Hear the new In Flames album

In Flames, the once innovative Melodic Death Metallers, have made their new new album Sounds Of A Playground Fading available for streaming at AOL Music. The album is out today in most of Europe, and will be released in other parts of the world later this week (North America tomorrow).

If initial reviews are accurate, I wouldn’t bother listening to the new album, it’ll be as crap as their last million efforts. Ok, so I don’t normally trust reviews (apart from my own, because I’m awesome), but In Flames have been one big yawn fest for years now and I can only imagine them declining further. So listen at your own risk.

Weak Recap: Mark your territory

Last week’s been all about Mark. He’s posted the most posts (read: all of them) because everyone else was busy. He’s taken one for the team and spent less time watching porn and more time writing for the site.

So it seems fitting that this weekend I get to interview him and ask him what he thinks on (mostly) his posts from this week.

Actually, we just have an order of interviewing each other for this self-indulgent and shitty awesome Weak Recap thing, and it just so happens that it’s Mark’s turn to be interviewed. Last week he interviewed me.

Make the jump and read the interview with the most amazing DoM writer (after myself and the other guys).

P.S. = That’s not Mark and his girlfriend above. Mark’s girlfriend is much fatter.

Heaven Shall Burn guitarist’s new solo project

Guitarist of Heaven Shall Burn, Alexander Dietz, has a new solo project called Erode. He’s been working on an album, which is scheduled to hit stores on July 19th.

As a big fan of Heaven Shall Burn, I decided to check out Erode, but then I came across one problem. Erode aren’t even Metal. It’s Electronic/Industrial instrumental type music, I guess in a similar vein to Nine Inch Nails. That probably brings with it the question of why I’m even posting this when this site is called Dose of Metal, but I guess it’s to cater to the NIN fans, and to warn the rest of you so you don’t make the same mistake I did and waste 5 minutes of your life if this kind of music isn’t your thing.

You can listen to three of Erode‘s tracks over at Facebook.

Slipknot live footage

As we reported the other day, Slipknot made their live return to the stage in Greece on June 17th. This marked the first time the band had performed since the tragic death of bassist Paul Gray in 2010. Crappy fan footage of the event has made its way onto the internet, and you can check out a video of ‘Duality’ above.

You can find more crappy footage, in which my favorite part is the bit that goes “pfffttt BOOM… pfftt BOOM bOOM.. shhh pffft”, and the setlist over at thePRP.

Chimaira release two new tracks

I don’t know about you, but I have no idea who’s in Chimaira these days, they’ve changed their lineup about four times in the last four months. Is the picture of the band above up to date? Is this “news” even up to date? I have no idea.

Regardless, the band have released two new tracks ‘Trigger Finger’ and ‘Born In Blood’, both of which can be bought from iTunes.

You can check out Youtube streams of the new tracks after the jump.