Danny’s website seems to be back online today, with the new redesign that has been promised for a while now.  It’s quite Flash intensive, and features some cool sections.  Amongst other things it has an extremely tasty video section…

Thanks to all of you who emailed me last night about this: I was too busy celebrating the arrival of 2010 to put this up!  I them meantime, stay tuned for a best of 2009 article later today!

Fans of industrial metal band Ministry will be happy to hear that there’s a new documentary about the band being released next year.  Here’s the trailer:

In case you didn’t watch/notice – Maynard features in the movie…

Turns out there was a Toolarmy Gingerbread House making competition, and the winner happens to be R Stump from Hollywood!  Obviously no relation to Rynne!

Good news for her (and us) is that part of her prize is “getting to sit in on a writing/arranging session with the band members in the new year”.

Happy Holidays from Fourtheye (and Tool)!

Blair has released the December 2009 Newsletter.  It really just says Merry Xmas from the band.  Read into that what you will!  Thanks to nxrm for the tip!

Also, Meshuggah have released an official trailer to the coming Live DVD Alive:

The DVD can be ordered from a range of places, but packages from Nuclear Blast USA can be had with a poster, and either shirt or hoodie.

A new Blood Into Wine trailer was released last week when I was away and I never quite got around to sharing it with you guys:

Well worth checking out if you haven’t yet done so, as it seems like this may quite an interesting movie.

The movie itself will premiere at the W Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona on the 19th of February 2010.  Head over to the Blood Into Wine site for details on getting tickets, but those who attend can expect:

Blood into Wine Red Carpet World Movie Premiere
February 19th 2010
Doors at 6:00pm
Film Screening at 7:30pm
General Admission: $50.00
- Movie Premiere Viewing
- 2 Glasses of Maynard James Keenan and Eric Glomski’s Wine
VIP: $250.00
- Movie Premiere Viewing
- 2 Glasses of Maynard James Keenan and Eric Glomski’s Wine
- Private Wine Tasting with Maynard James Keenan and Eric Glomski
- Signed Bottle Of Wine to take home

I hope this movie winds it’s way down to Australia!

Maynard has released dates for the Spring Puscifer tour, and as promised include US East Coast dates, and also includes a Canadian date in Toronto:

Mar 2nd, 3rd Atlanta, GA CW Center Stage
Mar 5th, 6th Washington DC, Lincoln Theater
Mar 8th, 9th Philadelphia, PA Theater of the Living Arts
Mar 11th New York, NY Grand Ballroom
Mar 12th New York, NY TBA
Mar 13th New York, NY Apollo Theater
Mar 15th, 16th Boston, MA Berklee Academy of Music
Mar 19th, 20th Toronto, ON Queen Elizabeth Theater
Mar 21st Lorain, OH (Cleveland) Lorain Theater
Mar 23rd, 24th Detroit, MI Royal Oak Theater
Mar 26th, 27th Chicago, IL Vic Theater
Mar 29th Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater
Mar 30th St Louis, MO Roberts Orpheum Theater
Mar 31st Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
Apr 2nd, 3rd Minneapolis, MN Pantages Theater

Those who can should check this show all – all reports are that they’ve been well worth the effort.

The November 2009 Tool Newsletter is out, though nothing is mentioned in the news about it. I’ve only vaguely read through it, but it seemed to suggest some things about the Toolarmy downtime, though in the usual Blair fashion rather than what most of you would want to read.

According to Blabbermouth, Meshuggah have confirmed details of their forthcoming Live DVD:

Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH will release their long-awaited concert DVD+CD digipack, “Alive”, on February 5 in Europe and February 9 in the U.S. Recorded during the band’s 2008-2009 tours of USA, Canada and Japan, the set contains 105 minutes of footage on DVD and more than 60 minutes of music on CD.

The track listing is as follows:

CD:

01. Perpetual Black Second (Tokyo)
02. Electric Red
03. Rational Gaze
04. Pravus
05. Lethargica
06. Combustion
07. Straws Pulled At Random
08. New Millenium Cyanide Christ
09. Stengah
10. The Mouth Licking What You’ve Bled
11. Humiliative
12. Bleed

DVD:

01. Begin
02. Perpetual Black Second (Tokyo)
03. Twenty Two Hours
04. Pravus (Tokyo)
05. Dissemination
06. Bleed (NYC)
07. Ritual
08. New Millenium Cyanide Christ (Montreal)
09. Cleanse
10. Stengah (Montreal)
11. The Mouth Licking What You’ve Bled (Montreal)
12. Machine
13. Electric Red (Tokyo)
14. Solidarius
15. Rational Gaze (Tokyo)
16. Moment
17. Lethargica (Toronto)
18. Communicate
19. Combustion (Toronto)
20. Humiliative (Montreal)
21. Infinitum
22. Straws Pulled At Random (Toronto)
23. End

Bonus:

01. “Bleed” Music Video
02. The Making Of “Bleed”
03. Micha Guitar Tour
04. Tomas Drum Tour

A trailer for the DVD can be viewed here:

Sad news from Blair this morning is that Adam and Camella’s beloved great dane Diablo passed away last night:

I just received the sad news from Camella that great dane DIABLO passed away last night (peacefully after fighting bronchitis). Most people should have the adventures that Diablo had during his lifetime. The big fellow will surely be missed on this plane of existence.

The Melvins have done a performance of The Kicking Machine for the guys at Pitchfork TV.  It’s pretty cool so take a look:

There’s also a cool video with Buzz on Soft Focus.