Well, Opeth's new album Watershed has been out for a while now, about a week, and with my extensive listening tendencies to new albums I think I can make an informed decision on whether their new album is any good.

First off was I excited about the new album? Well sort of. I wasn't too fussed and just bought it the day it came out because after all it is Opeth, one of my all time favourite bands. I was more excited when Ghost Reveries was released back in 2005 however for a couple of reasons I could not…

Peter Lindgren has stepped down from his guitar wielding duties after 16 years in Opeth. Below is an open letter from Peter addressing the issue:

"It is with sadness I announce that Opeth and I are going separate ways after almost 16 years. The decision has been the toughest I've ever made but it is the right one to make at this point in my life.

The reason behind this is that I feel that I simply have lost some of the enthusiasm and inspiration needed to participate in a band that has grown from a few guys playing…

In his only interview for Swedish media in support of Iron Maiden's new album, "A Matter of Life and Death", vocalist Bruce Dickinson talked candidly to Close-Up magazine about last year's Ozzfest and the infamous egg incident.

Immediately after Iron Maiden's triumphant show at Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg on July 9, 2005, Dickison told Kerrang! magazine, "I'd like to go to America and say 'You're very good, but you're not as loud as 56,000 fucking vikings in a football stadium.'" The following week, the band went to America to play at Ozzfest, but the outspoken vocalist didn't have a lot…

Here it is:

Iron Maiden vs. Metallica

Enjoy

"Dan Swanö is no longer part of BLOODBATH. The reason being restrictions on his behalf to devote more time and effort to the future of this project that it would require by taking things to the next level i.e. touring and playing live. Moreover, his future vision for BLOODBATH's concept proved to head in the almost opposite direction as his desire for death metal was to be of a less brutal kind, something the remaining members regard as musical differences not interesting to pursue, so at these crossroads, we'd like to wish Dan Swanö good luck with his future endavours…

Well here is the Third Place Play Off. Final to come soon

Megadeth vs. Pantera

Thanks everyone, here are the Semi Finals:

SEMI FINAL A
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Iron Maiden vs. Megadeth

SEMI FINAL B
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Metallica vs. Pantera

Thanks for voting guys. Here's the next round, same deal as last time:

QUARTER FINAL A
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Iron Maiden vs. Opeth

QUARTER FINAL B
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Amon Amarth vs. Megadeth

QUARTER FINAL C
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Metallica vs. Arch Enemy

QUARTER FINAL D
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Pantera vs. Cannibal Corpse

Bands with the highest scores:
Iron Maiden
Opeth
Slayer.

Winners of each group versus the runner ups of others.

Here we go with round 2, just post a reply to this with a list of the bands you want to win each matchup - 1 band per matchup. Here goes.

GROUP A WINNER VS GROUP B RUNNER UP
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Iron Maiden vs. Slayer

GROUP B WINNER VS GROUP A RUNNER UP
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Opeth vs. Nile

GROUP C WINNER VS GROUP D RUNNER UP
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Amon Amarth vs. Katatonia

GROUP D WINNER VS GROUP C RUNNER UP
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Megadeth vs. Nevermore…

Saw this cool thing, here is a quote:

Here it is, with the football world cup still fresh in our minds, I've seen a lot of people do this with their music and who am I not to follow trends?

Here's how it works:

I've used a random number generator to split my top 32 artists into groups of 4.

What I want you guys to do is vote like so, paste my list of groups into a journal reply but re-arrange them 1 - 4 in the order you vote for the bands, any bands who you vote at…