Static-X has just released their heaviest album in years! Cult of Static features more of the hard-charging industrial metal their legions of fans have come to expect from the California killing machine. To help celebrate the release and their current tour, Static-X and Shockya.com are giving one fan a chance to win a special Wayne Static signature model ESP guitar. How cool is that?! Click Here to enter. Hurry, the contest ends on May 10th, 2009.

To celebrate the release of No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, Shockya.com and U2 are giving one lucky winner the chance to score the ultimate U2 prize pack! Jam packed with a limited edition artwork proof, long sleeve shirt, disposable camera, sunglasses, badge, keyring, mug and leather notebook all branded with the U2 logo, this package is the ultimate for any fan! Click Here to enter. No Line On The Horizon is the group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since the nine million selling album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released in late 2004. The new album hits stores March 3rd!…

MySpace Music (www.myspace.com/music), the world’s premier online music portal, announces the exclusive world premiere of No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2. Beginning on February Feb. 20th, MySpace U.S. users will be able to stream the album in its entirety from U2′s official MySpace Music profile at www.myspace.com/u2, giving fans a chance to preview it before the U.S. release on March 3rd. No Line On The Horizon will be available for purchase on MySpace Music starting on March 3rd. U2 recently premiered their latest video for the hit single Get On Your Boots on MySpace Music to fans around the world. No Line On The Horizon…

Static-X has just posted the first single off their forthcoming album, Cult of Static on their official MySpace page. “Stingwray” was inspired by Wayne Static’s wife, former adult film star Tera Wray Static, and the Corvette Stingray she drives. Keeping the integral tones, Static-X encompasses shredding guitars with solos that have brought the band to a level of playing to be reckoned with. The cybernetic stomp of “Hypure” and “You Am I” bludgeon, bruise and break with precise grooves. Elsewhere, the staccato riffs on “Terminal” crush through an unmistakable guitar tone. Guitarist Koichi Fukuda blazes through incendiary solos, while Tony Campos bolts down demonic bass lines and Nick Oshiro pounds…

Rock superstars U2 will perform an unprecedented five nights in a row on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Monday, March 2-Friday, March 6 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. This will be the first time that a musical guest will perform an entire week on the CBS late night broadcast. The band will release their 12th album, No Line on the Horizon, March 3. They performed their first single off the album, “Get On Your Boots” at the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards last weekend, and the song is already climbing the music charts. U2 last appeared on the LATE SHOW on Oct. 29, 2001, where they…

The BPI, the UK record labels’ body, today announced the exciting news that the mighty U2, one of the world’s biggest bands, will perform their brand new single ‘Get On Your Boots’ live at The BRIT Awards 2009 with MasterCard. This highly anticipated annual event takes place on Wednesday 18 February at London’s Earls Court. This year’s BRIT Awards, the premiere event in the British music calendar, is shaping up to be one of the strongest yet, with U2 confirmed, Pet Shop Boys being honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award and further intriguing live performances to be announced over the coming weeks. The show will be a spectacular…

No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released in North America on Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Written and recorded in various locations, No Line On The Horizon is the group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since the nine million selling album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released in late 2004. Sessions for No Line On The Horizon began last year in Fez, Morocco, and continued in the band’s own studio in Dublin, before moving to New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios. It was completed at Olympic Studios in London. The album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian…

Guns N’ Roses will be world premiering their long-awaited Chinese Democracy on their MySpace page today. The album will be hitting Best Buy stores exclusively on November 23rd. The band leaked a new song, “Better,” earlier this week and the title track single is all over radio. Produced by Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo, Chinese Democracy includes 14 tracks. The title track and first single from the album, “Chinese Democracy”, was released to radio at 5:00AM eastern time today. Two of the recordings have been recently released–”Shackler’s Revenge” debuted September 14 in the “Rock Band 2″ videogame and “If The World” debuted October 11 in the film Body Of Lies….

Guns N’ Roses just released a new song off their upcoming “Chinese Democracy” album, listen to the track below. “Better” is a melodic-rocker with infectious background vocals, sweeping guitar licks, and some of the hookiest melodies Axl Rose has woven together since the band’s early days. Chinese Democracy is the upcoming sixth studio album by American rock band Guns N’ Roses, to be released worldwide on November 23, 2008 and in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2008.[1] Once released, it will be their first studio album since 1993′s “The Spaghetti Incident?”, and their first album of original studio material since the simultaneous release of Use Your Illusion I and…

The All-American Rejects have set their logo ablaze and revealed the fiery album cover for When The World Comes Down. The December 16th release will feature their current single, “Gives You Hell.” The Rejects have also just released a brand new video preview for a more acoustic, folk inspired song called “Mona Lisa” that can be seen on their official site. More exclusive material will pop up on the site every week from now until release, so sign up and check back at allamericanrejects.com and whentheworldcomesdown.com for updates! Stay tuned to Toxic Shock for the latest All-American Rejects news and video previews.