Anthrax’s long-awaited tenth studio disc, ‘Worship Music’ will finally be released on 10th September.

The album has had a long and somewhat troubled creation. Initially the release was to feature vocals by Dan Nelson, the fourth Anthrax frontman. Copies of ‘Worship Songs’ featuring Nelson had supposedly made it out to a few select people close to the band, although this is not 100% confirmed. It was later rumoured that former vocalist John Bush would re-record Nelson’s vocals for the subsequent official release of the album.

After touring with the band once again in the summer and autumn of 2010, Anthrax’s second – and arguably most famous – vocalist Joey Belladonna officially rejoined the band. The completed version of ‘Worship Music’ will feature the line-up of Joey Belladonna (vocals), Scott Ian (guitars), Rob Caggiano (guitars), Frank Bello (bass), Charlie Benante (drums).

‘Worship Music’ is the first Anthrax studio album to feature Belladonna since 1990’s classic ‘Persistence of Time’.

Confirmed track listing: Fight ’em ’til You Can’t / I’m Alive / Judas Priest / Crawl / Earth on Hell / The Devil You Know / In The End / The Giant / Down Goes The Sun

It is not yet known whether there will be a special edition of the album containing bonus materials.

If you can’t wait until September, Anthrax have made the lead track ‘Fight ’em ’til You Can’t’ available as a free download from the button below!

Angels and Airwaves, the all-star rock/emo band featuring sometime Tom DeLonge (Blink-182), David Kennedy (Box Car Racer), Atom Willard (The Offspring) and Matt Wachter (ex-Thirty Seconds To Mars) will be releasing their fourth album in November.

According to a statement made by DeLonge on the band’s official facebook page, the album, entitled ‘Love Part 2’ “...will be the best Angels album release yet….. 20 songs and film in 5.1. I feel like a 16 year old having missionary position for the first time. LOVE part 2 is our best album yet.”

A planned double album, ‘Love Part 2’ has a sceduled release date for November 11th.

Ex Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy will be appearing at Daddy’s Music in West Springfield, Massachusetts on Sunday July 10th. It is to be a meet and greet appearance to raise money for the victims of the 2011 Massachusetts tornado. Proceeds will go to the Red Cross. It is asked that all those wishing to meet Mike make a $10 donation.

Mr Portnoy will be appearing at 5pm.

Daddy’s Music is located here:
935 Riverdale St.
West Springfield MA

Portnoy also made a live debut with his new band, Adrenalin Mob on June 24th. His old band Dream Theater, meanwhile, are working on new material and will be appearing at the High Voltage festival in the UK on July 24th.

Denny Smith, frontman for cult bands fORMER and The Great Affairs has announced his return to the studio.

At the end of the summer, there will be a release of a new fORMER LP ‘The Kids Deserve Cable’ , as well as a new EP ‘Happy Ender’ from The Great Affairs. Although no formal release dates have been set, Smith says he’s “been working to get both of these tracked and mixed in time for August/September release”.

Read a review of The Great Affairs’ ‘Ricky Took The Wheels…’ here.