Urgency - The title track of the album. This song is about the question, if it were your last day on earth, what things that you do now would still matter to you? So, there are two ideas that follow. One is that some people put too much urgency on themselves. Is your cause really important enough to kill or die for? Or do you just want it to be? We all have our own lives, and what we do is important to us, but there needs to be some perspective. How your date went on Friday is not nearly as important as your sister being in the hospital.

The other idea is that some people don't have enough urgency in their lives. Many people wait for someone or something else to magically help them achieve their goals. And everyone is special, but it's only the ones who are willing to go out and pursue what they want with urgency, with passion, that will get where they are trying to go. So, the real question is, if it were the end, what actually matters to you and why?

Today we finished mixing and mastering our ninth studio album of original material, 'Death Magnetic', which hits the streets worldwide on Friday, September 12. Plus, you'll be able to download every song from the album for 'Guitar Hero III' on the same day!

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office says a family member found Hayes unresponsive near a treadmill today (Aug. 10).

As for Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter she shares with late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, Love said, "I have a teenage daughter now, so it's really, really crucial that I have a great home life and she's so beautiful, she's so vulnerable and was born very famous. She'd have to step over my dead body to get into the music industry, but I don't think she wants to anyway. If anything she'll act, she'll direct... I think she'll end up running Hollywood, and she's got my sh** list, so that's awesome."

Daryl Toor, president of Attention!, an Atlanta based publicity firm, a former music reviewer and record company executive notes:

Recently Iron Maiden was nominated for a Best Live Return Award in the Vodaphone Live Awards. The only problem is the fact that Iron Maiden never went away and have been selling out arenas world wide for a few decades now with no let up. So when the clueless organizers of these awards announced this nomination the band quickly said thanks, but no thanks.

They advised their fans "please don't go looking to cast your votes for us. As we are not quite sure where we are returning from, we have asked them to remove us from the nominations and they have done this."

Next week's Rock Band DLC update features the Roadrunner Records 6 Pack. The six pack of tracks will sell at 480 Microsoft Points or $5.99 actual bucks. It's not all Mallcore, they actually picked some real metal vets they managed to sign to the Hot Topic friendly label over the past few years. grab the details

A man has been arrested in connection with the death of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim, police in the Gulf emirate of Dubai have said. The 30-year-old singer was found dead in her flat last month. more

Akon has failed to appear in court. The rapper was due to appear in court in Fishkill, NY on charges of second degree harassment and endangering the welfare of a minor after he threw 15-year-old Anthony Smith from the stage during a concert. more

There is an exhibit of Led Zeppelin memorabilia at Knebworth House to benefit Jimmy's Charity Action for Brazil's Children. There is a contest being run as part of the exhibit which features a $3,000 dollar CD/DVD/Radio and a painting of the band, both of which have been signed by Jimmy. All the entries, and all the sales from the exhibit benefit the ABC Trust. The contest runs until August 29th. The website is here You can see photos of the signed entertainment system and painting by clicking on the contest for each item.

On Saturday night's edition of The Classic Metal Show, guitarist Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns called in from the road to talk about his version of LA Guns and their new singer, vocalist Marty Casey (of Rockster INXS fame). During the course of the conversation, Guns made some startling accusations regarding "the other" L.A. Guns members Steve Riley (drums) and Phil Lewis (vocals). more

A festival has been constructed around Carcass' upcoming appearance in Florida. The Florida Death Fest will take place on Saturday, September 13th at Jannis Landing in St. Petersburg, FL. details

Billboard executive editor Bill Werde has been named the magazine's new editorial director. He replaces Tamara Conniff, who is leaving to become president of music services for Irving Azoff's Front Line Management Group. more

Note to publicists: When contacting us to try and get us to cover your latest generic emo band, it's not a very good idea to start off by insulting us about how we cover the news; especially when our news coverage deals with bands that our readers are actually interested in, instead of your dime-a-dozen interchangeable wannabe fourth stage Warped band that won't be remembered in six months by even their handful of Myspace friends. Just sayin.

So, if you're ready for the big time, all you have to do is fill out our form explaining why you're the biggest Acca Dacca fan in one sentence, and you and a guest could end up appearing in the next AC/DC video.

I saw the new L'Or�al ad a few days ago, and it struck a nerve. There's still a stigma of Black celebs acting "too Black." This ad re-enforces that negative portrayal.

Here's today's from Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" where the lyric " I walk a lonely road" has been misheard as "I ate a horrible toad".

Sources say a limo driver reported a dispute with five passengers, and when police investigated the complaint, they busted Berg and his buddies on a pile of charges.

Gibson listed 15, here are three of them: Ozzy Osbourne - His work with Black Sabbath was amazing, if underappreciated, in its time. As a solo star he's gone multi-platinum, having established the incredibly durable Ozzfest heavy metal fest and become a reality show icon.

Dave Grohl - He was doing just fine playing drums for Nirvana. But after Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994 Grohl instinctively kicked into high gear, writing all the songs and playing all the instruments on his platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated solo debut under the name Foo Fighters (before it actually, you know, became a band).

Robert Plant - How do you top Led Zeppelin? The secret to Plant's success is that he never even tried; instead following his passion, whether it's 1950s style doo-wop (The Honeydrippers), leftfield folk (Dreamland) or contemporary bluegrass with fellow blonde Alison Krauss (Raising Sand).

Aiken's BFF, 50-year-old Jaymes Foster, gave birth at 8:08 AM this morning in an "undisclosed location."

Woke up in Cincinnati. Ludo's the first show of the day. Wah? Yes. 11:30 show. Wah? We were the last to play in Pittsburgh and the first to play the next day. Crazypants! No Idiot Parade, because it was kind of a clusterbang to get from our stage to our merch tent. But we hung out for many hours at the merch tent with Byron meeting fans and making buddies. The signing went well and then we were off to do press. Four interviews to do that day. We knocked them out in succession. Blam-blam styley. That night, we grabbed a little barbecue. Convy and I sat on the banks of the Ohio River with Donnie and Rifqa and talked about how to make better use of the street team the next day. One of the Japanese girls of Oreskaband softly played her trombone 30 yards down the bank. I watched the water and looked at Kentucky's tree-y hills on the other side. It was pretty. I really like rivers. They make me happy. Short drive that night. Good sleep.

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