So how’s Jeff Beck doing on his next album? “I wish you hadn’t asked that,” the British guitar legend tells Billboard.com with a laugh, before revealing that he plans to be quite productive during his upcoming U.S. concert tour. “On the road we’re gonna have little portable studios and we’re going to be writing, hopefully,” […]

Swedish metallers DREAM EVIL have set “United” as the title of their new album, due in October via Century Media Records. The exact release dates by territory are as follows:Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux: October 13, 2006.U.K., France, Spain, Denmark, Norway, rest of Europe: October 16, 2006.Finland, Sweden, Hungary: October 18, 2006.Italy: Friday, October 20, 2006USA: […]

A low-quality video clip of METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett performing with TOOL during their headlining appearance at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii on Friday (August 18) has been posted online at YouTube.com.

WITHOUT END, the band featuring guitarist/vocalist Adam Tranquilli (BLOODFEAST, HEADLOCK) and bassist Tom Lorenzo ( M.O.D., HEADLOCK), will enter Big Blue Meenie studio in Jersey City, New Jersey on September 25 to begin recording its second full-length album, entitled “Doctrine of Hate“. Tentatively due in the spring of 2007, the album will contain 11 tracks, […]

According to an Earache Records press release, U.K. music TV channel Scuzz TV has “banned” DEICIDE‘s video for the song “Homage for Satan“, condemning it for being offensive and derogatory.In a statement, a Scuzz representative allegedly declared that “the lyrical content is religiously offensive, derogatory, and can be read as improper exploitation of any susceptibilities […]

CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s video for the song “Death Walking Terror” has been posted online at Yahoo! Music. The track comes off “Kill“, the band’s 10th studio LP, which came out late March. The album debuted at No. 170 on The Billboard 200 chart, selling more than 6,000 copies in its first week. It was the second […]

Black Label Society‘s live performances of “In This River” in Paris, France in 2005 and “Suicide Messiah” are posted online. The clips will feature on BLS’s new live DVD, “The European Invasion Doom Troopin’” which is due out through Eagle Vision on the 22nd of August. The announced track listing for “The European Invasion Doom […]

Plans for conducting a festival called One Day Overground were announced today.On the festival’s official web site there is a message saying:“ONE DAY OVERGROUND is one of the first event of that scale and our idea is to introduce the public to contemporary Bulgarian underground music. There will be 6 of the best underground bands […]

Sundsvall, Sweden-based death metallers IN BATTLE have issued the following statement:“IN BATTLE wants to announce that their longtime friend and drummer Otto Wiklund, born October 18, 1976 and died August 13, 2006, has passed away by his own hand…“Otto Wiklund was a great drummer and did record the debut album of IN BATTLE (1997) and […]

DOWNLORD‘s Dave Ingram (ex-BENEDICTION, BOLT THROWER) has secured permission from The Church Of Satan to use lyrical excerpts from “Hymn of the Satanic Empire” in the new DOWNLORD song “Wake Up & Smell the Species“. The hymn was written by Anton Lavey in 1988 and was included on the “Satanic Mass” album.The proposed track listing […]