Revolver, the World’s Loudest Rock Magazine, presents its first calendar featuring the Hottest Chicks in Metal today! You’ll share 12 months with the baddest babes in the biz, including Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia, Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale, Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow, In This Moment’s Maria Brink, and many more. It also includes rockers’ birthdays, facts about events that happened in metal through the years, and other cool tidbits on the days they happened.

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Joe Perry released his new solo album, “Have Guitar, Will Travel”, on Tuesday (October 6). The first single from the project is “We’ve Got A Long Way To Go” not a bad song I kinda like the singers voice. Not bad at all don’t expect Aerosmith.

“Out of Ashes”, the debut album from DEAD BY SUNRISE — the new band fronted by LINKIN PARK’s Chester Bennington — is available for streaming in its entirety on the group’s MySpace page. I’m not sure about this band. The CD is scheduled for release on October 13.

http://www.myspace.com/deadbysunrise

DEAD BY SUNRISE will perform on ABC-TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday, October 21 (which will actually air the morning of Thursday, October 22).

KISS will perform live on CBS-TV’s ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ on Tuesday night to coincide with the release of the Sonic Boom CD! The show begins at 11:35 pm ET/PT.

I can’t say that I love every song here but I was really blown away by the contributions from Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl and Billy Corgan and the Ozzy, Ian Astbury, Billy Idol contributions are plenty of fun too.

These songs are super-heavy but also very catchy and to my ears fit right into the hard rock / neo metal radio format of the time (that played plenty of Sabbath / Ozzy). I could never understand why this record wasn’t huge, why was Goodbye Lament not a rock radio single? Oh well, I advise you to buy this used ASAP and crank it up.

This project caught my attention simply because it was such a great idea. getting together many of his favorite metal/hardcore musical icons from the past (and some from the present), dave basically recorded a bunch of instrumental metal tracks and sent each of them to the singer that he had in mind. since i am only really familiar with about a third of the singers, i am not going to claim to know how well suited each song was for every single singer, but i can easily vouch for the quality and the variety of all the songs. its really quite rare these days to find an album where there isn’t a lot of excessive filler clumped into an album, but i really struggled to locate a single track that could have been considered weak. i don’t even listen to that much metal these days, but i really enjoyed the variation and simple enthusiasm and honest input that all the singers put into their respective tracks.
a lot of the actual instrumentation, such as the guitars and drums, were obviously dave’s original tracks, but each song seems to have its very own sound that is especially suited for the singer at hand. kurt brecht’s “silent spring” is ESPECIALLY well suited and very reminiscent of mid era DRI, while lemmy’s “shake you blood” is pretty much a facsimile of later era motorhead, yet it still sounds quite fresh. the same can be said of the king diamond track, which is pretty much dead on as an earnest twin to the mercyful fate/king diamond sound.