Pitchfork — Photo by Jimmy HubbardGood news and bad news from Mastodon today. The bad, via their website: "Bill Kelliher [first from the left in the photo there -- Ed.], guitarist with Mastodon, has been hospitalized in London as of November 3, during the band's... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Jimmy HubbardGood news and bad news from Mastodon today. The bad, via their website: "Bill Kelliher [first from the left in the photo there -- Ed.], guitarist with Mastodon, has been hospitalized in London as of November 3, during the band&#... more info

Thrash Hits — Mighty metallers Trivium have announced two more shows to accompany their Irish headlining shows in December at Dundee Fat Sams on 02 December 2008 and London Borderling on 09 December 2008. The Floridian quartet will have been on tour with Slayer, M... more info

Thrash Hits — Who said Slayer were old school? There seemed to be an Unholy curse on our technology! Our video camera chewed up our tape and our camera packed up halfway through. Hugh Platt still managed to remember some… With a beard so mighty it increases his... more info

Metalsucks — Vince Neilstein checking in to the MetalSucks Mansion here at 1:10pm Eastern Standard Time. Why so late, you ask? No, Axl and I didn’t go on an all-night coke binge (though we did get hella high and listen to the new Slayer song last night), but Iâ... more info

Guardian Music — "You are not moving. You are not metal!" cried Trivium's singer. You could almost feel sorry for them. Supporting Slayer - and appeasing Slayer's diehard fans - is notoriously difficult at the best of times. As for supporting these veterans when they... more info

Guardian Music — News that heavy metal is to receive serious scholarly attention in Salzburg has raised some eyebrows elsewhere in these pages. So is it heretical that the city of Mozart should be putting Metallica and Slayer centre stage? Not a bit of it. Heavy meta... more info

MTV.com News — 'I couldn't vote for any of the two candidates, because it's a mockery on democracy,' Peter Dolving says.By Chris Harris The Haunted Photo: Century Media Peter Dolving, the outspoken frontman for Swedish thrash-metal titans the Haunted, mi... more info

VH1 News — Barack Obama? John McCain? The Haunted's Peter Dolving speaks out about U.S. politics. Plus Mastodon, Slayer and more news that rules, in Metal File. more info

JamBase — MASTODON REVEAL CRACK THE SKYE TRACK LIST, BIG TOURS INTO 2009 Mastodon has set Crack the Skye as the title of their new album, due in early 2009. The seven-song, 50-minute effort was recorded at Southern Tracks Studios in Atlanta and was produced... more info