After the success of "A Matter of Life and Death", Iron Maiden has announced "Different World" as their next single album as a special souvenir in Europe at its opening American tour today.

Also as the first time, Sanctury Records will release an american commercial single "Different World" on November 14. The single will feature Radio 1 Zane Lowe 's "Legends" session of "Hallowed Be Thy Name" and "The Trooper" as B sides. These tracks have previously been used as B sides to "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" , which was released in Europe in August and although it was not eligible for the U.K. chart it reached No 1 in Spain, Sweden, Finland and Hungary.

Currently "A Matter Of Life and Death" has sold over 98,000 copies in US since its release.

Godsmack will take their fellow Hourcast on a month of tour to promote their first Hourcast's debut album "State of Disgrace".

Hourcast became one of the most talkabout metal band to hit the scene after their first debut. The band line up are:

Patrick McBride: vocals
David Henriquez: guitars
David Sullivan: bass
and Jerry Clews: drums

McBride says "I think I'm speaking for all of us when I say that we are honored to be keeping such company on this tour," explains frontman McBride. "Godsmack wrote the book on how a band can bust their ass and make it happen. When you speak about legendary east coast hard rock...it's Aerosmith and Godsmack. Period. And Breaking Benjamin? Their songs have been ringing in my head for the last two years...great band, great songwriters. We are ecstatic to have this opportunity to play in front of these bands and it is our intention to kill it each and every night, and inspire their fans with our music...the way they inspired us."

In addition, Hourcast's song "Sakarra" and "State of Disgrace" has been added into soundtrack of the sequent movie SAW III.

McBride also states "All of us in HourCast are really pleased to have our music featured on the SAW III Soundtrack. We loved the first movie and the sequel. I think our music is a perfect fit to the vision of this movie"

The movie and sound track will be released on this Halloween.

Tour dates are as follow:

Fri 10/20/06 Glens Falls, NY Glens Falls Civic Ctr.
Sat 10/21/06 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center
Mon 10/23/06 Syracuse, NY OnCenter
Tue 10/24/06 Columbus, OH Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Thu 10/26/06 Cleveland, OH Wolstein Center at CSU
Fri 10/27/06 Louisville, KY Louisville Gardens
Sat 10/28/06 Evansville, IN Roberts Stadium
Mon 10/30/06 Grand Rapids, MI DeltaPlex
Tue 10/31/06 Dayton, OH Hara Arena
Fri 11/03/06 Madison, WI Alliant Energy Center
Sun 11/05/06 Moline, IL Mark Of The Quad Cities

Mon 11/06/06 Lincoln, NE Pershing Auditorium
Thu 11/09/06 West Valley City, UT E Center
Sat 11/11/06 Reno, NV Reno Events Center
Sun 11/12/06 Bakersfield, CA Rabobank Arena
Tue 11/14/06 Tucson, AZ Anselmo Valencia
Amphitheatre
Wed11/15/06 Prescott, AZ Prescott Valley Event Center

Sun 11/19/06 Corpus Christi, TX Concrete Street Amphitheatre

Tue 11/21/06 Orlando, FL TD Waterhouse Centre

Source HourCast Website, MySpace

This is one of the rare Slayer clip performing "Black Magic" at the Roxy in Hollywood on March 28, 1983.

SLAYER 's "Christ Illusion" album, which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard chart last month, has sold 120,000 copies in the United States since its Aug. 8 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Legendary German rock band, Scorpions has scheduled to go back to Los Angeles to start record their new album with song writer/producer Desmond Child (AeroSmith, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Meat Loaf, and Jim Steinmann)

SCORPIONS ' latest album, "Unbreakable" , was released in the U.S. in June 2004 through Sanctuary Records .