MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine was recently interviewed by Cindy Scull of the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas radio station 97.1 The Eagle Rocks. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On MEGADETH's new album, "Endgame":

Dave Mustaine: "'Endgame' was a record that we started... Some of the riffs I've had for years, and a lot of the stuff that connected all these riffs were written recently. In fact, even the song :

Jim Breuer, comedian, Sirius XM host and diehard METALLICA fan, sat down for a rare and hilarious interview with all the members of the legendary metal band for his weekly show on Sirius XM's Raw Dog comedy channel. The hour-long interview, taped before the band's performance at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on February 1, 2009, delved into rare subject matter and humorous hypotheticals, including which band member each would call to help hide a body and what government agencies they would assign to one another if METALLICA were its own country. The special also included a quiz portion where each member is quizzed on prices of common household products to determine how out of touch, if at all, they are from everyday life.

The second webisode featuring highlights from the interview contains the question:

MetalMachine.net conducted an interview with ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian this past weekend. The chat, which focuses primarily on Ian's upcoming two-issue Lobo comic for DC, Lobo: Highway To Hell, that is being drawn by artist Sam Kieth for release this November, can be viewed at this location :

Dennis Rowehl of Germany's Autona magazine recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. Watch the seven-minute chat below.

A couple of excerpts from the interview were transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET and can be found below.

Autona: Dave, congratulations, the new [MEGADETH] album, "Endgame", is pretty amazing. I really like it. It's gonna be released in Germany on 9/11 :

Matthew Reinhart of the Examiner.com recently :

James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich of METALLICA have interviewed ALICE IN CHAINS for FMQB Production' "Inside Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue" broadcast special, which will air on radio stations across the country starting September 25.

Hetfield joined ALICE IN CHAINS on stage on November 26, 2006 at the Warfield in San Francisco to perform the song "Would?". Watch a fan-filmed video clip at :

The readers of the Greek edition of Metal Hammer magazine were recently invited to vote for the "100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time." The resulting list includes :

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King has told U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine that he has heard through the grapevine that METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich is plotting a tour that would include :

Jim Breuer, comedian, Sirius XM host and diehard METALLICA fan, sat down for a rare and hilarious interview with all the members of the legendary metal band for his weekly show on Sirius XM's Raw Dog comedy channel. The hour-long interview, taped before the band's performance at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, delved into rare subject matter and humorous hypotheticals, including which band member each would call to help hide a body and what government agencies they would assign to one another if METALLICA were its own country. The special also included a :

Ian Sample, the science correspondent for Guardian.co.uk, reports that METALLICA's music had the unexpected effect of calming monkeys when it was played to them as part of a recent study.

In the study, which was published today in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, 14 cotton-top tamarins were played 30-second blasts of music while the researchers noted any changes in their behavior. The animals were played :