Hello people! Hope your weekend was as awesome as mine was! Got to be on a boat on the lake and marvel as how great Mother Nature is treating my garden! Very happy camper!….GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! O M G U S A! We are so excited! Now, Germany on Thursday! But can someone explain why this is being played in the AMAZON in blistering hot heat and humidity??!!!! Ugh…..I know I spoke with M Shadows over a year ago about this, but their mobile game is getting closer! The game includes an avatar of the beloved and sorely missed Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan! And after you unlock him, he helps you through the levels. Guitarist Synyster Gates told us the extended time needed to develop the long-awaited game will be worth it: “I mean, we’ve been spending the last two, two-and-a-half years developing this thing, and it’s turning out outrageously, unbelievably perfect in every single way. But it’s taken a long time. So we’re really coming close with finishing, you know, everything on our end, and then it goes into testing and stuff like that. But yeah, it’s definitely really impressive.” Shadows said each band member has his own custom weapon or power, including a double-edged sword for drummer Arin Ilejay, a demon with magic powers for Synyster Gates, a “Hell Sword” which rains blood on people for bassist Johnny Christ and “Shadow Sight” for Shadows himself. The game is expected to be available this summer, although a release date has yet to be announced. Watch the trailer here….Linkin Park performed on ABC-TV’s JImmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night (Jun 19th), taking over the show’s outdoor concert stage to play three new tracks for the crowd — “Until It’s Gone,” “Guilty All The Same” and “Wastelands” — all from the just-released album The Hunting Party. The performance gave a hint of how these songs will sound live, and we asked guitarist Brad Delson what the group had planned for its tour this summer with 30 Seconds To Mars and AFI: “We scrapped our entire live milieu and started over from scratch. We rebuilt all our songs in such a way that we think is really unique. I don’t want to do anyone a disservice by telling you what it is, I think you just have to come to the show and see it and experience it.” Here’s the band performing “Guilty All The Same,””Until It’s Gone” and “Wastelands.”….Pulse Of Radio reports Metallica has made a studio version of its new song, “The Lords Of Summer,” available at iTunes. Dubbed the “First Pass” version, the recording is basically a demo of the song that the band made before playing it live on its recent “Metallica By Request” tours of South America and Europe. The studio version was also scheduled to air on ESPN over the weekend. The “By Request” tour featured the band playing 17 songs requested online by fans in each city, with the final slot in the set list taken by “The Lords Of Summer.” Drummer Lars Ulrich told RollingStone.com that the song is “fairly representative of where our creative headspace is at right now. It’s one of those things that’s like, ‘Here, we’re writing and we’re creating.’” Ulrich also cautioned the track could be changed or even dropped from contention for the band’s 10th studio album, which is tentatively due out next year. The drummer recently told Metal Zone about the status of the band’s next record, “I’m pretty convinced that 90 percent of the record is actually written, it’s just gotta be kind of assembled between all those riffs. It’s just a matter of connecting this to this and sort of shaping it into a song.” Metallica headlines England’s Glastonbury Festival this Saturday (Jun 28th), making them the first metal act in the event’s 44-year history to top the bill… Pulse Of Radio also reports Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan says he’s written over 200,000 words of his autobiography, titled God Is Everywhere From Here To There, and isn’t even halfway done yet. Corgan wrote at his website about the book, “A few days prior I crossed the 200,000 word threshold, convinced that the midway point of said opus had been reached. But this was not so, as only five of 12 intended sections have been covered.” He added that he could hit half a million words before he’s done, which doesn’t seem like it will be anytime soon. I’ll be getting a taste of the new Pumpkins music later today…..Glenn Danzig is 59 today and Slash’s son Cash is 10. And in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was submitted to Congress.