Ex-Isis frontman/guitarist Aaron Turner has begun work on a collaboration with William Fowler Collins. Speaking on his blog, Turner had the following to say about the pairing:

“The collaboration with William Fowler Collins is now underway. Over a four day session in WA earlier this month, we worked on a number of foundational pieces with the intent of going back to these raw recordings later and building up finished tracks around them.

I have no idea how long it will take us to finish an album from this point, but the initial results are promising and we’re both feeling pretty excited and motivated by the results. In the meantime, I highly recommend checking out William’s new album “The Resurrections Unseen“.”

P.O.D. have posted more footage from their ongoing studio sessions for their new album below. The band are working on the outing with producer Howard Benson (3 Doors Down, My Chemical Romance).

The Devil Wears Prada will head to the UK in February for the following tour:

02/02 Cardiff, UK – Great Hall 2
02/03 Stoke, UK – Sugarmill
02/04 Manchester, UK – Academy 3
02/05 Glasgow, UK – G2
02/07 Newcastle, UK – O2 Academy 2
02/08 Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy 2
02/10 Plymouth, UK – White Rabbit
02/11 Southampton, UK – Talking Heads
02/12 Brighton, UK – Haunt
02/13 Oxford, UK – O2 Academy 2
02/14 Colchester, UK – Arts Centre
02/17 London, UK – Underworld

Nonpoint have more or less officially confirmed Dave Lizzio of Inn Cinema as their new guitarist. Lizzio has long been rumored to have joined the band alongside his Inn Cinema bandmate, bassist Adam Woloszyn.

Volumes frontman Michael Barr will sit out the rest of the bands immediate touring as a result of a back injury. He recently issued the following statement regarding that through the groups Facebook:

“Hey guys Michael Barr here, If you haven’t heard already I unfortunately had to return home for the remainder of Thrash And Burn. Due to a severe and hazardous back injury requiring exclusive medical attention. Volumes will still be killing every show for the next 24 days. Please do not be discouraged I will be back in full force soon. Thank you for all the support and kind comments, get out to the rest of the shows and have fun with my boys. #VTEAM”

System Of A Down have lined up two Australian headlining shows to compliment their stint on next years “Soundwave Festival“. They include:

02/28 Sydney, AUS – Entertainment Centre
02/29 Melbourne, AUS – Rod Laver Arena

Yesterday (November 22nd) saw the digital release of the A. Sarti Remix of Far‘s track “At Night We Live“. All proceeds from the track are being donated to the medical costs of Deftones bassist Chi Cheng. The more astute of you will also know that the original song itself was written for Cheng.

You can snag the new single over at iTunes. Meanwhile, more info on Cheng‘s ongoing recovery from his 2008 car accident can be found over at Oneloveforchi.com

Staind have posted an introductory video to their latest drummer Sal Giancarelli. You can watch that below:

Part three of Corey Taylor‘s (Slipknot/Stone Sour, etc.) lecture at the University of Oxford overseas earlier this year has landed online below:

As speculated earlier this week, Stray From The Path have officially dropped off of their planned European/UK tour with Norma Jean, The Chariot and Admiral’s Arms. Dead And Divine will be taking their place on the bill.

Speaking on their decision to pull out of the tour, Stray From The Path offered:

“Ok so a lot of you have heard already, but it is very very unfortunate, due to recent events we have to cancel our European tour with the chariot and Norma Jean. We haven’t had to cancel anything yet, but buying plane tickets and starting a tour in thousands of dollars in debt with all of the problems we have had this month, is just impossible. It sucks to make decisions based on finances, but it was just not feasable. We are in the works now with coming to Europe asap, and sorry to disappoint our fans there, but luckily we have been replaced by dead and divine, who rules.

Again sorry to our fans, promoters and our boys in Norma Jean and the chariot for understanding. See you all very soon.

- love stray”

Considering those ‘recent events’ included a van flip this all sounds pretty reasonable.

The Word Alive have confirmed that they will enter the studio on February 07th to begin recording their new album. Sessions for the outing are expected to wrap on March 21st with Joey Sturgis (Emmure, The Devil Wears Prada) handling the production duties.

High On Fire‘s recent spate of West Coast touring saw the band debut some new material live. Fan-filmed footage of the band performing a new track (reportedly titled “Serums Of Liao“) in San Diego, CA on November 14th can be found below:

Meanwhile, footage of the band performing a track said to be called “Madness Of An Architect” in Santa Ana, CA on November 14th can be found below as well:
click here to watch the footage…

Defiler‘s “Pangaea” has been re-mixed and remastered by Zeuss (Hatebreed, Chimaira) for an upcoming re-release through Stillborn Records. The new version of the album will also feature new artwork done by Killswitch Engage‘s Mike D’Antonio and the b-side track, “Wild Wasteland“.

More on that can be found here. Meanwhile, the band have since signed with a new label TBA and are working on their new album for an early 2012 release.

Periphery have wasted no time with their studio webisode series for their new album. the band, who entered the studio earlier this week, have posted the first installment in the series below:

Polkadot Cadaver (Dog Fashion Disco) have had their trailer broken into with their drums and basses being stolen during the theft. The group, offered the following two messages via their Facebook on the matter:

“URGENT NEWS FOR Polkadot Cadaver FANS: OUR TRAILER WAS BROKEN INTO and OUR DRUMS AND BASSES were stolen. We were driving up to start the Korpiklaani tour and had to stop in Albany, NY to pick up our merch. When we opened up our trailer we had realized that it had been broken into. We have lost thousands of dollars of gear. We are continuing on to Montreal but we are asking any PDC fans in that area if they have any basses we could borrow for that show.

The same goes for Toronto. If so we can at least guest list you into the show. We are hoping to get replacement gear in NYC or Cleveland on the tour, but this is the situation we are in now. Please email jasanstepp@gmail.com if you can offer any assistance”

“First of all, thanks for all of the support and well wishes. Having gear stolen is the worst! We are doing what needs to be done to not miss any shows, so we will be in Montreal tonight! The show must go on. We are accepting donations if anyone can contribute. Paypal jasanstepp@gmail.com
We have the greatest fans in the world. Thanks guys and gals.”

More details on the bands aforementioned tour can be found here.