Few bands inspire such fanaticism among their fans as DREAM THEATER. The best way to satiate this dedicated legion is to provide them with even more material to devour and DREAM THEATER are doing just that this September. The band will release "Chaos In Motion 2007/2008", which documents their "Chaos In Motion" world tour, which kicked off June 3, 2007 at the Monsters of Rock festival in Milan, Italy and concluded almost a year to the day later on June 4, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It's essentially a travelogue of their most recent touring experience and it hits shelves on September 23. "Chaos In Motion 2007/2008" will be available in two configu ...

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Kerrang! magazine recently spoke to DRAGONFORCE guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman about the group's forthcoming album, "Ultra Beatdown". Watch the five-minute chat below.

DRAGONFORCE has posted a new song, "Heroes Of Our Time", on its MySpace page. The track comes off "Ultra Beatdown", which is scheduled for release on August 25 via Roadrunner Records.

"Ultra Beatdown" track listing:

01. Heroes Of Our Time
02. The Fire Still Burns
03. Reasons To Live
04. Scars Of Yesterday
05. Heartbreak Arma ...

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Brazilian thrashers SEPULTURA entered the studio last month to begin recording their new album, which is based on the Anthony Burgess novel "A Clockwork Orange" (later turned into the classic film by Stanley Kubrick). Bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. has issued the following update: "Tonight [June 27] is basically our last day of recording of the new material for the new album!!! So far we're very happy with the results!!! Tomorrow morning we will be coming back to the studio to listen to the whole material to make sure that everything is in the right place for the mixing that will be starting on the next July 12th!!! Hope to see all on tour before the end of ...

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Swedish Viking metallers AMON AMARTH have set "Twilight of the Thundergod" as the title of their seventh full-length album, due this fall via Metal Blade Records. The CD title was revealed by AMON AMARTH frontman Johan Hegg during an interview with the "Tinitus" radio show, which airs on Norway's P3.

"Twilight of the Thundergod" was recorded at Fascination Street Studio in Örebro, Sweden and will include such songtitles as "Guardians of Asgaard", "Live for the Kill" and "Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags".

The sixth part of the band's studio video diary — featuring the band packing up and he ...

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Radio Metal has posted a new interview with Aaron Rossi in which the MINISTRY drummer discusses the incident that took place on June 24, 2008 at the band's concert at Havana Café in Toulouse, France. According to the official explanation offered by the group and the venue, MINISTRY's show had to be stopped after a fan allegedly jumped up on stage and attempted to attack the band with tear gas. However, some fans that attended the concert allege that it was in fact the security personnel's attitude that led to the incident by using tear gas on the audience. An excerpt from the interview follows.

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Tarot Productions, the label run by Proscriptor McGovern (a.k.a. Russ R. Givens), leader of the Texas-based mythological occult metal outfit ABSU, has just released "726", the latest excursion from Proscriptor. According to a press release, "this is visionary esoteric music that remains unpredictable yet magic(k)al. Psychedelic and ethereal eccentricities merge against a fluent beat reminiscent of '70s krautrock, spacerock and new age. Unlike his occult metal commands in ABSU, Proscriptor pushes the threshold of eclectic music and expression and proves it through '726'. This is the first and only instrumental album by Proscriptor. Most ...

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Italian power metal band RHAPSODY OF FIRE (formerly known as RHAPSODY) has issued the following update:

"First of all, thank you for all the patience you had in these last times despite the lack of news regarding the band.

"We wanted to inform you that we are in the middle of a hard legal fight with MCM [MANOWAR's Magic Circle Music] and [the company's] main representative Mr. Joey De Maio [MANOWAR bassist/leader]. That's the reason why in the last months we had to keep all strictly confidential and could not release any official declaration that could obviously be used against us from the opposite side. And that's also the reas ...

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Guitarist Gary Holt of the veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS has issued the following update:

"While anxiously awaiting our return to Europe for the festival run, we have been quietly working on the 'Bonded By Blood' re-recording in our time off. Rob [Dukes, vocals] is currently doing vocals in New York, Lee [Altus, guitar] is doing his solos and I have some touch-ups to do on July 4th. Everything sounds crushing! Guitars are brutal, Tom's [Hunting] drumming is sick, Rob sounds heavier than ever. I am totally stoked. While working on this, I have been securing the talent for the 25th anniversary versio ...

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Legendary bay area thrashers LAAZ ROCKIT will release their first new album in 17 years, "Left for Dead" on July 25th via Massacre Records. To tide fans over until that date, the label has released the opening track, 'Brain Wash' for pre-listening on the label's MySpace page.

Track listing will be as follows:

1. Brain Wash (3:34)
2. Delirium Void (3:39)
3. Erased (3:47)
4. My Euphoria (3:53)
5. Ghost in the Mirror (4:47)
6. Turmoil (5:25)
7. Liar (4:39)
8. Desolate Oasis (7:58)
9. No Man (3:31)
10. Outro (8:25)

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"Sadistic Magician", the new video from Virginian thrashers MUNICIPAL WASTE, can be viewed below. The clip was shot last month at the formidable Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant in Playa del Ray, California. Directed by Jeff Speed of 1134