Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto Due October 25

Coldplay has announced that the Brit band's fifth album is titled Mylo Xyloto and it will arrive in stores in the States on October 25 (and October 24 overseas). The title is pronounced "MY-lo ZY-letoe" according to a note on the Coldplay website. The band also announced the next single from the record will be "Paradise," following the current hit "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall." The track will be released September 12.

According to Coldplay.com, "Mylo Xyloto was produced by Markus Dravs, Daniel Green and Rik Simpson with enoxification and additional composition by Brian Eno. The album will be released in digital, CD and vinyl formats. A special limited edition Pop-Up Album version will also be available, which will include a 12" x 12" hardback book containing graffiti pop-up art designed by David A. Carter, vinyl, CD and exclusive content including photographs, excerpts from the studio diary and the band's personal notebooks."

In a new interview with Billboard, frontman Chris Martin says the band has yet to finalize the sequencing for Mylo Xyloto. He says, "At the moment we have a group of songs there's sort of three different routes from beginning to end, and I'm a little bit lost today on what to leave off." Source: FMQB

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BFMV - New Lick Library Guitar

Lick Library, one of the world’s biggest suppliers of guitar tuition DVDs, has issued Jam With BULLT FOR MY VALENTINE, a double DVD/CD set. This new release, featuring hours of guitar lessons, will help you learn how to achieve the signature guitar harmonics of lead guitarist Michael Paget and rhythm guitarist Matthew Tuck.

Bullet For My Valentine, described by Q magazine as "the best British metal band to emerge in years," were voted Best British Band and Best Live Band in 2010 in the Kerrang! Awards, and Best British Band 2010 by Metal Hammer. They were second to headline at the 2011 Download Festival. Their matchless sound is made distinctive by the powerful six string dexterity of Paget and the relentless thundering rhythms of Michael Moose. Padge’s lead style, which can be best described as aggressive, is full of vibrating riffs, his own unique style of bending, three string sweeps, tremolo picking and hammer pull-offs.

Jam With BFMV is a double DVD and CD with guitar tutorials and jam tracks by Andy James of seven favourite Bullet For My Valentine tracks, including:

'4 Words (To Choke Up On)'
'All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)'
'Scream, Aim, Fire'
'Hearts Burst Into Fire'
'Waking The Demon'
'Fever'
'One Last Fight'

Andy James is the incredible lead guitarist for UK metal band SACRED MOTHER TONGUE, whose album has just been release to widespread critical acclaim. His playing is well known for incorporating frighteningly fast alternate picking, sweeps, taps, aggressive vibrato and super precise riffs – who then, could be better placed to take you through, chord by chord, these tracks from Bullet For My Valentine. Andy takes you through each track step by step, explaining what he is doing as he goes along and you can see what each hand does because of the split screen shots. You can take your time and really learn these tracks thoroughly, practicing them as you go with the CD or backing tracks. The guitar tuition DVD is designed so you can stop and start it to go back over things until you understand and master the techniques involved.

For more information go to lick library.

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Trivium - In Wave Review

Florida noisemakers Trivium aren’t afraid to make albums that are BIG: big in scale, big in melody and crushingly, punishingly big in riffage. After years of genre-hopping that included scenic stopovers in prog and emo metal, they’ve settled on super-shiny, commercial-minded, near-traditional metal for their latest release, “In Waves.”

Much of “In Waves” consists of intensely melodic metalcore that’s carefully structured and adeptly played, with Trivium’s usual, split-the-difference mix of screamed verses and crooned choruses. Lyrically, it’s the usual Metal 101 philosophizing about “the colossal void,” cancerous relationships and the sweet release of death.

Trivium have undeniably created some strong tracks on this album yet there are too many that detract from that through not hitting as high a quality. It almost feels like the album had the potential to grab the title of “favourite Trivium album” had they maintained the high quality hit at points. Their piano introduction is almost the most interesting part of the album, which really doesn’t give the album enough credit.

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Breaking Benjamin Break Up

(RockAAA) Breaking Benjamin singer Benjamin Burnley allegedly FIRED two of his long-term bandmates by email in a bitter row over a new recording of one of the band's hit-songs.

The alternative rockers have been torn apart by the feud which was detailed in the Citizen's Voice of Wilkes-Barre which is the band's home town. It quotes court documents which claim the row came to a head in May when Burnley gave guitarist Aaron Fincke and bassist Mark Klepaski their marching orders via email. View more on RockAAA.

Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, consisting of Benjamin Burnley and Chad Szeliga. The band has released four albums to date and are releasing a greatest hits album on August 16, 2011. The group initially went on indefinite hiatus due to frontman Benjamin Burnley's recurring illnesses and inability to tour in mid-2010. In August 2011, it was revealed that members Mark Klepask and Aaron Fink had been fired from the band as well.

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