New Slayer Song Psychopathy Red available for Streaming

The brand new song from thrash legends Slayer, "Psychopathy Red", is now available for streaming below. Slayer's new album is expected to be released in Summer of 2009.

Another new Slayer clip posted

Another new Slayer clip has been posted of them working on their new song "Psychopathy Red" in the studio. The albums is expected to be released in Summer of 2009.

Slayer is currently out touring on the Unholy Alliance III Tour in Europe.

New Slayer Song Clip: "Psychopathy Red"

A new video of Slayer working on a brand new track, "Psychopathy Red", has been posted online. The video shows the band tracking with engineer Greg Fiddleman. Slayer's new album is expected to be released in Summer of 2009.

Coldplay and Jay-Z remix

The new Coldplay remix of "Lost" featuring Jay-Z and entitled "Lost+" is available for streaming below:

Britney sets record setting jump on Billboard Hot 100

Britney Spears makes a near-maximum 96-1 rise with "Womanizer," returning to the top of the list for the first time since her debut single "...Baby One More Time" hit No. 1 in January 1999.

This is the third time in the past two months that the mark for the biggest jump to No. 1 has been shattered. On the Hot 100 dated Sept. 6, T.I. soared 71-1 with "Whatever You Like" and last week he sprinted 80-1 with "Live Your Life."

Spears' single is spurred by first-week download sales of 286,000, the biggest opening-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in 2003, besting Mariah Carey's take for "Touch My Body" by just over 200 units.

In between her nearly 10-year gap between No. 1s, Spears has placed four other top 10s on the Hot 100, the last being "Gimme More," the first single from her last set, "Blackout." That song jumped 68-3 last October with first-week download sales of 179,000.

"Womanizer" previews Spears' sixth studio set "Circus," due Dec. 2 via Jive.
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Listen to the first single "Womanizer" below:

Machine Head to release "The Blackening" Special Edition

Machine Head are proud to announce the release of the special edition version of The Blackening, their Grammy-nominated masterwork. Hailed unanimously as the best metal album of 2007 by journalists, metal radio stations and fans alike, it earned a Grammy nomination for the fan-favorite track, "Aesthetics of Hate" and all the while Machine Head continue to earn "the hardest working band" title with over 19 months on the road in support of The Blackening (with 5 U.S. tours alone) and no signs of stopping soon.

The Blackening Special Edition is two disc CD/DVD set that will feature an assortment of extras, including rare bonus tracks such as covers of Iron Maiden's "Hallowed Be Thy Name", over an hour of live performance footage from With Full Force, Download and Rock in Rio festivals, three uncensored music videos for "Aesthetics of Hate," "Now I Lay Thee Down" and "Halo," a "making of" featurette on each video, "The Making of The Blackening" and expanded artwork. Plus, what many hardcore fans have been rabidly waiting for, 4 never-before-seen performances of Machine Head celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut album, Burn My Eyes, captured in Philadelphia in 2004. This special edition is a must have for any fan of this Bay Area band that is steadily carving out "legendary status" for itself within the metal scene.

Machine Head spent the summer headlining the second stage of the first annual Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival and the band will cap off two extremely successful years as direct support on Metallica's U.S. headline tour in December and January 2009. Metallica frontman James Hetfield was quoted as telling Revolver, "The Blackening", unbelievable. Unbelievable sound and power. It sounds like a band on fire. They have really turned it on again for me."

The Blackening Special Edition is due in stores October 28, 2008.

Disc 1: Cd

1. Clenching The Fists of Dissent
2. Beautiful Mourning
3. Aesthetics of Hate
4. Now I Lay Thee Down
5. Slanderous
6. Halo
7. Wolves
8. A Farewell To Arms
9. Hallowed Be Thy Name (Bonus Track)
10. Battery (Bonus Track)

Disc 2: DVD

LIVE PERFORMANCES

1. Clenching The Fists Of Dissent (With Full Force 2008)
2. Now I Lay Thee Down (With Full Force 2008)
3. Halo (With Full Force 2008)
4. Aesthetics Of Hate (Rock In Rio 2008)
5. Davidian (Rock In Rio 2008)
6. Imperium (Download 2007)
7. Old (Download 2007)
8. A Thousand Lies (Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004)
9. The Rage To Overcome (Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004)
10. Death Church (Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004)
11. Blood For Blood (Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004)

Music Videos

1. Halo
2. Now I Lay Thee Down
3. Aesthetics of Hate
(Plus a "Making Of" feature for each video)

Making of The Blackening
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View the trailer for the release below:

LINKIN PARK To Release 'Road To Revolution' CD/DVD In November

Multi-platinum two-time Grammy-winning rock band LINKIN PARK has announced a November 25 release date for "Road To Revolution" (Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros. Records), an action-packed CD/DVD combo featuring 18 of the group's biggest hits recorded live in concert.

The double-disc set captures the band's June 29, 2008 show at the Milton Keynes National Bowl during the sold-out European leg of this past summer's Projekt Revolution tour. LINKIN PARK's Projekt Revolution has become one of the summer concert season's annual heavyweights and the Milton Keynes gig — played to a packed house crowd of almost 50,000 people — was the biggest in the tour's six-year history.

"Over the course of the past few years, we've played more than two hundred Projekt Rev shows to hundreds of thousands of fans, and while each of those gigs has been special, the Milton Keynes show has been one of the most memorable," says LINKIN PARK co-lead vocalist Chester Bennington. "It was one of those nights where the band and audience come together as one, and we wanted to share that experience with the fans that couldn't be there."

Packed in recyclable eco-friendly materials, "Road To Revolution" features hidden bonus tracks and an eye-popping multi-page booklet that includes exclusive, never-before-seen live photos. The CD/DVD set highlights a mix of new hits, including latest single "Leave Out All The Rest", classic tracks such as "Breaking The Habit" and "Crawling" and two special performances — "Jigga What/Faint" and "Numb/Encore" — featuring Grammy-winning rapper Jay-Z. In 2005, "Numb/Encore" was awarded a Grammy for "Best Rap/Sung Collaboration."

"Road To Revolution" track listing is as follows:

01. One Step Closer
02. From The Inside
03. No More Sorrow
04. Given Up
05. Lying From You
06. Hands Held High
07. Leave Out All the Rest
08. Numb
09. The Little Things Give You Away
10. Breaking the Habit
11. Shadow of the Day
12. Crawling
13. In the End
14. Pushing Me Away
15. What I've Done
16. Numb/Encore (featuring Jay-Z)
17. Jigga What/Faint (featuring Jay-Z)
18. Bleed It Out

Chris Cornell Postpones Solo Album?

Reports have indicated that Chris Cornell's new solo album "Scream" has been delayed once again to a undetermined 2009 release. The album has already been posted once, and was scheduled for a 11/04/08 release, but now will not appear until 2009. No reason has yet been stated for the delay.

Chris has also released tour dates for appearances with Timbaland and for solo dates:

Album launch performance dates

Chris & Timbaland Perform Together:
Oct. 17 Denver, CO Ogden Theater
Oct. 18 Salt Lake City, UT The Avalon Theater
Oct. 19 Tempe, AZ Marquee
Oct. 24 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
Oct. 25 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
Oct. 26 San Diego, CA House of Blues
Oct. 31 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
Nov. 2 Seattle, WA Showbox
Chris Cornell Solo Dates:
Oct. 21 Tucson, AZ Fox Tucson Theater
Oct. 22 Ventura, CA Ventura Theater
Oct. 28 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
Oct. 29 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
Nov. 1 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
Nov. 6 Coquitlam, BC Red Robinson Theater
Nov. 7 Kamloops, BC Interior Savings Centre
Nov. 8 Banff, AB Wild Bill's (special radio show)
Nov 10 Edmonton, AB Edmonton Events Centre
Nov 11 Calgary, AB Macewan Hall (Univ. Of Calgary)
Nov 12 Bonnyville, AB Bonnyville & District Centennial Centre
Nov 14 Saskatoon, SK Odeon Events Centre
Nov 15 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre
Nov 18 London, ON Centennial Hall
Nov 19 Hamilton, ON Wentworth Room
Nov 21 Toronto, ON Kool Haus
Nov 22 Ottawa, ON Ottawa Civic Center
Nov 23 Montreal, QC Metropolis

Listen to Chris Cornell's Latest Single "Scream" below:

Linkin Park Cancels Asia Tour

Linkin Park has been forced to cancel their upcoming Music For Relief Concerts in Mainland China, Macau and Taipei as lead vocalist Chester Bennington has sustained a back injury and is under doctor's orders to refrain from traveling or any physical activities. Linkin Park sincerely regrets this unavoidable cancellation and apologizes to fans for any disappointment caused. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase.

The concerts were organized as fundraisers to benefit Sichuan, an area ravaged by a devastating earthquake this past May. However, thanks to generous donations from concert promoter Emma Ticketmaster and Linkin Park, funds will still be contributed to the band’s nonprofit organization, Music for Relief, and matched by the World Bank. These funds will benefit post-earthquake reconstruction projects in the Sichuan Province initiated by Chinese Civil Society Organizations.

The cancelled shows are as follows:
Oct. 12 - Shanghai, China - Shanghai Stadium
Oct. 15 - Wuhan, China - Xinhua Stadium
Oct. 17 - Taipei, Taiwan - Taipei Soccer Stadium
Oct. 19 - Beijing, China - Beijing Workers Stadium
Oct. 21 - Macau, China Cotai Arena - The Venetian

Lars Ulrich Speaks about Sound Quality of new album

“Listen, there’s nothing up with the audio quality. It’s 2008, and that’s how we make records. [Producer] Rick Rubin’s whole thing is to try and get it to sound lively, to get it to sound loud, to get it to sound exciting, to get it to jump out of the speakers. Of course, I’ve heard that there are a few people complaining. But I’ve been listening to it the last couple of days in my car, and it sounds fuckin’ smokin’.

“Somebody told me about [people complaining that the Guitar Hero version of Death Magnetic sounds better]. Listen, what are you going to do? A lot of people say [the CD] sounds great, and a few people say it doesn’t, and that’s OK. You gotta remember, when we put out …And Justice for All, people were going, ‘What happened to these guys, this record? There’s no bass on it. It sounds like it was recorded in a fuckin’ garage on an eight-track.’ And now …And Justice for All is sort of the seminal Metallica record that supposedly influenced a whole generation of death-metal bands. The difference between back then and now is the Internet.

“The Internet gives everybody a voice, and the Internet has a tendency to give the complainers a louder voice. Listen, I can’t keep up with this shit. Part of being in Metallica is that there’s always somebody who’s got a problem with something that you’re doing: ‘James Hetfield had something for breakfast that I don’t like.’ That’s part of the ride.

“I will say that the overwhelming response to this new record has exceeded even our expectations as far as how positive it is. So I’m not gonna sit here and get caught up in whether [the sound] ‘clips’ or it doesn’t ‘clip.’ I don’t know what kind of stereos these people listen on. Me and James [Hetfield] made a deal that we would hang back a little and not get in the way of whatever Rick’s vision was. That’s not to put it on him - it’s our record, I’ll take the hit, but we wanted to roll with Rick’s vision of how Metallica would sound.” (Blender)