Frontiers Records has revealed the details surrounding the much-anticipated PRETTY MAIDS comeback album, entitled “Wake Up To The Real World“, to be released on November 10, 2006.PRETTY MAIDS is a legendary hard rock/heavy metal combo from Denmark founded in early 1982 by guitarist Ken Hammer and singer Ronnie Atkins.After 10 studio albums, two EPs, one […]

The track “Living Dead Beat” from from the companion double live CD to CHILDREN OF BODOM‘s upcoming DVD, “Chaos Ridden Years – Stockholm Knockout Live“, has been posted online at the band’s official MySpace page.Due on October 10, “Chaos Ridden Years – Stockholm Knockout Live” is estimated to contain over three hours of non-stop COB […]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY‘s new live DVD, “The European Invasion – Doom Troopin‘”, has entered the U.K. Music DVD chart at position No. 4. View the whole chart at this location.“The European Invasion – Doom Troopin‘” captures BLACK LABEL SOCIETY live on their sold-out European tour last year. Witness the full Paris show as well as […]

DEFTONES fan site DeftonesWord.com has uploaded the cover artwork for the band’s upcoming album, “Saturday Night Wrist“, which is scheduled to come out on Halloween, October 31. The disc will follow up the group’s self-titled 2003 effort. Check out the cover below: The group began working on the album with producer Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, […]

German black metallers NOCTE OBDUCTA‘s farewell album, “Sequenzen Einer Wanderung“, will be finished before the end of the year, according to a press release issued by Soulfood Music.NOCTE OBDUCTA announced its split in June, citing “back-breaking circumstances which have pressed the band during the last two years, which have led to maximum of exhaustion — […]

The following message has been posted on Varg Vikernes‘ (BURZUM) official web site:“Varg Vikernes would like to state that a recently announced by the media film by Hans Fjellestad called ‘Lords of Chaos‘ [more information] is using Varg‘s name and the whole story without any permission. This movie is obviously going to be another piece […]

Launch Radio Networks reports: A celebration planned for this weekend in Zanzibar to honor native son Freddie Mercury has been called off due to religious protests. The population of the Tanzanian islands off the East Coast of Africa is primarily Islamic, and conservative Muslims threatened to disrupt the event, which would have marked the 60th […]

Brian May is apparently at the end of his rag (not rug) with news he’s discovered three bogus Brian Mays on MySpace.According to www.musictowers.com, Brian is threatening to get handy with his dukes with these impersonators, who even have the audacity to write blogs assuming the character of Brian May.Anyway, May apparently wrote: “It seems […]

Atlanta’s MASTODON has made its entire new album, “Blood Mountain“, available for streaming via its MySpace page.“Blood Mountain” is scheduled for release on September 12 via Warner Bros. Records. A video for the song “The Wolf is Loose” can be viewed by clicking here. The clip was shot on August 12 with director Jonathan Rej […]

Defunct Swedish grindcore merchants NASUM have uploaded video footage of two complete live shows from the band’s very first tour.According to former NASUM drummer Anders Jakobson, Rob of Loudnet.tv “shot these videos back in 1999 at CBGBs in New York and Melody Bar in New Brunswick, and they bring back a lot of memories. The […]