L.A. power trio Nebula, whose cosmic cocktail of heavy riffs, electric blues and psychedelic space rock have earned the band international acclaim, will release their new album, Heavy Psych, on July 7. Nebula will also reissue their 1998 Tee Pee album Let It Burn on vinyl in various formats later this year. Click "more" to hear the new Nebula track "The Dagger." Read more...

Starting this weekend, "Headbangers Ball" will begin eight days of special programming leading up to the exclusive premiere of the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which airs Saturday, May 22 at 11 p.m.

On Saturday, April 25 we've got a Golden Gods Awards preview special on "Headbangers Ball" that'll air at 2 a.m. on MTV2. The show will feature music videos from all of the Golden Gods performers -- Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, All That Remains and Suicide Silence -- as well as behind-the-scenes footage from the event itself, the first ever metal awards show on U.S. soil, which took place on April 7 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California.

Click "more" for the full schedule of next week's special Golden Gods programming and our review of the show. Read more...

As the drummer for post-thrash band Shadows Fall and neo-death metal outfit Burning Human, Jason Bittner plays a gamut of styles from skittering prog fills to powerhouse blast beats. So, we're hardly surprised to find that his iPod is filled with music from all ends of the hard rock/metal spectrum. He's got a little Soundgarden on there, some Meshuggah and of course Pantera. Plus, the dude likes a little variety from beyond the metal vortex. We applaud his choice of XTC, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers. But Madonna and Crowded House might be even a little beyond our eclectic tastes. Still, the dude earns bonus points for his inclusion of The Jerky Boys, which made us chuckle even without hearing the track. On a scale of 100, we give Bittner's Random Shuffle a solid 84. Click "more" to see his list, watch a video from one of the band's that popped up and hear a brand new Burning Human track. Read more...

On the next "That Metal Show," Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson sit down for tea with Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister and, after pushing aside a tea pot and raising a Jack and coke, the heavy metal icon confirms and debunks popular rumors about him. Topics include how many women he's slept with, if he uses a condom, whether or not he's allowed to give blood and and whether or not he'll play on your record if you show up at the Rainbow club in Los Angeles with $1,000. Click "more" to watch the segment. Read more...

Our friends at VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show" just had Anthrax bassist Frank Bello on for some scintillating. Click "more" to watch Bello talking about having the craps in Europe, the Among the Living reunion tour and the addition of new singer Dan Nelson. Read more...

Like, Evile, Toxic Holocaust and Early Man, Warbringer is one of those neo-thrash bands that still believes it's 1988, Anthrax has just released Among the Living, Metallica are writing ...And Justice For All and grunge and nu-metal never happened.

Now, let's take a look inside Warbringer guitarist John Laux's iPod and see if he's really living in the past.... Well, yes and no. Some of the artists on his Random Shuffle -- including Angel Witch, Coroner and Rigor Mortis -- exist solely in another place on the space/time continuum, but Laux also seems to enjoy newer acts like Circa Survive and Ensiferum, and there's a lot of stuff here that's not even loud, such as Jeff Buckley, Slowdive and Cocteau Twins. We can hardly argue with his inclusion of Thin Lizzy and he earns an extra star for having Sigh on here, but the omission of anything by Exodus, let along the big thrash four makes us wonder if he has lapsed on this year's dues to the Metal Militia. On a scale of 100 we give Laux's iPod list an 80 for listenability. Click "more" to see the full list and watch a video by one of the bands. Read more...

If you're down with modern networking software and into social interaction without actually having to talk to someone, you're surely at home on Twitter.com, the latest craze for kids whose moms and dads are tying up the computer on Facebook. Well, HeadbangersBlog is down with the scene and every time we post an update on the Blog, we send out a reminder on Twitter -- 'cuz you can't be online all the time, but we don't know anyone who doesn't have a cell connected to their body like a cybernetic organ. Maybe that's what William Gibson was talking about in all those science fiction books we couldn't understand when we were younger. Anyway, follow us on Twitter and keep up to date on all the metal. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.

We're getting ready to bombard you all with a batch of video premieres in the coming weeks, and until then we'll continue to pile on the best current and classic metal videos on the planet. On our last show, we offered you clips by Machine Head, Metallica, Judas Priest and others. Choose one to return for next week's episode, or pick a different vid from our list below. Read more...

Two popular underground heavy metal magazines, Metal Edge and Metal Maniacs, have ceased publication. Staff members and writers were told on February 3 that the magazines, both owned by Zenbu Media were closing immediately. Zenbu had purchased the publications in February 2007 and both had long histories. Read more...

Our brothers in arms at Revolvermag.com have posted an MP3 of a previously unreleased song by Canadian metalcore outfit Cancer Bats. The track is called "Agenda Suicide," and it's a cover of a tune by Nebraska post-new wave group The Faint.

Click more to download the song and read why it didn't make the cut for the band's latest album Hail Destroyer. Read more...