Video footage of Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) performing the song "Silicon Messiah" on May 16 at The Patriot in Crumlin, Wales can be seen below.

Irish folk metallers WAYLANDER will release their fourth full-length album, "Kindred Spirits", on July 16 in Europe and August 14 in North America via Listenable Records.

Los Angeles-based goth-metallers VAMPIRES EVERYWHERE! will release their new album, "Hellbound And Heartless", on June 19 via Hollywood Waste Records.

Jeremy Lafrentz of Backstage Entertainment conducted an interview with vocalist Josh Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson of Californian rockers BUCKCHERRY at this year's Lazerfest on May 13 at the Central Iowa Expo in Boone, Iowa.

On May 9, Brian Rademacher of RockEyez recently conducted an interview with JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE singer Jack Russell.

Yell! Magazine recently conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer of German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION.

Kaaos TV recently conducted an interview with ENGEL/IN FLAMES guitarist Niclas Engelin.

Official Metallica.com footage of METALLICA's pre-show meet-and-greet, soundcheck and "The Struggle Within" performance at the May 7 opening show of the band's European tour at Synot Tip Arena in Prague, Czech Republic can be viewed below.

SINGLE BULLET THEORY will film a video for a previously unreleased song called "Edge Of Broken" on May 20 with director Brett Worley.

To make their record-release party in Hollywood a memorable one, Sweden's epic metal specialists SABATON are inviting all their Southern California fans to attend their May 23 show at the Key Club dressed in World War I- or World War II-period regalia to celebrate the arrival of their sixth studio album, "Carolus Rex".