Trapt as posted a new song “Stay Alive” on Ultimate-Guitar.com. The new song will be featured on their live album, set to be released on August 21st. They plan to start recording a new album later this year. Trapt also plans on releasing 9 live videos online to their fans for free. For more information check out the exclusive interview at Ultimate-Guitar.com

Atreyu has officially titled their upcoming album Lead Sails Paper Anchor and have set a release date of August 28th, 2007. Lead Sails Paper Anchor is the bands fourth album and major label debut on Hollywood Records. Recently the band posted a game on their website featuring the first single off the album, ?Becoming the Bull.? The game challenges their fans to put ?Becoming the Bull? back together, with the fastest time winning a prize package that includes an autographed guitar and a copy of the album before it hits the streets. Atreyu will hit the road this summer with Korn and Evanescence on the Family Values tour.

Listen to the new song, Becoming The Bull, at atreyugame.com

In a recent post on myspace by Knights In Paris:

So I figured it was time to catch some of you up to speed as to where Nick and I (Mike) are at. I’ve been on tour for the past week or so, but before I left we were able to get a bunch of progress done. It’s been a little hard sometimes for us to physically get together with both of us doing our other bands, but we’ve been making it happen, sometimes even over the phone we end up writing haha. Right now we’ve got some really great material shaping up. Before I left we finished a new jam that Nick and I are really excited about, and since I left for tour we have another one in the works that is definitely gonna be something new for both of us, I guess I could describe it as a lot more on the dancier side. But so far what we have has a lot of variety which is what I always like to strive for. While I’m on tour these couple weeks I’ll be working on writing lyrics a bunch, I already have a good amount done and it’s coming together well.

Lastly, as for recording. We’ve been doing home demos on Nick’s computer. They work for the time being, but are not something we’d wanna release as our actual tracks. So given that, we’re going to shoot to head into the studio sometime in August to lay down i’d hope at least 4 to 6 songs and then we’ll have something for all of you to hear. In the mean time, we’ll see if we can get at least a snipet of something for you to hear that we’ve done up here so you can kinda have an idea where this is going.

Mike

(p.s. If any of you have any questions or just wanna shoot the shit, Nick and I will try to answer this page as much as we possibly can)

Lifehouse will be releasing their new album Who We Are. The album will be released on June 19th. The tracklist is as follows:
1. “Disarray”
2. “First Time”
3. “Whatever it Takes”
4. “Who We Are”
5. “Broken”
6. “The Joke”
7. “Easier To Be”
8. “Make Me Over”
9. “Mesmerized”
10. “Bridges”
11. “Learn You Inside Out”
12. “Storm”

You can stream the full album in its entirety on VH1.com

Emanuel will be releasing their new album, Black Earth Tiger on August 28th. The album will be released on Vagrant Records. The tracklist is as follows below:

01. Whiteflag (Intro)
02. Cottonmouth
03. Anathamatics
04. My Antapex
05. Scenotaph
06. Phobos
07. Abandonmentm Star
08. Let Them Die
09. Year of the Pig
10. Forever
11. Whiteflag (Reprise)

Between The Buried And Me will be releasing a new album, Colors on September 18th. Here is the album tracklist:

1. Foam Born:(a) the backtrack
2. (b) the decade of statues
3. Informal Gluttony
4. Sun of Nothing
5. Ants of the Sky
6. Prequel to the Sequel
7. Viridian
8. White Walls

Here are some updates on Aiden‘s new album, Conviction. Below include the tracklisting and album cover. The album is set to be released on August 21st. The album will be released through Victory Records.

01. The Opening Departure
02. She Will Love You
03. Teenage Queen
04. Hurt Me
05. One Love
06. Moment
07. Darkness
08. Son Of Lies
09. Believe
10. Bliss
11. The Sky Is Falling

Nikki Sixx?s new book, The Heroine Diaries, will be released September 18th in stores everywhere. The book details a year in the life of bassist and founding member of Motley Crue, Nikki Sixx, and his plunge toward rock-bottom?and his decision to pick himself up and start living again. This excerpt is taken from December of 1986 and discusses the relationship between Nikki and his drug dealer.

Read Chapter 1 Excerpt – The Heroine Diaries ? December, 1986

The track, Life Is Beautiful, accompanies the first chapter of The Heroine Diaries and details the realization of Nikki coming to terms with the lowest point of his life.

Listen to Soundtrack to The Heroine Diaries ? Life Is Beautiful ? Accompanying Track to Chapter 1

Here’s a video of Emery updating their progress on their third full length studio album, due out later this year. Watch below:

Drowning Pool, platinum and award-winning hard rock band from Dallas, Texas, have been gathering a prolific buzz about them recently throughout the online community in the political areas of the internet, and from those who are concerned with issues that surround the American troops currently abroad. The band recently completed the USO tour and came back with sincere concerns surrounding the return of the soldiers upon their return home from the middle-east.

?Once home in the United States, we connected with Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans who have returned home,? said Stevie Benton, Bassist and Founding Member of Drowning Pool. ?Though back on safe shores, these individuals are facing a steep uphill battle to reclaim their health after facing the trauma of war.?

Recently, the office of the public liaison at The White House received a letter written by Drowning Pool addressing the issues of healthcare and concerns for the troops on their return home, which was placed in the President?s personal reading file. Several interior cabinets of The White House have been opened to the team of Drowning Pool. One of which contacted Congress directly and are now awaiting a Congressional hearing date, where Drowning Pool will testify to the majority and minority parties of the U.S. Congress, addressing the facts of treatment of the American soldiers upon their return home from the Middle East. The band hopes to accomplish a shift of political and national attention toward the problems at hand concerning the well-being of those who fight and give their lives for the United States. Drowning Pool is preparing for their meeting with Congress by asking their fans, friends, and families to sign their online petition regarding the issue (the link is at the bottom of this article).

The White House is not the only government outlet that has given attention to the letter written by the band. Several of the 2008 Presidential candidates have accepted the letter and issue with open arms from Drowning Pool.

?We are seeking an opportunity to testify before Congress on behalf of these troops and veterans who need mental, emotional and medical support services,? said Benton. That goal will be accomplished with the return of Congress from over the weekend as the calendars and agendas in Washington are being marked to welcome Drowning Pool during the course of the next 6 months.

Drowning Pool are currently touring and preparing for the release of their new record, Full Circle, which features the single ?Soldiers? that they wrote for the troops after being inspired by them on the USO tour. If you would like to support Drowning Pool?s efforts for the American troops over seas, regardless of your political denomination, please follow the link and sign the petition online.

Click Here To Help Drowning Pool Support the Troops