A new OPETH track, entitled "The Lotus Eater", has been made available for free download at this location. The song comes off the Swedish metallers' new album, "Watershed", which is scheduled for release on June 3 via Roadrunner Rec ...

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"When You Were Shouting At The Devil...We Were In League With Satan", the new video from ZIMMERS HOLE — the Vancouver-based project featuring guitarist Jed Simon and bassist Byron Stroud of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD alongside legendary drummer Gene Hoglan (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, TESTAMENT, DEATH, DARK ANGEL) — can be viewed below.

Jed Simon sat out ZIMMERS HOLE's recent Canadian shows due to family health issues.

An e-card for "When You Were Shouting At The Devil...We Were In League With Satan", the new album from ZIMMERS HOLE, is available at

Finnish metallers KALMAH have posted the title track of their fifth full-length album, "For the Revolution", on their MySpace page. Due on April 2 via Spikefarm Records, the CD's cover artwork was designed by former SENTENCED drummer Vesa Ranta, who was also responsible for the artwork of KALMAH's previous album, "The Black Waltz".

"For the Revolution" was recorded at Tico Tico studio in Kemi, Finland with producer Ahti Kortelainen and was mastered at the Cutting Room in Sweden.
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Finnish metallers THUNDERSTONE have posted a version of the song "Holdin' On To My Pain" featuring new singer Rick Altzi from Sweden. Check it out on the band's MySpace page. Rick has contributed his wonderful voice to many metal albums, most recently with German group AT VANCE (a band which he is still a member of).

Last August saw THUNDERSTONE part ways with vocalist Pasi Rantanen and keyboard player Kari Tornack, leaving fans wondering about the future of the band. The group, however, did not rest on its heels and did a full European tour in October-Decembe ...

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A new CHILDREN OF BODOM song, entitled "Banned From heaven", is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the Finnish metal group's forthcoming album, "Blooddrunk", duein North America on April 15 via Spinefarm/Fontana International. The CD is due in Europe on April 7 via Spinefarm Records (two days later in Finland). Check out the album artwork here.

CHILDREN OF BODOM fan site Scythes ...

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METALLICA has made its August 17, 1985 performance from Donington Park, Donington, UK available for free download via its official download site, LiveMetallica.com.

The setlist for the 45-minute concert was as follows:

01. Creeping Death
02. Ride The Lightning
03. The Four Horsemen
04. Fade To Black
05. Seek And Destroy
06. Whiplash
07. Motorbreath

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich told Examiner.com in an October 2007 interview that the band's upcoming album will be "heavier" yet more "melodic" than 2003's controversial

German metallers AXXIS have posted the title track of their new album, "Doom of Destiny", on their MySpace page. Due in Europe on November 19 (November 16 in Germany) via AFM Records, the CD is the band's first record with new

EXODUS' video for the song "Riot Act" can be viewed below. The track comes off the group's new album, "The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A", which sold 3,60 ...

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Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have released their video for the song "The Sacrilegious Scorn". The clip, which was helmed by renowned cover artist Joachim Luetke, can be viewed below.

"The Sacrilegious Scorn" comes off the band's latest offering, "In Sorte Diaboli", which topped the Norwegian album chart upon it release in May 2007.

As previously reported, a

Raleigh, North Carolina-based progressive metalcore quintet BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME has made its entire new album, "Colors", available for streaming on the group's MySpace page. Due on September 18 via Victory Records, "Colors" was previously described by BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME as "a 65-minute opus of non-stop pummeling beautiful music. We have described this release as 'adult contemporary death prog metal.'"

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME's last release was a reissue of the "The Silent Circus" album, which originally came out in 2003. In addition to the LP' ...

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