CLUTCH have confirmed Earth Rocker as the title of their next studio effort, which will drop in March 2013 via their own Weathermaker Music. Vocalist Neil Fallon offered an update, saying, “Last minute overdubs are fun. Harmonicas, tambourines (yes, we use those), claps, the odd backing vocal. Recording can be monotonous, so those unintended moments […]

MONY PANCHEV’s very special ROCKENROLL radio show today is dedicated to FAIRPORT CONVENTION…. ROCKENROLL kicks off at  4:00 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. For the several reruns of the show – CHECK in our SCHEDULES. 

PARKWAY DRIVE has unleashed a brand new track from the soon to be released fourth album ‘Atlas,’ which is due out October 30th via Epitaph Records. The new track titled ‘Old Ghost / New Regrets’ can be streamed through the player below. “The album was written at a time the band was travelling very extensively which […]

Former Dio drummer Simon Wright says there’s a chance that four unfinished demos could be completed for a future release. Ronnie James Dio’s last track, Electra (check it below), was released after his death, but Wright reveals scratch tracks of other songs exist. “There were three or four songs he had been working on,” says […]

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.  

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

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.