Metallica has just released another song off of their upcoming record, Death Magnetic. The new song; "The Judas Kiss" is the fourth, and final song to be made available before the album is released in its entirety this Friday. The band also announced ticket and special package info for their upcoming tour. Grab the details here

Meanwhile, the New Jersey man who killed his mother and then stabbed an 11-year-old boy to death claiming that he was influenced by a Metallica song about a boy who "lost my way this bloody day" when he committed the crime is asking the court to throw out the 2004 guilty plea that sent him to prison for 50 years. more

Oasis have rescheduled their concert in Ontario, Canada after Noel Gallagher was hurt by a fan on stage on Sunday at the V Festival in Toronto. more

The announcements about this fall's Guitar Hero: World Tour keep on coming. Sting and Tool are getting in on the fun, as Metallica continue to expand their presence in both Guitar Hero and Rock Band 2. more

Head over to VH1.com's The Leak, to hear the new Buckcherry album in its entirety, before it's released. go here to hear

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who, will be among those receiving the Kennedy Center Honors for 2008. more

Gym Class Heroes have slated a series of major television appearances celebrating the release of their much anticipated fourth album, "THE QUILT." First up, Gym Class Heroes will perform live on the Wednesday, September 10th installment of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Later this week, the Geneva, New York-based outfit will appear on an episode of MTV's TRL as well as on Mi TRL on the MTV Tr3s network, followed next week with a spot on BET's Rap City

Scars on Broadway have premiered their new music video for "Word Long Gone" on Yahoo Music. The video was directed by Joel Schumacher (Phantom of the Opera, Falling Down) Check it out over at Yahoo

Due to financial difficulties with one of our sponsors, Bleed The Sky will not be able to appear at several scheduled dates. You can find the list here

Prog rockers Yes (in the wake of Jon Anderson's illness and the subsequent cancellation of this summer's planned U.S. tour) have gone the Journey route and selected a tribute band singer to replace its iconic frontman. more

Apple has announced the details of a sleeker, cheaper iPod nano at a conference in California on Tuesday. The 8-gigabyte version will sell for $149 in the US -- $50 cheaper than the previous model. A 16-gigabyte version with up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video will sell for $199. That's not all, the iPod touch gets a little closer to being an iPhone.. details are here

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have reportedly managed to block the release of the "Let It Be" Beatles documentary. more

Former Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash reportedly makes an appearance in Alice Cooper's recently completed video for the song "Vengeance Is Mine". more

Martin Eric Ain and Tom Gabriel Fischer of Celtic Frost announced "We have therefore jointly decided to lay Celtic Frost to rest for good and to treasure and honor what we have created together in the course of the history of this truly unique band." - more

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