That's not the only killer news for U.S. metal fans today: Down - the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring Corrosion Of Conformity guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod, Superjoint Ritual guitarist), bassist Rex Brown (ex-Pantera), guitarist Kirk Windstein (Crowbar), and vocalist Philip Anselmo (Superjoint Ritual, ex-Pantera) - has scheduled a string of U.S. dates. more

Ozzy Osbourne's video for the new Scream song 'Let It Die' starts with him and his band recording the song in the studio and then jumps straight into an amazing live concert performance with insane fan-footage. To see the incredible performance, click here

Underoath and Thursday have teamed up to bring you an extremely exclusive and limited edition split 7" featuring "Paper Lung" from Underoath's most recent effort "� Disambiguation," and a brand new song called "Past and Future Ruins" from Thursday's upcoming full-length album more

Dave Matthews Band is taking 2011 off from touring, but the group is planning to headline their own festivals this summer to celebrate their 20th anniversary together. more

Arcade Fire will play their largest-ever headlining gig in Europe, as Spinner reports the band will top the bill at Hyde Park in London on June 30. Mumford & Sons will open the show at the venue more

Frank Sinatra has been given the metal treatment. Seriously, Ol' Blue Eyes is celebrated on the cunningly titled SIN-atra, which features some of his most famous songs interpreted by top hard rock and metal vocalists. more

August Burns Red has solidified plans to enter the studio on February 14th to commence recording their fourth album. The band will re-team with producer/engineer Jason Suecof (All That Remains, Whitechapel) at his Audio Hammer Studios near Orlando, FL more

KISS has just announced a headlining show at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida on March 17th. more

French producer/DJ David Guetta revealed to MTV News that he has been talking with Bono about working with U2 on new material. more

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus singer Ronnie Winter confirmed that their new album is finished and the band is in the final stages of preparing it for release. more

3 Doors Down has dubbed their new album Time Of My Life, and it comes out on April 12. The band recorded with producer Howard Benson in Los Angeles more

Mercenary will release their sixth album, "Metamorphosis," in North America via Prosthetic Records on March 29. more

Chimaira has signed a new record deal with eOne Music for North America, South America and Japan. more

Agnostic Front, have revealed the cover art and track listing to their upcoming record entitled My Life My Way. Cover artwork was brought to life this time by artist Todd Hubber, who also works with vocalist Roger Miret on designing his street wear clothing line American Made Kustom more

On this day in 1967, The Beatles made a last-minute remix of "Penny Lane" before the pressing of their next double A-sided single "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane." Both songs were originally intended for forthcoming Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Osbourne stressed, however, that nothing is definite yet, in part because of the pressure the four of them will face if they make a new record. "The problem that we have," said Ozzy, "is that if we do an album and it's anything less than where we left off, it's gonna be a big anticlimax."

Not for "Best International Band." Not for "Best Live Band." No. GNR leader Axl Rose has been named a finalist in the "Villain Of The Year" category.

"We have probably three songs we wrote a couple two three months ago," Shaffer said. "We went into the studio, we wrote some songs, Jon [vocalist Jonathan Davis] demoed the songs on his computer, and then we took them into the studio and played them live and tweaked them a little bit. Then we put those down and recorded them."

The AP reports a surgical team at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix performed the procedure Monday.

The song comes from the band's new album "Vices & Virtues" will be released March 29th, but fans can get the single next Tuesday, February 1st.

The new tour will kick off on April 26th in Albuquerque, NM and is in support for the group's brand new album Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes.

"I didn't realize it was so soon," he told Spinner.com. "First, we have to actually get inducted. I know we'll be eligible, but with the way that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is sort of hit or miss with rock bands, there is a possibility that we won't get nominated next year."

The set will feature the original double-disc album in both digital and vinyl formats, expanded to include newly remastered tracks. Here is the official word with all the details: In the world of rock there are recordings that truly resonate in historical importance and continue to cast an enduring shadow of influence. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is one of the most steadfastly revered musical treasures of its era. Its famous title track is still hailed as an essential rock guitar anthem, a signature tune of rock's leading guitar hero, Eric Clapton.

Billy Joel - Live At Shea Stadium will be available in a CD/DVD set as well as a stand-alone DVD and stand-alone Blu-ray Disc.

The streaming audio � complete with old-school cassette graphics � features unreleased tracks from the band's upcoming Simon Werner a Disparu soundtrack album, as well as an acoustic version of "Star Power" from the TV show Gossip Girl, Daydream Nation demos and other rarities.

The Canadian itinerary runs through April 18, and is followed by several Midwestern dates in the US.

Originally, the disc was going to be called "The Soundtrack"; it's now been changed to "The Taking."

A new track cut from Welcome Home Armageddon, 'Front Row Seats to The End of the World', is available for download now at ProjectRodney.com here

The album, released last fall, featured traditional tunes or songs by other writers and the same has gone for the tour so far � although it also has included refashioned Led Zeppelin material and Plant solo songs.

Joe Bonamassa will release his twelfth full-length solo album, Dust Bowl, on March 22, 2011. This is Bonamassa's ninth studio release on his own J&R Adventures label, which he created with longtime manager Roy Weisman. Dust Bowl was produced by Kevin "Caveman" Shirley (Black Crowes, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin) making it their sixth collaboration in five years. Shirley most recently produced Bonamassa's 2010 release Black Rock, which debuted at #1 on Billboard's Blues Chart and #39 on the Top 200, and the 2010 debut album from Black Country Communion, Bonamassa's English-American rock band with Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple), Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin, Foreigner) and Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Billy Idol).

Rumor has it that Henley will collaborate with many heavy-hitting country stars on the album, although no names appear to have escaped the studio walls thus far.

"I Remember" by Psychotic Waltz - I chose to write about this song because it really sticks in my mind how it came about. When I was 17 years old, I sang in a garage cover band called FaultLine. We played current hits of the day and classic rock. I wasn't particularly into the band, but I was talked into singing in a "why not?" sort of mentality. In our time together we also wrote two or three originals. One of which was called "A Social Grace". It sounded kinda like Iron Maiden actually. It was in a fast 4/4 tempo and the vocal melody was sung up very high. I was not particularly thrilled with the song for some reason. Then one day I was just walking home and I began to think about that melody. In my mind, I transposed the melody down an octave and imagined singing it over a Jethro-Tull-ish acoustic arrangement in a � swing time. I could clearly hear a new chord change under the melody and I kept singing it in my mind over and over until I got home. I immediately took my acoustic guitar and raked out the new chord structure almost instinctively. My hands just went to the exact right chords, even one chord which to this day I still don't know what it is, but my hand just went right to it and it sounded just as it did in my mind. It came out of me just like magic, with virtually no effort on my part. The old lyrics no longer fit to the sound so I immediately wrote new lyrics on the spot.

"I remember a story of great battles won
And the tales of our heroes who died by the gun
While the rest looked and smiled at the freedom they've won
But the weight of the chains slows the run�"

I finished that song in one sitting. This is the first song I ever wrote in my imagination. That is to say that the song wrote itself and played in my head like a radio. I didn't really write it, I learned it I guess you could say. It wrote itself.

Another interesting part of that songs development came a few years later when I brought that song into Psychotic Waltz. I was living at Wards house at the time, sleeping on his couch. I had a dream one night that I had a little 45rpm single of "I Remember" and I played it on a record player (anyone know what that is?). The strange thing about it was during the last verse, there were these harmonies (or counter melodies rather) being sung, which I had not written for the song, but they were there on the record. I thought it sounded beautiful. So when we recorded the song in the studio, I added these harmonies on the last verse which I heard in the dream. The funny thing about it is, we actually pressed a 45rpm single of "Only In a Dream" to promote the first Psychotic Waltz album A Social Grace. The B side is "I Remember". When I played the "I Remember" side of the record, and when it got to the last verse and I heard those harmonies it brought tears to my eyes. I realized that I dreamed this exact moment and that dream had helped create what I was listening to. It could be perhaps the reason this song is so special to many Psychotic Waltz fans can be attributed to the magic by which it was created. As if it somehow was born under its own will. As I write this so many years later, I notice for the first time the significance of the title on the A side of the record. Haunting.

Added to the bill last night were Pendulum, Alice Cooper, Bullet For My Valentine, Danzig, The Cult, Gwar, Gaslight Anthem, Thin Lizzy, Alter Bridge, Korn, Clutch, Buckcherry, FM, Mr Big, Black Veil Brides, The Damned Things, Escape The Fate, Hollywood Undead, Rise To Remain and Masters Of Reality.

The rock doc, produced by Spitfire Pictures and directed by Academy Award winner James Moll (The Last Days, Running The Sahara), will chronicle the entire history of the Foos, from the cassette demos leader Dave Grohl recorded during his tenure as Nirvana's drummer through their ascent to their Grammy-winning, multi-platinum, arena and stadium headlining status as one of the biggest rock bands on the planet.

"Well, it's not too embarrassing," he said. "I didn't have to leave the [expletive] theater before the lights came on, so it's OK. I learned I look a lot older than I thought I did, but it's... pretty good."

High Voltage will be the band's only UK festival appearance during the summer of 2011.

The band will perform Suede on May 19, Dog Man Star on May 20 and Coming Up on May 21.

Here's how Grace remembers events in her autobiography Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir: "As I held my newborn baby in my arms, a Spanish nurse came into my hospital room to attend to antiseptics and linens. She was holding a framed certificate that looked like a high school diploma, and she said, 'We give these to all the new mothers. You see, it says where she was born, what time, and the name of the baby goes here.' She pointed to an empty line in the document. 'What is your baby's name?' she asked. I noticed a crucifix around her neck and spontaneously said, 'god. We spell it with a small 'g' because we want her to be humble.'"

The double album set is a rock opera and a soundscape encompassing numerous genres from pop to progressive, psychedelic folk, electro clash, new wave and beyond.

Venice Queen won the Radio Fox Seeds competition in 2009 and have been touring since then and they are about to go back in studio with the new drummer for the new upcoming album.

To support the album, the band will be hitting the road beginning next month with no stopping planned.