Machine Head have recruited Brandon Sigmund (on the photo) from fellow San Francisco Bay Area metal band Hostility to handle the bass duties on the group’s upcoming North American tour. The replacement is just temporary, as regular Machine Head bass player Adam Duce broke his leg while dirt biking in Redding, California and has now […]

On Saturday, September 8, the Backstage ClubВ in Sofia, Bulgaria shall hos a show by the Nuernberg-based swing-funk-soul-rock’n’roll gang Project Caravelle. Formed in Germany in 2001, the group shall play live in support of its current album, “Wiedergeburt als sexy Vamp” (“Rebirth as a Sexy Vampire”) in a line-up featuring Phillipp TГ¶gel (piano), Michael Hager (vocals […]

Alice in Chains have recorded an acoustic performance last night, August 31, at The Rave/Eagles Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for an upcoming live album. The CD is tentatively due in early 2008. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bass player Mike Inez, drummer Sean Kinney and Layne Staley’s successor William DuVall have performed following tracks yesterday: 01. Don’t […]

Finland’s folk metal sextet Korpiklaani has signed a worldwide deal with the mghty German label Nuclear Blast. Naturally, the first result of this newly established cooperation shall be the release of the follow-up to this year’s “Tervaskanto”, due to appear in 2008. Expect exclusive news from the Nuclear Blast camp about the company’s 20th anniversary […]

Rob Dukes, vocalist of Bay Area’s thrash metal veterans Exodus, has spread the following message via the band’s official MySpace page: “Hey Fuckers, Someone sent me an e-mail saying that moshpits were now banned at the Whiskey in LA… and it’s all because of Exodus!!! I just want to thank all the crazy fuckers that […]

Britain’s rock veterans The Who have announced they’ll release two DVDs on November 6. The first, “Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who”, chronicles the band’s history through interviews with Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey, as well as rare concert footage. It will premiere on September 12 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The second […]

After more than a year of being out of Nevermore‘s live shows due to ill health, guitarist Steve Smyth has now officially left the band because of “personal and business differences”. Svete, who has recovered from his illness already, will now go on tour in Europe as a member of the Danish metallers Hatesphere. Afterwards […]

Due to bad weather, the Ian Anderson Plays Orchestral Jethro Tull concert in Plovdiv, Bulgaria won’t take place at the ancient Roman theater, but at FairВ Hall 14. All other details regarding the show remain the same – Saturday, September 1, 8 p.m.

Italy’s experimental post-punk/jazz/metal/electro/bossa nova psychopaths Thee Maldoror Kollective are working on two new studio albums – an instrumental one, entitled “Need the Needle”, and a more pop oriented effort named “Knownothingism”. Both should appear by the end of the year. Additional info and some compositions by TMK can be found on their MySpace profile at […]

Icelandic post-punk minimalists Sigur Ros will release a double CD and a DVD on November 6. The audio effort is entitled “Hvarf/Heim” (meaning “Disappeared/Home”) and consists of unreleased (disappeared) songs plus live acoustic versions of tracks from all four Sigur Ros studio albums recorded in Iceland (home). As for the DVD, its title is going […]