Metal Heads To Get Festival for Children's Hospitals

An all day long music festival with some big headliners and some upcoming popular artists as well. Mr. Kessman reports that he is in contact with some of the worlds most famous Heavy Metal bands and he is sure this cause will attract several of them. The Shriners Childrens Hospitals needs over a million dollars per day to operate and all from donated funds. They take no money from the parents of the children receiving care. - more on this story

Morbid Angel's Blessed DualDisc Reissue

Earache reports: Blessed Are The Sick, the seminal death metal classic by Floridian legends Morbid Angel is due to be reissued by Earache Records as a special DualDisc format redux edition.

Morbid Angel's second album, Blessed Are The Sick was originally released in 1991 and is widely regarged as one of the most important death metal releases of all time. This essential album is now due to be re-released in a deluxe, multi-panel digipak with the album on one side of the disc and an exclusive bonus DVD on the other side.

The DVD side contains a brand new, exclusive 1-hour documentary featuring interviews with the band and crew discussing the recording and release of the album, and highlighting the band's rise from underground heroes to worldwide flag-bearers for the death metal scene. - more on this story

Go On A Drinking Bender with Gama Bomb

PR reports: Irish thrashers Gama Bomb recently confirmed that they will be supporting reunited thrash legends Lawnmower Deth at a special warm-up show before Lawnmower Deth's eagerly awaited appearance at this years Download Festival.

Now Gama Bomb are offering YOU the chance to spend the day with the band and travel with them to the show. Gama Bomb will be taking to the road on a coach with 24 lucky fans for an all-day bender to fabulous Milton Keynes to see the band thrashing it up with Lawnmower Deth. Ticket holders will enjoy the band's company, a soundtrack of thrash hand-picked by the band, free beer and a gig ticket as well as a copy of the classic 'Bangers And Thrash' compilation.

Gama Bomb frontman Philly Byrne comments: "We love gigging, and we love drinking, and we love buses - what better way to combine them than drinking on a bus on the way to a gig? We've put together this amazing booze cruise to celebrate teaming up with legendary UK thrashers Lawnmower Deth, Virus and Metal Messiah, and we want to share it with only the most hardcore GB fans Britain has to offer. Screw Iron Maiden's fancy jet - our Bomb Squad Beer Bus is the most formidable form of metal transport the world has ever seen! Wimps, shandy-drinkers and Tories need not apply." - more on this story

Fiction Plane Talk Up Forthcoming Album

PR reports: Fiction Plane is currently logging time at RAK Recording Studios in London mixing its yet-untitled third full length release, once again under the capable supervision of producer Paul Corkett (Catherine Wheel, The Cure, Tori Amos).

The album is tentatively slated for a September/October release and Fiction Plane is looking to tour through the fall.

Says drummer Pete Wilhoit on working with Corkett: "It's been amazing working with Paul again. He's the perfect combination of old school and new school. He knows his s*** and loves to explore sonically. He's so dedicated to the project, and always finding new ways to improve the music. No one works harder! He won't stop until its right and he goes on virtually no sleep and very little food. It's been a joy working with him again." - more on this story

Bobby Womack, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and more for Long Beach Blues Festival

conqueroo reports: Bobby Womack, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Mavis Staples and the Funky Meters will be among the performers at the 30th annual Long Beach Blues Festival, set to take place Saturday and Sunday, September 5 & 6 at Rainbow Lagoon Park, adjacent to the Long Beach Marina, in downtown Long Beach. Tickets for the festival go on sale on May 30, with ticket information available at http://www.jazzandblues.org .

The festival is the flagship event and an important revenue generator for KJAZZ 88.1 FM, the #1 full-time jazz and blues radio station, and one of only five remaining, in the country.

Young guitar master Kenny Wayne Shepherd tops the bill on Saturday, September 5 along with New Orleans' Funky Meters featuring original members Art Neville and George Porter Jr. Also appearing Saturday are Texas blues/rock guitarslinger Johnny Winter; soul singer Betty Lavette, whose recent albums for Anti- Records have received high critical marks; the Homemade Jamz Blues Band, the youngest band ever to be nominated for a Blues Music Award; and Hill Country Revue featuring Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew of the North Mississippi Allstars. - more on this story

Children Collide in North America

PR reports: Children Collide have had a year of epic proportions. Their near constant touring has seen them tackle two national headline tours, the 2009 Big Day Out, V Festivals, Groovin' the Moo and support slots with the like of The Living End, Hoodoo Guru's and The Grates.

Now, it is time for the band to take a break from the Australian road and tread ground across the waters. Next month Children Collide head off on their maiden North American tour, taking in 14 dates across three weeks with Nico Vega.

To coincide with this tour, Children Collide are also pleased to announce they have inked a deal with Filter Recordings US, who have released their album, The Long Now, earlier this week. - more on this story

Amy Speace Performs Musical Exorcism on The Killer In Me

PR reports: Amy Speace Probes Dark Personal Terrain On New Album 'The Killer In Me' (June 30th, Wildflower Records) Amy Speace uses phrases like "it was kind of an exorcism" and "I spilled blood all over this project" to describe her sophomore album on Wildflower Records titled 'The Killer In Me' (out June 30th).

The follow-up to her 2006 breakthrough 'Songs For Bright Street', 'Killer' finds the New York-based singer/songwriter forging into deeper, darker lyrical and musical terrain, borne largely out of the dissolution of her 10-year marriage.

Speace wrote the songs on 'Killer' during a period of self-imposed isolation in a rural cabin in the Catskills- a cathartic experience that helped her cope with her marital separation. The rural setting, Speace explains, "forced me to sit with a lot of silence, fear and confusion and make a kind of peace with them by writing songs to keep from going crazy. That's when the album started making sense to me and became a whole different thing. Something shifted when I realized what was going on in the world outside mirrored what was going on inside of me, and I wanted to write songs that bridged that divide." - more on this story

Misguided Aggression Spring Tour

PR reports: Misguided Aggression have announced a short run of tour dates with Ironclad Recording artist Starring Janet Leigh. The group is touring in support of their recently released new album "Hatchala", which was released earlier this year through Year of the Sun Records.

The album was recorded at Icehouse Studios by producer Thomas Ireland and mixes bone crushing brutality with head-banging grooves to create the soundtrack to a drunken bar brawl between Lamb of God, Pantera and Meshuggah. Sputnik Music hailed the album as, "One of the neatest records of extreme metal from an upcoming band I've heard in quite a while."

Misguided Aggression recently announced they are selling a full digital download of their entire debut album for $1.99 at www.MisguidedAggression.com. The download includes the album cover and DRM-free MP3s that will allow customers to play their music on virtually any device. - more on this story

New York Dolls Tap Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears For Tour

PR reports: Austin favorites, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, are once again taking their James Brown inspired funky soul and charismatic swagger back on the road this summer.

The hip-shaking eight piece, are continuing to tour behind their explosive Lost Highway debut - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!

They will be teaming up with legendary glam rockers, New York Dolls, for the entire month of June. - dates

3 Sinners Revisited

MMP reports: Sinner, one of the most famous and respected names on the German heavy metal scene. With nearly 30 years on stage and 17 albums on their account, the band still keeps serving their fans breathtaking music and stunning live performances.

And today Metal Mind Productions presents the exclusive re-releases of some of Sinner's best albums –"Judgement Day", "The Nature of Evil" and "There Will Be Execution"!

Sinner's re-issues will be available in a digipak edition, digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on a golden disc. Each title is limited to 1000 copies. Metal Mind Productions will release the albums on 6th July in Europe and 11th August in USA (via MVD). - more on this story

. Hill Country Revue (North Mississippi Allstars) - Make a Move

Even before putting on this album for the first time I got a sense of what it holds. A label on the front of the jewel case announces The new band featuring members of North Mississippi Allstars. (5 stars) - Read the full Hill Country Revue (North Mississippi Allstars) - Make a Move review

. Arise - The Reckoning

It is hard to believe Arise first activated back in 1994. That is a long time for any extreme metal band to survive the harsh winds of obscurity, but perhaps while other groups applied a progressive agenda, Arise did not. - Read the full Arise - The Reckoning review

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