kevin.

It's definitely a top 10 beast.

Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli

Here are some tastefully bizarre videos from the album. I'm a sucker for anything that's accompanied by the Prague Philharmonic and a massive pipe organ.

The Serpentine Offering

The Sacreligious Scorn

Video for Killswitch Engage's cover of Dio's "Holy Diver." This is one of the best cover songs AND videos of all time. Seriously.

Emanuel debuts their new track "Phobos" / Alternative Press

The 100 Greatest cover songs of all time / Digital Dream Door

Scientific proof that metal really is Satanic (or something like that) / idolator

GNR's Appetite For Destruction turns 20, continues to outsell newer records / velvet rope

Not to be outdone, The Sex Pistols' Nevermind The Bollocks turns 30, slated for reissue / NME

No Knife's Ryan Feguson posts two new solo tracks / Ryan Ferguson

Hot New Blog Alert! For those interested in music and global health (simultaneously, of course) / Chain of Strength

Nitro Tokyo, featuring Mike from the Darkest Hour. Hell yeah.

From HITS:
JOURNEY SINGER WHACKED: Just one day after Journey launched its comeback with a strategically placed soundtrack appearance on The Sopranos finale, the band’s remaining founding members stopped believin’ in frontman Jeff Scott Soto after just 10 months on the job. Said guitarist Neal Schon: “We’ve just decided to go our separate ways, no pun intended. We’re plotting our next move now." Added keyboardist Jonathan Cain: added that he hoped Soto would remain “a friend of the band in the future. We just felt it was time to go in a different direction.”
No one gives a good god damn who sings for Journey as long as it's not Steve Perry, anyway. You'd think Journey would capitalize on this wave of popularity (if you can call 25 years a "wave") with younger audiences and hit the road with Jimmy Eat World or Fall Out Boy, rather than…

memorial day '07 at the key club. awesome.