California-based metaller DEVILDRIVER's BBC Maida Vale session will broadcast this Monday, November 23rd from midnight on the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show.

Dez will also be on the phone talking about recording the session and life in general. Tune in at this location.

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New York extreme metal legends SUFFOCATION have announced they will be direct support to DevilDriver on an upcoming five-week tour launching in January, 2010.

The first ten shows are as follows; more dates to be announced soon.

January

7 - Pomona, CA - Glasshouse
8 - San Francisco, CA - Slims
9 - Ventura, CA - Majestic Ventura Theater
11 - Portland, OR - Peter's Room at Roseland Theater
12 - Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
13 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre
15 - Grand Junction, CO - Mesa Theater
16 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
18 - Maplewood, MN - The Rock
19 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave

DevilDriver drummer John Boecklin recently issued the following update:

"Just to clarify a few things on the subject of us writing new material!! Not one note of these songs are left over shit songs we could not pull together for our last record. I personally started writing for this album a week after recording Pray and we have always done this. Writing for us is the fun part of all the stupid crap that goes on in this business. This is also not a quick attempt to get out of our record contract, even if we were trying to do so, none of us could release material we all felt was blatantly sub-par while giving each other high fives cause we got out of a contract. On our last record, I would say we stretched as far as we could outside of what we had done in the past, trying new and slower songs with vocal melody like 'Its In The Cards' or the rock like feel of songs like 'Back With A Vengeance' and 'Teach Me To Whisper'. For our latest effort, we feel like musically going for the throat so to speak. Are we gonna make a death metal album? no! We always have a heavy emphasis on groove and hook. That will not change. We just feel we have a certain anger edge about us and the songs we are writing compared to our last one. It will not be rushed and if you are a fan, you will not be let down!!"