Megadeth and Slayer Team Up to Fight Crime... I mean... Tour!

It turns out that the rumors going around about Megadeth and Slayer taking part in a co-headlining tour are true. It was announced today that the thrash legends will be touring together along with Machine Head and Suicide Silence for our neighbors to the north. That's right so far, there are only four dates with this line-up and they are all in Canada!

More than likely you can expect tour dates to be announced in the States shortly, or else there are going to a lot of pissed off Americans!

As for the opening bands... meh! It seems like Machine Head, despite my feelings of them being only a mediocre band, are always picked to open for the big name metal acts.

Why not get a band like God Forbid that deserves more exposure, or at least a cooler band like Gojira to kick ass opening up for this tour. Better yet, do some research and get a lesser known band that deserves some publicity a chance (yeah, I know that the labels probably put this stuff together).

As for Suicide Silence, I think they could have found a better fit. There are a ton of bands that sound similar to this right now, that are actually doing it better. But who am I to judge?

Rob Zombie Reveals H2: Halloween 2 Trailer

Now, I'm not one to talk about movies all the time on a metal Web site, but horror movies go hand in hand with metal music. Even if those horror movies happen to be remakes of one of the more successful horror movie franchises of all time.

I'm not sure why people are calling it H2: Halloween 2 because that seems kind of redundant, but the trailer actually looks like the movie could have some promise. Although, like many of the comments I've seen, I have to agree that Sheri Moon Zombie still isn't that great of an actress, but the rest looks cool.

Good to see Zombie making the movie his own and maybe now he will actually be able to write another album that is beyond mediocre this time around.

Black Death Metal: Sanctification "Storm" Music Video

The death metal band Sanctification released a music video for the song "Storm". It features Emperor Magus Caligula from black metal band Dark Funeral in full wacky corpse paint on vocals.

I am not sure what I think of this song, I mean the guitars are cool enough, but how can you have death metal with no solos???



P.S. Speaking of death metal, check out this awesome death metal band Band of Wookies the guys at the Deciblog found! (Yes it's a joke and yes it's funny)

Check out the Official Band of Wookies MySpace

Heaven and Hell: "The Devil You Know" Streaming Now!

Randy here, updating with one more awesome piece of news. For a limited time only you can stream the new Heaven and Hell album "The Devil You Know" which is set to come out next Tuesday (April 28).

Turn up your volume full blast and listen courtesy of VH1's The Leak.

Brutal Legend: The Most METAL Videogame Ever

It was announced today that the heavy metal game Brütal Legend will be released for the Xbox360 and PS3 on October 16, 2009.

If you aren't in the know Brütal Legend is a third-person action game that tells the story of roadie Eddie Riggs (voiced by Jack Black). After he gets hit in the head during a stage accident, Riggs winds up entering an alternate dimension that resembles a mix of famous heavy metal album covers.

He also finds out the evil emperor Doviculus is enslaving the last of the human race. Naturally the goal of the game is to prevent this.

Also featured in the game is the voicework of Rob Halford from Judas Priest, Lemmy from Motorhead and Dio from Heaven and Hell and of course Dio. This game should be sure to please any heavy metal fan and you can check out more information at the official Brütal Legend Web site.



Recently it seems like more and more kids are getting into classic metal through games like Guitar Hero: Metallica and Rock Band, so I think this can only be a good thing for the future of heavy metal, even if it isn't exactly kvlt to be in a videogame.

Some might even be inspired to pick up instruments because of these games (and hopefully put down the Doritos).

Thinking of this game made me reminisce the days of playing one of my favorite lesser known rock n' roll games on the Super Nintendo, also known as Revolution X. The game features Aerosmith and Steven Tyler throws you his keys to a sweet ride at one point in the game, so what is cooler than that (see second video)?

Check out the craptastic videos below (the last one is the best):

Burning Human Track: "Tormented Mind" Available at Metalsucks.net

You might better know Jason Bittner for his drumming in Shadows Fall, but recently he has been slamming the skins for death metal band Burning Human who actually sound pretty good, if not a little generic.

You can download the track "Tormented Mind" for FREE courtesy of the dudes over at metalsucks.net. Just right click on the download button and hit "save link as" and you are good to go.

Burning Human's first self-titled CD is out today.



And while we are on the topic of metal bands with Shadows Fall members, I finally listened to some of the latest Overcast release "Reborn to Kill Again" and it is rockin' (Overcast features Shadows Fall vocalist Brian Fair and Killswitch Engage bassist Mike D' Antonio).

Brian Fair sounds more like he used to on the Shadows Fall albums "Of One Blood" and "The Art of Balance", so it is worth checking out.



Lets hope the guys in Shadows Fall can put together something better than the mediocre "Threads of Life" album for their next release!

Other notable new metal releases out today include:

+Daath: "The Concealers"
+Chimaira: "The Infection"
+Lacuna Coil: "Shallow Life"

Also today marks the release of Iron Maiden documentary "Flight 666".

Don't forget that The Metal Show airs from 6-7PM TONIGHT only on KRUI 89.7 Iowa City, Iowa!

Slipknot Sulfur Music Video

Hope you all are having a very metal Saturday afternoon. Today Slipknot released a new video for the song "Sulfur", making it the third single from the album "All Hope is Gone".

The video was created by the same dude who did that last two, so it has a similar vibe to the others. Nothing too crazy here. Just some straight-up mainstream metal, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Watch it below.

Slipknot - New Music - More Music Videos

Also I might as well put up the recent Hammerfall video for the song "By Any Means Necessary" off the album "No Sacrifice, No Victory" in stores now. Power metal cheese aside, it's another decent rockin' tune.

Any Means Necessary video clip