To continue the goofiness: Gene Simmons wants Simon Cowell's job - he's convinced he would make a better judge on the TV mogul's reality singing contests because he has real experience in the music industry. more.

Haste The Day will disband following one final tour this winter. Formed in 2001, the band has released five albums with Solid State Records. The official word from the band is here

Weeks before the 30th anniversary of his assassination outside the Dakota in New York City on December 8, 1980, the album that John Lennon signed for Mark David Chapman hours before he killed the former Beatle is going back on sale for $850,000. more

The Chariot has announced a small batch of U.K. tour dates set to take place in March. Support on the tour will come from Mychildren Mybride. more

Chimaira has announced the departure of bass player Jim Lamarca. The group announced that "Emil Werstler [of Daath] will be handling the bass duties for the rest of the year, and we'll see you on the road!" more

Shawn "Clown" Crahan of Slipknot has a new group The Black Dots Of Death which have just launched their official web site TheBlackDotsOfDeath.com which features their first single "Let's Get F**ked Up". more

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals have announced that Dec. 14 will be the drop date for their double length album "III/IV." more

Despised Icon, who announced in April that they were splitting up after an eight-year run, advise fans: "The original Despised Icon lineup (2002-2006) will make its appearance and play a few songs from the first two albums! We're also happy to announce that our brothers in Ion Dissonance and Beneath The Massacre will be supporting their new records for the first time at home and Abacabb will also be playing one of their last shows ever with us. Our homies in The Acacia Strain, Oceano and Mychildren Mybride will also be part of the event." more

Boxingwater have announced two reunion shows this weekend. more

Look What I Did have recently begun writing a new extended-play concept record. This new offering will be entitled Zanzibar III: Analog Prison. This unique release will never be sold on a digital format more

Ozzy Osbourne will play five concerts in Brazil at the end of March/early April. more

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds plan to release new album in 2011 Although frontman Nick Cave admits: 'I haven't written anything yet' more

Drummer Dimitri "Dimman" Jungi of Spazmosity was recently involved in a motorcycle accident. As a result, all of the band's remaining concerts in 2010 have been canceled. more

Circa Survive are back with a brand new EP, Appendage, out Nov. 30. Hear the song "Stare Like You'll Stay" at Spin.com

Former "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell says he's happy that Steven Tyler will take his place. more

Asbestos Records is currently auctioning off four copies of rare Bomb The Music Industry! and Arrogant Sons Of Bitches records on eBay. The pressings were meant to be exclusive to The Fest 9, in Gainesville, Florida this past Halloween, but a few copies went unsold. more

A year after breaking up, Salt The Wound has reformed and will be releasing a new album in March 2011 on Rotten Records (Acid Bath, DRI, Goatwhore). more

Last and least: Vince Neil finishes dead last on Skating With The Stars premiere. He managed to stay on his feet in his performance - but only managed to come last in the judges' grades, with just 28 out of 60. See it here

According to AlternatorGigs.co.uk, three members of Sikth - including dreadlocked frontman Mikee W. Goodman - and Adrian Smith, guitarist of Iron Maiden, have joined forces along with members of Murder One and Vacant Stare to form a new "metal supergroup." The band will make its live debut on Saturday, January 15 in High Wycombe at Bucks Student Union. more

Must see video of the week: Check out a YouTube video of a house covered in lights synchronized to Slayer's classic "Reign in Blood" here. Looks like the metalhead dad who did this plans to include Pantera this year! It's pretty amazing, so check out the video.

Mike & The Mechanics return in 2011 with a new line-up, album and tour. Joining Mike Rutherford (guitar/bass) are vocalists Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar. New album The Road is due in April on the Arista label. Tour dates

"After a strenuous sold-out tour across main land Europe and Scandinavia, Volbeat are regrettably forced to cancel their first week of scheduled U.K. shows. The band did personally not want to cancel this tour, but, unfortunately, [guitarist/vocalist] Michael Poulsen was ordered by doctors not to fly or travel until his medical condition is stabilized to their satisfaction." more

U2 are giving U.S. independent record stores a big boost this holiday season by releasing a new three-track vinyl EP on Friday. more

Apocalyptica, which was recently forced to postpone their North American tour due to issues with Perttu Kivilaakso's health, has issued the following update: "To ensure that Perttu has enough time to recover, we decided to move the French dates and the Swiss date back to April." more

Rush have revealed more dates for its forthcoming tour of the United Kingdom and Europe. The tour, being dubbed the 'Time Machine Tour,' will feature over three hours of live material from the band including a performance of its classic album 'Moving Pictures' in its entirety. more

Diabolical have signed with Abyss Records for the worldwide release of their upcoming full-length album, Ars Vitae; due out in February of 2011. more

Voodoo Johnson have parted with vocalist Kev Bayliss. The band have already lined up a replacement more

The 14 track follow up to Agnostic Front's 2007 release Warriors will be titled My Life, My Way and be recorded with Erik Rutan and produced by Freddy Cricien of Madball. more

Malevolent Creation have announced European tour dates for next April. more

Royal Thunder will see the re-release of their self-titled EP this December via Relapse Records Mailorder. more

The release date of "Rev-Raptor", the new album from U.D.O., the German metal band led by former Accept frontman Udo Dirkschneider, has once again been pushed back - this time to May 20, 2011 more

Outcast has finished recording its third album, "Awaken The Reason", for a tentative early 2011 release via an as-yet-undicslosed record label. more

Noah And The Whale will release their new album in March next year and tour the UK and Ireland around its release. more

Motorhead have launched their own iPhone Remix App courtesy of music developer Bounce Mobile.more

Veteran Chicago blues guitarist and vocalist Albert "Little Smokey" Smothers has died, his record producer said Tuesday. He was 71. more

In keeping with their annual tradition of re-imagining classic Christmas songs such as 'Carol Of The Bells' and 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel,' August Burns Red have released a cover of holiday favorite 'Little Drummer Boy' - available to purchase now on iTunes and streaming on the band's MySpace page. more

Image Say-10 Records has detailed an upcoming collection from The Riot Before. The release, which is now nearly a year in the making, will include the band's recorded output from 2005-2007 and the band's side of their split with Broadway Calls-as well as unreleased material. more

Gene Simmons returns to A&E with brand new episodes of his [supposedly] unscripted series, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, premiering with a special one-hour episode on Sunday, December 5th at 9 PM ET/PT. more

If you're looking for some rockin' stocking stuffers (or just want to treat yourself) Day in Rock provider hennemusic has updated their online store with more rockin' stuff. Plus they have expanded their music apps and hot apps section (including Thanksgiving apps!) Check it out here

On this day in 1991, Eric Carr (Paul Charles Caravello) drummer with Kiss died aged 41, of complications from cancer in a New York hospital. Carr replaced Peter Criss in 1980 and remained a band member until he became ill in 1991. For his Kiss stage persona, Carr was known as "The Fox." Find out what else happened on this date in music history here

Disturbed have premiered the brand new video for the track "The Animal," the latest single from their current album Asylum. Check it out here

Vince Neil says he is "taking a beating" on Skating With The Stars "I don't know who stuck their hand in the hat and pulled out my name and said, 'How about Vince Neil?' " the Motley Crue frontman says more

Iron Maiden have just added a second night in London to their summer UK/Irish tour next year. It's at the O2 Arena on August 6 more

Funeral For A Friend has revealed the dates for its first U.K. tour of 2011. Support on the tour will come from Rise To Remain. You can view the full list of dates, cities and venues more

Rob Halford has released the official music video for the song "Like There's No Tomorrow", from the new Halford CD 'Made Of Metal'. more

A documentary based around Jimi Hendrix's legendary gigs at the Royal Albert Hall is to be released next year. There's footage from those shows, in February 1969, as well as from the great guitarist's European tour that year. more

Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy is about to hit the studio to start work on his 4th solo release and the heavy metal guitar driven project 'Battering Ramm'. Pearcy says; "Expect the unexpected, It's time to pull out all the stops on this one, no f*#kin' around. We've got more then enough material, and the material is ass kicking!" more

SLASH - "Everybody asks questions about what happened with Axl and I'm forced to come up with answers, but there's really nothing much to say" more

Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Opeth, Anathema, Black Label Society and Kreator are among the newly confirmed bands for next year's edition of Hellfest, set to take place June 17-19, 2010 in Clisson, France more

'Hey Jude' is most popular Beatles song Classic track is biggest seller on iTunes more

Kinks legend Ray Davies is to appear at the Royal Variety Show this year. He'll perform the classic song Lola, with Paloma Faith, at the London Palladium on December 9 more

Kreator frontman Mille Petrozza and Mercyful Fate guitarist Michael Denner joined Volbeat on stage on November 19 in Copenhagen, Denmark to perform the Volbeat song "7 Shots". Fan-filmed video footage of their appearance can be viewed here

This Or The Apocalypse has revealed the dates for its first scheduled tour of 2011 more

Pantheon I announced today that guitarist Aethyris McKay, who recently quit Absu, will be joining the line up as guitarist. more

Seahaven have revealed information on a forthcoming acoustic EP. It's appropriately titled Acoustic Sessions and is due for a self-release on December 7 in both limited CD-R and digital formats. more

Y&T will be holding a special New Year's Eve Benefit Concert for original bassist Phil Kennemore who was recently been diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Special guests who have volunteered to perform include: Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche) Don Dokken (Dokken) Bobby Blotzer (Ratt) Vinny Appice (Dio, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell) Sean McNabb (Dokken, Montrose) Loren Gold (Roger Daltrey) Paul Bostaph (Testament) more

F**k The Facts are back in the studio this week recording a bonus EP, that will only be available with the vinyl version of the band''s upcoming full-length album, "Die Miserable." more

Requiem will enter Stage One studio in Buehne/Borgentreich, Germany December 6 with acclaimed producer Andy Classen (Legion Of The Damned, Dew-Scented, Disbelief, Krisiun and many more) to begin recording the follow-up to last year's "Infiltrate... Obliterate... Dominate", titled "Within Darkened Disorder". more

Ex-Trans-Siberian Orchestra violinist Anna Phoebe has updated her live schedule with several new dates with Roxy Music set for Australia and New Zealand in February / March 2011. more

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