Paula Hogan of MANIC Music & Distribution and Candlelight Records USA has contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET to report that “eBay is [allegedly] currently starting a ban on black/extreme metal. A few of our vendors who have sizeable eBay stores are now finding their items pulled down by eBay directly. The list we have compiled so far that […]

The search for Supernova‘s frontman came to an end last night (Sept. 13) as punk rocker Lukas Rossi was named the winning vocalist of the CBS reality show “Rock Star: Supernova.” But the legal dispute over the new band’s name is far from over.With two contestants left in the competition, Tommy Lee finally announced that […]

ALIEN INDUSTRY are working hard to finish their new album, which will be called “Dismorphophobia” (The fear of being ugly…).There will be 9 new songs and 1 older called “People” included in the new album.The band describes the style of the new piece as METAL/INDUSTRIAL/ELECTRO/EXPERIMENTAL and they hope to finish it before Christmas.The band line-up […]

The 30th issue of “Pro-Rock” magazine will hit the stores on 16 September. It’s also to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the only heavy rock magazine in Bulgaria.In a special announcement the general editor of the magazine – Naiden Kolchev writes:““Pro-Rock” would like to thank all of his readers and supporters who helped in one […]

Two rare SCORPIONS videos were recently posted at YouTube. The clips were filmed in 1973 (“This Is My Song“) and 1974 (“Speedy’s Coming“) for German TV and were only re-broadcast this autumn. The performance of “This Is My Song” is live and it marked guitarist Uli Jon Roth‘s first-ever appearance with the band. Check out […]

FIREGOD, the new Swedish/Danish “all-star” project featuring Hal Patino (bass; KING DIAMOND), Snowy Shaw (drums; ex-KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL), Mike Wead (guitar; KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE) and Simon Johannsson (guitar; MEMORY GARDEN, FIFTH REASON), has a inked a two-album deal with Vic Records. The group, whose sound is being described as “progressive doom,” is still […]

30-second audio samples of the songs that will appear on the forthcoming tribute album to the DEFTONES, entitled “The String Quartet Tribute to the Deftones“, have been posted online at Amazon.com.Due on September 19 via Vitamin Records, the album is described as follows: “The rage and haunting beauty that is at the core of DEFTONES […]

California’s traditional melodic metal band CRESCENT SHIELD, which features which features the talents of former DESTINY’S END guitarist Dan DeLucie and former ONWARD vocalist Michael Grant, has posted the cover artwork for its upcoming debut album, entitled “The Last of My Kind“. A full-length MP3 of the album’s title cut can be downloaded here. “The […]

AUDIOSLAVE‘s “Revelations” sold 142,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release to land at No. 2 on next week’s The Billboard 200 chart. This is a sharp drop from the first-week performance of last year’s “Out of Exile“, which premiered with 263,000 units to debut at No. 1 on The Billboard […]

A California judge has ordered producers of the CBS reality show “Rock Star” to find a new name for its group Supernova, ruling that an established band already exists with that moniker. The original Supernova had previously filed for a preliminary injunction protecting its name.The news comes at a particularly bad time for the TV […]