AFGM: Music News of November 22, 2011

Good morning/afternoon/evening folks, wherever you are in the world today. Here is what made [AFGM] headlines this morning:

Living Sacrifice have been making music for well over 20 years now and have decided to show fans and enthusiasts alike what they are made of. "In Finite Live" shows Living Sacrifice from a professionally shot and recorded multi-camera performance. Filmed in Pomona, Southern California, the shows's set list spans their massive catalog.

Bonus features on the DVD includes:

- Behind-the-scenes mini-documentaries from the making of the two music videos for the band's 2010 "comeback" album

- The Infinite Order, as well as six more tracks from another live show in the group's original home area of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Below is a sample of the DVD, featuring the track "Bloodwork":

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Fear Factory/session drummer Gene Hoglan is now offering online drum lessons to co-inside with his instructional DVD "The Atomic Clock".

The online lessons are being hosted by Reallesson.com, and with good reason after reading this description of the website:

"RealLesson.com is your outlet for taking live, interactive lessons online or in person. During the site's pre-launch phase, we are having great success in attracting and securing a wide variety of teachers! There is no limit to the style/genre of the teacher, so you will have no shortage of qualified teachers to learn from. We will not only be providing lessons with musicians, but also sound engineers, tour managers, lighting/stage professionals and other relative categories of instruction."

With that being said, you can check out some interview footage between Gene himself and Mitch Gallagher from Sweetwater Minute:

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Piggy D (Rob Zombie bassist) has announced he will be selling three pieces of artwork that he created via eBay. These three pieces were inspired by Piggy's personal collection of vintage Halloween masks as well as different nightmares. Each of the three auctions ends November 27th. His paintings have never been seen before by the public, and have never been for sale.

As is stands, one of the paintings is bidding at $305US, but there's still 5 days left on the auction. Check out the bid wars here.

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Dokken's back! Frontiers Records has announced the signing of Dokken for the release of the band's upcomingcoming studio album in the spring of 2012.

Lead singer Don Dokken shared some insight to the new album and how far along they are:

"So far we have written 10 songs in only eight weeks. Usually we spend a year or more on our music. I can't explain why this time it came so fast; it just happened. So far the music is very uptempo and heavy. Of course we know our fans like the classic Dokken sound and this is where our new music is headed. It's been a band of brothers doing what we love: 'music.' In a perfect world, we would like to release the new album before the summer and then play the festivals in Europe. Then hopefully we can jump on a package tour in the U.S. We want to give everyone a great CD that will keep all music fans 'rokkin'' during these troubled times!"

And for a flashback...