Norway’s Tristania announced they’ve found a proper replacement to their emblematic beautiful vocalist Vibeke Stene. The band’s new voice is definitely not less pretty. She’s italian, aged 25, and her name is Mariangela Demurtas. What’s known so far is that the Sardinia-born singer lists her musical influences to include Janis Joplin, Diamanda Galas, Lisa DalBello, […]

A new version of the track “The Blinding” by Chicago’s sax-metal extremists Yakuza is available for streaming HERE. The remix was done by current Jesu and former Godflesh mastermind himself – Mr. Justin Broadrick. Meanwhile, Yakuza continue touring in support of their latest effort, “Transmutations”, which was released in August via Prosthetic Records.

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers Within Temptation have released the video for their latest single, “All I Need”. You may watch it in it’s full length below. The MCD (view cover in the left) shall surface in Europe on November 5, containing the title track in a single and album version, plus demos of the songs […]

My Chemical Romance are to release a concert DVD in the beginning of 2008. The still untitled effort will feature the band’s entire current album “The Black Parade” performed live in Mexico City.

Swedish death metal godfathers At the Gates have officially announced they’ll reunite next summer! So far the band has confirmed to perform live at three European festivals in July and August 2008 – Ruis Rock in Finland, Wacken Open Air in Germany and Bloodstock in the UK. At the Gates shall resurface in a line-up […]

Ian Brown has revealed he is planning on playing prison gigs in the near future. “I’m going to get permission from three or four jails,” he explained. Besides, the former The Stone Roses frontman shall re-work many of his songs as classical music compositions for a series of forthcoming gigs in 2008.

Rumours are swirling that Finland’s superstars H.I.M. are set to do the theme song for the next James Bond movie. Sources claim that Bond composer and lyricist, respectively David Arnold and Don Black, were impressed by the band’s track “Wings of a Butterfly”, and were seen chatting to the frontman Ville Valo at this year’sВ BMI […]

Epic Records has set a November 13 release date for “Below the Belt” – the highly anticipated first official DVD from US supergroup Hellyeah. The issue captures footage from the quintet’s entire career, including studio shots, concert cuts and interviews with the band members – drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott (ex-Pantera, Damageplan), guitarist Tom Maxwell and […]

Kid Rock scored his first No. 1 on The Billboard 200 this week with “Rock N Roll Jesus”. The album, released via Atlantic, sold 170,000 copies in the USA, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Last week’s chart topper, Bruce Springsteen‘s “Magic”, suffered a 60% drop-off to 130,000 copies and fell to No. 2.

Slayer, Mastodon, Lamb of God, Children of BodomВ and Thine Eyes Bleed shall be featured on the upcoming DVD “The Unholy Alliance, Chapter II” (view cover in the left). Shot on July 13, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada, the disc will be released on October 30, with an approximate running time of 90 minutes and following tracklist: […]