Swedish melodic metallers NOSTRADAMEUS have posted the following message on their official web site:“We’ve just put the final hands on the new NOSTRADAMEUS album ‘Pathway‘. It’s finally mixed and mastered and now we’re looking forward too completing the album cover. At this point we’ve seen a raw sketch of the front cover and the band […]

Italian metallers SOUL TAKERS have completed work on their second full-length album, tentatively titled “Flies in a Jar“, at Luigi Stefanini’s New Sin Studio in Loria (TV), Italy. The follow-up to 2005’s “Tides” (Northwind Records) will contain 11 tracks for a total running time of more than fifty minutes and will be released in early […]

A lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges that Warner Music Group, Atlantic Records and others helped coerce a 16-year-old girl into making a pornographic rock video when the band BUCKCHERRY advertised for extras on MySpace. According to a Los Angeles Times report, the suit alleges that BUCKCHERRY asked fans to come […]

Sofia Music Enterprises has the pleasure to invite you to the 11th edittion of MUSIC JAM 2006. The event will take place in Sofia from the 20th to the 28th of October 2006. This year there will be two very special appearances: by Duran Duran (October, 20) and one of the greatest guitar players of […]

MONSTER MAGNET guitarist Ed Mundell has formed a new band with fellow MONSTER MAGNET bandmembers Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino, tentatively called THE ULTRA ELECTRIC MEGA GALACTIC. The group’s first show will take place on Tuesday, October 3 at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, New Jersey.Mundell is currently in Los Angeles writing and recording […]

Australian retro-rockers WOLFMOTHER will perform a tribute to LED ZEPPELIN at the upcoming UK Music Hall of Fame ceremony, according to Undercover News. Whether they will play a ZEPPELIN tune or one of their own remains unclear.LED ZEPPELIN is set to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in November, alongside BRIAN WILSON, […]

Video footage of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young being presented with the “Legend” award by Kerrang! magazine at the 13th annual Kerrang! Awards in London on August 24, 2006 has been posted online at YouTube.com. AC/DC graced the first cover of the British rock magazine back in 1981.

KISS‘ “20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, Volume 3” CD will be released by Universal Music on October 10. “Volume 3″ is the companion piece to “The Best of KISS“, “The Millennium Collection”s volumes 1 and 2 and it is the first-ever KISS collection to focus on the band’s ’90s recordings.“20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, Volume […]

ANTHRAX frontman Joey Belladonna has made three full albums’ worth of solo material available for paid download via his official web site.Commented Joey: “These songs are assorted experiments that I have done and are varied in style. They are sort of ‘one-offs,’ basically just songs that I wanted to record for fun.”Each MP3 is available […]

Finnish metallers BURNING POINT have finished mixing their third album, tentatively titled “Burned Down The Enemy“, for a late 2006/early 2007 release via Metal Heaven Records. The mixing sessions took place at the Tonebox studio in the band’s hometown of Oulu. Kari “Kakke” VГ¤hГ¤kuopus, who handled the mixing process for the previous albums, “Salvation by […]