Who’s ready to hear a new album fromDevilDriver?! Recently while the band were on tour inIreland,Mike Spreitzer took some time out to catch up withDublin Concerts to talk touring, making money in the digital age and the timeline for a new album!

Alan:The new album seems to be going down really well

Not many can shred likeTrivium’s Matt Heafy.Matt recently took a break between shows to talk toSweetwater Sound about how Trivium goes about writing and recording new songs, working with David Draiman (without auto-tune), how he takes care of his voice & how he came up with his own signature guitar!

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Mastodon'snew albumOnce More Round The Sun has just officially been announced with a release date of June 20 in Australia! Surely by now you’ve heardthe first singleHigh Road and now you’ve got a taste of another track with a bootleg ofChimes At Midnight surfacing!

Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leachhas launched his own website and is doing a series of videos answering fans questions that they’ve sent in. This time around, Jesse talks about what he would be doing if he wasn’t doing music full time, how he became successful, simple things he misses when he’s on the road & shares some vocal warm ups.

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Ever wanted to seeMastodon’s rehearsal space? The guys take us through their studio atThunderbox Rehearsal Studios (which they’ve been at for 10 years) for some behind the scenes action!

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Suicide is unfortunately much too common in our society and almost everybody will go through their lifetime knowing someone that has, or has tried to, take their own life. When looking for answers, grieving loved ones all too often point the finger at music and musicians, because of the great role that music plays in everybody’s life.Avenged Sevenfold were recently blamed for the suicide of a 16 year old boy from the UK, and they wanted to address the issue.

Thomas Yagodinski has uploaded a phenomenal stop-motion video Mastodon’s ‘Bedazzled Fingernails’ to Youtube!

The video features some seriously cool ghoulish visuals and just looks amazing.

The amount of work that would have gone into it is insane.

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Mastodon'snew albumOnce More ‘Round The Sunis finally almost here! Above is the album artwork and it’s probably some of the best album art I’ve seen in a while. It’s going to look sick! The band have also released analbumvisualizer that goes perfectly along with their singleHigh Road.

High Roadwas the first taste ofMasotodon'snew album‘Once More Around The Sun' and we can’t wait to hear what else these guys have come up with for the new record!Bill Kelliher recently caught up withLoudwire to discuss the new record. Check it out!

Everyone is hanging out to hear the newOpethrecordPale Communion and whenMikael Akerfeldt recently spoke toUltimate Guitar, it just got us a little more excited. Mikael talks about the band’s new album, whether he’s planning on doing a solo project and being ‘discouraged’ with current metal.

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