NEWS

21 August 2009

Gibson reveiled Zakk’sВ new limited edition Epiphone “Graveyard Disciple”. Scary Good Looks! You may have already caught a glimpse on YouTube of Zakk performing on the 2009 ‘Peddle to the Metal’ tour and caught a glimpse of this monster on stage. Designed by Zakk in cooperation with Epiphone, the new Graveyard Disciple combines killer sound with […]

21 August 2009

The side project of some of the guys in the folk-core band Artery will perform a special gig in the city of Sliven in Eastrern Bulgaria tonight. TheВ POMORIANS will go onstageВ at Tangra club at 9:30 pm, the entry is aВ joke -В 3 BGN (1.5 euro).

21 August 2009

Forty years ago, Sly & The Family Stone were stars at Woodstock. But today, the band’s mastermind, funk pioneer Sly Stone, is practically destitute, scraping by on Social Secuity and living in campers and cheap hotels. At least that’s the picture painted in ‘Coming Back For More’, an upcoming documentary by Dutch filmmaker Willem Alkema, […]

20 August 2009

Rockers Pearl Jam infuriated bosses at a London concert venue after their Tuesday night gig overran – with frontman Eddie Vedder staging a sit-down protest as organizers attempted to force the band offstage. The Alive hitmakers began their gig at the British capital’s O2 Arena 15 minutes late and played right up until the venue’s […]

20 August 2009

According to HMV and Amazon.com, Sony Japan/Zoom has announced a new HALFORD CD for October 28th called ‘III Holidays’. Halford – led by JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford – released its last studio album ‘Crucible’ in 2002, although in 2007 Metal God Essentials, Vol. 1, had new songs called ‘Forgotten Generation’ and ‘Drop Out’.

20 August 2009

As we reported back in June, R.E.M. are planning the release of a double live album entitled Live at the Olympia. The band have now set the release date for October 26 via Warner Bros. and announced a 39-song tracklist for the double CD set. The release is being produced by Jacknife Lee and captures […]

20 August 2009

Chester Bennington, lead singer for Linkin Park, has a new band called Dead By Sunrise. Their debut album, ‘Out Of Ashes’, hits stores on Oct. 13th but the first single ‘Crawl Back In’ is out now and we have it for you to check out!В  The band, which is Bennington on vocals, guitarists Ryan Shuck […]

20 August 2009

British black metallers Cradle Of Filth were forced to cut their performance at this weekend’s Bloodstock festival short after guitarist Paul Allender was injured by a projectile thrown by a member of the audience. The band were playing the main stage on Saturday (August 15) when the incident occurred. Allender was treated in hospital later […]

19 August 2009

Radiohead offered a new song for free download Monday, ‘These Are My Twisted Words,’ which is available from the band’s official Web site. “We’ve been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished. We’re pretty proud of it,” multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood writes on the site. “There’s other stuff in various […]

19 August 2009

Tony Iommi, one of the world’s greatest riffmeisters, is to undergo surgery for a hand problem similar to the one Eddie Van Halen went through earlier in the year. The axeman behind Black Sabbath and Heaven and Hell’s greatest sounds has revealed that, after the band’s live run in support of acclaimed ‘first’ album ‘The […]