MACHINE HEAD’s video for the song “Locust” can be previewed in the commercial for the band’s new album, “Unto The Locust”, which can be seen below. The clip was directed by Mike Sloat, who previously helmed MACHINE HEAD’s videos for “Imperium”, “Days Turn Blue To Gray”, “Aesthetics Of Hate”, “Now I Lay Thee Down” and […]

Gregorian chants generally don’t have too much in common with rock music. Sure, sometimes they set a brooding tone in an intro to a doom metal song, but rockers generally scream, growl, wail or sing. They don’t chant. German music producer, Frank Peterson, who previously performed in the elevator rock band Enigma, likes defying convention. […]

The B-52s have released their first-ever live album, which captures the band almost 34 years to the day since their very first gig in their hometown of Athens, Georgia. With the Wild Crowd was recorded in February 2011, just a few days after the anniversary of their debut show on Valentine’s Day, 1977. The album […]

CHRIS CORNELL (SOUNDGARDEN, AUDIOSLAVE) will be releasing an album of live Songbook tour performances on November 21st (UME), featuring his own songs as well as a few covers. All fans who purchase their Songbook tour tickets online will receive a digital copy of the album with each order. Check out an album previewВ at this location. […]

The votes have been tallied and one album emerged victorious. As elected by their fans via the recent Facebook poll, Norwegian symphonic black metal band DIMMU BORGIR will be performing their epic 1997 release, Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, in its entirety on their upcoming intimate club tour. There will be no support band. Dimmu Borgir will […]

QUEENSRЕёCHE’s Scott Rockenfield just completed custom drums for pop icon LADY GAGA for her up and coming tour. She and her band are currently in pre-production rehearsals and called Scott to have him and his custom drum company RockenWraps design and manufacture custom drum graphic wraps to match the look of her stage setup. RockenWraps […]

The Streets’ Mike Skinner has launched a new musical project with former The Music frontman Robert Harvey. The pair have joined forces to form new act The Dot. The pair have already posted up a series of tracks on their official website The-dot.net, with Harvey taking up the lead vocals on the majority of the […]

Poison have been hit with a lawsuit that claims four of the band’s songs were stolen from another group. The Hollywood Reporter says the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Illinois federal court, is over some of the band’s old hits, including “Talk Dirty To Me,” “I Won’t Forget You,” “Fallen Angel” and “Ride he Wind.” The […]

Anthrax were Metal Thrashing Mad at L.A.’s Club Nokia Saturday night, and with good reason. When a fan jumped on stage during the band’s set, singer Joey Belladonna approached to put his arm around the guy – when a dopey security guard bolted on stage and tackled the two of them hard to the floor […]

According to Mike Fleming from Deadline.com, METALLICA are planning to self-finance a 3D feature film with producer Charlotte Huggins who has produced the 3D films Journey To The Center Of The Earth, and the just completed the sequel Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which stars Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine and Josh Hutcherson. The band is […]