My Chemical Romance releases a live CD/DVD package, called The Black Parade is Dead!, on today. The two-hour-plus set is taken from two live shows recorded and filmed on October 7th, 2007 at an arena show in Mexico City and October 24th at the tiny club Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Hoboken show was the last time that the band performed as the Black Parade, their fictional alter egos based on the group's 2006 concept album of the same name.
A deluxe version of the set comes boxed in a coffin and feature three more downloadable live tracks, "death certificates" for each member of the group, plus a hand-painted "Day of the Dead" mask also representing each member. My Chemical Romance is currently off the road and presumably starting to work on its next album.
Stone Temple Pilots front-man Scott Weiland has set October 7th as the release date for his as-yet-untitled new solo effort.
Incubus front-man Brandon Boyd told Billboard.com that the band will be taking a break while its members concentrate on other activities. Boyd plans to enroll in a university art program, guitarist Mike Einziger will go to music school next year to study composition and drummer Jose Padilla will be welcoming a new baby to his family soon.
The band’s final show before their break will be The VH1 Rock Honors tribute to The Who which will be airing on July 17th.
Slipknot have unveiled their new masks to the world, check em out here.
Rage Against the Machine front-man Zack De La Rocha and the former drummer for The Mars Volta, Jon Theodore, have formed a new band, One Day as a Lion. The band will release a self-titled EP on July 22nd, track listing includes:
1. “Wild International”
2. “Ocean View”
3. “Last Letter”
4. “If You Fear Dying”
5. “One Day As A Lion”
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello has set September 30th as the release date for his second solo album, called The Fabled City. According to a press release, the musician and political activist will be billed on the record as Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman, unlike his 2007 debut, One Man Revolution, on which he was simply billed as the Nightwatchman. The 11-song outing features an appearance by System of a Down singer Serj Tankian, who co-founded the Axis of Justice activist organization with Morello.