New song from Danish rock ‘n metalist Volbeat is out on YouTube in HD, check it out below (Or on the YouTube page):

Welsh rock sensations Bullet For My Valentine return to North America in September. In support of their latest album Fever, the four-man band will kick-off a 32-date tour on September 16 in Wichita, KS at The Cotillion. Escape the Fate, Black Tide and Drive A will open all shows.

Their third major label release, Fever, debuted at No. 1 on the Rock, Alternative and iTunes Rock charts and No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart and marking Bullet For My Valentine’s highest American debut to date. Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Good Charlotte) produced Fever at studios in Los Angeles and Wales.

USA Today called Fever “The hot-zone of 2010 rock-metal discs,” The Associated Press praised the album’s “blistering drum attack, tight power chords and…old school-styled, soaring guitar solos” and the BBC trumpeted that “BFMV are aiming for world domination, and with Fever they may well achieve it.”

The first single and video from Fever, “Your Betrayal” hit the Top five at Active Rock radio and was featured on Fuse’s Rock Countdown show.

A special presale will start this Tuesday, July 27th – July 29th, and fans can log onto to bulletformyvalentine.com – to obtain the special code needed for the presale. General on-line sales begin July 30th.

Since BFMV emerged from Bridgend, Wales in 2005 with their first album The Poison, Bullet For My Valentine have spread their music through near-constant touring, including 2009′s Mayhem Festival in the States. The band spent most of the summer of 2010 playing European festivals and before they hit the U.S. in September they’ll head off to Australia for a national tour. Bullet For My Valentine are comprised of Matt Tuck (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Padge (lead guitar), Jason James (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Michael Thomas (drums).

BFMV LINKS:
Official website
FaceBook
MySpace (For tour dates e.t.c)
YouTube
Twitter (Live updates, duh?!)

There’s been some turmoil among members of The Iron Maidens. Not to be confused with the most influential metal band in the world, The Iron Maidens are a U.S. based all female tribute who are really good at what they do (serious). Unfortunately, lineups are the hardest things to keep in place. It’s unfortunate the band has lost its best known frontwoman to date, Aja Kim/Bruce “Lee” Chickinson. Dr. Steel interviewed the ladies some years back and he hopes that both The Iron Maidens and Ms. Aja, though they didn’t part amicably, continue rocking.

Below is an official statement from Ms. Aja Kim regarding the outcome of her lawsuit with the Maidens’ drummer and bassist:

It’s come to my attention that a premature and factually inaccurate press statement was just released across the internet by Mark Dawson, manager of the Iron Maidens, on behalf of my two former band mates, Linda McDonald and Wanda Ortiz. So, unfortunately, it is necessary for me to release an accurate statement in return. Read more »

Check out her other videos at VkGoesWild on YouTube.

New video is for the song “My Dark Place Alone”, check it out below.

Any comments?

Press the “Audio MP3″ button below the song titles to listen to the samples, streamed from their website

Set Me Free:
Set Me Free

Blackout:
Blackout

Heaven and Hell:
Heaven and Hell

Carry on my Wayward Son:
Carry on my Wayward Son

The Trooper:
The Trooper

On Fire:
On Fire

Update: By the way, I freakin’ love these samples, can’t wait for the album to come out on Spotify or something. It really sounds like they have worked their asses of to do this album, it is all well done and everyone does what they were meant to do, especially Michaels voice on “On Fire” and “Blackout”, but his voice really fell into places on “Heaven and Hell”. So what are going to do when this album is released? Well, RUN TO THE CLOSEST RECORD STORE AND BUY IT (or order it on the net)

Good job guys, keep em’ coming, and don’t forget us Swedes!

The release of DANZIG’s brand new album, Deth Red Sabaoth returns the legendary artist to the Billboard Charts this week.

Deth Red Sabaoth was released on June 22 on Evilive/The End Records and is Danzig’s ninth studio album and first in over six years. The album debuts this week on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at #35 and at #3 on the Top Independent Album Chart. It marks Danzig’s highest-charting album since the release of Danzig 4 in 1994.

The 11-track collection was written and produced by Glenn Danzig and joining Glenn in the studio for the recording of Deth Red Sabaoth were guitarist Tommy Victor (Prong, Ministry), a Danzig cohort on and off since 1997, and drummer Johnny Kelly (Type O Negative, Seventh Void). While Kelly has toured with Glenn intermittently since 2002, this is the first time he has recorded with the band. Glenn handled the bass chores for most of the album, and played drums on “Black Candy.”

The CD cover artwork for Deth Red Sabaoth is an original painting by the award-winning artist Joe Chiodo whose work has graced not only Danzig’s Verotik publishing line, but the covers of numerous graphic novels and comic books, including “X-Men Unlimited.”

Deth Red Sabaoth marks Danzig’s ninth studio venture that began back in 1988 with the Rick Rubin-produced, Platinum-certified, Danzig. In 1993 “Mother” became a major hit and added to his iconic status that began over a decade earlier when he founded the near-mythic punk band Misfits and then Samhain. Sales of over ten-million albums later and having been dubbed “goth-punk’s godfather” by SPIN, Glenn Danzig is arguably the most versatile talent to emerge from hardcore’s first wave, and truly is a renaissance man – a graphic designer, photographer, comic book publisher and composer. His venture into composing and recording classical music yielded Black Aria, that debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Classical charts, and Black Aria II, that had Glenn sharing the Billboard/Classical’s Top Ten with Itzhak Perlman and Andrea Bocelli. His indelible stamp is on artists like Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, and he has written songs that have been sung by a diverse array of artists, from Metallica to Roy Orbison to Johnny Cash.

Over his decades-long career, Glenn Danzig’s intense musical and lyrical statements have left a permanent mark on rock music, and continue to do so going into the 21st century. Glenn’s song “Thirteen,” originally written for Johnny Cash and then recorded for Glenn’s own Satan’s Child album, was the opening song in last year’s box office smash and Golden Globe winner, “The Hangover.”

Danzig – Glenn, guitarist Tommy Victor, drummer Johnny Kelly and bassist Steve Zing – also a founding member of Samhain with Glenn – recently completed an exclusive 9-city album release tour and will continue to tour extensively to support Deth Red Sabaoth.

danzig-verotik.com/

There won’t be a review from this years festival from me, so (instead) I thought I’ll share some of the photos I took. Check them out on my Flickr account.

Kickstart my Heart:

I want it that Way:

Death to all but Metal:

Just want to say that this was the best show at this years festival, I have never laughed as hard as I did to their show. They were throwing jokes and ironic slogans all the time, so it was awesome and funny, hope too see them again sometimes.