Hot Flashes:::CHIMAIRA On Liquid Metal Today At 5PM

Mark Hunter and Jim LaMarca from Cleveland bruisers CHIMAIRA visit the Liquid Metal studios with host Jose Mangin for a raw audio gathering session full of new music and select cuts from Mark and Jim's favorite metal acts.

The show will be on at 5 PM (ET) today (April 22nd) on Sirius 27/XM 42.

Listen to new tracks from Chimaira's fifth studio album The Infection, out in stores now, plus get an update on their current tour as part of the Music As A Weapon festival, Mark and Jim side projects, and how they celebrate Earth Day everyday.

Repeat broadcasts:

Wednesday, April 22nd at 8 PM (ET)
Friday, April 24th at 4 PM (ET)
Saturday, April 25th at 2 PM (ET)
Sunday April 26th at 10 PM (ET)

Chimaira on the Music As A Weapon Tour (with DISTURBED, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, and LACUNA COIL):

April
22 - East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center
24 - Fayetteville, NC - Crown Coliseum
25 - Reading, PA - Sovereign Center
26 - Richmond, VA - The National* (with Killswitch Engage and Lacuna Coil)
27 - Glens Falls, NY - Glens Falls Civic Center
28 - Pittsburgh, PA - Petersen Center
30 - Battle Creek, MI - Kellogg Arena

May
1 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Piere's* (with Killswitch Engage and Lacuna Coil)
2 - Detroit, MI - Cobo Arena
3 - Cleveland, OH - The Wolstein Center @ Cleveland State
5 - Columbus, OH - Value City Arena
6 - Peoria, IL - Peoria Civic Center
8 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
9 - Des Moines, IA - Veteran's Memorial Auditorium
10 - Madison, WI - Alliant Energy Center
11 - Sioux Falls, SD - Ramkota Exhibit Hall* (with Killswitch Engage and Lacuna Coil)
12 - Lacrosse, WI - Lacrosse Center
13 - Evansville, IN - Roberts Stadium
15 - Council Bluffs, IA - Mid America Center
16 - Chicago, IL - Charter One Pavilion
17- Green Bay, WI - Resch Center

Chimaira off-dates*

Does hair length affect Metallica's songwriting?

The members of Metallica have changed their hair style with each passing album, sometimes chopping off a good foot of hair between album cycles. Since I had a lot of free time on my hands this weekend, I decided to plot the bands average hair length on a graph and compare it to the average critics review score. From the bands early days with near glam metal hair to it's shortened cuts in the 90's, it appears that Metallica's hair has expressed it's music throughout the years.

Looking at the results, it would be a safe bet to figure out their hair length while writing/recording and see if it will be an album worth picking up.

ROB ZOMBIE Approached For 'Heavy Metal' - Apr. 8, 2009

ShockTillYouDrop.com reports that Rob Zombie was approached byDavid Fincher and Kevin Eastman to direct a segment of their proposed revival of the animated anthology "Heavy Metal", doing "something that could fuse his story with his music." Having some experience in animation with the still-unreleased "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto" and directing a segment in MTV's "Beavis and Butthead" film, Zombie was interested, but hasn't heard anything since first being approached.

In late February, Rob Zombie began shooting his sequel to "Halloween", tentatively titled "H2". The follow-up to the rocker-turned-director's 2007 hit remake of the horror classic is due out at the end of August.

"H2" is shooting in Georgia.

Zombie said in one recent interview that the new film will focus less on serial killer Michael Myers and more on his sister, Laurie, played byScout Taylor-Compton.

As for Zombie's next studio album, he recently completed recording for it and plans to issue the disc in either late summer or early fall, according toHardDrive Radio.