Recently posted by the band:

Let’s see? We started tracking the last Air song today. It?s a little upbeat number with breakbeats galore and I must say? Ri manned up and nailed it within a couple takes. We?ll be tracking the rest of the instruments for this song throughout the week, and maybe it?s about time to start thinking about rehearsing for the upcoming mini East Coast tour. Bah. On the other side of things, we?ve started discussing the rest of the aspects of the record like artwork, packaging, etc. Wonderful.

Love,
Teppei

A recent message from Atreyu:

Hello everyone,

It?s been a while since we?ve made a vague semblance of an update, so here goes:

For the last few months we?ve been home working on songs for the new record. We ended up writing about 25, all of which we are really siked on. We’ve been working with John Feldman on this record, and we couldn?t be happier. In fact, we?ve been in the studio for about a month and things are coming out really awesome. This album is definitely on its way to being the biggest, most epic record to date for us. We?re counting down the days till we can play them for you.

On that note, we have been confirmed for the Family Values tour this summer. We?ll be playing along side Korn, Evanescence, Flyleaf, Hell Yeah, and Trivium. We’re really excited to be a part of such a big and amazing tour. There are going to be so many great bands that we’ll be sharing the stage with, we’re ecstatic. We can?t wait to get back out on the road and play shows for y?all again.

On a third note, we have a few live videos that will be available online in the near future. One is a video for ?Untitled Finale? that we shot on our World Championship tour (which we thank everyone again for making it our best headliner yet), and the other is an older video that we found of our cover of Bon Jovi’s ?You Give Love A Bad Name?. This video is compiled from footage form Warped Tour two years ago. It is a great live video that we thought was lost, but hey, we found it! Well that?s the Atreyu news for now. Keep your eyes and ears open for the new jams very very soon and we’ll look forward to seeing you aaaaall soon.

Brandon and Atreyu

So here it is, the lineup for the annual Sounds Of The Underground tour. Following the lineup is the dates of the tour.

The Lineup:
GWAR
Chimaira
Every Time I Die
Job For A Cowboy
Necro
Darkest Hour
Amon Amarth
The Acacia Strain
The Devil Wears Prada
Heavy Heavy Low Low
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Goatwhore
This Is Hell
2 Cents

Tour Dates:
Fri/Jul-06 DALLAS, TX PALLADIUM BALLROOM
Sat/Jul-07 CORPUS CHRISTI, TX CONCRETE ST. AMPHITHEATRE
Sun/Jul-08 HOUSTON, TX VERIZON WIRELESS THEATRE
Tue/Jul-10 ORLANDO,FL UCF ARENA
Wed/Jul-11 MYRTLE BEACH, SC HOUSE OF BLUES
Fri/Jul-13 WORCESTER, MA PALLADIUM
Sat/Jul-14 SAYREVILLE,NJ STARLAND BALLROOM OUTSIDE
Sun/Jul-15 PHILADELPHIA, PA ELECTRIC FACTORY
Mon/Jul-16 WINSTON-SALEM, NC MILLENNIUM CENTER
Wed/Jul-18 TORONTO, ON KOOLHAUS COMPLEX
Thu/Jul-19 DETROIT, MI STATE THEATRE
Fri/Jul-20 MILWUAKEE, WI EAGLES BALLROOM
Sat/Jul-21 CLEVELAND,OH TIME WARNER CABLE AMPHITHEATER AT TOWER CITY
Sun/Jul-22 COLUMBUS, OH LIFESTYLE COMMUNITIES PAVILION
Mon/Jul-23 CHICAGO,IL CONGRESS THEATRE
Tue/Jul-24 MINNEAPOLIS, MN MYTH
Fri/Jul-27 CALGARY, AB MACEWAN HALL
Sat/Jul-28 EDMONTON, AB SHAW CONFERENCE CENTER
Mon/Jul-30 PORTLAND, OR EXPO HALL
Wed/Aug-01 SALT LAKE CITY, UT SALT AIR PAVILION
Fri/Aug-03 SAN JOSE, CA EVENTS CENTER @ SAN JOSE UNIV.
Sat/Aug-04 IRVINE, CA IRVINE MEADOWS SIDE STAGE
Sun/Aug-05 MESA, AZ MESA AMPHITHEATRE
Mon/Aug-06 LAS VEGAS, NV HOUSE OF BLUES
Wed/Aug-08 DENVER,CO FILLMORE

For further details please go to soundsoftheundergroundtour.com

As many may know back in August 2006 The Sounds Of Animals Fighting played a rare 4 live shows. The Anaheim shows recorded for DVD. The DVD, titled We Must Become the Change We Want to See is scheduled to come out May 1st.

“The DVD captures the magic, and both the look and sound are top quality.” ~TSOAF

View the DVD trailer here

A Static Lullaby will be releasing this live album/DVD on Fearless Records. This double-disc set will be released later this summer, see below for the 3 filming locations.

If you’re going to be in the area on these dates, here’s your chance to support ASL during their recording of their new DVD!
4/20 – Sacramento (The Boardwalk)
4/21- Orange County (The Alley)
4/23 – Hollywood (The Knitting Factory)

Here’s a couple videos of Social Code:

Making of their new single Bomb Hands

GuerillaCast Exclusive

Here’s a few different artists that have posted some new songs recently:

Secret Lives Of The Freemasons – To The Barricades (acoustic) – this song was previously recorded and unreleased, but is now available for free download.

The Fall Of Troy – Semi-Fiction – this song is featured off of TFOT new upcoming album Manipulator, coming out on May 1st.

Zolof The Rock & Roll Destroyer – Can’t Stand It – this song is the first new music released in a while from ZTRARD

We Are The Fury – Venus & So Physical -here are 2 new songs featured on their new upcoming album, to be released on May 22nd.

Foreverinmotion – The Clothes We Walk In – here’s a new song from the upcoming album The Beautiful Unknown

Limebeck – Limebeck – here’s their entire album up for stream, the album is out now

Hot Topic, Immortal Records, and Myspace Spring Indie Sampler – here’s a real treat, these guys have teamed up to offer you a free full download of new and upcoming tracks from a lot of hot bands, such as A Change Of Pace, The Almost, Hollywood Undead, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Hopesfall, Waking Ashland, and more!

Ozzy Ozbourne has released details on his next album Black Rain. Here’s the post from blabbermouth.net

OZZY OSBOURNE will release his new album, “Black Rain”, on May 22 via Epic Records. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “I Don’t Wanna Stop”, “Not Going Away”, “Thank God For The Almighty Dollar”, “Civilize The Universe”, “Black Rain”, “Countdown’s Begun” and “Trap Door”.

You can tell by looking at many of the song titles on “Black Rain” ? Ozzy Osbourne‘s first album with new studio material in six years ? that the rock legend took a good look at his own life and the world around him. He also salutes his fans?among the most devoted in the world ? with such songs as “Here For You” and “Lay Your World On Me”.

“Black Rain” finds the two-time Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee as vital, creative and evocative as ever. You also get the clear sense that he’s operating at the peak of powers, as a singer and songwriter. Ozzy fans can log onto www.ozzy.com to hear samples of tracks from the album.

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Ozzy co-produced the album with Kevin Churko and recorded it with his touring band: Zakk Wylde (guitar), Mike Bordin (drums) and Blasko (bass). Ozzy says that he felt a new freedom while recording the album at his home studio in Los Angeles. The result: songs that are not only hard-hitting but adventurously arranged and sonically fresh. Explains Ozzy, “It’s a well-put together album. I think it’s evident that it hasn’t been just slapped out and put down. I took my time on the album and Zakk plays some amazing stuff as always”. Ozzy feels “Black Rain” is the true follow-up to his classic “No More Tears”, the 1991 album that also challenged the expectations of what an Ozzy Osbourne album should sound like.

Some of the songs on “Black Rain” are ominous in their emotional tone ? they examine a world teeming with greed, war, deception, bad drugs (“11 Silver”, about crystal meth) and environmental havoc. Ozzy also zooms in on the overriding sense of fear and dread that define our times ? perpetrated, he feels, by news programs that make “entertainment” out of terrible news events.

Says Ozzy: “I just thought there’s so much fucking bad news, the only way I can release it is to put it in a song”. On the other hand, the new track “Civilize The Universe” offers a sense of hope, as Ozzy sings: “I’m alive/Watching better turn to worse/One more time/Try to civilize the universe”.

Ozzy will support “Black Rain” with a world tour beginning in Moscow on May 27 which continues through July 6. Then starting July 12 in Seattle, he’ll headline the 12th annual Ozzfest tour throughout America.

The pioneer and trendsetter has pulled the plug on ticket prices in America and given the power back to the fans, calling this summer’s Ozzfest “FreeFest”. That’s right, this year’s Ozzfest is entirely free for fans, an unprecedented move for an artist and tour of this stature.

Ozzy is being honored in May on VH1‘s “Rock Honors” telecast. He will perform three songs on the broadcast including a track from “Black Rain”. Premiering on Thursday, May 24 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, “VH1 Rock Honors” will be taped at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 12.