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Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has disputed reports that the band is assembling a tour that would feature the "Big Four" of the 1980s underground thrash metal scene -- itself, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. In an interview with Nudge at Dayton, Ohio radio station 103.9 (The X), Ulrich said, "I think it would be a super-fun thing to do. It's something that I would definitely support. It's something that I would love to encourage. It's something I love to be very proactive in putting together. But right now . . . it's not something that's like hush-hush being worked on behind the scenes or anything like that. I read some of those Internet sites myself once in a while, and it's not something that's going down, but it's something that I would be totally for at some point if it could happen. And we would love to be a part of that at any level possible."


British rock trio Muse could be headed for the biggest debut of their career on the Billboard album chart next week. According to the magazine, the band's new outing, The Resistance, is poised to sell around 120,000 copies, the biggest single U.S. sales week in the group's history. That may be enough for the CD to land at Number Two on the chart, although industry forecasters say it's unlikely to dislodge last week's Number One seller, Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3, from the top spot.



Flyleaf has begun announcing dates in support of the band's upcoming second album, Memento Mori. The disc is due out on October 27th and follows up the group's platinum 2005 debut. Several of the group's later tours while out behind that album were derailed by singer Lacey Mosley's vocal problems, and she admitted to us that she wasn't prepared to perform on the road for so long the first time around: ["I didn't get much time before we started touring extensively to learn about my voice technically. Like I don't know -- I just pray and go up there. I don't have a voice before I walk onstage. It comes out when I'm on there, come off, I'm like, 'Thank you Jesus,' you know.