Fan-filmed video footage of Finnish metallers INSOMNIUM performing two new songs from their latest album, "Across The Dark", on October 10, 2009 at Nosturi in Helsinki can be viewed below (courtesy of "RandomTraveler2").

"Across The Dark" recently entered the official chart in the band's home country at position No. 5. The CD was recorded at Fantom studio (where the group recorded its 2006 LP, "Above the Weeping World").

"Across The Dark" track listing:

01. Equivalence (03:18)
02. Down With The Sun (04:22)
03. Where The Last Wave Broke (05:03)
04. The Harrowing Years (06:39)
05. Against The Stream (06:11)
06. Lay Of The Autumn (09:08)
07. Into The Woods (05:08)
08. Weighted Down With Sorrow (05:51)
09. The New Beginning *
10. Into The Evernight *

* Bonus track (limited-edition only)

An e-card for "Across The Dark", which contains audio samples of three new songs — "Equivalence", "Down With The Sun" and "Where The Last Wave Broke" — is available at this location.

INSOMNIUM's "Down With The Sun" video was directed by Ville Rissanen of Obscure Entertainment.

Check out photos from the video shoot at this location.

"Down With The Sun":



"Weighted Down With Sorrow":



(Thanks: Melica / Night Elves)

Tom Valcanis of The Metal Forge conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King during the band's recently completed Australian tour with MEGADETH. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.

On touring Australia with MEGADETH:

"It's been great. I mean, I've been so fuckin' busy. I mean, we've been so busy we haven't even been hanging out after the shows. After we're done, everyone [from MEGADETH has] gone. I've never toured with them before; I'm not sure about their m.o., but yeah. They're like ghosts to us."

On rumors that SLAYER bassist/vocalist Tom Araya said in a recent interview that the band's new record, "World Painted Blood", would likely be their third last album before SLAYER hung up their boots and rested their necks permanently:

"I don't even know where that came from. Tom must have said something because I keep fielding questions about it. I don't even know what that means. We don't sit down and talk about shit like that; I hear stuff from the press, but who knows. It could be three; it could just be this one and the next one. It all depends on how long it takes between records. If it takes too long then yeah, the clock's ticking.

"I think it stemmed from [previous record] 'Christ Illusion', because it took us five years to make. I mean, I even said if it takes another five years to make a record, it'll probably be the last one; I mean it'll be ten years with only two records done. But this one was done in three and the next one will be done in hopefully two or three. I'm having fun, and the live show's awesome and we're making up great tunes, kids are coming and having a great fuckin' time."

On the fact that "World Painted Blood" features four different "panels" of a world map on each individual CD, each sold separately (due to pressures from American retailers for "exclusive" content):

"I know fans are crazy and they'll go out and buy them all, but I'd be like, Oh, I got one, it's got all the songs on it, it's all I need.' But a lot of the retailers in America wanted exclusives on songs. Instead of wasting songs in my eyes, Dave [Lombardo, drummer] came up with this idea of why don't we take [the artwork] and split it into four. I mean, what have we got in America; [alternative/underground store] Hot Topic wants their own version, [electronics retailer] Best Buy wants their own version; you know, I'm not going to waste songs like that. I mean, if people are buying songs they should be able to buy the collection. I mean there are two left over though and I'm sure they'll end up on a deluxe edition or a video game or a movie soundtrack somewhere along the line. It was a way of not wasting songs and keeping the retailers happy."

On the claim that they were "responsible for the creation of death metal":

"Well, the thing that I am more proud of than that, well, in my history anyway was bringing the metal and the punk crowd together. I think we were instrumental in that. I remember if you were at a metal show, there were no punk kids there. We were a kind of band that both 'factions' liked. It was trying to get them to co-exist, you know. D.R.I. was a big part of that too, and I think that's important. I mean it might be important to death metal fans and that's great, but I'm not a huge fan of death metal. It's just not my thing."

Read the entire interview from The Metal Forge.

According to the Hounslow Chronicle, QUEEN guitarist Brian May will visit Feltham, Middlesex, U.K. for the unveiling of a memorial to former bandmate Freddie Mercury.

May will be guest-of-honor at the ceremony on November 24 in which a Hollywood-style star will be laid in tribute to his flamboyant friend, who died of AIDS in 1991. Mercury's mother Jer Bulsara and sister Kash Cooke have also said they will attend the event.

The family lived in Gladstone Avenue in Feltham for 10 years in the 1960s and '70s and Mercury studied art at Isleworth polytechnic, which is now West Thames College.

Read the entire article from Hounslow Chronicle.

According to Vindy.com, legendary rocker Ted Nugent will appear on Dan Rivers' show on WKBN 570 AM tomorrow (Thursday, October 15) from 10 a.m. until noon. Ex-con and former congressman James A. Traficant Jr. will guest-host the program and Nugent will join the show via phone from his Texas home.

Nugent is an outspoken conservative known for his pro-National Rifle Association, pro-hunting views.

The number to call in the show is (330) 729-9977.

You can listen to the program via the Internet at this location.

On Sunday, October 18, platinum-selling singer/songwriter Edwin McCain will join Seattle progressive rock giants QUEENSRŸCHE for a one-off appearance in Asheville, North Carolina.

Blending equal parts folk, soul and rock, McCain has signed with Vanguard Records and will release a new studio album next spring.

For more information, visit www.edwin.com.

QUEENSRŸCHE has scheduled two "cabaret shows" at the Snoqualmie Casino in Snoqualmie, Washington on February 4-5, 2010

Queensrÿche Cabaret is described as Geoff Tate, Scott Rockenfield, Michael Wilton, Eddie Jackson and Parker Lundgren performing a show-of-shows with a bunch of their friends who have a tendency to only come out late at night.

The Queensrÿche Cabaret will be art, lust, dancing and naughty fun with the band performing their hits and never-heard-before selections accompanied by go-go dancers, burlesque dancers, drag queens, a juggler, ballet dancer, aerial artist, contortionist and much more.

There will be fan-club-only parties and events Thursday Friday and Saturday nights, including a Super Bowl party on Sunday for those staying the weekend. Fan-club seats and passes to many, many events will be up in the next week.

Ireland's RTÉ.ie recently conducted an interview with ALICE IN CHAINS members William DuVall (vocals) and Sean Kinney (drums). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

RTÉ.ie: A lot of bands get back together and it sounds very after the after the fact. With you, it sounds like unfinished business.

Kinney: We never had a problem making music. We had a problem managing our lives. We had a problem [due to] living really hard. Music was so easy for us. And what's so great for us is that it's the same kind of vibe nowadays. We're all in the same headspace and do this for the same reasons and that's still intact.

We just lived really hard and did some things personally that started to get into the way of doing the one thing that we really loved, so we just stopped showing up. It's been 14 years, that's 5,076 days, since we put out a record. A lot of time has passed and I'm excited and it's great to have something to be excited about [and] that you care so much about.

RTÉ.ie: It must be very draining, though, in interviews for people to focus on the past.

Kinney: Yeah, that's part of it though, y'know? That's part of the game. I don't come in here with some idea that that's not... And the easy way to remedy that is to be in a band that makes albums about 'chicks and cars and partying'. But that's just not how we operate. Everything is pretty much real life kind of topics.

The thing that gets old is that so much [focus] gets put on the drugs. And I can understand that, but that's not a unique story, that's a very common story. All of our songs are not about drugs — maybe about 15% of our music was about that. It's easy to put a label on something and that's what people do.

Hopefully the label they put on this album is about moving on. This is a more universal theme to me. This is about loss that we have all experienced in our lives or will experience and getting out of that place and moving forward into a better way. That's all you can ask for, that's all you can do.

RTÉ.ie: There will always be fans who love the old records that you're not going to reach.

DuVall: And that's OK. This is an invitation and you don't have to take it. But it's an invitation that's coming from a really, really truthful and very, very profound place. I think the people that take it and the people that show up to the party are going to really be rewarded. And they have been rewarded, and they're digging it.

Kinney: Seeing Will just give his all every night and going at it and turning people around who have a closed mind [as to] why we're doing this is amazing. I understand [fans have] a little bit of fear and that people connected to the records we've done so strongly and I honor that completely. But it's a little rude for people who listen to those records and bond with them to try to pass judgment on us and say we don't have the right to do something.

The truth is that all of these things that they care about so much didn't happen to them: it actually happened to us. It was actually our real life. My friend's dead and I live with that every day. We've all lost people and everybody will in life. And just because you loved our record so much doesn't mean you can't move on. If we can find a way to move on and they can't then I just kind of feel sorry for people at that point. This happened to us and we can move on with our heads up and are doing it in the most honorable and genuine fashion. And you can't because you just listened to a record? That's a little sad.

RTÉ.ie: One thing I've always been struck by during the years you were away is the amount of goodwill rock fans have towards ALICE IN CHAINS.

Kinney: That's been one of the amazing things. The music lived on. We didn't serve it. We weren't out there trying to sell it, work it or anything. The music on its own merit and what we had done when we started this thing took on a life of its own and you can't make that happen. A record company can't make that happen. They can put their whole machine behind a song that you may not like that gets it on the radio and they play it all day long. But will that song still be played 10 or 20 years down the road on its own?

I think it's the greatest reward that the music has taken on a life of its own and been passed onto another generation. So now when we do these shows a lot of these people weren't even born when our first record came out and it means something to them.

RTÉ.ie: That's very special.

Kinney: There was no reason why we had to do this. It was for real, genuine belief and caring. For me part of the reason [in making the album] is showing that horrible stuff happens everybody in their life and that you need to get up and you need to move on. And how do you do that respectfully and truthfully?

And another thing is to take what Jerry [Cantrell, guitarist], Layne [Staley, late singer], Mike Starr [former bassist] and I created when we were teenagers and bring that thing that has taken on a life of its own — and we're not all here to be part of it — to these people. That's important to me. They connected with it and the whole thing gets to move forward. It's not like we shut the door on that part of our life. That's forever a huge part of our life. That door always remains open.

DuVall: And new friendships come into play and new bonding takes place. That comes out of the same honest place that all their previous music came out of. It's no different. Cantrell and I go back 10 years. We were friends first and that friendship evolved finally to a point where it's led to us sitting here talking about a new ALICE IN CHAINS record — because of that three years of touring that we did starting in '06. That's where Mike Inez [bassist], Sean, myself and Cantrell all fused together as a unit and became a hell of band in our own right. That journey is what you're hearing as well on this album. It's as much about the present and the future as it is about honoring the past. And it is about people's memories as regards to music: it becomes the soundtrack to people's lives. That's stuff you can't plan that becomes an incredible reward.

Read the entire interview at RTÉ.ie.

Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Full Metal Rock conducted an interview with drummer Kjetil-Vidar "Frost" Haraldstad of Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON before the band's October 8, 2009 performance at the Key Club in West Hollywood California. The chat is now available for streaming at this location.

SATYRICON vocalist Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven recently told AOL's Noisecreep that the group plans to halt all road activities after its current North American tour. "We started touring and haven't stopped," he said. "We did Japan and Australia, then the U.S. Then we did an extensive of the Nordic countries and had a few weeks off and then went right into festival season, which ran from May through September.

"We've been off for a week and we're going back on tour for a month. November is off, with only one show, so it'll be quiet. Christmas will be it for quite some time. It'll take something special for us to go out in 2010. We need a break, since we've been going for a long time. We feel motivated to do a full headline tour of the States right now."

SATYRICON released a special-edition, two-CD version of its critically acclaimed latest album, "The Age Of Nero", on September 29 via E1 Music (formerly KOCH Records). The bonus material on this special "The Age Of Nero" package has never been available in North America before. Featuring eight live and rare recordings, this set is a must-have for SATYRICON fans.

Capital Chaos has uploaded video footage (see below) of SATYRICON's October 9, 2009 performance at The Boardwalk in Orangevale, California. Also on the bill were MALEVOLENT, TOXIC HOLOCAUST and CHTHONIC.

Guitarist/vocalist Karl Sanders of Southern Carolina-based extreme technical death metallers NILE is pissed that the band's new album, "Those Whom the Gods Detest", has been leaked. As was the case with CONVERGE's "Axe to Fall" album, the NILE leak has been traced back to a journalist.

"Amongst your brethren, there is a betrayer," Sanders tells AOL's Noisecreep. "In fact, Nuclear Blast [NILE's record label] knows exactly who it was. It was the same guy who leaked the HYPOCRISY record. So, yeah, it was a journalist, a music journalist that leaked the record. Now, come on man ... don't we all have the struggle in this day and age, trying to eke out a living, playing music or writing about music?

"So, the idea that one of our own ... one our own brethren is the guy that stuck a knife in our heart ... I have trouble believing it, man. A couple days after I found that out, I had a little trouble doing interviews, because, in the back of my mind, it was like, 'Is this the guy? Should I be killing this guy instead of talking nice to him?' It took a while to put it all into perspective."

He continued, "I believe [the label] is planning legal action, and I think that's what's going to have to happen. You can't penalize someone for downloading it. You don't hate on the fans because of it. I think it's going to take recourse on the responsible people ... if we're not going to police our own, and hold our comrades and colleagues up to high moral standards, then what can we expect? It's up to us to not only try and behave ethically, but to call out others when they engage in unethical behavior."

NILE recently released the first taste of "Those Whom the Gods Detest". Produced and mixed by Neil Kernon (NEVERMORE, CANNIBAL CORPSE, QUEENSRŸCHE), along with a drum-recording job by Erik Rutan (CANNIBAL CORPSE, VITAL REMAINS, GOATWHORE), the CD features the band's strongest production and perhaps its best material to date. The cover artwork was created by Michal "Xaay" Loranc, whom NILE guitarist/vocalist Karl Sanders had previously worked with on his second solo album, "Saurian Exorcisms".

The song "Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld" is now available for streaming on the band's MySpace page.

Sanders told Revolver magazine earlier in the year that the band's sixth full-length album will likely be NILE's most eclectic offering to date. "We're going to some very unexpected places," he said. "I've been listening to some oud music [the oud is a Middle Eastern lute — Ed.], Iranian music, and some Hindu stuff, and that stuff's definitely rubbing off on the new songs."

"Those Whom the Gods Detest" is scheduled for a November 3 North American release via Nuclear Blast Records.

Reactivated Swedish atmospheric black metallers ALGAION have set "Exthros" ("enemy" in Greek) as the title of their third album, due soon via Pulverised Records. The CD was recorded at Helltower Studio by ALGAION live/studio drummer Robert Eng (also of CORPORATION 187) and the mastering duties were handled by Simon Söderberg at Mayfire Studio.

"Exthros" track listing:

01. Alpha
02. That Time Is Nigh
03. Theos Tou Aimatos
04. We Are The Enemy
05. The Last Of Cursed Days
06. Nature Our Slave
07. Ruach Adversi
08. This Is Our Temple
09. Sign Of Evil Existence / The Era Of Satan Rising
10. House Of War
11. Omega

The song "Theos Tou Aimatos" is now available for streaming on the ALGAION MySpace page.

Having previously played with HYPOCRISY, PAIN and MORIFADE, guitarist Mathias Kamijo decided that it was time to resurrect the ghost of ALGAION, along with founding member Mårten Björkman, and bring it back to life.

The group's current recording/touring lineup includes members of CORPORATION 187 (Viktor Klint and Robert Eng on guitars and drums, respectively) and Tobias Leffler (previously in VERGELMER and N.C.O.) on bass.

ALGAION is:

Mårten Björkman - Vocals
Mathias Kamijo - Guitar
Robert Eng - Drums
Tobias Leffler - Session Bass
Viktor Klint - Session Guitar

M INC., the new Orlando, Florida-based band featuring former DEATH/MASSACRE guitarist Rick "Rozz" DeLillo, will contribute an exclusive track, "Angel of Descent", to the upcoming Fall of Eden Records compilation "Fallen Souls". Due on October 31, the CD will feature 14 other bands, including GORE SANCTUM (U.K.), MISCONDÜCTERS (U.K.) and MORDETH (Brazil).

M INC., which is putting the finishing touches on its first demo, was formed earlier this year by Rozz, Terry Shrock (SHINE) on vocals and bass and Mike Mazzonetto (ex-PAIN PRINCIPLE) on drums. The group is said to be Rick's first foray into extreme music since the mid-'90s and his MASSACRE days. Indeed, the band was initially supposed to be called MASSACRE INC., but out of respect to MASSACRE's drummer Bill Andrews and a desire to not live in the past, the name was changed to M INC.

Over the past decade, Rick has played in a number of other projects, including southern rock and acoustic bands.

Rozz was a member of the pre-DEATH band MANTAS alongside Chuck Schuldiner and Kam Lee and played on DEATH's seminal and unforgettable "Leprosy" album. As part of MASSACRE, he helped produce those massively influential demos that set the '80s tape trading scene alight and the classic album "From Beyond", not to mention the superb EP "Inhuman Condition".

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/rozz1967.

Official Metallica.com footage from METALLICA's October 12, 2009 concert at MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — including clips of pre-show tuning-room jam and the actual performance — can be viewed below.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. That Was Just Your Life
02. The End Of The Line
03. For Whom The Bell Tolls
04. The Memory Remains
05. One
06. Broken, Beat And Scarred
07. Cyanide
08. Sad But True
09. The Unforgiven
10. All Nightmare Long
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Damage, Inc.
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
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16. Helpless
17. Whiplash
18. Seek and Destroy

METALLICA has launched an iPhone application that "creates a streaming interface to your LiveMetallica account," meaning that any live show fans have downloaded from the site will automatically stream to their iPhones once they launch the app, which costs 99 cents. Fans just have to purchase the app at the iPhone store and log onto their account at LiveMetallica.com to access every gig they've downloaded, as well as a free stream of the band's latest concert. More developments and features are also on the way.

METALLICA has added single-song downloads to the LiveMetallica.com web site. Instead of buying only entire concerts, fans can pick whatever individual songs they want from any concert they choose from. Every song that the band has recorded in concert since 2004, covering a span of 269 shows, is available for 99 cents per MP3. Full shows are still $9.95 as MP3 files and $12.95 as higher-quality FLAC files.

LiveMetallica.com was launched in March 2004 and makes downloads available for purchase of every show the band has played since then, often within hours of the gig's finale.

More than 300,000 downloads have been purchased at the site since its launch.

The "Vault" section of the site offers free downloads of shows recorded before 2004.

More shows will crop up at the site in upcoming weeks, since METALLICA just launched a new North American tour last month. The band has dates booked through mid-December.

Austria's Mulatschag.TV has posted a new three-minute interview with MONSTER MAGNET guitarist Ed Mundell. Watch the clip below.

MONSTER MAGNET's latest album, "4-Way Diablo", entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 81. The CD, which was produced by Matt Hyde and features a cover version of THE ROLLING STONES' "2,000 Light Years from Home", previously landed on the Swedish chart at No. 51. The album sold 1,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Check out audio samples on the band's MySpace page.

The fourth in a series of video clips featuring footage from the recording sessions for REVOCATION's second full-length album, "Existence Is Futile", can be viewed below.

"Existence Is Futile" sold around 440 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD landed at position No. 148 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

"Existence Is Futile" was released on September 29 in North America and October 5 internationally via Relapse Records. The follow-up to "Empire Of The Obscene" was recorded at Damage Studios in Southbridge, Massachusetts with engineer Pete Rutchko.

"Existence Is Futile" track listing:

01. Enter The Hall
02. Pestilence Reigns
03. Deathonomics
04. Existence Is Futile
05. The Brain Scramblers
06. Across Forests And Fjords
07. ReaniManiac
08. Dismantle The Dictator
09. Anthem Of The Betrayed
10. Leviathan Awaits
11. Tragedy Of Modern Ages

REVOCATION has announced a handful of East Coast dates with MOONSPELL and DIVINE HERESY. The band has also been confirmed for the 2009 Relapse Records / BrooklynVegan CMJ showcase show at Fontana's on October 23.

Legendary drummer and philanthropist Carmine Appice was recently interviewed by Alice Cooper for the "Nights with Alice Cooper" radio show to support the recent GUITAR ZEUS CD release, "Conquering Heroes". The interview is scheduled to run on Alice's show on Tuesday, October 20 as part of the annual Halloween celebration broadcasts.

"It was great talking with Alice for the interview for GUITAR ZEUS," affirms Appice. "We go back to the 60's when Alice opened up for VANILLA FUDGE. Alice told me he loves projects like my GUITAR ZEUS because it is different than just a band and he loves to play them. He said he is gonna rock with GUITAR ZEUS on his show. He also asked me to get involved with his charity foundation to help inner city kids. I said I would love to."

Fuel Records released the new GUITAR ZEUS CD, "Conquering Heroes", on August 25. The double-disc set, which features 24 of the best GUITAR ZEUS songs, showcases the prolific talents of many world-renowned rock guitarists, including Brian May, Ted Nugent, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Richie Sambora, and many more.

Author, clinician, drummer, philanthropist... Carmine Appice first came to prominence as the percussionist with the late 1960s psychedelic band VANILLA FUDGE. He contributed distinctive background harmonies with bassist Tim Bogert, adding to the group's high decibel sonic assault. After five albums, Appice and Bogert left VANILLA FUDGE to form the blues rock quartet CACTUS with vocalist Rusty Day and guitarist Jim McCarty. Eventually, Appice left CACTUS with Bogert to join Jeff Beck in the power trio BECK, BOGERT & APPICE, and then later joined Rod Stewart's backing band in 1977, co-writing hit songs such as "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Young Turks". In 1978, Appice played drums on Paul Stanley's first solo album. He was a member of KGB featuring Ray Kennedy, Rick Grech, Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg, and has recorded with Stanley Clarke, Ted Nugent, and PINK FLOYD. He was the drummer for the bands KING KOBRA and BLUE MURDER, and toured with Ozzy Osbourne.

Appice first created GUITAR ZEUS in 1995 when he recruited some of the most famous guitarists in the world to be a part of his project, from Zakk Wylde and Ted Nugent to Brian May (QUEEN) and Slash (GUNS N' ROSES), even tennis legend John McEnroe. Songs also included guest vocals by Doug Pinnick and Edgar Winter. Throughout the late 1990s, three GUITAR ZEUS CDs were released to worldwide critical acclaim.

"GUITAR ZEUS, for me, was an amazing experience, working with so many great guitarists", Appice states. "It was fun picking out songs for each. Each guitarist loved the songs. It was awesome. I would do it again in a minute even though it was a lot of work. I consider these drum tracks to be some of my best drum performances in my career!"

Quality video footage of ENTOMBED's October 13, 2009 performance at Trädgårn in Gothenburg, Sweden (as the support act for AMON AMARTH) can be viewed below (courtesy of "framednoise").

ENTOMBED's latest album, "Serpent Saints - The Ten Amendments", was released in the U.S. on July 31, 2007 via Candlelight/Threeman Recordings. The 10-song effort marked the group's first release with drummer Olle Dahlstedt (ALPHA SAFARI, ex-MISERY LOVES CO.), who replaced Peter Stjärnvind in 2006. Mastering duties were handled by Soren Elofsson at Cosmos Mastering in Stockholm, Sweden.

"Serpent Saints - The Ten Amendments" entered the Swedish national chart at position No. 3. This was the highest chart position in the band's career.

GWAR will perform the song "Sick Of You" on Fearless Music TV this Saturday, October 17. The show will air at 12:30 a.m. on Fox 5 in New York City.

If you are not in New York City, check out the time and channel listing at the Fearless Music web site to find out when and where else the program will air.

Before and after the episode airs, go to the Fearless Music web site and vote for GWAR! The band that receives the highest amount of votes will be featured again on next week's episode.

"Let Us Slay", the new video from GWAR, can be viewed below. The clip was shot in Richmond, Virginia by director David Brodsky (SUICIDE SILENCE, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, WHITECHAPEL) and his MyGoodEye crew.

GWAR's new album, "Lust In Space", sold around 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 96 on The Billboard 200 chart.

Legendary rock bassist Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, WHITESNAKE, QUIET RIOT, DIO, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT) will guest on the "Heavy Metal Mayhem" radio show with Mike "The Big Cheese". The interview will take place during the Sunday, October 18 broadcast from 6 to 8 p.m. EST.

For information, go to this location.

Sarzo will participate in this year's Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp, which will take place November 17-22 in Hollywood.

A collector's edition of Rudy's book, "Off the Rails: Aboard the Crazy Train in the Blizzard of Ozz", was released in August 2008 via TooSmart! Publishing. According to Sarzo, "The new edition is beautiful and includes many more pictures throughout the book as well as a 16-page glossy spread of Ross Halfin photos from the beginning of our tour."

"Off the Rails" includes a first-person account from Rudy's personal day-by-day diary of events while touring with Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads in the early Eighties. The book was originally due in 2005 but was delayed after Sharon Osbourne allegedly applied pressure to have it pulled.

"New Moon Rising", the new video from the Australian retro-rock combo WOLFMOTHER, can be viewed below. The kaleidoscope of visual feats features an onslaught of color, effects and cut up animation pieced together resulting in a journey to the decade of rock 'n roll. Prepared by New Zealand directors Special Problems, the clip is an arresting display of psychedelic voodoo and the perfect jump off point into the world of the band's new record, "Cosmic Egg".

WOLFMOTHER's second album, "Cosmic Egg", will be released on October 27. The group's first CD since the departure of drummer Myles Heskett and bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross was recorded in Los Angeles with heralded U.K. producer Alan Moulder.

The track listing for the CD is as follows:

01. California Queen
02. New Moon Rising
03. White Feather
04. Sundial
05. In The Morning
06. 10,000 Feet
07. Cosmic Egg
08. Far Away
09. Pilgrim
10. In The Castle
11. Phoenix
12. Violence Of The Sun

WOLFMOTHER's 2006 debut sold more than 500,000 copies in the U.S. and featured the Grammy-winning single "Woman".

WOLFMOTHER's cross-country trek will kick off at the House of Blues in Dallas, Texas on October 29 and wrap up 20 cities later at the legendary Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Support for all shows will come from THENEWNO2 and HEARTLESS BASTARDS.

MARKY RAMONE'S BLITZKRIEG, the band led by former RAMONES drummer Marky Ramone, has scheduled the following dates:

Saturday, October 24 @ 7:00 p.m.
El Mexicano Rock Fest: El Tri, La Cuca, Marky Ramone
Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA
Price: $40

Saturday, October 31 @ 8:00 p.m.
Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, Mount Pleasant, MI
Price: $15

Marky Ramone is best known for the 15 years he spent drumming for the legendary RAMONES. Marky appeared in the cult classic film "Rock n Roll High School" in 1979, performed over 1700 shows and recorded over 15 albums (studio, live) with the RAMONES. In 2002, Marky and his bandmates became the first punk rock ensemble to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Six years and going strong, Marky's radio show on Sirius XM satellite radio was rated the #2 show on the Faction channel in 2009. Also appearing on various TV shows (including Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" and IFC's "Z Rock"). Marky shows no signs of slowing down as he continues to tour the world with his new band, MARKY RAMONE'S BLITZKRIEG, also featuring Michale Graves (ex-MISFITS) on vocals, Alex Kane on guitar and Clare B on bass. The band plays all the classics that lead to Marky's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame!

MARKY RAMONE'S BLITZKRIEG is currently in the studio working on its first release, which will be available early 2010.

For more information, go to www.myspace.com/markyramone.

Andre Paine of Billboard.biz reports that AC/DC's Brian Johnson, OZZY OSBOURNE collaborator Bob Daisley, DEF LEPPARD and producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange were among those honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) at its London awards ceremony.
The ASCAP Awards, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London tonight (October 14), recognized the most performed works in 2008 by writer and publisher members of U.K. collecting society PRS for Music, who are licensed by ASCAP for the U.S.

In total, 21 song awards were presented throughout the evening. Winners included:

* Bob Daisley for "Crazy Train"
* AC/DC's Brian Johnson for "Back In Black" and "You Shook Me All Night Long"
* DEF LEPPARD and Robert John "Mutt" Lange for "Pour Some Sugar On Me"

Swedish death metallers HYPOCRISY have enlisted CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman Alexi Laiho to play guitar on their upcoming North American tour. Alexi will temporarily fill the currently vacant guitarist spot on the trek, which will also include headliners ENSIFERUM alongside EX DEO, BLACKGUARD and SWASHBUCKLE.

Commented HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren: "We're very happy to bring Alexi along on this tour and that he's helping us out with filling the second guitarist position.

"Funny, the first CHILDREN OF BODOM show was a support gig for HYPOCRISY on the Nuclear Blast festival in '98. Since then, me and Alexi have become very good friends. I've helped him with producing and he's helped me by contributing a guitar solo on one of my records with my other band PAIN.

"There will be no shortage of alcohol on this tour, that's for sure."

HYPOCRISY's North American tour with ENSIFERUM, EX DEO, BLACKGUARD and SWASHBUCKLE is scheduled to kick off on November 6 in Springfield, Virginia. A list of dates can be found at this location.

"Hang Him High", a brand new track from HYPOCRISY, is available for streaming on the group's MySpace page. The song comes off HYPOCRISY's new album, "A Taste Of Extreme Divinity", which is scheduled for release in Europe on October 23 and in the U.S. on November 3 via Nuclear Blast Records.

The North American mail-order version of "A Taste of Extreme Divinity" will feature three exclusive bonus tracks. A pre-order for the album is now available at this location in various formats and bundle packages.

"A Taste Of Extreme Divinity" track listing:

01. Valley Of The Damned
02. Hang Him High
03. Solar Empire
04. Weed Out The Weak
05. No Tomorrow
06. Global Domination
07. Taste The Extreme Divinity
08. Alive
09. The Quest
10. Tamed "Filled With Fear"
11. Sky Is Falling Down

Bonus tracks:

12. The Sinner
13. Taste the Extreme Divinity (2008 Demo)
14. Valley of the Damned (2008 Demo)

HYPOCRISY's last album, "Virus", came out in September 2005 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Kate Fillion of Macleans.ca recently conducted a lengthy interview with KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.

Macleans.ca: You're currently touring with KISS. Do girls line up at the stage door every night?

Simmons: Oh yeah.

Macleans.ca: Aren't groupies boring after a while?

Simmons: Well, you're a woman, so you don't understand the psyche. It's like a vegetarian asking a carnivore, "What's the big deal with meat?" Look, you only drop two eggs a month, and in your middle years you stop dropping them completely. We manufacture hundreds of millions of sperm every day. We even make sperm after we're dead.

Macleans.ca: If you're saying it's a biological imperative to sleep with groupies—

Simmons: A biological urge. The urge to merge.

Macleans.ca: Then why stay with Shannon [Tweed, Simmons' longtime girlfriend]?

Simmons: This is the hottest woman on earth. And she's an alpha female. She doesn't talk about whether the vacuum cleaner works or not. Doesn't sweat the small stuff. Has a strong moral centre, no drugs, no booze. No whining. No bad hair days.

Macleans.ca: Is it okay if she sleeps with other men?

Simmons: People will do whatever they want to do. So it's best to just relax and hope for the best. Get a hobby.

Macleans.ca: It's clear on the show that your kids love their mother very much. Does it bother them that you're not monogamous?

Simmons: Who said I'm not?

Macleans.ca: Well, you do. Don't you?

Simmons: No, not necessarily. And I'm not sure Bill Clinton or anyone else should be talking about those areas to strangers. Aren't you ever going to ask me about KISS?

Macleans.ca: Why are you stalling?

Simmons: Look, it's the 21st century, and the thing women have been clamoring for is finally upon us: you're free. You're no longer indentured slaves. You no longer have to be in the kitchen, or leave the smoking room so the men can talk. And the greatest asset Shannon has is that she's a modern woman. Besides being stunning, six feet tall and, of course, a Newfie, I worship the ground she walks on. But part of the relationship is that it's no-nonsense. We don't call each other "honey" and "sweetheart” and all those clichés. That's television talk, just a paint-by-numbers relationship. When I talk to her, it's straight ahead, like an equal partner, and she to me.

Macleans.ca: A tape surfaced on the Internet last year, of you having sex with another woman. Were your kids upset?

Simmons: We talked about it a little bit, but they understand. It was made a long time ago, and not with my consent. But?.?.?.?move on. Why do people care?

Macleans.ca: How do you talk to your daughter about all this?

Simmons: Hopefully, the one thing I gave Sophie was the clear information that she should never define herself by men. Women's magazines are ego-destroying, the worst piece of trash you can read. Here's why: they feed the insecurities and weaknesses of women. There are always lists: "10 things he likes about you," "10 things to look younger" — this endless self-torture. Men's magazines never, ever talk about what women want. Men don't care.

Macleans.ca: So would it bother you if she said, "I'm going to be like you, Dad, and have thousands of sexual partners?"

Simmons: Once Sophie becomes a mature woman, it doesn't matter what we think or say, these will be decisions she has to make and live with. But of course there's a double standard.

Macleans.ca: Does being 60 feel the way you thought it would?

Simmons: I don't mean this to sound cornball, but I don't really celebrate birthdays. I mean, yes, I eat cake — God help me, do I eat cake — but I celebrate every day above ground as the best holiday there is. I don't wait for the calendar to tell me to celebrate. But I will tell you that it’s surprising how fantastic 60 is.

Macleans.ca: What's so fantastic about it?

Simmons: I'm the king of the world. Are you kidding?

Read the entire interview from Macleans.ca.

Shawn Duncan, drummer for ODIN and DC4, will be the special guest on the next edition of the nationally syndicated radio program "Hard Rock Nights", airing the week of October 16-22. Duncan will talk with host JT about DC4's latest CD, "Explode", working with his brothers Jeff and Matt in the project as well as guitarist Rowan Robertson (who also played on DIO's "Lock Up The Wolves" record), plans for the future of the band, and the state of the music industry today.

"Hard Rock Nights" can be heard on several rock and metal stations.

For a complete list of affiliates, go to this location.

DC4 is the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring Robertson alongside brothers Jeff Duncan on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan on drums and Matt Duncan on bass. The group recently parted ways with Chavis Records and has begun writing material for the follow-up to its latest release, "Explode". To "turn the knobs to 11," DC4 has enlisted the talents of famed music producer Bill Metoyer (SLAYER, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, FATES WARNING) and is looking to record before the end of the year.

Video footage of DC4 performing at the FlashRock studios can be viewed below.

The September 2009 issue of U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine (see cover image below) includes an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine conducted by Jenn Selby. An excerpt from the chat follows.

Terrorizer: Is [MEGADETH's new album] "Endgame" better than [METALLICA's latest CD] "Death Magnetic"?

Mustaine: "Yes."

Terrorizer: Why?

Mustaine: "To me, one sounds like a record and the other sounds like a jam. Plus we have two lead guitar players. In METALLICA you've got one [referring to Kirk Hammett. — Ed], and he ripped me off anyway.

"I was just speaking to Lars [Ulrich, METALLICA drummer] about the [Rock And Roll] Hall Of Fame thing [Mustaine was invited to attend METALLICA's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction in April, but didn't get inducted along with his former bandmates. — Ed.], and I said, 'You know what?! I don't give a fuck about you anymore.'

"I used to have this thing that I was secretly pining over one day, getting up there and playing with them again. And I'm thinking, what song would I play? And how could I even stand it?

"I like playing with guys who can keep time.

"I've heard people say that some of the best METALLICA songs they ever heard was when the guy from SLIPKNOT was playing the drums." (SLIPKNOT's Joey Jordison famously sat in for Ulrich when the METALLICA drummer fell ill and could not make it to U.K.'s Download festival in the summer of 2004.)

Mustaine was a member of METALLICA for around 11 months before being dismissed in 1983 and replaced by Hammett. He did not play on any METALLICA albums and did not attend their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame earlier this year.

Mustaine went on to form MEGADETH. The band's 12th studio album, "Endgame", was released in September.

Marc Rizzo (SOULFLY, CAVALERA CONSIPRACY) recently took part in an in-studio acoustic session at Ear Candy Records in New York City. A three-minute video clip of his appearance can be viewed below (courtesy of D-Lux Denim Brand).

Rizzo's new solo project, INPSYCHOBLEEDIA, recently made two new songs — "Ageless Wisdom" and "Demonic Crypto History" — available for streaming on the band's MySpace page.

INPSYCHOBLEEDIA made its live debut on May 2, 2009 at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts as direct support to GOJIRA.

INPSYCHOBLEEDIA is:

Marc Rizzo - Guitar, Vocals
Dennis Kimak - Guitar
Elo Hernandez - Bass
Kanky Lora - Drums

Rizzo's latest solo album, "The Ultimate Devotion", was released on July 31, 2007 through Shrapnel Records in the U.S. and Mascot Records throughout Europe.

SOULFLY released its most recent album, "Conquer", on July 29, 2008 via Roadrunner Records.

A two-camera shoot with soundboard audio of BRUTAL TRUTH's entire 80-minute August 7, 2009 concert at AJZ Bahndamm in Wermelskirchen, Germany can be viewed at this location. (Note: You must install the Veoh web player in order to watch the full video.) A five-minute preview is available below.

"Evolution Through Revolution", the first full-length album in 10 years from BRUTAL TRUTH, sold around 1,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD debuted at No. 65 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

BRUTAL TRUTH released its first-ever DVD, "For the Ugly and Unwanted - This is Grindcore", in Europe on June 22 via Season of Mist (June 2 in the U.S.). The disc contains a full show shot with five cameras at the Obscene Extreme Festival 2007 in Czech Republic and four more full shows from the "Sounds of the Animal Kindgom" tour as extras.



(Thanks: Xander)

San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS were forced to halt their show last night (Tuesday, October 13) in Maracay, Venezuela for around 15 minutes after the crowd reportedly went nuts and broke the barricade in front of the stage.

Fan-filmed video footage of the incident, which occurred during the song "Fabulous Disaster", can be viewed below. (Note: EXODUS vocalist Rob Dukes can be seen/heard asking for the rest of the band to stop playing around the 3:30 mark.)

EXODUS is currently touring Mexico and South America with German thrashers KREATOR.

Nuclear Blast Records has set a January 15 release date for "Shovel Headed Tour Machine (Live At Wacken And Other Assorted Atrocities)" from EXODUS. The package will contain the band's July 2008 performance at Germany's Wacken Open Air festival, plus a documentary following the band through the last five years of touring as well as bonus footage, with photo galleries and all of the group's promotional videos. The set will consist of two DVDs plus an audio CD of the Wacken performance.

The German edition of Metal Hammer magazine conducted an interview with EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt at this year's installment of the Graspop Metal Meeting, which was held on June 26-28, 2009 on the festival grounds of the Boeretang in Dessel, Belgium.

When asked about EXODUS' plans for a new studio album, Holt said, "Hopefully we're hitting the studio around November 1 with Mr. Sneap [British producer Andy Sneap; MEGADETH, NEVERMORE, ARCH ENEMY]. It's gonna be sick. We have four [songs] recorded [and left over] from the last session [for 2007's 'The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A'], and I've got, like, nine [other tracks] I'm working on, and Lee [Altus, guitar] has a bunch of stuff. But this next album is gonna blow people's minds."

Regarding the upcoming CD's musical direction, Holt said, "There's a couple of twists on this. I try not to repeat every album. I mean, we did 'Tempo Of The Damned' [2004], [which was] a little more old-school, and we did 'Shovel Headed Kill Machine' [2005], which was really brutal and fast, and then 'The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A' [2007], [which] was, like, longer and more epic songs. So this album's gonna have some different stuff to it. Maybe a little more dual-guitar stuff, 'cause I've been playing with Lee for quite awhile now — a little more dual-guitar harmony shred stuff. "

(Thanks: Ernest R.)

Brett Milano of RockBand.com recently conducted an interview with Al Jourgensen, the "musical terrorist " behind MINISTRY, REVOLTING COCKS, and many edgy solo projects. The entire 16-minute chat can be streamed using the audio player below. It is also available in text format at this location. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow.

RockBand.com: What sort of indoctrination do you give when musicians come into one of your bands?

Jourgensen: Basically, when we do rehearsals, it's boot camp, man. You eat, sleep, and s**t MINISTRY. Okay? You rehearse sixteen hours a day, and then you drink the other eight. [laughs] It's pretty much like literally going to boot camp, only with alcohol. So if you can imagine that. We hole ourselves up. We usually rehearse in this place where we go out in the middle of the desert out here in El Paso, Texas and you just eat, drink, and sleep it for a month. It's a four-week training program and you gotta be pretty good to get through that. I'm pretty much a drill sergeant when it comes to that stuff. Like when Joey Jordison from SLIPKNOT toured with us, uh [he was] literally crying after two days. Just like, "Oh, this sucks." But afterwards he was like, "Man, that was awesome." Because then, when you get it so ingrained into your head, a month of sixteen hour rehearsals, you go on stage and there's nothing that could happen that would be a shock. There's nothing that you can't play through or work through. We used to even have f**kup practices. We'd spend one day a week just having roadies go on and purposely unplug stuff. [laughs] And make sure that we could pretty much handle any situation. It just makes it a lot easier when you actually tour that it's really second nature by then, you know?

RockBand.com: That's great. So, from the sound of things, not having MINISTRY anymore hasn't had any effect on how busy you are.

Jourgensen: No, it's actually worse now. So, so much for retirement. [laughs] I shouldn't say worse. It's better. I've just got so many projects going on. Between the all the 13th Planet stuff and I'm doing a solo record completely different from MINISTRY.

RockBand.com: Really?

Jourgensen: It's really almost kind of pop-y, acoustics and synths and orchestras. More like the old THE THE songs, or Nick Cave kind of stuff. There's absolutely no metal on there at all. And I'm working with Mark Thwaite who's playing guitar for Peter Murphy right now, but he's also been with MISSION UK and also was Tricky's guitar player. And the two of us are doing this solo album for me. Plus I've got REVCO [REVOLTING COCKS] on tour right now that I've gotta do three shows — L.A., Chicago, New York. I'm also getting this entire MINISTRY back catalogue together for future release dates. I'm updating them and doing remixes and stuff like that. And we've got other people that book my recording studio as well. We just had a project, uh, Sara Green, this girl out of Boston that sounds very PORTISHEAD-like. It's really cool. So there's always something going on here at the compound.

RockBand.com: When MINISTRY did the "Cover Up" album, it's coincidentally, I'm sure, but three of those songs are also in "Rock Band". So it was kind of nice to see there was a linkup there. Are you the kind of guy that will blast those classic rock songs when nobody's looking?

Jourgensen: Not even when nobody's looking. When everybody's looking. [laughs] I love that stuff. I grew up on that stuff. Our individual, our take on it from MINISTRY is it's fun to do. We have a gas with it. Everyone's like, "Well how did you pick the songs?" I'm like, "Well, we drank a lot of wine and beer and liquor and sat around and reminisced about songs that you knew when you grew up." It wasn't anything like we sat there and really scoured this list or anything. It was like whatever we were jammin' on while we were drunk. [laughs] It was pretty cool. And a couple of 'em happened by accident. Like "What A Wonderful World" was literally an accident that happened at a party that was over at the guest house where we're at. There was a party there. And there's an out of tune upright piano there. And we had a little limited PA system. And we kept the original piano and the original vocal, both one take with a party going on behind us in the middle of the whole thing. A lot of that stuff was just circumstance. My whole point of that record was just to remember that MINISTRY also rocked. We weren't all just politics and shaking our fist in the air against Republicans and conservatives and all that. It's like, you know what? We're also a rock band. And we have fun too. I know REVCO picks up a lot of that where people know we have a sense of humor and all that and we're a fun band. But people started getting with MINISTRY like, "Okay, enough already, okay?" So it was nice to go out on that note of just a party record.

RockBand.com: I wanted to ask, when you started doing industrial-type stuff, it was the '80s and a lot of the tools people have now didn't even exist then. So how much of a nightmare was it to get the sounds in your head and get them to exist in real life?

Jourgensen: To me it wasn't a nightmare at all. It was exciting. It was cool. It was like, nobody was doing this stuff. We'd go out with a little portable Sony Nagra and go to factories and stuff and take noises. And sit outside a train tracks and wait for a train to go by and get the wheels going and all that. We did a lot of on-site recording and stuff like that. Which now is just, you hit a button and you come up with a sample. You just tell the computer what you want and it's there. But back then it was kind of fun. It was kind of like half being an archeologist and half being a musician. [laughs] To me that was a gas. It wasn't a nightmare at all. And all the editing stuff that you can do on Pro Tools or so much different software right now. What used to take me two or three weeks, now you can do in about two or three hours. But back then it was fun. We didn't know any better. Hell, we were just hillbillies with samplers.

RockBand.com: So it was kind of more fun when it wasn't as easy to do, when you had to do all that kind of legwork?

Jourgensen: Exactly. Another thing, if you listen to music today, this is the interesting paradox that goes on here is that, back then there was very little equipment and yet every band sounded different. Nowadays every band sounds the same even though there's a ton of equipment. It doesn't really make sense to me, but whatever. That's what I'm seeing anyways.

Read the entire interview from RockBand.com.

Al Jourgensen interviewed by RockBand.com (click on player below to launch audio):

Swedish melodic metallers NOCTURNAL RITES have issued the following update:

"We are sorry to inform our South American fans that the [previously] announced tour will not happen. We are very sorry about this, but it was out of our hands and not our decision to make. We will try our best to organize something for next year. We have lined up a few other shows, though. More news on those at a later date."

NOCTURNAL RITES is currently writing material for the follow-up to 2007's "The 8th Sin". The band states, "We are slowly but steadily advancing and the new stuff is shaping up really nicely. We have some really dark and aggressive stuff written as well as some more melodic, so this new album will definitely cater to all aspects of the NOCTURNAL RITES legacy!

"We are really excited to record, but we've always said that we'll not rush things, so we'll take our time and make sure we are 100% on the money before we nail the songs in the studio."

NOCTURNAL RITES previously described the new songs as "a little back to the darker 'Afterlife' [2000] days mixed with some trademark NOCTURNAL RITES catchy melodies — those that can never go wrong!"

Guitarist Nils Norberg announced his departure from NOCTURNAL RITES in June 2008. "I have decided to lay down the guitar as my interest for music kind of cooled down the last years," he said in a statement. A replacement axeman has not yet been announced.

"The 8th Sin" in 2007 landed on the Japanese album chart at position No. 68 (No. 28 on "international" chart). An e-card for the CD is available at this location.

NOCTURNAL RITES' video for "Never Again", which was directed by the band's drummer Owe Lingvall of Village Road Films (WOLF, CARNAL FORGE, MORGANA LEFAY), can be viewed below.

AEROSMITH guitarist Brad Whitford was one of the guest drivers at last month's Jetta TDI Cup Pole at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. He competed alongside the other drivers in all track activities beginning with practice on Friday, September 25 and concluding with the race on Saturday, September 26.

Exclusive video footage of Brad at the event can be viewed below (courtesy of AeroForceOne).

"I've done some racing in the past, but today was a totally different experience for me," Whitford told Motorsport.com. "During the first session, I just wasn't comfortable, but thanks to the help of the other drivers and the series instructors, I was able to make some big strides in qualifying and had a lot of fun in the car. I wasn't nearly as quick as some of these young guns, but I was able to stay on track for the most part and didn't ruin anyone else's day, so I consider today a success."

Speaking to PaddockTalk, Whitford said, "This entire weekend was quite the experience for me. First of all, I was driving a totally different car than I have competed in before. Secondly, I have never raced in the rain. Add the two together, and it sounds like a recipe for disaster. However, I was able to keep the car on track and in one piece for the entire race. Considering the conditions, I was really amazed at how well these cars held up to the demands of racing. Several years ago, nobody would have guessed that you could race a diesel, but these Jetta TDIs are awesome little cars, and I think the fans that showed up early to the track today got a great show."