Female Rocker Seriously Injured Filming Fake Murder- Slayer's King Poisoned- Yellowcard's Hopeless Return- New Linkin Park Vid- New Kings of Leon in October?- more

Slayer were forced to cancel Monday's concert at 013 in Tilburg, Holland after the band's guitarist, Kerry King, came down with "a horrible bout of food poisoning." more

Yellowcard has officially announced their reunion, signing a deal with Hopeless records and announcing plans for a new album early 2011. more

Medal of Honor and Linkin Park have released the premiere video for the band's new single "The Catalyst" off of their soon-to-be-released album, "A Thousand Suns." The video, directed by the band's Joe Hahn, features never-before-seen in-game clips from this October's videogame set within the current Afghanistan war, Medal of Honor, along with coinciding live-action footage. Check it out here

Owl City's Adam Young just released his very first project � Sky Sailing An Airplane Carried Me To Bed � a collection of songs written pre-Owl City Ocean Eyes in the basement of his parents' house. Check out the animated music video for the track "Brielle" here

Kings Of Leon to release new album in October? Reports say the follow-up to 2008's 'Only By The Night' is due out on October 19th. We will see. Read more here

BW&BK has the initial dates for The Gruesome Twosome Halloween Hootenanny featuring Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper return to touring this fall, and are joined by the Murderdolls, with Joey Jordison doing double drumming shifts. Grab em here

Darkest Hour are about to enter the studio and they have announced that they are teaming up with renowned Soilwork shredder Peter Wichers. more

Devin Townsend (ex-Strapping Young Lad) is reissuing his solo catalogue on 180 gram colored vinyl via BackOnBlack.com. Each release features a gatefold cover and different colored vinyl for each package more

Vagrant were kind enough to send over a free download of "Brother" a new track by P feat Edward Sharpe. Grab it here. More on P here

Former Iron Maiden frontman Paul Di'Anno briefly cancelled his appearance at Hard Rock Hell IV due to 'logistical reasons'. But he's now back on the bill. more

A dedicated bunch of AC/DC-fans is following the band around the world. When being in Berlin, German edition of Metal Hammer met up with them to talk about their experiences. In the video-chat they reveal among others, what kind of wine Brian Johnson prefers and that Angus Young is a tea-addict. Furthermore, they retell a story Brian Johnson once told em - about pissing against the Sputnik in Moscow, Russia. The whole chat is available here

One Step Beyond has issued a seven-song EP entitled 'Out With The Old' for temporary free download. The previously unreleased recording from 2005 is the last to feature tragically deceased founding guitarist Jeremy Lammas, and features studio performances of previously unrecorded material from the band's formative years more

Iwrestledabearonce will hit the road this fall along with The Chariot, Sky Eats Airplane, Chelsea Grin, and Vanna. more

An Horse is currently in the studio in Vancouver recording their new album with Howard Redekopp (The New Pornographers, Tegan and Sara, The Organ, You Say Party! We Say Die!).
There will likely be some guest musicians on the cd as there are some "friends" recording in a studio nearby. Looks like we will have a new one coming in early 2011.

Social Distortion's August 5th performance will now take place at Water Street Music Hall. Water Street Music Hall 204 N. Water Street Rochester, NY. more

Candlelight Records today confirms October 26 as the North American release date for The Isolationist, the new album from Krieg. more

Anthrax has scheduled the some South American tour dates. Grab em here

To celebrate the release of their debut full-length The Golden Age Orlando, FL's Go Rydell and their label Black Numbers have made the ten-song album available as a donation-based download until August 10th more

Rancid have unveiled yet another video for an old song. This time it's a clip for "Black Derby Jacket," a track from the band's eponymous, back-to-basics 2000 LP. Check it out here