"All The Tears": This is the last song we composed for the album. It was almost not on the record, but we had two good guitar riffs that we wanted to put on the album and couldn't help adding this song. Plus, I had these lyrics I was working on about how hard it is to be alive... No matter who you are, or where you come from, the first thing that you do when you are born is cry. The second riff particularly is very experimental and dissonant and it's a good example of the atmospheres we're trying to create with Gojira.

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Rock cartoonist Ray Lowry, best known for his work on The Clash's classic 1979 album London Calling, has died at the age of 64. He was found dead at his home in Lancashire on Tuesday. more

Universal Music Canada has confirmed that Guns N' Roses' long, long-awaited new album, Chinese Democracy, will see the light of day on November 23rd - a rare Sunday release date rather than the usual Tuesday in North America.more

Metallica has announced the support acts for its upcoming European tour dates. The bill for a couple of shows will include Machine Head and The Sword, while the bulk of the dates will feature Lamb Of God and Mastodon. dates

Radiohead's direct-to-fan digital distribution experiment for the release of "In Rainbows" last year made more in publishing revenues than its subsequent physical release, according to Warner Chappell head of business affairs Jane Dyball. more

Frank Kerr, better known to fans as Frankie Venom, the lead singer of veteran Hamilton, Ontario punk band Teenage Head, has passed away. Kerr died of cancer on October 15th, he was 51. more

Following two weeks of scrapped shows, Janet Jackson was scheduled to resume her tour last night (Oct. 15) at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., after a bout of migraine-associated vertigo. She is being treated for the illness, which is characterized by dizziness, imbalance and other symptoms. more

Motley Crue have announced a show at the newly renovated Hollywood Palladium on Friday, November 14. Tickets for the show go on sale Saturday, October 18 at 12 noon on www.livenation.com.

Despite a 69% drop-off in sales, T.I. starts a second week at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with "Paper Trail." The Grand Hustle/Atlantic set sold 177,000 copies in the U.S.. Metallica's Warner Bros. album "Death Magnetic" climbs back up 5-2 despite a 24% sales slide to 66,000. more

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And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have announced a special instore at Generation Records in New York on October 21 to celebrated the release of their brand new 'Festival Thyme EP', coming out digitally that day. more details

On October 15, A Princeton Christmas will release A Princeton Christmas: For The Children Of Africa Vol. 2, a follow-up to last year's critically acclaimed inaugural album by the richly-talented student choral community of Princeton, New Jersey � including the famed American Boychoir, Westminster Choir, and three Princeton University choirs � as a way to lift spirits around the world and raise funds to benefit some of the world's neediest children via the World Food Program (WFP), the United Nations' frontline agency for hunger solutions. All proceeds will fund school meals programs in sub-Saharan Africa. more info

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Columbia Records will release two special edition CDs featuring career-spanning repertoire from Celine Dion, the biggest selling female artist of all time. My Love Essential Collection is a single disc featuring 17 songs, consisting of Celine's biggest hits, rarities and crowd-pleasers including "I'm Alive", "Power of the Dream", the brand-new never-released "There Comes A Time," and "My Love". This track has become a show-stopper every night during Celine's sold-out World Tour, which is currently in flight across North America.

After more than a year of struggling with a pretty serious drug addiction I finally managed to get sober again and about six weeks later "Ladysmith" arrived on the scene. I was in a very confused place emotionally and a lot of stuff from my childhood was bubbling up to the surface. When I first presented the song to the band it was a six minute angry epic with only a few lines of lyrics, directed at my oldest step-brother and centering around some sexual abuse that happened when I was in sixth grade. I named the song "Ladysmith" after a small town in Wisconsin where my step-brother had been ruined financially in a business deal and the "you lose, 'cause failure looks so good on you" line was originally directed right at him...a bit of a bitter take on the idea of karmic payback.

Right off the bat we could sense there was something special about the mood of the song. The way we all do our own thing in the verses, the bass and drums dancing around the guitar riff, only to come crashing together in the choruses perfectly matched what I was going through at the time as I was learning to confront these childhood issues and find my footing. Ryan's distorted bass line in the verses is pure genius and I ended up drawing most of the vocal melody from his bass, which happens more often than not in our songs. We got rid of some stuff, to maximize the impact of the song, so it ended up being quite a bit shorter than the original version.