Metallica will be naming their new album as 'Death Magnetic', which will be released in September.
The rockers have been cryptic regarding the new release, only revealing the title via a stage of individual letters on their official website.
Metallica have also not revealed any of the new songs, even though they have played recent festivals.
It's thought a full headline tour will be announced in the coming months, to coincide with the release of 'Death Magnetic'.
My Chemical Romance have spoken out for the first time about the suicide of Hannah Bond, the 13-year-old fan from Kent who hung herself.
At the inquest into her death coroner Roger Sykes claimed that the suicide may have been linked to Hannah's obsession with 'emo' music and described the overtones of the genre as "disturbing", NME reports.
Writing on their website the band claimed that they were "anti-suicide" and offered their support to Hannah's family.
"We have recently learned of the suicide and tragic loss of Hannah Bond. We'd like to send our condolences to her family during this time of mourning. Our hearts and thoughts are with them," the band said.
"My Chemical Romance are and always have been vocally anti-violence and anti-suicide. As a band, we have always made it one of our missions through our actions to provide comfort, support, and solace to our fans.
"The message and theme of our album The Black Parade is hope and courage. Our lyrics are about finding the strength to keep living through pain and hard times. The last song on our album states: 'I am not afraid to keep on living' – a sentiment that embodies the band's position on hardships we all face as human beings.
"If you or anyone that you know have feelings of depression or suicide, we urge you to find your way and your voice to deal with these feelings positively."
Fans of My Chemical Romance are set to march through London on May 31st in protest against the media's depiction of the band.
26/05/2008 11:39:57
LATEST: CHARLIE SHEEN has invited his ex-wife DENISE RICHARDS to sue him over claims she demanded a sample of his sperm.
Sheen and Richards took their bitter ex-marital battle to breakfast U.S. TV screens on Wednesday (21May08), when they clashed over an email the actress allegedly sent begging for a sperm donation from her ex-husband.
Richards denies sending the email to Sheen's fiancee Brooke Mueller, insisting her words were doctored.
But Sheen is so confident Richards did send the email, he has asked her to sue him.
He says, "Her claims that her e-mail has been fabricated or altered in any way to create this story are absurd. The mere fact the she continues to publicly discuss and harass both Brooke and me three years after our separation which, for the record is longer than the actual length of the marriage, is beyond desperate and speaks volumes.
"I will no longer sit back and be egregiously painted as a liar. If any proof can be established that these are not in fact her words and statements verbatim, I openly invite her and would even encourage Ms. Richards to sue me in a court of law."
Freshly House of York — From the exterior, 315 Bowery — the former address of Newly York's CBGB — looks zilch like its former self.
There's no Sharpie-inflicted graffito praising the likes of the Dictators or Black Flag adorning the entry. Rather, a security guard eating away a black tailored suit of clothes is manning the space's humongous glass door, crossways which the words "King John Varvatos" ar stenciled in blackness. Through the deoxyephedrine, unity notices an array of church candles flickering wildly and a 6-foot-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty.
Inside, the odor of finely Italian leather and $190 blue devil jeans has replaced the serrated wrack of a meg stale cigarettes, rat dope, spilled beer and whole manner of bodily fluids. Instead of aged trough punks with protruding grayness nose hairs, in that location are rail-thin models — including Daisy Lowe, daughter of Bush's Gavin Rossdale — and other types of beautiful citizenry here, splayed crosswise gaffer chaise lounges, totally as the final exam preparations for the store's big Apr 17 opening are being made.
This isn't CBGB — the once-great tinder club that helped launch the careers of the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Badly Brains and Sonic Youthfulness. It's now a John Varvatos boutique. Since the club's sole possessor, the late Hilly Kristal, had a moving company pack up whole of CBGB's contents — including the pee-stained, vomit-lined urinals — before the locale close its doors for the last time, there isn't much in the path of "artifacts" here. Only there ar a few relics left field.
(Click here for photos of the store's department of the Interior.)
According to Varvatos, wHO took MTV News on a tour of his latest stock, the club's master copy walls — punched-in holes, cracked paint and all — went untouched, as did the antiquated ventilation organisation that runs end-to-end the quad. It stiff, along with the graffiti and band stickers, or so of them hanging by a strand of glue. The staircase leadership to what once were the club's restrooms, which have now been converted into storage space, is still covered in marker and stickers.
"I very wanted this space to be a very cultural space, and by that I mean I want anybody to be able to walk in off the street and really mother wit the history that was hither," said Varvatos, wHO added that the entire basement was flooded with altogether sewerage when he moved in. "I wanted you to walk into the space and think it's non a commercial space and feel like it's about music, that it's around art, that it's about rock and roll. We wanted to espouse history, john Rock and roll and fashion. What we've created is a unique environment and a unique cultural place."
At the front of the shop, there's one of the first posters to be glued to the club's walls — i familiar to anyone who'd ever been to CBGB during its heyday — geological dating back up to 1979 and encased in glass. On the other side of the club, there's a dowery of one of CBGB's master copy walls, whole drenched in fliers and promotional stickers.
The remainder of the dimly lit quad is moderately much brand-spankin' fresh. The floors and ceiling and the electrical wiring of the blank had to be replaced, having been deemed structurally unsound. And directly, CBGB has something it never had in front: telephone exchange air.
There's a large, sweeping chandelier that swathes the ceiling supra and a stage, where Varvatos plans to put on small-scale concerts. Gone is the storied CBGB "green room" — which, basically, was the size of it of a phone booth and constructed of shoddy plywood. In its place is a tailor booth, where customers bathroom have alterations done.
And covering the walls on either side are concert posters for bands like the Dillinger Leak Plan, the Ramones, Guns N' Roses, Atomic number 26 Maiden over, Buss and Mixer Deformation. There ar rare and imported vinyl radical records and autographed Stratocasters, totally from Varvatos' personal accumulation. There's likewise Ramones memorabilia on loanword from Arturo Vega, wHO created the band's logotype.
CBGB's dubious stripe is gone likewise, packed up and prevarication in wait somewhere at bottom a storage hand truck in Connecticut River. But as theatrical role of his imaginativeness to restore the outer space as much to its original invention and layout, Varvatos had an old wooden legal profession shipped in from University of Pennsylvania that looks very similar to the archetype and is only as long. The bar serves as the store's checkout arena. Flanking the wall behindhand the bar is a set of four stained glass windows, which were extracted from an old church.
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