• All Human – Catholic Guilt or the Queerest of Thoughts
• The Amity Affliction – The Amity Affliction
• Bad Powers – Bad Powers
• Becoming The Archetype – I Am
• The Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud
• Down – Down IV Part I – The Purple EP
• Ensiferum – Unsung Heroes
• Fear and the Nervous System – Fear and the Nervous System
• haarp – Husks
• Hexvessel – No Holier Temple
• James Iha – Look to the Sky
• Letters from the Fire – Rebirth
• Liv Kristine – Libertine
• Local H – Hallelujah! I’m a Bum
• Lowtalker – The Marathon
• Norska – Norska
• Projected – Human
• Rabbits – Bites Rises
• Rival Sons – Head Down
• Ufomammut – Oro: Opus Alter
• Vision Of Disorder – The Cursed Remain Cursed

Devin Townsend Project have posted another performance video from By A Thread: Live in London 2011.

You can check out “Planet of the Apes” below.

Townsend & Co. played four shows in London in November 2011, all of which were dedicated to his most recent album concept — a journey through Townsend’s different musical moods.

The project started in 2009 with Addicted and Ki and ended with last year’s Deconstruction and Ghost. All four shows were filmed and released this month as By A Thread: Live in London 2011 through HevyDevy Records/InsideOut Music.

The four DVD/five CD set documents each of DTP’s four concerts in London last November, which saw the group play a new album each night. Performances included 2009′s Addicted and Ki as well as last year’s Deconstruction and Ghost.

By A Thread – Live in London 2011 is out June 19 in North America through HevyDevy Records/InsideOut Music.

Chris “Fatneck McFlabbyass” Krovatin is the author of two young adult novels,

Let me be frank with you guys: I totally love Revolver’s Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock issue. It’s arguably my highlight of the heavy-music-magazine year (second only, of course, to the Hit Parader Dick-Touching Tournament). Now, while some readers may snicker and say, “Of course you do, Chris, you fat fucking onanist,” you’re missing the point. The issue is rarely tawdry or disrespectful, but rather a reminder to myself, and hopefully to others out there, that there are many confident, talented, and beautiful women making extreme music right now. (To be fair, though, as a man who likes his women reality-based, the issue could use a plus-size metal chick or two.)

Similarly, I don’t respect an all-male metal band unless at least one of them looks like he’s going to eat my face, take 30 shits, and die. For dudes in extreme metal, hideousness is currency; in fact, the misshapen mugs of Jagger, Vicious, and Kilmeister lead me to believe that rock and roll itself is saturated with a tradition of calculated freakishness amongst men, which only adds to their overall sexiness. When I see a metal singer trying to gyrate me into submission, I get pissed; when he looks like the thing next to the trashcan I passed on the way through the parking lot, I’m down like a clown. So, step right up, Golden Gods and gross bastards alike, for my picks for the Six Hottest Chicks and Ugliest Dudes in Metal.

 The Six Hottest Chicks In Metal:

1) Doro Pesch Not only is Doro still incredibly fine in her 40s, she’s also unspeakably metal. When you imagine a post-apocalyptic warrior woman, you think of Doro Pesch. No. 1, easily.

2) Liz Buckingham of Electric Wizard Every metalhead dreams of finding a cute blonde in a denim vest who just wants to smoke weed, worship Satan, and play thunderous doom-metal guitar all day. So simply put: Ms. Buckingham is every metalhead male’s dream come true.

3) Karen Cuda of Nashville Pussy The streaky-haired bassist for Southern metal’s filthiest band is an energetic biker babe built for sin. There’s something enchanting about a woman who might beat you up…

4) Sean Yseult of White Zombie With the face of a cherub, the bass of a mortician, and the threads of a sideshow freak, Ms. Yseult will always be remembered as as the band member who brought credible sexiness to one of the sexiest bands in metal. Unless you’re really into dreadlocks and cowboy hats.

5) Grace Perry of Landmine Marathon Not only is Landmine Marathon’s singer one of the most brutifal vocalists in metal, but she’s incredibly nice, and a Trekkie. So a smoking nerd who screams death metal. Jesus.

6) Dr. Mikannibal of Sigh This stunning saxophonist-vocalist for Japan’s premiere black-metal troupe has a PhD in physics and records her parts in the nude. Just be careful, boys—on her MySpace page, her first two interests are “prostate” and “urethra.” Yikes…

The Six Ugliest Dudes In Metal:

1) Erik Rutan of Hate Eternal The best death-metal vocalists are the ones who actually look like they’re going to murder you in a cave and eat your bones. Well, this guy has bone-eater written all over his severe, misanthropic face.

2) Billy Milano of S.O.D. I feel like it’s one thing to have a mean-looking frontman, but it’s another one entirely if he’s an offensive, lumbering, drug-crazed fat fuck. Points to metal’s funniest band for their freakish singer.

3) Devin Townsend: OK, these days, the genius behind Strapping Young Lad et al. looks like this (see left). But remember, he once looked like this. Oh yeah. You can’t un-see it.

4) William Murderface of Dethklok This unhygienic, overweight, club-footed gap-toothed piece-of-shit bassist is a perfect representation of everything disgusting about death metal. What can I tell you, pobody’s nerfect.

5) It of Abruptum Fuck glam metal, it’s all about getting laid. Let’s be the anti-glam and try to never, ever get laid! I know! Let’s hire a repulsive corpse-paint-caked dwarf for a frontman! Brilliant work, everyone!

6) Oderus Urungus of Gwar Say it with me now, kids: OH GOD NO.

The compilation features tracks taken from all of his albums released on InsideOut.

You can download the compilation at this location.

Compilation track listing:

‘By Your Command’ (Ziltoid)
‘Christeen’ (Infinity)
‘Coast’ (Ki)
‘Deadhead’ (Accelerated Evolution)
‘Life’ (Ocean Machine)
‘Material’ (Physicist)
‘Mountain’ (Terria)
‘Sit In The Mountain’ (Infinity demo)
‘Supercrush’ (Addicted)
‘Vampira’ (Synchestra)

And to own the track, pick up the new issue of our sister mag, Metal Hammer, right here–it comes with a CD sampler featuring the song.

Children of Bodom are currently touring in support of their latest album, Relentless Reckless Forever, which debuted at No. 41 on the Billboard Top 200. Check out Revolver‘s four-star review of Relentless Reckless Forever here.

Children of Bodom 2011 North American Tour Dates:
06/24 – Los Angeles, CA – House of Blues
06/25 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
06/26 – Portland, OR – Roseland
06/27 – Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market
06/28 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
06/30 – Calgary, AB – MacEwan Ballroom
07/02 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Events Center
07/03 – Saskatoon, SK – Odeon
07/04 – Winnipeg, MB – Garrick Center
07/05 – St. Paul, MN – Station Four
07/06 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
07/08 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
07/09 – Orlando, FL – BeachamTheater
07/10 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
07/12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
07/13 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva
07/14 – Springfield, VA – Jaxx
07/15 – Springfield, VA – Jaxx
07/16 – New York, NY – Best Buy Theatre
07/17 – Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Theatre
07/19 – Worcester, PA – Palladium
07/21 – Halifax, NS – Multipurpose Centre (* no Devin Townsend)
07/23 – Toronto, ON – Downsview Park (* as part of Heavy TO with Megadeth, Rob Zombie, Slayer, etc.)
07/24 – Montreal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau (* as part of Heavy MTL with KISS, Motörhead, etc.)