Director Dale “Rage” Resteghini (Mudvayne, Trivium) has announced that he will be filming new music videos for Sevendust, Children Of Bodom and Hatebreed in the coming months. Further details are expected as the shoots near.

Black Label Society will headline the “Black Label Berzerkus Tour” this fall. Clutch and Children Of Bodom will share the direct support slot on the trek while 2Cents will open. Dates for the tour can be found below:

September 21st Portland, OR – Roseland
September 22nd Vancouver, BC – PNE Forum
September 24th Edmonton< AB – Edmonton EXPO Centre Hall D Arena
September 25th Regina, SK – Agribition Hall
September 26th Calgary, AB – Big 4
September 28th Winnipeg, MB – Winnipeg Convention Centre
September 30th Omaha, NE – Anchor Inn
October 01st Clive, IA – 7 Flags
October 02nd Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom
October 03rd St. Paul, MN – Roy Wilkins Auditorium
October 05th Louisville, KY – Expo Five
October 08th Asbury Park, NJ – Convention Hall
October 09th Lewiston, ME – The Colisee
October 12th Halifax, NS – Cunard Centre
October 14th Montreal, QC – Metropolis
October 15th Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
October 16th Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
October 20th New York City, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
October 22nd Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
October 23rd Atlanta, GA – Masquerade Music Park
October 24th Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
October 26th Orlando, FL – Hard Rock
October 28th Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theater
October 29th Corpus Christi, TX – Concrete St. Amphitheater
October 30th Grand Prairie, TX – Verizon Theatre @ Grand Prairie
October 31st Lubbock, TX – Lonestar Pavilion
November 02nd Austin, TX – Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
November 03rd Tulsa, OK – Brady Center
November 05th Grand Rapids, MI – DeltaPlex
November 07th Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
November 09th Rochester, NY – Main Street Armory
November 10th Columbus, OH – The LC Pavilion
November 12th Wichita, KS – Cotilion
November 13th Kansas City, KS – Uptown Theater
November 14th Denver, CO – The Fillmore Auditorium
November 16th Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
November 18th Phoenix, AZ – Dodge Theatre
November 20th San Francisco, CA – Warfield

Metallica, Slayer and Slipknot are among the various metal artists who will have playable tracks in the next installment of the “Guitar Hero” videogame franchise, “Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock“. The game will also feature a brand new Megadeth track dubbed “Sudden Death” which was written exclusively for the game. The official press release showcasing the first 35 tracks to be revealed for the game can be found below:

“This autumn, living room legends and their friends will join together and embark on an epic rock journey to save rock n’ roll with Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero ® : Warriors of Rock. The latest installment in the world’s most popular music game series, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock will once again redefine music gaming with an all-new, story-driven Quest Mode, a completely redesigned rock-inspired guitar controller, the biggest on-disc selection of rock music ever in a Guitar Hero ® game and Quickplay+, which invites challenge-starved fanatics to test their rock skills in any of the on-disc or over 500 songs in the Guitar Hero Music Library.

Running on the powerful Guitar Hero engine that has been expanded and refined, coupled with the return of the critically acclaimed and fan favorite features like Party Play’s jump in/jump out gameplay, a host of Competitive modes and the ability to play any combination of guitar, bass, drums and vocals, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock offers the complete interactive and connected experience bringing friends and foes to the stage in the ultimate rock music adventure.

“Guitar Hero has set the standard for music based gaming and with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and the game’s all-new Quest Mode, robust and authentic set list, over-the-top challenges and rock-inspired new hardware, we are once again bringing the soul and energy of rock n’ roll to fans around the world,” said David Haddad, Chief Operating Officer, Guitar Hero.

In Quest Mode, using any combination of instruments, players will embark on a larger-than-life, epic rock journey from the stage of CBGBs, the infamous punk-rock club in New York City, to the molten lava fields of rock treachery as eight Guitar Hero characters transform into rock warriors that must join together to use their unique, game-changing powers to help the Demi-God of Rock take down “The Beast” and save rock n’ roll.

“The world is a boring place. Come with me, and enter a world populated of Demi-Gods and Beasts. Transform from an everyday person and become the savior of rock and roll,” said Gene Simmons of KISS. “It was an honor and privilege to narrate Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, even more so, to voice the Demi God. From the God of Thunder to the Demi-God, how cool is that…”

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock breathes new life into gamers’ current Guitar Hero music libraries providing literally hundreds of hours of replayability with the introduction of Quickplay+, which features 13 totally unique gameplay challenges for every on-disc track as well as most downloadable and importable songs from Guitar Hero ® World Tour forward. Gamers will complete challenges such as Band Streak, High Score and Power Challenge, which allows players to choose any two warrior powers they have unlocked to try and earn ridiculously high scores, to rank up and unlock more rewards and content than ever before. All-new Challenge Leaderboards have been created in order to capture the outrageous scores that are capable with Quickplay+.

Delivering the largest on-disc rock music set list to-date, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock features more than 90 tracks that include guitar shredding hits from bands such as Black Sabbath, Megadeth and Slipknot and larger than life anthems from Queen, Muse and KISS. Additionally, Dave Mustaine of Megadeth wrote and recorded “Sudden Death,” an original track for the game, which was inspired by Quest Mode’s storyline. Along with original songs, the set list also includes special re-records by famous artists and tracks from bands that are making their music video game debut. The first songs off of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock’s set list to be revealed are:

•AFI – “Dancing Through Sunday”
•Anthrax – “Indians”
•Avenged Sevenfold – “Bat Country”
•Black Sabbath – “Children Of The Grave”
•Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?”
•Children Of Bodom – “If You Want Peace… Prepare For War”
•The Cure – “Fascination Street”
•Def Leppard – “Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)”
•Dethklok – “Bloodlines”
•Dire Straits – “Money For Nothing”
•DragonForce – “Fury of the Storm”
•Drowning Pool – “Bodies”
•Fall Out Boy – “Dance, Dance”
•Foo Fighters – “No Way Back”
•Foreigner – “Feels Like The First Time”
•The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”
•Jane’s Addiction – “Been Caught Stealing”
•Jethro Tull – “Aqualung”
•KISS – “Love Gun”
•Linkin Park – “Bleed It Out”
•Megadeth – “Sudden Death”
•Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne – “Paranoid (Live)”
•Muse – “Uprising”
•My Chemical Romance – “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”
•Night Ranger – “ (You Can Still) Rock In America”
•Nine Inch Nails – “Wish”
•The Offspring – “Self Esteem”
•Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”
•Rammstein – “Waidmanns Heil”
•The Rolling Stones – “Stray Cat Blues”
•Silversun Pickups – “There’s No Secrets This Year”
•Slayer – “Chemical Warfare”
•Slipknot – “Psychosocial”
•Stone Temple Pilots – “Interstate Love Song”
•ZZ Top – “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”

To maximise players’ shredability, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock delivers the next evolution in finger-fretting with an all-new, show-stopping guitar controller that was inspired and born from the game’s unique art style and specifically made for shredding.

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is being developed by Neversoft Entertainment for the Xbox 360 ® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation ® 3 computer entertainment system and by Vicarious Visions for the Wii TM system from Nintendo. rating TBC. For more information about Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, please visit GuitarHero.com.”

The game is expected to see a fall release date while an initial reveal trailer can be found below:

Intimate live footage filmed from the stage of members of Metallica, System Of A Down, Deftones, Children Of Bodom and more performing a cover of Metallica’s “Battery” during a soundcheck has made its way online and can be seen below.

The footage looks to come from one of the Deftones‘ benefit shows for their ailing bassist Chi Cheng which took place last November.

Children Of Bodom plan to begin working on their new album early next year with intentions to begin recording it early in the summer. In the meantime, the band have booked the following three Finnish shows for April:

April 08th Tampere, FIN – Pakkahuone
April 09th Oulu, FIN – Club Teatria
April 10th Vuokatti, FIN – Hellkatti

Children Of Bodom have announced that they have completed their current touring cycle are now focused on writing material for their next album for the next few months.

A new teaser for Children Of Bodom’s covers album “Skeletons In The Closet” has been posted online in Quicktime format here. “Skeletons In The Closet” is due in stores on September 22nd through Spinefarm/Fontana International.