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Bloodsimple Get Family Values?

antiMusic reports: New York metalcore crew Bloodsimple has reportedly been added to the second-stage lineup on this summer's Family Values tour, according to Blabbermouth. No official word yet on this addition but the band has a few Family Values related items posted on their Myspace page. 

The band will be touring in support of their forthcoming album. Here is some of what Blabbermouth had to say about that. Due later this summer, "Red Harvest" was produced by Machine (LAMB OF GOD, WHITE ZOMBIE). 

The LP will contain around 11 tracks, including "Dead Man Walking", the title cut and "El Myr" � the name of an Atlanta burrito bar the band loves to visit while on the road. Here is the Blabbermouth report which includes a link to - some rehearsal footage. 

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Arch Enemy To Revisit Classics

BW&BK reports: Although ARCH ENEMY's new album, Rise Of The Tyrant, won't be released until September 25th, the band has already set their sights on returning to the studio. Guitarist Michael Amott spoke exclusively to BW&BK scribe Aaron Small and provided the following update: 

"What we'd actually like to do is what TESTAMENT did with First Strike Still Deadly, where they re-recorded some of their older stuff. We had three albums (Black Earth, Stigmata, Burning Bridges) without Angela (Gossow, with Johan Liiva on vocals). It'd be cool to re-record some of those great songs and make a compilation.- read more of BW&BK's exclusive here

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Metric Plot Short American Tour

Filter reports: Metric have taken time out from recording their new album for a short U.S. jaunt. The band debuted a few new songs at recent Canadian shows, so expect a bit of that here too. Support at some of the shows will come from Crystal Castles.

Metric tour dates:
September
09 Toronto, Ontario - Virgin Festival
19 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
21 New York, NY - Webster Hall
24 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall
- more dates

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The New Von Bondies Plot CD release

Filter reports: The Von Bondies are ending their three-year break with their forthcoming record, Love, Hate and Then There's You. Guitarist Marcie Bolen, bassist Carrie Smith and Yasmine Smith have all been replaced with Don Blum, Alicia Gbur, Leann Banks and Matt Lannoo to follow up 2004's Pawne Shop Heart.

In the years since we've last heard from the Von Bondies, Stollsteimer split up with his wife and formed another project, Hounds Below. The new album is expected to be released in early 2008
- more on this story

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Minus the Bear In Stores

PR reports: The week of August 20, Minus the Bear will perform a series of west coast in-stores. Venerable retailers such as Easy Street in Seattle, and Ameoba in Berkeley, CA and Fingerprints in Long Beach, CA will play hosts. On August 21, Seattle's Pacific Science Center will produce a very special laserium event, set to the tunes from Planet of Ice. During the month of October, Minus the Bear will visit WXPN's World Cafe Live (air date TBA). A video for lead single from Planet Of Ice, "Knights" has just been finished and should see its debut in the next few weeks. 

Minus the Bear is set to embark on the first leg of a major world tour, in support of their critically acclaimed release, Planet of Ice, out August 21, 2007 on Suicide Squeeze Records. - more on this story including tour dates

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Talking Zombie Piggy

PR reports: The latest episode of "Talking Metal" features an interview hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy conducted with Rob Zombie bassist Piggy D as well as the world premiere of two new tracks from his new solo album "The Evacuation Plan," which will be released on July 31. 

Interview topics include Rob Zombie, John 5, Blasko, and The Replacements. Additional podcast topics include new news regarding Evan Seinfeld, Tera Patrick, and Lonn Friend's upcoming project, Lordi, Sebastian Bach, Guns N' Roses, the Sci Fi Channel, Comic-Con, and Captain T & Ostronomy. The 50-minute podcast can be downloaded at- http://www.talkingmetal.com/

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Jessica Vale To Give Us a Brand New Disease

PR reports: Critically-acclaimed music sensation and Explicit Records artist Jessica Vale is preparing to release her new album nationwide on October 16th titled Brand New Disease. The title track single from this already talked about album will be released to radio in America on August 28th. 

Influenced by the urban chaos that makes New York what it is, Vale's industrial-goth inflected sound captures the essence of the city. Vale states, "The base sound level in New York is significantly higher than anywhere else in the world, 90 decibels to be exact, so it takes much more intense music to feel like one of making a statement."- more on this story

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Viva La Previews

PR reports: Can't wait until 9/4/07 to get your hands on the VIVA LA BANDS, VOLUME 2 CD/DVD? Neither can most fans of cutting edge rock music and wild antic video! Ferret Music and Filthy Note Records know your pain and have set up online debuts of the exclusive tracks from the compilation and an online pre-order opportunity to tide you over.

Brand new tracks, written and recorded for VIVA LA BANDS, VOLUME 2, will be debuted simultaneously on www.vivalabands.com and the individual band's Myspace pages (listed below) on the following dates�

JULY 27 - Children Of Bodom's "Tie My Rope" (www.myspace.com/childrenofbodom) 

AUGUST 3 � Clutch's "King Of Arizona" (www.myspace.com/clutchband) 

AUGUST 10 - Bloodhound Gang's "Screwing You On The Beach At Night" (http://www.myspace.com/bloodhoundgang) - more

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Unearth Returning To The Road

PR reports: Massachusetts metal phenomenon Unearth will be hitting the road in the US for the first time since their run of dates with Dimmu Borgir back in April/May of this year. Joining Unearth on tour will be Victory Records' Darkest Hour (Washington DC), Solid State's August Burns Red (Pennsylvania), and Century Media's Suicide Silence (California). This monstrous tour will hit the road on September 27th for a four-week North American tour with stops in Canada. 

Here's what vocalist Trevor Phipps has to say about the upcoming tour: "This fall we are giving back to the people by scaling down the venue sizes and cutting the ticket and merch prices for our last tour before we go back into writing mode for the next album. Darkest Hour, August Burns Red and Suicide Silence will join us to make this last North American run f**king killer. This tour will be a back to our roots, smaller stages, just us and the crowd experience� nothing but mayhem and a good time for all. See you on the road."- more on this story and the first batch of dates

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The Black Dahlia Murder Detail New Release

PR reports: The often imitated yet never duplicated Detroit deathsters The Black Dahlia Murder have returned to the public eye to reclaim their rightful throne as leaders of all things extreme with their third blackened opus of thrashing melodic death metal, Nocturnal. "I don't think the pretenders will be able to match this one," proclaims vocalist Trevor Strnad of their scorching new offering, "It's f**king over the top. Brian (Eschbach; guitarist/songwriter) has really outdone himself this time. The kid eats lightning and sh*ts chains." 

Recorded at Trax East with Eric Rachel and mixed by Jason Seucof at Audiohammer, the band's third full length Metal Blade release, Nocturnal, is chock full of flesh searing riffage, mind-bending guitar solos by fret-freak John Kempainen, and the disgustingly poetic gore soaked lyricism that legions of the band's manically adoring fans have been hungering for. "From the songs, to the artwork, to the sound quality itself, we could not be more pleased with the results" states vocalist Trevor Strnad. Be sure to catch the band live on the Metal Blade 25th Anniversary tour where they will be unleashing some new material off of Nocturnal.- more on this story

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Jerusalem Rocks! With The Black Eyed Peas

PR reports: For the first time in history, an extraordinary lineup of musical artists will unite together on one stage in Jerusalem, Israel. Jerusalem Rocks! is a non-profit International music festival which will be set against the backdrop of the Teddy Kollek Stadium in Jerusalem on September 9, 2007. Much more then a concert, Jerusalem Rocks! is a cultural extravaganza celebrating the freedom of expression inherent in music and is committed to shedding light on Jerusalem as a beacon of peace.

On September 9, 2007, the Black Eyed Peas are set to return to Israel to headline Jerusalem Rocks! The Black Eyed Peas vocalist, Fergie, is scheduled to perform hits off her solo debut album, The Dutchess which boasts 4 consecutive top 5 singles and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Audiences will also be among the first to hear songs off of Black Eyed Peas front-man will.i.am's upcoming solo album entitled, Songs About Girls, scheduled to hit streets on September 25th, 2007. Will.i.am comments, "I can't wait to come back to Israel! The 2006 performance we did in Tel Aviv was one of the single best experiences of my life."- more on this story

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Free Korn!

PR reports: Korn will be performing a free show on Tuesday, July 31st at New York City's South Street Seaport to celebrate the release of their new album. Visit www.jr.com/korn for more details. 

J&R Music will also be hosting a special album signing after the show. The first 500 people to purchase the new Korn album from J&R Music World in NYC on July 31st will receive a special wristband for admission to the album signing. 

New episodes of Devolution: Nature's U-Turn are also now up at www.evolutiondevolution.com � Korn's project deemed "a ground-breaking documentary that exposes the dark secret of humankind: That we are devolving back to primate form."- www.jr.com/korn

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The Great Lost Performance of Johnny Cash

PR reports: Add another musical chapter to the legend of Johnny Cash with the first-ever release of a classic 1990 performance that includes several songs he rarely performed live. Johnny Cash - The Great Lost Performance (Island/UMe), released July 24, 2007, debuts nearly 17 years to the day of the original concert when Cash and his revue took the stage at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, New Jersey on July 27, 1990.

Only recently unearthed and newly mixed from the original multi-tracks, the nearly hour-long CD features Cash at his most compelling--performing in front of a live audience. Among the 18 songs on Johnny Cash - The Great Lost Performance are renditions of some of his greatest hits, from such early songs as "I Walk The Line," "Hey Porter" and "Folsom Prison Blues" to the later "Ring Of Fire," "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky." - more including the tracklist

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