Ozzy and Motley Crue are to co-headline this year’s Ozzfest tour of America.They’ll be joined on the main stage by Halford, Devildriver and Nonpoint. Ozzfest will run from August 14 to 24, taking in San Bernardino, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Hartford, Camden (New Jersey) and Boston. The second stage features the following bands: Black Label SocietyDrowning PoolKataklysmKingdom […]

The Sword have a title for their new album. It’s to be called Warp Riders and released on August 24 by Kemado Records. The album was produced by Matt Bayles (Isis, Mastodon, Norma Jean).

British dance star Paul Oakenfold has recruited a host of big name artists for his next solo album ‘Pop Killer,’ including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley vocalist Cee-Lo and One Republic’s Ryan Tedder. “I‘ve got some really good people on it,” Oakenfold tells Billboard.biz from his Los Angeles base, adding that the record […]

Hawkwind are about to release their first new studio album in five years.Titled Blood Of The Earth, it will be on the Earthworld Recordings label. In addition, there is to be a deluxe two-CD edition with extra live tracks and also a double album vinyl version. Earthworld are also planning to reissue the space rock […]

One of the most infamous and notorious names in metal, Cradle Of Filth continue to shock, excite, disgust and inspire in equal measures. In October 2010, on ‘All Hallows Eve’, the latest chapter of the band’s dark history is to be released through Peaceville Records on the band’s own AbraCadaver imprint. The band (comprising of […]

Jason Bonham is about to announce a major tour of North America, which will effectively tell the story of Led Zeppelin. It’s being reported by lemonsqueezings.blogspot.com:80 that the tour will be called Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience. Of course Bonham himself will be on drums, with the rest of the musicians involved yet to be […]

No one laughed at Cancer Bats vocalist Liam Cormier when he showed up at band practice one day while the band were working on what would eventually become their recently released third album, ‘Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones’, and suggested they cover the Beastie Boys — even though his idea came to him in a […]

It is still uncertain whether or not Tool will release a fifth album in 2010, but we do know the Los Angeles based progressive metal band will be touring this summer.В  U.S. performances include New Orleans, Houston, and Oklahoma City in late June.В  Then they venture north to Canada, performing in Edmonton and Vancouver in […]

Live front man Ed Kowalczyk announced this week that he’ll be releasing his first solo album titled ‘Alive’ on July 6th.В  The first single from the album is a track called ‘Grace,‘ which you can preview at this location. Kowalczyk has been previewing much of his new solo material acoustically on the ‘Open Wings Broken […]

OZZY OSBOURNE will release ‘Scream’ — his first album in almost three years and 10th studio album overall — on June 15 via Epic Records. Produced by Ozzy and Kevin Churko, both of whom did the same honors for Ozzy’s 2007 worldwide million-seller ‘Black Rain’, the album will feature the first single ‘Let Me Hear […]