Chaotic hardcore pioneers Converge have released the title track from their upcoming record No Heroes. The album is their sophomore Epitaph release, following up 2004's You Fail Me, and is set to hit the streets on October 24th.

"No Heroes" can be streamed or downloaded from their Epitaph Profile .

The band recently announced the dates for a headlining tour which will feature support from Some Girls, Modern Life is War, Blacklisted, Kylesa and Gospel.

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Classic Rock Revisited Editor Jeb Wright spouts off to the recent news that Edward Van Halen is now providing music for pornographic films and having lurid parties in his home.  Check out http://www.myspace.com/classicrockrevisited to read the editorial and to leave your comments.

A few excerpts:

"I suppose somewhere Van Halen is going to try to pass this off as some sort of strange contribution to the arts, but in reality it looks like a fifty-something year old man getting his jollies hanging around sluts and whores, all the while believing in his mind that this makes him look cool."

"If it was Vince Neil instead of Edward Van Halen then I would not feel compelled to pen my thoughts on the matter. Why? Because Vince Neil is a sleaze bag. If it was Lemmy doing the same thing then I would smile and wave the devil sign in the air."

" Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan once admitted to me "there is something undignified about a 50-year-old man singing about his dick." Alas, there is also something undignified about Ed filling his house with porn stars and lending his talents to a fuck flick."

Read it all here:  http://www.myspace.com/classicrockrevisited

The Gauntlet recently conducted an interview with Jack Gibson, Rob Dukes, and Gary Holt of EXODUS. The following is a brief excerpt:

The Gauntlet: What was it like during the early days of the Bay Area Thrash Scene?

Gary: "Well during the early days, there were just two of us, us and METALLICA. As far as a big thrash community, it didn't exist yet as we were still inventing it. But later when the second wave hit with bands like TESTAMENT, VIO-LENCE, DEATH ANGEL and all them, we hung out and partied a lot. We all wanted to blow each other off the stage. Nobody ever succeeded in doing that. As a matter of fact, the last time we ever played with Metallica we crushed them so hard, James said we'd never play with them again. I thought he was kidding, but he wasn't. Paul Baloff was still in the band for the first time. Metallica just came home from recording Master Of Puppets and we did a show for like 6,000 people. It was Metallica, Exodus, MEGADETH and METAL CHURCH. We crushed them so hard they didn't know what hit them. We blew the doors off. I love Metallica though. Chalk that up to the bad boys of the East Bay. We had more amps, a bigger drum riser and we just blew them away. We came home and never played a game with them since."

Rob: "Maybe you should have let them win that one."

Gary: "Maybe I shouldn't have smashed my fucking strat to pieces at the end of the set."

Rob: "I'd like to see the guys buck up and take us out. Go back and remember where they came from. They need to do that more than anything else in their lives right now."

Jack: "They don't need to do anything. They don't need to do shit. They will take out TRIVIUM or BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. Maybe AVENGED SEVENFOLD will go out with them, which they already have."

Rob: "Bands like HATEBREED know the reason they exist is partially because of Exodus. It is kind of cool for them to put us on tour with them. They openly give credit to CRO-MAGS, AGNOSTIC FRONT, Exodus, MORBID ANGEL and all that stuff. All the bands they went to see as kids."

To read the entire interview go to this location .