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Below, you can take your first look at Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare, the ultimate Halloween music and horror event.

The Great American Nightmare showcases three haunted houses — Lords Of Salem In Total Black Out, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto 3D and Haunt Of 1,000 Corpses — plus concerts from various artists each night.

This event takes place Thursday to Sunday nights from October 10 through November 2 at the LA County FEARplex in Pomona, California.

Check out the official video announcement below!

For more information about the event, visit greatamericannightmare.com.

Testament have posted a clip from Dark Roots Of Thrash, their new DVD/2CD. Check out "Rise Up" below.

Dark Roots Of Thrash, which documents the Bay Area veterans' sold-out headlining performance at the Paramount in Huntington, New York, this past February, will be made available October 11 (Europe) and October 15 (North America) via Nuclear Blast.

Dark Roots Of Thrash was produced by Get Hammered Productions, directed by Tommy Jones and mixed by Juan Urteaga. It captures 19 live tracks with countless cams onstage and above the audience, plus a moshpit cam.

Vocalist Chuck Billy adds: "For all you die-hard metal heads out there, Dark Roots Of Thrash is a must-have for your collection. This live DVD and CD is something you can put in you player and crank up for the feeling of a live Testament performance! You will get 18 songs from the early days of thrash metal to where we are today. Heavy metal forever!"

America! Here's the first batch of Asking Alexandria's headlining dates with All That Remains, Sevendust, For Today and Emmure for the From Death to Destiny tour. More cities will be announced soon!

10/25-Dallas, TX @ KEGL Freakers Ball
10/26-Lubbock, TX @ KFMX Freak Fest
10/27-San Antonio, TX @ Backstage Live
10/29-Nashville, TN @ War Memorial Auditorium
10/30-Knoxville, TN @ Club NV
10/31-Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
11/01-Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
11/02-Lancaster, PA @ Freedom Hall Convention Center
11/03-Poughkeepsie, NY @ Mid Hudson Civic Center
11/05-Buffalo, NY @ Rapids Theatre
11/06-Washington, DC @ 930 Club
11/08-Flint, MI @ Machine Shop
11/09-Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
11/10-Cleveland, OH @ Wolstein Center
11/13-Grand Rapids, MI @ The Orbit Room
11/14-St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
11/15-Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall
11/17-Tulsa, OK @ Brady Theater
11/19-Grand Junction, CO @ Mesa Theater
11/22-San Diego, CA Soma

Five Finger Death Punch will release The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Vol. 2, the second installment of their double album, on November 19 via Prospect Park in North America/Eleven Seven (in all other territories). The record is available for preorder right here. In anticipation, the band is sharing a new battle-play video for the lead single from the album, "Battleborn." Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments.

Korn will release their 11th studio album, The Paradigm Shift, October 8. It will be the group's first album in about a decade to include guitarist Brian "Head" Welch. In anticipation, the band has shared two video breakdowns of the first singles off the record, "Never Never" and "Love and Meth." Check out the clips below and let us know what you think in the comments.

"Love and Meth" is now available to stream on Korn's Facebook page, right HERE.

Metallica have posted two new clips from their 3D film, Through the Never, and you can check them out below.

The film debuted yesterday, September 9, at the Toronto International Film Festival. It will open on every IMAX screen in North America September 27 and make its way to standard theaters October 4.

Directed by Nimród Antal, Metallica Through the Never cuts back and forth between the narrative, which follows a roadie named Trip (played by Dane DeHaan) and performance footage of the band playing some of their more popular and rocking songs.

Check out the new clips — and be sure to tell us what you think in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter!

Black Label Society guitarist Zakk Wylde has teamed up with Death Wish Coffee Company ("The World's Strongest Coffee") to create Valhalla Java coffee.

From a press release:

"Move over, 5 Hour Energy — and watch out, Rockstar. Zakk Wylde's Valhalla Java is waking up the world in a big way. The fair trade, organic, all-natural dark roast coffee is ultra-caffeinated and proven to keep drinkers awake without the addition of any potentially harmful additives present in many energy drinks. This masterful artisan roast promises to make sleepiness a thing of the past."

For more information (and to order) Valhalla Java, head HERE.

And be sure to check out the new commercial below!

Escape the Fate have teamed with Revolver to premiere their new music video, "One for the Money." The track is the second single from the band's new album, Ungrateful, which is out now. Escape the Fate will be heading out on tour with Five Finger Death Punch beginning September 17. We talked to lead guitarist Monte Money and drummer Robert Ortiz about all these goings-on and more—read our interview under the video player. Let us know what you think in the comments.

REVOLVER So what's "One for the Money" about?
MONTE MONEY It's about actually not giving a fuck. Forget everything. Let's go out there and rock out. Get pumped up. Get crazy. I'm excited we're releasing "One For the Money" because it's money and we're from Las Vegas so you know that makes sense.

Why did you choose to do a performance video and where were these scenes shot?
ROBERT ORTIZ The main ones were at Dirt Fest in Michigan and also Download in England. We had so many different ideas for the video, but what it comes down to is that this song is really just a pump-up song. That's what we wanted—something that just gets people going and stoked so what better than our show? Because that's where we thrive.

What do you remember about tracking the song?
Ortiz I hated it. [Laughs] We wondered if it was too cheesy because every song we've ever done is super involved and has some sort of profound meaning. So this was a little scary in the way that it was different. But it was clear that no matter what, it was really catchy. It bumps. When it would come through the speakers, this song was blowing all the other ones away, so it's like, "Damn it!" But at the end of the day, we were really excited about it.
Money I love how some songs are lyrically deep but that's one of the songs that you don't give a fuck. Me in my corner—I'm jumping up and down in the studio and they're just staring at us. But later on they loved the song.

You're getting ready to tour with Five Finger Death Punch. Have you met them before?
Ortiz Actually me and Michael [Money, rhythm guitar], we both love Five Finger Death Punch, and Monte likes them a lot, too. I'm really into straight-up metal and I feel like this band goes along with them and I was really excited when they offered us to tour. I said, "Fuck yeah. Let's take it." I think a lot of their fans have never been open to anything like our band but I think they will accept it and like it. We met once in Germany at this festival called Rock Am Park and they watched our set. We saw them and I'm like, "Oh, fuck, dude. We better kill it or these guys are gonna kick us off the tour." Luckily that show was amazing, one of the best we've ever played to a humongous ass crowd. So when they saw us they said, "Damn, dude, it's gonna be a great tour." And they came up to us, which is cool because I was too scared to go up to them.

What has been your craziest experience on tour?
Ortiz You're gonna need a whole documentary for this shit. [Laughs] I grew up in El Paso, Texas. There's nothing there. My parents and my grandparents all speak Spanglish. You don't think that you'll actually do anything out of the norm of going and working construction and coming home. I had moments like when I went to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where I'm just like, Holy fuck! Me, this little Mexican kid, fucking made it. I'm fucking here. Of course the shows—it's mind-blowing. I couldn't believe that many people gave a shit about what my band is doing. And you know, of course there's those really wretched parts about being in a band and there were times long ago when we'd be pulled over and people would be drugged out and I was scared my bandmate might die. All those kind of things go along with it as well, which make the lows really low but the highs are real highs. When you have those moments of serenity, you're like, Wow I can't believe I'm fucking doing this. All the bullshit I just went through? Totally worth it. I like to soak it in or my parents would kill me because, like I said, El Paso, Texas, and they never get to see the shit I see. The touring life is an emotional roller-coaster ride.

How have your fan interactions been?
Ortiz They have changed a lot. When I was a younger man, [laughs] as a fresh 17 year old—there were some bad interactions that were happening. But I've grown up. More recently, because of our video "Ungrateful," a lot of kids come to me after the shows and they talk to me about their experience of being bullied, cutting themselves or their thoughts with anxiety and depression. That's something I've gone though myself. It's really weird to see how you can connect to people and it's really great to have those conversations. I know I'm not really saving these people's lives but having a show—just giving someone who is in a dark place something to look forward to on a Saturday night, it gives them that happiness they might not have in their lives. That's really all I'm here for, right? There's people all over the world that tell me their issues, show me their wrists, and draw me pictures. That stuff overwhelms me and, like, when I said you go through that roller-coaster ride, those moments hit you. It's a crazy life.

Metallica have posted another official performance video over at MetallicaTV.

This time, it's a clip of "Sad But True" from their August 21 show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Of course, since the video is about 18 minutes long, there's a whole lot more going on.

In fact, the video's first 12 minutes show the band rehearsing in the Tuning Room. At around the 12:04 mark, the action shifts to the stage at Stadium Merdeka, where they launch into "Sad But True," a track from the Black Album.

Melodic Power Metal act Artizan has released a new thematic video for "The Guardian," the third track off of their new album, Ancestral Energy, which was released earlier this year via Pure Steel Records. The video was shot on location in Denver, Colorado, with video production company Water Light Multimedia and directed by Dan Drescher. Ancestral Energy is available for order right here.