New Rush tour dates

Attention all canucks and yankees.  Rush have returned once again for a brand new North American tour.  Tickets will be available for purchasing on Dec 6th at this location

I consider myself a big fan of Rush, but they are always touring.  What about a new album?

Tour dates and a video of Rush kicking it live after the jump.

Rob Zombie Download rumors

System of a Down and Avenged Sevenfold may have been confirmed for 2011’s Download festival this morning, but rumors have been circulating that Rob Zombie will also be playing the festival. This morning, the BBC posted an article about the reformed SOAD playing Download. Within the news post, Rob Zombie was also mentioned as playing the festival, but the article has since been altered. Whether this was a leak or just a bizarre mistake, it is not yet known.

Personally I’m hoping and praying it’s a mistake. View a screenshot of the article prior to it being taken down after the jump.

System of a Down are back

Posting via their official website, System of a Down made a shock announcement this morning. That’s right, they are officially reforming to play some dates next year. I mean it’s not like we already knew that last week, or that the rumor hadn’t been doing the rounds for literally forever, or that they hadn’t basically already “unofficially” been confirmed for 3 major festivals last week.

Posting simultaniously with SOAD’s announcement, the UK’s Download festival also announced that the band will be returning to the UK next year to headline the festival and that this will be a UK exclusive. In case you don’t know what that means, that means if you want to see SOAD and you’re from the UK, then you better go to Download, as that’ll be the only date. A bit like when Faith No More were UK exclusives at Download a couple of years ago,  and you could only see them at Download. Well, that and at a show at the Brixton Academy and a “secret” slot and the Reading festival…

The chances are, too, that if you care about this, you will already know about this. So maybe my efforts are reporting this are a little in vain, but remember, you may look cool with all your mates being up to date with all the Metal news, but it won’t help you get a girlfriend.

Live streaming metal show tonight

Bored of Family Guy?  Disappointed in the fifth season of Dexter? Or do you just simply have no friends to hang out with tonight?  How about stream a metal show!  It’s a pretty decent show as well – with headliner Epica, Scar Symmetry, The Agonist and BlackGuard.

The show will be live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and will start in two hours (9:00pm EST / 6:00 PST).  Click here for details on how you can view this event

Holidays are around the corner

And why not make them more interesting? This is not really news, and not really new, but definitely metal. Want to see Slayer‘s Raining Blood song synced to Christmas lights on some dude’s house? Make the jump for the video. Have your own way of making holidays more metal? You make the devil’s horns instead of gingerbread men? Let us know. And send us some of those cookies.