International Superheroes of Hardcore, the classic hardcore-themed side project from members of New Found Glory, have posted a new song from their forthcoming 7-inch. The record is titled HPxHC and is due out November 11, 2008.
You can find the song on their myspace page.
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has been confirmed for the 2008 Big Day Out festival tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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“The Roundhouse Tapes”, the long-awaited new DVD from Swedish progressive metallers OPETH, has entered the DVD chart in Finland at position No.
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“Dystopia”, the new album from the Montreal death metal quartet BENEATH THE MASSACRE, sold nearly 1,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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The Norwegian music industry was caught by surprise when AC/DC topped the album chart with “Black Ice” last week, reports Norway’s music industry magazine Faro Journalen.
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Teenage Head guitarist and co-founder Gord Lewis has confirmed that the legendary Canadian punk band will perform at a tribute show this weekend in honor of Frankie Venom. Venom, the band’s frontman, died from cancer on October 15th. The tribute show will take place as part of the Hamilton Music Awards this Friday, November 14th at the Studio Theatre in Hamilton Place. The show will also feature the Forgotten Rebels, originally billed as the headliners.
CBC Radio 3 quoted festival director Jean-Paul Gauthier on the event, “Needless to say, we were absolutely devastated with the news of Frankie’s passing. We will do our best to make sure that the legacy of Teenage Head and Frankie Venom lives on – we are going to host a huge rock ‘n’ roll style celebration in their honour.”
Future tribute shows and charitable initiatives are in the works as well and should be announced soon.
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November 6, 2008 – Early access to the Left 4 Dead demo begins today on both the PC and Xbox 360.
This promotion is being offered in addition to the 10% savings for those who pre-order and applies to all Steam PC pre-orders and all PC and Xbox 360 pre-orders from GameStop and EB Games in North America.
On November 11 the demo will be made available to all PC and Xbox 360 gamers worldwide, with no obligation to purchase. The demo concludes on November 18, when Left 4 Dead will be made available at retail outlets across North America and worldwide via Steam.
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Updates to Left 4 Dead Demo have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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Cancer Bats have launched the video for their song “Lucifer’s Rocking Chair.” The song appears on the band’s 2008 full length Hail Destroyer.
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Official Metallica.com footage from METALLICA’s October 25, 2008 concert in Kansas City, Missouri can be viewed below.
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UK-based Science vs. Romance and Canada’s Attack in Black have been tapped to provide support for Far on their upcoming reunion tour of the UK.
The recently reunited group will kick things off in Newport, Wales on the 24th and wrap things up in London on the 28th. The band will also play two Californian dates in October, under their quasi-secret moniker Hot Little Pony. The band recently posted a cover of the song “Pony” by R&B singer Ginuwine on the Hot Little Pony MySpace page. .
Members of Far have been quite prolific since that band’s split in 1999. They last released Water & Solutions in `98. Frontman Jonah Matranga performed with Onelinedrawing, New End Original and Gratitude while guitarist Shaun Lopez went on to form the Revolution Smile.
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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS/ex-VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland will issue a deluxe edition of his second solo album, “Happy In Galoshes”, through Best Buy.
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Long-running soul artist Nathaniel Mayer has died at the age of 64. He suffered from a series of strokes over the period of a few days.
Mayer had been an active member of the Detroit soul music scene of the early 1960’s with the Fortune label, but returned to music after a long absence to record I Just Want to Be Held in 2002 for Epitaph imprint Fat Possum records and Why Don’t You Give It To Me? in 2007 through Alive. In his last album, he collaborated with members of The Black Keys and The Dirtbombs.
His songs have been covered by The Detroit Cobras as well as many other garage rock and blues revival punk bands.
Our deepest condolences to his friends and family.
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