Seattle noise-rock band Mutiny Mutiny are working on a follow up album to their 2011 release ‘Constellation’.

Although recording has not yet begun, the band are reaching the end of the writing process for their second release and are also researching recording studios in Seattle.

Comments Jason Dean: “We’re finishing the writing process for the record now and are really trying to push ourselves to expand on our first record. The process is still pretty organic but we’re really digging in, tweaking parts and structures until we think they’re the best they can be. Vocal layering and stronger melodies/performances are also a big priority for us this time around as well as capturing some of the energy of our
live shows to tape.

Our plan right now is to be in the studio by the end of June, wrap up the mixing and mastering by August and get the new album out in September or October. It’s a little ambitious but with the thought we’re putting in to the pre-production we think we’ll be able to do it.”

The band’s debut ‘Constellation’ was self-released in the final quarter of 2011. Read a review here.

Barely a week after launching his new track ‘Freedom at 21’ via a bunch of helium balloons, Jack White has unveiled another new track.

‘Sixteen Saltines’ is the next official single from White’s much anticipated solo debut ‘Blunderbuss’ and the recently unveiled video clip can be viewed below.

‘Blunderbuss’ is officially released in the UK on April 23rd.  Fans can catch White live in June when he plays two gigs in London: Brixton Academy on June 21st and Hammersmith Apollo on the 22nd.

Popular hard rock vocalist and sometime member of Masterplan, Jorn Lande, is to release a new solo album in June.

Although at the time of writing no tracklist has been revealed, it has been confirmed the new disc will be called ‘Bring Heavy Rock Back To The Land’ and feature some truly bizarre artwork featuring a priest with a the head of a raven. [See below].

The album is released via Frontiers Records on 1st June.

Masterplan, meanwhile, hope to release their next studio work at the beginning of 2013. A brief update on Masterplan’s progress can be read here.

In conjunction with Monster Energy, a new six minute chat with Korn frontman has been posted on YouTube.  You can see the full clip below.

Korn’s 2011 release, ‘The Path of Totality’ was well received by many critics and sold well in the US reaching the top ten of the Billboard 200. In the UK, the album only achieved mediocre sales peaking at #68.

On the day the album was released in the US, the band held a lavish launch party which featured a full live set, which can be viewed by clicking here.

It has been confirmed that Refused – the not long reformed Swedish hardcore punk band – are to appear at the 2012 Download Festival.

The Swedish band were originally scheduled to appear at Sonisphere 2012, alongside KISS, Faith No More, Lacuna Coil, Incubus and Marilyn Manson, but in March 2012, it was announced that this year’s Sonisphere would not go ahead.

Download 2012 will take place at Donington Park on 8th-10th June inclusive and feature Metallica, The Prodigy, Black Sabbath, Motley Crue and more. It is not yet known whether the festival, now in it’s tenth year, will pick up any other artists left without festival appearances following Sonisphere’s cancellation.