Michael Jackson's Thriller Gets Metal Makeover

With a ten second snippet of twenty separate artists spanning various genres (and three narrators thrown in for good measure), Anthony manages to turn Michael Jackson's shining moment into the musical styles of various hard rock heroes.

The news stylings sound like Misfits, Ozzy Osbourne, Marilyn Manson, Cannibal Corpse, Rob Zombie, Tenacious D, Type O Negative and Avenged Sevenfold. Check it out here.

Pete Townshend Says He Hates The Who and Touring

As well as the tour which kicks off in Glasgow on November 30, The Who are celebrating their 50th anniversary with the 2CD set The Who Hits 50, released on November 3.

But guitarist Townshend says he isn't looking forward to the year-long jaunt, even if playing live is second nature to him. According to the Toronto Sun, Townshend tells Event magazine: "It seemed like a good idea about six months ago but I hate performing and The Who and touring. But I'm innately good at it, I don't find it hard."

Read more here.

Slash Previews Upcoming TV Specials

Part of the Guitar Center's 50th anniversary celebrations, the 90-minute concert special sees Slash and the band perform tracks from his career, including "Paradise City", "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Slither" and "Night Train", as well as songs from his new album, "World on Fire".

The Roxy was one of three concerts Slash played in Hollywood's most legendary clubs to launch his new album; he also rocked The Troubadour and The Whisky in the same week.

"Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Live From The Sunset Strip" will be broadcast Friday, November 7 at 9pm on DIRECTV's Audience Channel 239.

The Roxy show will be followed by the documentary, "Slash - Raised On The Sunset Strip", on November 13 at 10pm Check out the preview videos for both shows here.

The Dead Weather Release New Track Buzzkill(er)

Today brings another step forward with "Buzzkill(er)." The track is a sonic continuation of "Rough Detective," the last new song heard from the supergroup back in January, and, before that, "Open Up (That's Enough)."

It's rough-edged, punk-spirited and, on it, frontwoman Alison Mosshart's vocals cutting like a razor blade. When "Rough Detective" and "Open Up" were released, Jack White's Third Man Records said of the tracks in a press release that they're "unlike anything else the band has ever done and are both ample reminders of the ferocity of this motley collection of low-lifes, grifters and ne'er-do-wells. These songs are not throw-aways. These songs are not demos. These songs are not outtakes."

It seems the same applies to "Buzzkill(er)." Listen here.

Pete Wentz Feared Fall Out Boy Reunion Would Spoil His Happiness

And he admits there was "trepidation" about whether the band would disrupt that peace. Wentz tell the Metro: "I didn't know what to do with myself. My personal life was a hot mess. So I decided I was going to get happy on my own. I took my kid to pre-school, I went to my local coffee shop.

"I thought, 'I'm happy now and I don't know whether adding Fall Out Boy back into the mix will mess with that.' So there was a bit of trepidation." Read more here.

Tarja Has Ignored Nightwish Since Firing

And apart from snippets she's heard on the radio, Tarja has heard none of the band's material since then - and says she has no desire to seek it out. She tells Metalpaths: "I haven't been listening to their albums - I haven't been interested in listening to their albums. I don't know the music. I heard some songs on the radio, but that's all I know."

Tarja's replacement Anette Olzon was herself replaced, by Floor Jansen in 2012. And in her solo career, Tarja has resisted the temptation to live off her Nightwish glory days.

She adds: "Of course, it's a part of history - it's a very important part of my musical history. It brought me where I am. I don't have any problems with that. It really showed me a totally new direction musically in my life.

"It's hypothetical to think where I would be if I wouldn't have chosen to sing that first demo that was offered to me. But, on the other hand, I have a life of my own." Read more here.

The Velcro Lewis Group Release Party Video

The video follows a reveller attending three different parties. At the first, he fills up on a spiked punch before going on to enjoy an increasingly psychedelic night out with a spectacular climax.

"The best parties are weird parties," says Velco. "When someone takes command of the stereo, turning off the Starbucks' Acid Jazz comp and throwing on the Bootsy Collins and then some creep wearing a medallion doses the punch. People get free, people lose it. Someone conjures a demon. You have to let yourself transform for the moment but you don't need Halloween to be a freak... so give it up on Arbor Day, Grandparents' Day, Thursday�".

Watch the video here.

Devin Townsend Releases Latest Ziltoid TV Episode

ZTV promotes Townsend's latest album, Z2, which continues the story of the coffee-swilling alien. It was released yesterday and contains two separate titles - Devin Townsend Project set Sky Blue plus Dark Matter, the follow-up to 2007's Ziltoid The Omniscient.

The Canadian mastermind recently said: "The album in general is about fighting through the ugly moments. Z2 was a very challenging record - but after intense personal scrutiny, I feel very proud. It's the most accurate representation of a challenging time."

Watch the episode here.

Blueneck Streaming Man Of Lies

Denovali Records say: "The band's three key musical influences go some way to explaining King Nine's ambitious, expansive, but always accessible scope:

"The electronica of Boards of Canada; the movie soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter; the melodicism and melancholia of Kid-A era Radiohead and Arcade Fire."

Listen to the track here.

Preview Released For KingBathmat Offshoot Arcade Messiah

He tells MetalMouth: "After writing and producing numerous KingBathmat albums and more recently the acoustic solo album Unearth, I decided I wanted to create my first instrumental album. I wanted it to be set audibly and visually in a dark, bleak and apocalyptic aura of despair and anger.

"I wanted to focus on enormous riffs and sorrowful, yet powerful, musical refrains and place them within a terrain of unusual time signatures, interspersed by moments of psychedelic calm."

Read more and check out the trailer here.

Rise Against Fueled By Adrenaline On The Road

"It's pure adrenaline. Rise Against ensures I'll never be able to fake it. I physically could not fake that," He tells Kerrang. "The whole day I wonder myself, 'Where am I going to get the energy to do that again? How is this going to happen?' It's one of those things where I'm glad someone just kicks me out there. If they didn't, I'd just say, 'There's no way! I can't do it tonight.'

"But eventually you end up on that stage and at that point things just kick in, the kind of song that I was unable to sing in the dressing room half hour before suddenly comes out in front of all those people. It all clicks." Read more here.

Singled Out: Donora's Always Gonna Be

The obvious message of "Always Gonna Be" is the prevalence of love, no matter the distance. No matter how far apart you are, you're always and forever connected. That's the meaning I think most people will take away from the song, and that's great! It makes for a nice, happy love song (and I like nice, happy love songs).

When I was originally writing the lyrics, however, I was looking at it from a slightly different angle. I was basing the song on this idea that once you find someone or something to make you feel not so alone in the world, you never have to feel lonely again. All you have to do is "think back to the memory." Just the knowledge that you're not the only person in the world who feels a certain way or thinks a certain way is enough. No one can take that memory away from you. It's yours to look back on and to comfort you forever.

We've been lucky enough to have some of our music featured in videos for PostSecret in the past. I love the idea behind PostSecret, and what I think is most incredible about it is that people recognize their own secrets in a stranger's. And they realize they're not alone. They never have to meet that person or talk with that stranger. Just knowing someone out there shares their secret can be a weight lifted off. So I suppose that's where the inspiration for this song came from.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album right here!

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