ELUVEITIE vocalist/hurdy gurdy player Anna Murphy has posted her solo demo track ‘Woebegone’, due to appear on her forthcoming album, online for free download. Check out the audio player below. As previously reported, Eluveitie and Finnish metallers WINTERSUN, will co-headline a North American tour this Winter. The trek will commemorate Eluveitie’s 10th anniversary as well […]

Ginger Wildheart has teamed up with Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury in new band MUTATION. They intend to release three albums. The first is to be titled ‘The Frankenstein Effect’, and has a guest appearance from Mark E. Smith of The Fall. The musical style is said to be thrash with extreme arrangements.  

SONIC SYNDICATE bassist Karin Axelsson is a mother for the first time. She gave birth to a girl on October 12. She is engaged to Andre Gonzales, guitarist with By Right.  

Swedish guitar legend YNGWIE MALMSTEEN has revealed that his new album and follow-up to 2010’s Relentless will be called Spell Bound. A release date to be announced shortly. On October 1st, Anders Tengner’s unauthorized biography about legendary guitarist YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, Såsom I Himmelen, Så Ock På Jorden (As Above, So Below) was released in Sweden. […]

Korn guitarist James ‘Munky’ Shaffer has released a 21-minute documentary on the making of the debut album from side project Fear And The Nervous System. Fear and the Nervous System is: James Shaffer Bill Gould (Faith No More) Brooks Wackerman (Infectious Grooves, Suicidal Tendencies, The Vandals, Bad Religion) Leopold Ross Zachary Baird Steve Krolikowski

During her recent interview with BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, Tracy Forsyth-Lundy of Backstage Live Magazine got ZAKK WYLDE to reveal that the forthcoming Unblackened DVD, originally scheduled to be filmed in August, will now be shot in January 2013. Further details are forthcoming.  

A member of Jerry Lee Lewis’ band has been shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee. Bass player B.B. Cunningham Jr., who has been a member of the group since 1997, was gunned down at the Cherry Crest apartment complex in the city in the early hours of Sunday, according to local reports. The musician, 70, and […]

Three local bands will be supporting BRUJERIA at the show at Sofia’s R.B.F. club on December 21. These are O.H., URBAN GREY and MIZERERE. A poster for the concert is available below. There are no tickets at presale. They will be sold at the door, priced 35 BGN.

In all the furore about Steve Harris’ solo album British Lion, it’s easy to forget he’s not the only member of Iron Maiden to have dabbled in side-projects. True, it’s been a while since Bruce Dickinson did anything – although Harris doesn’t think it will be long until he does – but Adrian Smith hasn’t […]

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will play some fantastic sounds of the likes of: – HUGH CORNWELL (ex-THE STRANGLERS) with STEVE ALBINI; – GRIZZLY BEAR (pictured); – TENDER TRAP; – HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF; – GALLOWS. The ‘ZOO SHOW’ kicks off on Monday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. It […]