Slayer will perform on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, November 4, the day after their new album is released… White Wizzard recently finished recording the full-length follow up to their mini-album, High Speed GTO. Entitled Over The Top, the new record is currently set for a February 2010 release via Earache Records. Starting January 8, White Wizzard will hit the road in support of the new CD with Korpiklaani, Tyr and Swashbuckle… Children Of Bodom’s Alexi Laiho will be filling in on second guitar for Hypocrisy on their upcoming North American tour. The trek starts November 6 in Springfield, VA… God Forbid has made their cover of the Muse song “Stockholm Syndrome” available for download via iTunes… In conjunction with their January-February tour with Nile, Abigail Williams will release two limited edition versions of In The Shadow of a Thousand Suns. Set for release January 12, the deluxe edition will feature a bonus disc containing five previously unavailable tracks plus the band’s video for the song “Into The Ashes.” There also will be a vinyl pressing limited to 1,000 copies… Meshuggah will release a new live DVD in early 2010… In advance of its October 27 release, Pelican’s upcoming album, What We All Come To Need, is now streaming on the band’s MySpace page. Pelican is on tour with labelmates Black Cobra now through mid-December.
