NEWS UPDATE

[b] NEWS:[/b]> CoB to release new album
"Are You Dead Yet?" in September. The first single, "In Your Face," should be out by aug.

>Dimmu Borgir is replacing Testament for the Earthshaker Fest. For ppl who havent heard Testament, do it ASAP.
i wanna go [:(] Bro wont sponsor ..neone ??

>SC (US) passed a verdict saying file-sharing services should be held liable even if they have no direct control over what millions of online users are doing with the software they provide for free..thus they can be sued. bye bye bit torrent [:(] ..jerks
> talking bout piracy Minor Threat claims Nike have stolen their artwork for their promotion campaign...SUE THEM MT .. another example of mainstream corporations attempting to to assimilate underground culture to turn a buck. sigh.

[red] no good news today.

Downloads and news..

we had to stop hosting songs here cos of IPR issues and also all of us were facing time constraints. as wld be obvious from this post , i am hard bound for time today as well. firstly a few links. but dont get back in angst if these links stop working and they will obviously be pulled own soon.

Kamelot's "March of Mephisto" video, featuring Dimmu Borgir's Shagrath, has been added to iFilm. Check it out at www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2671746.

Opeth’s new song from their to be released album can be found here >>
http://www.firecoker.com/music/Opeth%20-%20The%20Grand%20Conjuration%20(ripped%20from%20Sirius).mp3

now some news ..
Twisted Methods, Drowning Pool and Lost prophets are all breaking up. Mega bitch Waters comes back on stage, Morbid Angel's guitarist goes missing..BAWLL :((

terrrible terrible last 3 weeks. Now for teh good news though .. Creed may come back together and stratovarius ..YESSSSSSS ..the gods finally are releasing a new album by oct/nov.
also coming out with their albums are two of my fav bands.. OPETH and ARCH ENEMY.
Arch Enemy have set the tentative track listing to their new album "Doomsday Machine", here's how it looks:

01 - "Enter The Machine"
02 - "Taking Back My Soul"
03 - "Nemesis"
04 - "My Apocalypse"
05 - "Carry The Cross"
06 - "I Am Legend / Out For Blood"
07 - "Skeleton Dance"
08 - "Hybrids Of Steel"
09 - "Mechanic God Creation"
10 - "Machtkampf"
11 - "Slaves Of Yesterday"

album's slated for a july release.

\m/ c ya all in hell !!!

Les Paul Inducted Into National Inventor's Hall of Fame

Electric guitar pioneer Les Paul was one of 14 people inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame this year. Do yourself a favor and read the whole article :

On Saturday, Les Paul, less than a month shy of his 90th birthday, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, in Akron, Ohio, as the creator of the solid-body electric guitar, arguably the most important musical innovation of the past half-century.

The electric guitar brought Paul international renown as a musician, won him five Grammys, put him on television for eight years with his wife, Mary Ford, and made Gibson Guitar Corp.'s signature Les Paul Standard a guitar of choice for garage bands and virtuosos on five continents.

"In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would see so many people using them," Paul said in a telephone interview last week from his New Jersey home. "I owe it to the rock-and-roll players, especially the Jeff Becks, the Paul McCartneys and Jimi Hendrix. All of them were playing a Les Paul guitar."

"[Gibson] laughed at me for 10 years," Paul said. "They called me 'the guy with the broomstick with the pickups on it.' "

But then one afternoon Leo Fender, a tinkerer who owned a radio repair shop, showed up at Paul's house in Los Angeles to talk about his own ideas for a solid-body. "Leo and I were always good friends," Paul said. "He said we ought to form a company together, but I told him I'd been loyal to Gibson [guitars] all my life, and I'd wait for them." Paul said Fender, who died in 1991, probably should be entering the Hall of Fame, too, but Paiva said no one had nominated him.

After Fender's visit, Paul called Gibson again, and in a tedious, virtually nonstop 30-hour session, convinced them that the log was the future.

And not a moment too soon. Fender came out with the first commercial solid-body, in 1950, and five years later followed with the legendary Stratocaster. Gibson answered in 1952 with its first Les Paul model, and history was made.

I think u gotta read this article to appreciate da guy at Washingtonpost.com.

Top 100 metal albums of all time

Some people might disagree...but fuck them...

#1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica are a band that opened many doors for a lot of fans/bands. They also opened many doors and provided a lot of listeners with a gateway to other more extreme bands. Sadly, much of their material post "the black album" hardly qualifies as heavy metal, but in their prime this band dealt out thrash metal that was second to none! Just listen to "Damage Inc." or "Battery" and even today they still stand up against what has come along.

#2. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
It is of no surprise that IRON MAIDEN comes close to the top spot. Culling fans from all areas of the metal spectrum, Iron Maiden, clearly are one of the true innovators in heavy metal. The intro to the track "Number of the Beast" has become one of the "prayers" of heavy metal with just about every fan knowing it word for word.

#3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Arguably Metallica's heaviest album, the glorious RIDE THE LIGHTNING comes in at #3! This was the album that really started getting Metallica recognized around the world. It was followed up with MASTER OF PUPPETS which is really what put them on the map. However, the impact of RIDE THE LIGHTNING was definitely felt with "hits" like "Fade To Black", and "For Whom The Bell Tolls" to lesser hailed (but equally memorable) tracks like "Escape" and "Creeping Death" .

#4. AC/DC - Back in Black
Some of you youngsters will no doubt say "WTF is a classic rock band doing in a heavy metal list?" It is true that AC/DC has become darlings of the classic rock radio circuit, also their recent performance with the Rolling Stones in Canada to several hundred thousand people only goes to show that their appeal extends well outside of the metal realm. All this aside, that does not mean that their contribution to heavy metal in the 70's and 80's should be ignored! BACK IN BLACK is not only one of the best heavy metal albums of all time, it is also one of the best selling "normal" albums of all time as well!!

#5. Slayer - Reign in Blood
REIGN IN BLOOD is hailed by many as the definitive Slayer album. Clearly most of us here at Metal-Rules.com agree, as the album comes in at #5. As I've said before, listening to this album is like a religious experience. "Angel of Death" is one of the best Slayer songs ever written. The whole album plays like the soundtrack to hell. Learn the sacred words of praise, hail SLAYERRRRRRR!!!

#6. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden's POWERSLAVE is a monster of an album. After the success of NUMBER OF THE BEAST and its follow up PIECE OF MIND, Iron Maiden was hard pressed to deliver an album that would match its predecessors. They would not disappoint as POWERSLAVE, with its instant classic tracks including "2 Minutes to Midnight" and the epic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" would cement Iron Maiden at the forefront of the metal world and spawn the massive and seemingly never-ending World Slavery Tour.

#7. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Maiden again? Yes, again...making for the third entry in our top 10! Many people consider this the pinnacle of Maidens career and with tracks like "The Trooper", "Still Life", "Die With Your Boots On" and "Flight of Icarus" it is hard to disagree. Piece of Mind turned 20 years old this year and forever will be a classic of the metal genre.

#8. Dio - Holy Diver
Ex-Rainbow, ex-Sabbath vocal god Ronnie James Dio comes in at #8. Pushing to his 60's, this old goat can still easily kick the ass of the majority of singers on the scene.

#9. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
SEASONS IN THE ABYSS is considered by some to be the last "classic" Slayer album. Songs like the evil title track and speed metal masterpieces like "Born of Fire" and "War Ensemble" have become fan favorites standing shoulder to shoulder alongside the band's past material.

#10. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Rounding out the top 10 is SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE, the quintessential Priest album in the eyes of many. Fronted by the “metal god” Rob Halford, Priest have been one of the defining bands of the metal movement. “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” helped to create a new generation of metalheads and showed to the world that Metal Rules!!
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#11. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
#12. Judas Priest - Painkiller
#13. Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
#14. Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
#15. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
#16. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
#17. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
#18. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
#19. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
#20. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
#21. Judas Priest - British Steel
#22. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
#23. Slayer - South of Heaven
#24. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
#25. Megadeth - Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?
#26. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
#27. Dio - Last in Line
#28. Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Pt. II
#29. Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather (AKA Killing Machine)
#30. Van Halen - Van Halen
#31. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
#32. Accept - Balls to the Wall
#33. Iron Maiden - Killers
#34. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
#35 Slayer - Show No Mercy
#36. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
#37. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
#38. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
#39. Judas Priest - Stained Class
#40. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
#41. Anthrax - Among the Living
#42. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
#43. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
#44. Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Pt. I
#45. W.A.S.P. - The Last Command
#46. Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll
#47. Def Leppard - Pyromania #
48. Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
#49. Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What!
#50. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
#51. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
#52. King Diamond - Abigail
#53. Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
#54. Halford - Resurrection
#55. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
#56. Testament - Practice What You Preach
#57 Led Zeppelin - IV
#58. Death - Symbolic
#59. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
#60. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
#61. Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
#62. Deep Purple - Machine Head
#63. Scorpions - Blackout
#64. Van Halen - 1984
#65. Slayer - Hell Awaits
#66. Venom - Black Metal
#67. Ratt - Out of the Cellar
#68. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
#69. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
#70. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
#71. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
#72. Metallica - And Justice For All...
#73. King Diamond - Them
#74. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
#75. HammerFall - Glory To The Brave
#76. Van Halen - Van Halen II
#77. Overkill - The Years of Decay
#78. Kiss - Destroyer
#79. In Flames - The Jester Race
#80. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
#81. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
#82. Skid Row - Skid Row
#83. Megadeth - Killing is My Business...and Business is Good
#84. Testament - The Legacy
#85. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
#86. Venom - Welcome To Hell
#87. Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
#88. Dokken - Tooth & Nail
#89. Accept - Restless & Wild
#90. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
#91. HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
#92. Saxon - Wheels of Steel
#93. Manowar - Kings of Metal
#94. Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock & Roll
#95. Scorpions - Love At First Sting
#96. Van Halen - Fair Warning
#97. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
#98. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
#99. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill #100. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
#100. Death - Individual Thought Patterns