In Flames and Lauren Harris (daughter of Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris) are the latest acts confirmed for this year’s Download Festival, which happens from June 9-11 at Donington.

A new website has just been started to celebrate Slayer. Called www.nationaldayofslayer.org, it’s urging everyone to turn June 6, 2006 into ‘Slayer Day’, by listening to the band veryВ l-o-u-d-l-y wherever you may be.

Former Led Zeppelin pair Robert Plant and Jimmy Page at to get back together onstage for a performance at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. They play on June 30.

Norwegian trio Communic are to release a new album through Nuclear Blast on May 22. It’s called ‘Waves Of Visceral Decay’.

Tarja Turunen, the former Nightwish singer, is to release a Christmas album at the end of the year. The English title is ‘Breath From Heaven’, and this will be on the Universal label. Recording will happen during the Summer, with producer Esa Nieminen.

The Streets have announced that their next single will be Never Went To Church.The ballad will be the second single from Mike Skinner‘s third album The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living.The track sees Skinner confront the death of his dad, after a long battle with illness.Never Went To Church is due in shops […]

Slipknot‘s Sid Wilson is to release a solo album in June. To be called ‘The New Leader’, this will be under the project name of DJ Starscream. Wilson himself describes the style as a ‘mosh up’.

Lamb Of God are to call their new album ‘Sacrament’. Produced by Machine, it should be out during the late Summer.

Clutch, Soil and Blindside are to play the Camden Underworld in London on June 7.

The Answer are to play the Kingston Peel on May 19. Also on the bill are Pig Iron, Steranko and Coda.