Metallica announced that the band is rescheduling a concert in Ottawa, Canada, originally scheduled for October 29th, to November 3rd.  The reason?  According an email, “the date change is due to a scheduling conflict with a very cool event coming up around that time.  We wanted to let you know about the new date in Ottawa ASAP, but we’ve been sworn to secrecy on all other fronts . . . more details in mid to late July.”

No other information was available, and a rep for Metallica also did not have any comment.

Jani Lane, lead vocalist of ’80s glam-metal band Warrant, was arrested last night for driving under the influence in Los Angeles following a minor fender bender. A spokesman for the LAPD’s Van Nuys Division tells E! News the 45-year-old rocker was driving in Woodland Hills in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley around 9:30 p.m. when he allegedly sideswiped a parked car.
Lane flubbed a field sobriety test, per police, and he was taken into custody, booked on misdemeanor DUI and is currently being held on $30,000 bail at the Van Nuys Jail. No word yet on a court date.

SOILENT GREEN records theme song for Fourth Season of Adult Swim series Squidbillies!
New Orleans, Louisiana’s sons of Southern grindcore, SOILENT GREEN, are obviously making an impression over at Adult Swim. SOILENT GREEN has not only toured with the notorious masters of animated death metal, Dethklok, but have recently recorded the opening theme song to Squidbillies fourth season, which just kicked off on May 17th on Adult Swim.
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The Monterrey Metal Fest IV will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (Mexican Independence Day) at the Santa Lucia Arena in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The confirmed band lineup (minus the soon-to-be revealed headliner) is:

CHILDREN OF BODOM (Finland)
AMORPHIS (Finland)
WHIPLASH (USA)
STRAVAGANZZA (Spain)
MALIGNO (Mexico)
SPLIT HEAVEN (Mexico’s Wacken Metal Battle winners)

Only 3,000 VIP tickets will be made available for the new re-designed metal festival.
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Slayer has chosen World Painted Blood as the title of its upcoming CD, which is tentatively due in late summer via American Recordings/Columbia Records. The forthcoming album is being produced by Greg Fidelman and will include the song “Psychopathy Red,” which was sold on limited edition seven-inch vinyl on April 18 in honor of Record Store Day. The band will reportedly film a video for an undisclosed track on July 27. The album came together pretty quickly, as Slayer wrote much of the material on the fly while they were in the studio in February.

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