DELAIN the Dutch gothic rock project founded by ex- WITHIN TEMPTATION keyboardist Martijn Westerholt (brother of WITHIN TEMPTATION’s Robert Westerholt) has a new video for the track “See Me in Shadow“. The song is the second single from DELAIN’s debut album, “Lucidity“, which came out last year. The clip for “See Me in Shadow” was shot on May 8 “in a very special country cottage in Brabant, Holland,” according to a posting on the group’s web site. (more…)

Frontiers Records has announced the details of the new studio album from German melodic metal masters PRIMAL FEAR, entitled “New Religion” to be released in Europe on September 21.

PRIMAL FEAR started the songwriting for their new CD in October 2006 and the recording began shortly later, at the House Of Music studio with engineer and co-producer Charlie Bauerfeind (BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, HAMMERFALL) and longtime producer and band member Mat Sinner. (more…)

Swedish /German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY have announced that they have completed work on their new album. The new masterpiece, entitled “Rise of the Tyrant“, was recorded at Studio Fredman with producer Fredrik Nordström and will be unleashed on the metal world on September 24 (one day later in the U.S.). (more…)

Video footage of METALLICA rehearsing for its “Sick of the Studio ‘07” tour, which is scheduled to kick off tonight (Thursday, June 28) in Lisbon, Portugal at the Super Bock Super Rock festival, has been posted below. The clip was shot yesterday (Wednesday, June 27) and features the band playing the songs “The Unforgiven” and “Disposable Heroes“. (more…)

Dream Theater’s top 20 entrance onto The Billboard 200 is a vindication in triplicate for the New York band.
The No. 19 debut for “Systematic Chaos” heralds the group’s best start for an album, its best sales week (36,000) since 1994’s “Awake” and its first breath of air inside the top 20.”Chaos” also represents an unexpectedly sweet beginning with Roadrunner Records, (more…)

Robert Plant has shot down reports that LED ZEPPELIN will reunite for a one-off memorial concert in honor of their late record company boss.

A report was published earlier in the week suggesting that Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones will re-group alongside John Bonham’s son Jason (more…)

A video interview with DEVILDRIVER’s Dez Fafara and John Boecklin, conducted a couple of months ago by Roadrunner Records in Milan, Italy, has been posted below.

DEVILDRIVER recently filmed a video for the song “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” in Los Angeles with director Nathan Cox (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, MARILYN MANSON, SYSTEM OF A DOWN). The clip is expected to be released shortly. (more…)

According to Brazil’s Bizz magazine, the as-yet-unnamed new project featuring SEPULTURA founding members and brothers Max and Igor Cavalera will enter a Los Angeles studio in July to begin recording its debut album for a late 2007/early 2008 release via Roadrunner Records. (more…)

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will release its new album, “Nocturnal“, on September 18 via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2005’s “Miasma” is being recorded with Eric Rachel (who mixed “Miasma”) and will be mixed by Jason Suecof, who has previously worked with TRIVIUM, CHIMAIRA, DEVILDRIVER, GOD FORBID and BURY YOUR DEAD, among others. (more…)

A new MUSHROOMHEAD video has surfaced online via the Precinct 13 Entertainment. The clip for “Damage Done” was produced by Precinct 13 during the shoot for their upcoming film “The Rage“, directed by FX legend Robert Kurtzman (”From Dusk Til Dawn”, “Wishmaster”) and it features the fire-breathing burlesque of Miss Pussycat.

source: metalunderground