Monday Metal Update 5/4

Nine Inch Nails take the lead for the second Monday Metal Update in a row. Last week we linked to NIN's new single, "Discipline," (and posted an awesome, evidently fan-made video for the song) and mentioned that Trent posted the message "2 Weeks!" on his blog back on April 28th. Well, two weeks from April 28th is today, and lo and behold, as predicted, we get a new album! It's called The Slip and it's free. And it's good.

Download: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip [MP3 Album]

The Slip will also be released physically (CD and vinyl) sometime in July.


[Earth]

Attention New York readers!!! Self-Titled Magazine has a pair of tickets for tomorrow's Earth show at the Knitting Factory, and if you act fast you just might be able to score them.

Bullets:

• Psychedelic Black Metallers (or something like that) Nachtmystium currently have two tracks from their forthcoming album Assassins streaming on their MySpace page. We compel you to listen to them. Assassins will be out on June 10th in the US (Century Media) and June 23rd elsewhere (Candlelight).

• Boston.TV hooked up with quite a few bands at the New England Metal and Hardcore Fest. We already posted one of the interviews (which we will not do in the future because we can't figure out how to make all that gibberish on the bottom of their player widget disappear), but you can check out their interview with Skeletonwitch right here.

• New York grind trio ASRA (Alleged Satanic Ritual Abuse) have inked a deal with Black Box Recordings for the release of their debut album The Way of All Flesh on July 8th.

• Yahoo has ranked the 25 Best and 25 Worst hair metal bands of all time. Seems like they could've saved themselves some time and effort and just rolled both those lists into one. [via Idolator]

That's it for us today, happy Monday!