Slash Streaming New Song Online

“By The Sword”, the first single off of Slash’s self-titled solo album, is streaming on Spinner.com.

Killswitch Engage Posts New Song Online

Killswitch Engage is streaming a new song called “My Obsession”, which will be featured on the God of War: Blood & Metal, exclusively at NoiseCreep.com.

SiriusXM Finally Makes Money

radio company SiriusXM has just posted their first quarterly profit since the two companies merged in 2008. Billboard.biz reports that thye posted a fourth quarter net income of $14.2 million. They had lost $245.8 million in the same time period a year ago. And if you bought stock in the company back then, you’re doing great. They had been as low as 5 cents/share last year, around the same time they almost had to declare bankruptcy. Stocks ended the day at about $1/share today.

There’s better news ahead for SiriusXM as well. While the recession isn’t over yet, car sales are starting to pick up. Many new cars come with a trial subscription to the satellite company, whose rock channels include Liquid Metal (what up, Jose?) and Octane, as well as Hair Nation and the ‘classic rock that rocks’ channel Buzzsaw. Since those cars sold count as subscriptions, that’ll help as well, and SiriusXM expects about 500,000 more subscriptions to their already-sizable 18.8  million they ended 2009 with.

Machine Head “Fires” San Diego

Machine Head’s Robb Flynn has explained to Rock Radio that the San Diego crowd’s lack of excitement during their shows has lead them to never play the city again.

Lazarus A.D. Releases A New Video

Lazarus A.D. has released a new video for the song “Absolute Power”.

Exodus Reveals New Cover Artwork

Exodus has revealed the cover artwork to their new album Exhibit B: The Human Condition.

Cave In Frontman To Release Solo Album

Cave In Frontman Stephen Brodsky’s new solo album Here’s To The Future will be released on March 23 via Hydra Head Records.

Seventh Void Announces More Dates

Seventh Void has announced a few dates for this coming March.

Ex God Forbid Guitarist Debuts New Project

Ex God Forbid guitarist Dallas Coyle has debuted a song from his new project dubbed Genetic exclusively at MetalSucks.net.

Britney Spears Stole From Britny Fox

And not just her first name either. Our friend Spike, who used to co-host the metal show on Philly rock station WYSP (R.I.P. Rockers!), brought something to our attention earlier this week. This might be a ten year-old observation, but it’s pretty obvious that Britney Spears’ breakout video, “…Baby One More Time” is a complete and total ripoff of Philly hair band Britny Fox’s “Girlschool.” Don’t think so?

Compare this:

to this:

Girls in catholic school uniform? Check. Video starts with a school bell ringing? Check. Girls dancing/headbanging? Check. The only real difference is that Spears’ school is coed, while the Britny Fox video appears to take place in a girl’s school. Go figure.