The new Gwar album "Beyond Hell" is mixed, mastered and ready for you to hear. Produced by Devin Townsend, Oderus says "I can say with utmost confidence that this one is going to take yer fucking head off." The record isn't set to be released until August but that won't stop you from hearing the first single from the new album. Gwar pays homage to the original master of shock rock, with a bone-crushing version of his most famous song. The first single from "Beyond Hell" is a cover of Alice Cooper's Schools Out, it can be heard at this link: http://www.gwar.net/schoolsout/

Source:	gwar.net
Band profile:	Gwar

Blood Mountain is the upcoming third full length studio album by metal band Mastodon. The recording of the album finished in April 2006 and it is scheduled for release in August 2006.

"It's about climbing up a mountain and the different things that can happen to you when you're stranded on a mountain, in the woods, and you're lost," explained Dailor. "You're starving, hallucinating, running into strange creatures. You're being hunted. It's about that whole struggle."

Guest contributors to Blood Mountain include Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Mars Volta keyboardist Ikey Owens and frontman Cedric Bixler Zavala, who sings on "The Siberian Divide."

Tracklist:
* "Circle of Cysquatch"
* "Hunters of the Sky"
* "The Sleeping Giant"
* "Bladecatcher"
* "The Colony of Birchmen"
* "Pendulous Skin"
* "The Siberian Divide" (featuring Cedric Bixler-Zavala)
* "Capillarian Crest"
* "Hand of Stone"
* "Crystal Skull"
* "The Wolf Is Loose"
* "This Mortal Soil"

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Band profile:	Mastodon

Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad, producer of about a million killer bands) will be co-producing the new GWAR record, tentatively entitled "Go to Hell!". The bulk of the material is already completed, and recording at Flattus/Cory's Karma Studio's begins in early April. Then Oderus and Flattus will travel to the semi-frozen wasteland of Vancouver (in the bat-shaped helicopter, of course), to mix and master what is without a doubt going to be the heaviest album in GWAR's discography. The concept of the album is the closest thing to a rock opera that GWAR has done since "Ragnarok", and concerns GWAR's epic journey into the tunnels and caverns that honeycomb your world, a journey not only to escape their earthly prison "from within", but also to find and confront this so-called "Satan", who seems to think that he is a bigger bad ass than Oderus. Along the way GWAR encounter's a bevy of demonic dickheads and hapless victims, all ready to die for your entertainment. Look for GWAR's latest and greatest album yet to hit the stores in September.

Source:	gwar.net
Band profile:	Gwar