The City of Birmingham has designated May 21 as Ozzy Osbourne day, in honour of one of its most famous sons. The event happens at the Aston Hall, and will include an Ozzy trivia quiz, plus air guitar contests.

Breaking Benjamin have a new album due out in August. It’s to be called ‘Phobia’ and was produced by David Bendeth. This will be released by Hollywood.

According to Metal Heaven, Finnish act Burning Point have signed a deal with the label. The band started recording for their third album, Burned Down The Enemy, a couple weeks ago and a release date has tentatively been set for the fall of 2006. Some song titles include ‘Deceiver’, ‘Parasite’, ‘From The Beginning Of It […]

Bury Your Dead release their new album through Victory in mid-July. It’s to be called ‘The Beauty And The Breakdown’.

Atheist guitarist/vocalist Kelly Shaefer will be performing the Atheist classic ‘Piece Of Time’ with Australian metalers Alarum on Wednesday, May 24th in St. Petersburg, Florida at the State Theatre. This will be the very first time Kelly has performed this song live since 1993.

The Dillinger Escape Plan are to release their download only EP on June 13. Available through iTunes, it will feature new versions of old DEP songs ‘Unretrofied’ and ‘The Perfect Design’, plus covers of ‘Wish’ (Nine Inch Nails), ‘Angel’ (Massive Attack), ‘Jesus Christ Pose’ (Soundgarden) and ‘Like I Love You’ (Justin Timberlake).

Fireball Ministry will support Finland’s H.I.M. at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA on June 11th. This will be H.I.M.’s final U.S. performance of the summer, and the groups’ first West Coast show together. (They performed five concerts along the East Coast late last year as part of Bam Margera‘s inaugural Viva La Bands […]

A new interview with Danish rockers D-A-D is currently available online at this location.D-A-D released a new live DVD/CD package, entitled Scare Yourself Alive, on May 8th via EMI. The group’s latest studio album, Scare Yourself, was released in Europe via Noise/Sanctuary on May 23rd, 2005.

‘The Smoke’, the second single from the Eclipse album by progressive metallers Amorphis, is scheduled for release in Finland on June 7th. Included on the CD is the video clip for ‘House Of Sleep’.

Hatesphere have updated their website with new batch of live photos. Check them out at this location.As previously reported, Hatesphere‘s The Sickness Within album will be released in the U.S. on September 12th through SPV/Steamhammer.