German metal veterans Helloween have revealed the front cover artwork for their upcoming new full-length studio album, “Gambling with the Devil”, due in Europe on OctoberВ 29 via the label SPV. You could check it out below. The CD will feature 16 songs, a.o. “Crack the Riddle” (feat. Biff Byford of Saxon), “The Bells of the […]

Machine Head and Enter Shikari were the only two bands that whon two awards each at this year’s annual Kerrang! Awards. Rob Flynn & Co. scooped Best Album for “The Blackening” plus the Hard Rock Hero awards, while Enter Shikari won Best Live Act and Spirit of Independence awards. Welsh rock band The Lostprophets have […]

“”Eva” is very, very far away from what the album is like. I think it’s the softest song ever done by Nightwish. Рўhere are алсо songs like “Amaranth” that are a bit more easy listening and radio-friendly, but as a whole, “Dark Passion Play” is the heaviest album Nightwish have ever done.” This statement was […]

Ferret Music and Filthy Note Records shall release the compilation “Viva La Bands, Volume 2” on September 3, featuring some exclusive tracks written and recorded for the CD by bands like Bloodhound Gang, In Flames and Clutch, as well as songs by Children of Bodom, GWAR, The 69 Eyes, Revolution Mother, Malevolent Creation, Dimmu Borgir […]

California’s metalheads Hear ATREYU’s New Albumhave posted all the 11 songs off their new studio full-length album, “Lead Sails Paper Anchor” (view cover in the left), for free listening at myspace.com/atreyurock. The CD itself is going to hit the stores on Tuesday, August 28.

Yesterday in New York major record labels and SoundExchange have inked a deal with big webcasters like AOL, Live365, MTV, RealNetworks, Pandora and Yahoo! that the latter will not have to pay more than $50,000 per service as a per-station or per-channel minimum royalty to webcast sound recordings. So far there was no limit to […]

Long-time running U.K. rockers The Wildhearts have posted the video for the song “The New Flesh” on the Internet. You could could check it out below. The song is going to be the second single (after “The Sweetest Song”) off the band’s self-titled new album, which was released on April 23 via Round Records and […]

“We’re ready with the recordings for half of the new songs, but we won’t be able to finish work on our next album until the beginning of 2008 due to our tight live schedule,”В revealedВ Ian AndersonВ in an interview for Bulgaria’s printed cultural guide “Programata” about the upcoming first Jethro Tull full-length studio album in eight years…

R.E.M. are to release their first official live album on October 18. Simply entitled “R.E.M. Live”, the effort shall contain an entire show by the band recorded on February 27, 2005 in Ireland’s capital Dublin. “R.E.M. Live” is going to appear in the form of a two CD and one DVD set, featuring following tracklist: […]

Poland’s death metal veterans Vader have announced they’ll be releasing a DVD via their native label Metal Mind Productions in October. As obvious from its title, “…and Blood Was Shed in Warsaw”, the effort features footage recorded live during one of the band’s shows in Poland’s capital.