Helloween, who are currently recording their next, 12th full-length album at singer Andi Deris’ Mi Sueno Studio in Tenerife, SpainВ  with producer Charlie Bauerfeind, shall entitled their new CD “Gambling with the Devil”. The effort shall be released on Halloween, October 31, followed by a European tour in November and December.

The video for the debut singleВ “Oh, You Black Sea”В by Svetlyo & The Legends can already be watchedВ on the legends’ official homepage, as well as here. Enjoy!

Drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia (ex-Primus, Guns N’ Roses, Godflesh, Tom Waits, a.o) and guitarist Brian “Buckethead” Carroll (on the photo; ex-Guns N’ Roses, Praxis, Les Claypool) have teamed up with legendary American funk bass player William “Bootsy” Collins in new band, Science Faction. Their debut album is expected in early 2008.

Electric Wizard are currently laying down tracks at London’s Toe Rag Studio together with the vacility’s owner and producer Liam Watson, who, amongst other things, is known for his work on the massiveely successful The White Stripes album “Elephant”. The still untitled effort by the British doomsters shall be released by the end of the […]

ratm82407.com – the mysterious Rage Against the Machine website with two counters we informed you about last week – has revealed its secret. As you probably remember, the left counter on the homepage was ticking towards June 11, while the right one – towards August 24. Well, it’s all clear now. Yesterday, June 11, RATM […]

Former Megadeth and Cacophony guitar player Marty Friedman is currently mixing two live solo releases in Japan’s capital Tokyo. The word goes about the audio CD “Live in Europe” and the DVD “Live in Tokyo”. Both efforts feature different setlists, however recorded with the same band members, namely drummer Jeremy Colson, bassist Chris Catero and […]

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) veterans Blitzkried have completed work on their new full-length album. Entitled “Theatre of the Damned” (view cover in the left), the CD is going to contain 10 tracks of “the same authentic heavy metal of the ’80’s along with a super freshness and total attitude.” Due on August […]

Download Festival 2007 director Stuart Galbraith has announced plans to move the 3-day rock event back a week next year. In other words, Download 2008 shall take place from June 13 to June 15, 2008. Tickets for the fest are due to go on sale this Friday, June 15, at 9 a.m. GMT sharp at […]

This year’s Download Festival, which took place on June 8-10 at Donington Park, Leicestershire, England, is over. Hundreds of thousands were able to watch the performances by Zico Chain, Buckcherry, Hinder, Megadeth, Dragonforce, Wolfmother, Velvet Revolver, В My Chemical RomanceTurisas, Hellyeah, Shadows Fall, Aiden, 30 Seconds to Mars, Bowling for Soup, Machine Head, Slayer, Marilyn Manson, […]

The German thrash metal quartet Holy Moses, fronted by the mighty-voiced Sabina Classen (on the photo), is currently at Blue Cattle Studio in Hamburg, Germany, to record its next full-length album. The band’s current line-up features Michael HankelВ (guitar), Oliver Jaath (bass), Atomic Steiff (drums; ex-SodomВ and Living Death) and, of course, Sabina herself (roars).