digitally and through retail on July 7. The first single and video, "50,000 Unstoppable Watts" will be officially released prior to Memorial Day weekend.

"Strange Cousins From the West" includes the POPPO'S BLUES BAND cover song "Algo Ha Cambiado", which CLUTCH vocalist Neil Fallon sings in Spanish. Poppo was a legendary Argentinian ...

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On January 7, MEGADETH commenced the recording process for its twelfth studio album at the band's own Vic's Garage studio in San Marcos, California. The CD is once again being helmed by acclaimed British producer Andy "Undie" Sneap, who produced MEGADETH's last album, "United Abominations" (May 2007, Roadrunner Records).

Tentatively due in September via Roadrunner Records, MEGADETH's forthcoming LP will be the group's first with guitarist Chris Broderick, who replaced Glen Drover at the end of 2007.

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following update on the band's official web site:

"Well, some of you have no doubt heard the samples of the songs th ...

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In light of the major event that is the releasing of Heaven and Hell's album, The Devil You Know, the staff at Metal Reviews are again taking a break from our normal review cycle to pay homage to the fathers of heavy metal, Black Sabbath. Enjoy!

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U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine recently conducted an interview with Fenriz (real name: Gylve Fenris Nagell), the drummer and lyricist of the two-piece Norwegian black metal band DARKTHRONE. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

Terrorizer: So where are you at with the next DARKTHRONE album?

Fenriz: We recorded six songs; we have to do like three more, I think. So we basically have three-fourths of the album done and we started writing for that, at least I did, in June last year so it overlaps. People look at it like we have several releases but for us it's just one big tune and we cut it off as we go along.

Terrorizer: Sort of like a sausage machine, you feed t ...

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Karagiannidis Panagiotis of Metalpaths recently conducted an interview with André Olbrich, lead guitarist of the German power metal band BLIND GUARDIAN. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Metalpaths: So what are your activities in this period of time, what are your latest news?

Olbrich: Well, the latest news is that we started the songwriting one year ago and we have almost seven songs ready so far. We have already recorded two songs last year and now, for since like two months, we are recording four more. The drums are ready already so we started the guitar work now and I think that we will be recording the whole summer. In between, though, we are going ...

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Video footage of U.K.'s psychedelic brutal death metal masters MITHRAS performing the song "Tomb Of Kings" at the Day Of Unrest on December 14, 2008 can be viewed below.

Commented the band: "The video online is just a rough taster of the show, recorded with two cameras and professionally recorded, then mixed and edited at Dreaming Studios by MITHRAS guitarist Leon Macey. Songs from the show will feature on the forthcoming MITHRAS release titled 'Sands Of Time', which marks the 10-year milestone of the bands existence. 'Sands Of Time' will be released concurrently in two parts, a CD showcasing unreleased MITHRAS material, all the band's released demos and some rarities all given th ...

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Former THE GATHERING singer Anneke van Giersbergen has issued the following update on her AGUA DE ANNIQUE project:

"We are busy bees here; building our studio, writing the new songs, rehearsing and preparing for the last shows we will do before we 'disappear' for a little while and record the new album. We will play a nice mixture of rock and acoustic songs and we'll try out some brand new tunes while we are at it! When you have the chance, come and check us out. It will be good!

"After the shows we will enter our newly build studio. At the moment we have 11 songs ready to be tracked, but I'm still working on stuff. We'll be joined by some additional artists, with whom ...

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Wisconsin death metallers JUNGLE ROT will release their new album, "What Horrors Await", via Austria's Napalm Records on teh following dates:

April 30 - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, France, Italy, Sweden
May 4 - Rest of Europe
May 19 - USA, Canada

The CD was recorded at Studio One in Racine, Wisconsin with longtime engineer Chris Djuricic. Artwork for the release was handled by Gyula Havancsák (DESTRUCTION, ANNIHILATOR, GRAVE DIGGER).

"What Horrors Await" track listing:

01. Worst Case Scenario
02. The Unstoppable
03. Straightjacket Life
04. State Of War
05. Two Faced Disgrace
06. End Of An Age
07. ...

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