The Big Four’s European tour is coming to theaters worldwide. Not sure how watching Metallica and Slayer in a movie theater will compare in person besides that either way you will be sitting near smelly dudes drinking heavily. Tickets are $20 and most of each bands set will be shown.

Here’s a listing of the screenings happening in the New York City / New Jersey Area

Slayer have revealed the cover artwork for World Painted Blood, which is actually four different covers put together to make a map of the earth… wait for it… painted in blood! That’s not all the land masses on the map are made up of human skeletons. A deluxe CD/DVD version and 180 gram vinyl will also be available. I suppose you “Gotta Catch ‘em all!”

I don’t usually post straight up news items, but the world always needs the details on a new Slayer album. World Painted Blood will be released Tuesday, November 3rd in North American and Monday, November 2 to the rest of the world.

There will be three different editions of the album: Limited edition CD with multiple CD covers, Deluxe edition CD/DVD, and a high-quality, 180-gram vinyl edition.

Tracklisting after the jump.

Official Track Listing:
1. World Painted Blood
2. Unit 731
3. Snuff
4. Beauty Through Order
5. Hate Worldwide
6. Public Display Of Dismemberment
7. Human Strain
8. Americon
9. Psychopathy Red
10. Playing With Dolls
11. Not Of This God

What more can I say than it’s fucking Slayer! Playing all the hits as one of the headliners on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour. Click next for more photos.

We are happy to be giving away a copy of Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces the new book featuring stories of how classic metal albums were made from Decibal Magazine. The criteria to talk about the album is very strict including the rule that they must be able to interview all the band members who played on the album. Which is why you might be wondering where Master of Puppets is etc. The book does cover a lot of great records though ranging from Slayer’s Reign In Blood to Converge’s Jane Doe. The book also features Black Sabbath, Carcass, Opeth, Cannibal Corpse, Botch, At The Gates and many others.

Contest is over.

This past weekend I checked out the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn. One thing that caught my eye were the pillows made out of old metal t-shirts including Slayer, Pantera, Iron Maiden and more by a company called Dang Lorang. Perfect gift for your girlfriend thats a metalhead but still likes a pile of throw pillows on the couches and bed. Cool idea, good luck selling the Family Values one though, that tour line up (Limp Bizkit) always sucked.

Buy these here. More photos after the jump. I didn’t include the Kiss pillow because I am sure they have made pillow cases for years so this is nothing new for them.

Custom Guitar creator Neil Moser has joined forces with Element Skateboards to create some interesting decks for the “Metal Gods” skate deck series. The decks feature guitar sketches from Moser that look like they would fit nicely in the of B.C. Rich family of guitars. The decks are for Bam Margera and Mike V. (whose band, Revolution Mother recently signed to Ferret Records). Buying the board also gives you a chance to win the actual guitar. Cool decks, not Slayer skate deck cool, but still pretty good. You can buy these suckers here.

(via Rad Collector)

Our New York pick for Record Store Day is Generation Records where the Bouncing Souls will be performing a special acoustic set at 2 PM in the basement if you buy their 7 inch at the store. More details on their site.

Fear not, New England Metal Festers, there is a store in Worcester called That’s Entertainment that is part of Record Store Day. Only about 2 miles away from the venue, so it’s a convenient stop on the way to the fest.

Slayer – 7?
“Psychopathy Red” b/w backwards masked version

Russian Circles / These Arms Are Snakes Split 12” (1000 copies)
“Camera Shy” / “Trix” b/w “Philios”

Mastodon – Crack the Skye 180g vinyl + 7? also an exclusive T-Shirt

Bad Religion – Original EP 7?
Reissue of 6 tracks from 1981

Cursive/Ladyfinger(ne) split 10? picture disc (1500 copies)
“Universal Shrug” b/w “Old News”

Gaslight Anthem “Live from Park Ave” 10?

Jane’s Addiction – 7?
“Mountain Song” b/w “Standing In The Shower Thinking”

Jesus Lizard – 7? Box Set

Obits – 7?
“I Can’t Lose/Military Madness”

Pavement – “Live in Cologne 1997? LP (2500 copies)

The Smiths – 7?
“The Headmaster’s Ritual” b/w “Oscillate Wildly”

Sonic Youth / Beck split 7? (2500 copies)
“Pay No Mind” (SY covering Beck) b/w “Green Light” (Beck Covering SY)

Sonic Youth / Jay Reatard split 7? (2500 copies)
“Hang Them All” (JR) b/w “No Garage” (SY)

Bruce Springsteen – 7?
“What Love Can Do”/”A Night From The Jersey Devil”

The Stooges – 7?
“1969? b/w “Real Cool Time”