Bay Area metal icons Machine Head performed a cover version of Iron Maiden‘s classic “Hallowed Be Thy Name” at the Rock in Rio festival on June 5, 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal. Video footage of the performance can be viewed below. A studio version of the track shall appear in the upcoming “Maiden Heaven” tribute CD, […]

On Saturday, June 7, Foo Fighters played a show in front of 86,000 fans at London’s Wembley Stadium (view the stage in the left). Definitely the most important moment hapened at the end of the concert, during the encore, when Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones joined Dave Grohl & Co. for the performance of […]

Arch Enemy are planning to release an album of re-recordings next year. The CD will feature songs from the albums which pre-date singer Angela Gossow‘s addition to the band. Sounds interesting… Arch Enemy – live at Donwload 2006

Last night, during the Fracture weekly metal show on MM TV, the CEO of Balkan Entertainment Company has revealed the facts regarding the possible upcoming Bon Jovi show in Sofia, Bulgaria. To put it short – Jon & Co. will not do that concert. At least not this year. End of the story.

Reunited Boston hard rockers Extreme will release “Saudades de Rock” – their first studio album in 13 years – on August 12 on Open E Records. The CD was recorded in LA in a line-up featuring vocalist Gary Cherone, guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, bassist Pat Badger and new drummer Kevin Figueiredo, and is going to include […]

In a survey carried out by Gigwise.com, Freddie Mercury has been voted the ideal frontman in a dream rock band. The late Queen frontman beat off Mick Jagger and Kurt Cobain for the title. Here’s how a dream rock band’s line-up should look like: vocalist – Freddie Mercury (Queen) guitarist – Jimi Hendrix bass player […]

America’s industrial rock weirdos Revolting Cocks have posted a new track, called “Homo Song (I’m Not Gay)“, at myspace.com/revoltingcocks. This comes from the full-length album “Sex-O Olympic-O“, due later in the year via 13th Planet Records. “Homo Song (I’m Not Gay)” was recordedin a line-up featuring Al Jourgensen (Ministry) on vocals and guitar, Luc Van […]

Nine Inch Nails have made a new five-track EP available for free download. Entitled “Lights in the Sky Over North America – 2008 Tour Sampler” (view cover in the left), it features high quality, DRM-free, fully-tagged MP3 songs from all 5 bands that will unite for the upcoming Lights in the Sky U.S. tour, namely […]

Fan-filmed footage of Anthrax‘s performance with new singer Dan Nelson (on the photo) on May 31, 2008 – just three days after his stage debut with Scott Ian & Co. – can be viewed below. This guy’s definitely good! Except for playing live, Anthrax is currently writing material for its new album – the band’s […]

Drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia (a.o. Primus, Guns N’ Roses, Godflesh), funky bass legend William “Bootsy” Collins (ex-Parliament, Funkadelic), current Guns N’ Roses guitarist Buckethead, and vocalist Greg Hampton have finally finished working on the debut album by their project Science Faxtion. The CD is going to be entitled “Living on Another Frequency” and is due […]