The second annual Carolina Rebellion will return May 5 and feature Shinedown, KoRn, Evanescence, Staind, Five Finger Death Punch, Slash and more. This year the festival will move to its new home at the Rockingham Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina, which is conveniently located between Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham, Columbia and Greensboro.

Rockers KISS will headline the opening night of England's Sonisphere Festival on Friday, July 6. There's no word on which of the original members will be present for the festival, but the Sonisphere performance will be the only European appearance by the band this year. The U.S. rock band is reportedly preparing to release their twentieth studio album in June of 2012. The band has said that the album will be out this summer and will include a 4-foot tall book and a 10-hour DVD.

Jane's Addiction may not make fans wait another eight years before releasing a new album. While speaking with Billboard.com, drummer Stephen Perkins revealed that the band has already discussed the approach they'd like to take for the follow-up to their most recent effort, The Great Escape Artist. "We had a discussion on the flight home from the Super Bowl about, 'Okay, new music - do we visit it while we're touring?"

Black Sabbath has put their reunion plans on hold to give guitarist Tony Iommi a chance to recover from cancer. Earlier this year the metal icon was diagnosed with lymphoma and he is currently receiving treatment in the U.K. The group had announced their official plans to reunite and record an album just weeks before Iommi was diagnosed. They then moved work on the album from Los Angeles to across the pond so that they could continue working while Iommi receives treatment.