Green Day have been voted the best punk band of all time, ahead of genre stalwarts like the Clash, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. But Rolling Stone, who ran the poll, admit the result was almost certainly skewed because the US three-piece’s official website and leading fan club site both asked people to vote […]

According to KSAT.com, AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton recently underwent a radical medical procedure after his tongue-base cancer came back and extended into his voice box. Five years ago, Hamilton underwent chemotherapy and radiation for the cancer, and agreed to be the first person treated by Dr. Steven Zeitels with the green-light KTP laser. The risk, […]

The Bangles will release the guitar-driven Sweetheart of the Sun, their first new album in eight years, on September 13. The album aims to celebrate the love of rock’s golden age that originally drew the band members together, balanced with their trademark vocal harmonies.В  Guitarist/vocalist Vicki Peterson says the album is inspired by California. “As […]

John Martyn was a pioneering British singer-guitarist who released 20 albums and worked with everyone from Eric Clapton to Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour before passing away in 2009 from pneumonia. On a new album Johnny Boy Would Love This…A Tribute to John Martyn (out August 16), the late musician will get the full-blown tribute treatment: […]

Listen to the brand new ANTHRAX single, ‘The Devil You Know’, from their album Worship Music – in stores September 13th – via the video below.

OzTV caught up with Ozzy and the guys at their tour stop at the Wacken metal festival in Germany. Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 80,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total […]

ALEXISONFIRE is breaking up after ten years together. The band’s final release was 2009′s Old Crows/Young Cardinals. Vocalist George Pettit announced the break up in the following statement. “There is no good way to put it so I’m just going to say it. After 10 years, Alexisonfire has decided to part ways. I’m going to […]

A photo of SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser’s new tattoo commemorating the time he spent filling in for ANTHRAX’s Scott Ian while Ian spent time with his family following the birth of his first child can be seen below. Commenting on the experience of playing with ANTHRAX, Kisser told Jackson Guitars in a recent interview, “It’s […]

A new track from veteran rap metallers Body Count, who feature rapper and actor Ice-T in its ranks, has made its way online. The track was penned for the upcoming Gears of War 3 video game release in which Ice-T will also appear as a playable character by the name of Griffin. You can check […]

IN FLAMES are set to play Sofia’s Hristo Botev hall onВ 30 September. We finally got Y.P.’s album review for the band’s brand new studio release ‘Sounds of a Playground Fading’. “When should a band be considered old? I ask not because I don’t know but because the whole division of young/old distorts pretty much the […]