DEF LEPPARD will be releasing a “deluxe edition” of their classic album “Hysteria” (1987) before the end of the year. No further details are currently available.“Hysteria” was recorded in 1986 at Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands; Windmill Lane Studio 2 in Dublin, Ireland; and Studio Des Dames in Paris, France with producer Robert John “Mutt” […]

A video clip of ATHEIST bassist Tony Choy falling through an unsecured part of the large outdoor stage at at Italy’s Evolution Festival on July 16, 2006 has been posted online at YouTube.com. Fortunately, his face was saved by his bass which was what the six-foot plank inevitably hit, in the process breaking all the […]

MOTГ–RHEAD, ATHEIST, EMPEROR, MORBID ANGEL, ORPHANED LAND, GAMMA RAY and METAL CHURCH are among the bands whose performances at this year’s Wacken Open Air festival (which took place this past weekend in Wacken, Germany) were professionally filmed and made available online at Streaming.Wacken.com. Live footage by the following acts is available at the above location:MOTГ–RHEADATHEISTEMPERORMORBID […]

Vitamin Records released “The String Quartet Tribute to Stone Sour” CD yesterday (Tuesday, August 8). “The String Quartet Tribute to Stone Sour” track listing:01. Get Inside02. Orchids03. Cold Reader04. Blotter05. Choose06. Monolith07. Inhale08. Bother09. Take a Number10. Idle Hands11. TumultFor audio samples, go to StoneSour.thetributeto.com.

WSBTV.com reports that Atlanta Police say they have charged a man with the murder of Andrew Richardson — who died after being beaten at a KORN concert.Police say they have arrested 24-year-old Michael Scott Axley and charged him with Richardson‘s murder.Richardson sustained a serious head injury and he died August 1.

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King was the featured guest on this past weekend’s edition of “Headbanger’s Ball“, which aired on Saturday, August 5 on MTV2. Watch clips of Kerry‘s appearance on the program at MTV2.com (click on “Videos” and scroll down).

Launch Radio Networks reports: AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello and SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian are among the people listed in an anti-George W Bush petition, in a full-page newspaper ad that ran Thursday (August 3) in the New York Times. The full-page ad from the group World Can’t Wait announced October 5 as […]

STRATOVARIUS frontman Timo Kotipelto has entered Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki, Finland in August to begin recording his third solo album, tentatively due in early 2007 via his own label, High and Loud Records.

Former NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen received a platinum sales award for sales in excess of 10,000 copies of her Christmas single “Yhden Enkelin Unelma“, which topped the Finnish charts in 2004 and again in 2005. Check out a picture of Tarja with the award below.

AUDIOSLAVE‘s video for its new single, “Original Fire“, has been posted online at Yahoo! Music. The clip was shot in late June in Los Angeles with graphic designer/video director P.R. Brown, whose rГ©sumГ© includes clips for MATISYAHU and DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE.“Original Fire” comes off AUDIOSLAVE‘s third album, “Revelations“, which is due out on September […]