Avenged Sevenfold drop out of "Reading Festival" at last minute

Avenged Sevenfold have been forced to cancel their appearance (August 24) at the Reading Festival.

The band have had to pull their Main Stage performance because frontman M Shadows – real name Matt Sanders – is suffering from vocal problems.

"We're very sorry to tell you that Avenged Sevenfold will not be performing at Reading today, August 24. As many of you know, the band had to shorten their set at Leeds on Friday due to vocal strain. Since then, Matt's doctors in the United Kingdom and Los Angeles have both advised him that he must rest his voice and cannot perform," the band explained in a statement.

They added that their singer should be on the mend, and they hope future dates will not be effected.

"Thankfully there are no long-term problems and with proper rest, Matt will return to the road shortly. The band toured all summer with Iron Maiden throughout Europe and the UK. They returned home August 1, but because they wanted to play Reading and Leeds very much, they returned this week for the festival. They were blown away by the number of fans who came to see them play at Leeds. The band is still in England now and is extremely disappointed that they can't play a show they have been looking forward to for a long time."

The band are expected to return to the UK at the end of 2009.

As with Slipknot, who dropped out of today’s bill earlier in the week, organisers will not be adding any new bands to the bill, but are working out an alternative running order.

source from : www.nme.com

MTV VMA 2008 Best Rock Video Nominess

When the smoke cleared around the potential nominees for Best Rock Video of 2008, there stood four veterans and one relative newcomer. A showdown of David and Goliath proportions. One that could only have one winner... The rockingest band of 2008. Tune in September 7 to see who's left standing.

1. Fall Out Boy"Beat It"

   Directed by Shane Drake

   American sweethearts Fall Out Boy revive Michael Jackson's classic with an appropriately glammed-out, pedal-to-the-hair-metal video, complete with fog machines and ninjas.

2. Foo Fighters"The Pretender"

   Directed by Sam Brown

   Undisputed presidents of modern rock, Foo Fighters, keep it real simple on 'The Pretender,' clearing out a stark arena and holding back a batallion of riot cops with pure, searing riffage.

3. Linkin Park"Shadow of the Day"

   Directed by Joe Hahn

   Bad news is easy to ignore when it only happens on TV. In the downtrodden video for 'Shadow of the Day,' violent headlines come to life and refuse to be ignored.

4. Paramore"crushcrushcrush"

   Directed by Shane Drake

   As if the desert wasn't already hot enough... Tennessee troublemakers Paramore make the cacti sweat in the video for the viciously catchy 'crushcrushcrush.'

5. Slipknot"Psychosocial"

   Directed by Paul Brown

   All hope is gone in the fiery, post-apocalyptic video for mask-metal mavens Slipknot's 'Psycho Social.' Babies, prepare to cry. 'Psycho Social' is straight up terrifying

source from : www.mtv.com

Rockers & Gamers

Music game fans can rejoice that the incompatibility wars of “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” are already… over?

We broke the news last month that “Rock Band 2” and “Guitar Hero: World Tour” instruments will be cross-compatible on the Xbox 360, at least according to Activision.

Today, Sony’s official U.S. PlayStation blog reports that all drums, guitars and mics for “Rock Band 2,” “Guitar Hero: World Tour,” Konami’s “Rock Revolution” and “SingStar” will all work with each other.

This comes after a year of incompatible instruments and allegations that the makers of these games were preventing the previous version of these games’ guitars from working with each other. The announcement is progress all around, considering, among other things, that even “SingStar” wasn’t mic-compatible with any games until this announcement.)

Michael Shorrock, director of third-party relations for Sony Computer Entertainment America added to that news by stating that legacy titles are being looked at as well: “We’re still working hard to ensure compatibility between the Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles currently on the market, and we hope to have an announcement on that shortly.”

source from : http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com

About Heartagram

HEARTAGRAM : Originally a logo of "Love Metal" band, HIM, whose fans would wear the symbol --within a circle -- as a tattoo. But it's popularity has spread far beyond the band that designed it. To many, it represent the dialectic or blending of opposites such as love/hate and life/death.

source from : http://www.crossroad.to

"All Hope Is Gone" New Slipknot's Album

All Hope Is Gone is the fourth studio album by American metal band Slipknot. It was released on August 20, 2008,^[1] by Roadrunner Records. A special edition of the album will contain three exclusive bonus tracks, and will be packaged in a six-fold digipak with a 40-page deluxe booklet and bonus DVD containing a documentary of the album's conception.

Noted to have begun preparation in 2007, recording was due to begin in January 2008, however it was delayed to February. It is the band's first studio release since 2004's Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), making All Hope Is Gone their fourth studio album as well as the first musical output from the band since Corey Taylor and Jim Root's mainstream success with Stone Sour, Joey Jordison's stints with Korn, Ministry and 3 Inches of Blood, Shawn Crahan's side project Dirty Little Rabbits and Sid Wilson's solo project. All Hope Is Gone is also the band's first studio album on a major label to be recorded in their home state of Iowa.

source from : www.wikipedia.org

Avenged Sevenfold New DVD

Avenged Sevenfold will hit Quebec City on Sept. 9, a week before the release of their Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough DVD/CD package.

The Live In The LBC DVD features Avenged Sevenfold's April 10 show at California's Long Beach Arena as part of the Rockstar Taste Of Chaos Tour. Rafa Alcantara, who worked on the band's 2007 road documentary, All Excess, directed the DVD.

The Diamonds In The Rough CD features covers, never-before-heard material and previously unreleased B-sides that were recorded during the making of Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled 2007 album, which entered the U.S. sales chart at #4. The hard rock quintet debuted with 2001's Sounding The Seventh Trumpet and have released three studio albums.

Here are the tracks on Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough:

CD:

• "Demons"
• "Girl I Know"
• "Crossroads"
• "Flash Of The Blade"
• "Until The End"
• "Tension"
• "Walk"
• "The Fight"
• "Dancing Dead"
• "Almost Easy" (remix)
• "Afterlife" (alternate version)

DVD:

• "Critical Acclaim"
• "Second Heartbeat"
• "Afterlife"
• "Beast And Harlot"
• "Scream"
• "Seize The Day"
• "Walk"
• "Bat Country"
• "Almost Easy"
• "Gunslinger"
• "Unholy Confessions"
• "A Little Piece Of Heaven"

source from : http://chartattack.com/damn/2008/08/1807.cfm