The follow-up to 2007 Linkin Park’s album ‘Minutes To Midnight’ is scheduled for an early 2010 release. The band is halfway through the writing process. Linkin Park co-frontman Mike Shinoda says the band’s fourth studio album is going to be so unique, “they’re going to have to come up with a new genre name for […]

Alice Cooper’s classic 1972 album, ‘School’s Out’, will be reissued on 180-gram audiophile vinyl with a fold-out sleeve on June 2. Originally produced by Bob Ezrin, this multi-platinum effort forever etched the word superstar to Alice Cooper, as this legacy recording has truly stood the test of time. ‘School’s Out’ was remastered impeccably from the […]

Iggy Pop has hinted that he may reform The Stooges to play songs from their classic 1973 album ‘Raw Power’. Pop confirmed that he recently met ‘Raw Power’ guitarist James Williamson and discussed reuniting to play songs from the album with him. In January this year, original Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton died of heart attack. […]

Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth walked off stage in the middle of the song ‘Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids’ during a concert in Adelaide, Australia on Sunday, which prematurely ended the show. No explanations have been given yet.

Finnish metallers are stuned by the illegal use of their songВ ‘Path’ by theВ National PartyВ (NГЎrodnГ­ strana) in a tv and internet commercial in the Czech Republic. NГЎrodnГ­ stranaВ are strongly opposed to Czech membership of the European Union. The Party proposed a so-called “A final solution to the Gypsy issue” to relocate the Roma population of the […]

The Finnish party monsters took over the radio last night. This means the Americans will take over today. “DespiteВ our reputation,В we are not totally pissed 100 % of the time! No one can handle such a thing!”, said Korpiklaani bass player JarrkoВ through the exclusive hot line live on the ‘Tangra Metal Shock’ showВ last night at 10:30 […]

Jackson Rathbone, who is perhaps best known for appearing in the movie Twilight, has apparantly signed on to portray Burzum mastermind Varg Vikernes in the upcoming movie, ‘Lords Of Chaos.’ The movie is about the Norwegian black metal scene and the church burnings and other crimes connected to it. Varg Vikernes has previously spoken out […]

The cover artwork for ‘Destroy The War Machine’, the new album from WARRIOR SOUL, can be viewed below. Due on July 14 via Acetate Records through MVD Audio, the eight-song album, which was originally released last year under the title ‘Chinese Democracy’, includes a cover of IGGY POP’s ‘Knocking ‘Em Down (In The City)’. This […]

AВ coroner’s investigator says the 15-year-old student at Larose-Cut Off Middle School in Louisiana who shot himself in the head on school grounds last week, moments after firing at a teacher who refused his order to praise Marilyn Manson, has died. Mark Goldman, the chief investigator for the Lafourche Parish Coroner’s office, says Justin Doucet died […]

2008 was quite busy for D2. This leading Bulgarian rock bandВ played at the Exit 2008 festival in SerbiaВ and headlined the Jack Daniel’s rock stage on the second night of the Spirit of Burgas 2008 in their homeland. Now it seems D2 are going to have another busy summer! They will open the main stage on […]