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, […]

Norwegian power metallers GAIA EPICUS have posted the cover artwork for their upcoming third album, entitled “Victory“, at this location. The cover painting for the CD was created by J.P. Fournier, who was also responsible for the band’s first album cover, “Satrap“, in 2003.“Victory” was recorded at Top Room Studios in Lunner, Norway. The band, […]

A brand new DEFTONES song, entitled “Hole in the Earth“, has been posted online at the band’s MySpace page. The track is the first single off the band’s upcoming album, “Saturday Night Wrist“, due on October 31 through Maverick. The follow-up to 2003’s “Deftones” features guest appearances by SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian […]

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 […]

Long-running German death metallers RESURRECTED will release their fifth album, “Endless Sea of Loss“, on October 13 via Morbid Records. The follow-up to 2003’s “Blood Spilled” was recorded at Soundlodge Studio in Germany and was mastered at Megawimp Mastering Studio in Berlin.“Endless Sea of Loss” track listing:01. Intro02. Hidden by Disguise03. Seducer of Mankind04. Bloodmarked05. […]

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 […]