Disturbed releases its fifth studio album on Tuesday (August 31st), titled Asylum. As with its previous effort, 2008's Indestructible, the band produced the disc itself and recorded in its hometown of Chicago. Disturbed frontman David Draiman was going through a rough personal patch while writing the record, but told us that he doesn't necessarily need personal problems to inspire his songs: "I think that there's enough going on in the world that even if in my own personal life things were harmonious, that there's plenty to draw anger from and inspiration from, from that perspective....

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Drowning Pool singer Ryan McCombs' three-year-old son, Ayden Rose, was seriously injured in a riding lawn mower accident that left severe damage to his right leg, according to Blabbermouth.net. Further details on when and how the accident occurred have not been made available, but Ayden will reportedly need multiple surgeries and has a long road of recovery ahead of him. McCombs' family and friends are asking those who can to help raise funds for the astronomical medical bills, with a benefit concert already scheduled for September 19th in Dallas at Reno's Chop Shop.

The benefit will feature...

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Linkin Park has earned its ninth Number One single on Billboard's Alternative radio chart with "The Catalyst," the first track sent out from the band's upcoming album A Thousand Suns. The tune reached the top of Billboard's chart after just three weeks, tying the band record set by the last Linkin Park single, 2009's "New Divide."

The band is now tied with Green Day for the second most Number One tracks in the chart's 22-year history. The Red Hot Chili Peppers still lead with 11 chart-toppers, while U2, Foo Fighters and R.E.M. trail with eight, seven and six respectively.

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Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is working on a book about the Seven Deadly Sins, according to an interview with music blog Attention Deficit Delirium. Taylor explained, "I just finished writing it, and it's being edited right now. We're hoping to get it out by the spring of next year. It's about the Seven Deadly Sins and my take on them and how I don't think they're sins at all. They're human characteristics. They're just human flaws and things that we all experience, yet because we all deal with them we're all doomed? Screw you."

Taylor added, "To me, it's just part of being...

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Crackerman Wicked Garden Vasoline Heaven and Hot Rods Between the Lines Hickory Dichotomy Still Remains Cinnamon Big Empty Dancing Days (Led Zeppelin cover) Pretty Penny Silvergun Superman Plush Interstate Love Song Huckleberry Crumble Down Sex Type Thing Encore: Dead and Bloated Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart  

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Blink-182 bassist/singer Mark Hoppus told Spinner in a new interview that work will resume on a long-awaited new album after they return home from their first U.K. tour since reforming in early 2009. Hoppus said, "As soon as we get back from this tour we are continuing recording. Our goal is to turn it into the label by the end of the year, but we'll see how the recording goes. It could be sooner, or it could be a little later -- but the most important thing to us is to write a record that we absolutely believe in."

Asked what the record will sound like, Hoppus replied. "I think it'll probably...

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Anberlin has made a new song called "Pray Tell" available as a free download for a limited time at the website of Spin magazine. The track is the third to be made public from the band's upcoming album, Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place, which arrives on September 7th. The record's first official single, "Impossible," is already a Top 10 hit on the Alternative and Modern Rock radio charts.

Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place will follow up 2008's New Surrender, which contained the record-setting Modern Rock chart-topper "Feel Good Drag."

The band recorded the disc with Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen producer Brendan O'Brien, who was introduced to the group's music by his daughter.

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Courtney Love, the widow of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, has settled a lawsuit brought by a management firm over money earned from the sale of the rights to Cobain's songs. According to the BBC, Love was sued in 2008 for $1 million by London & Co., who claimed that the Hole singer owed the firm a percentage of the earnings from the sale of Nirvana's publishing, which raked in nearly $20 million.

Attorneys for both Love and London & Co. told a Los Angeles judge earlier this month that the two sides had reached a settlement, leading to the suit's dismissal.

Love has controlled...

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