DEICIDE guitarist Ralph Santolla (ex-ICED EARTH, DEATH) has issued the following update:“I’m almost finished writing my new instrumental album, tentatively titled (say that fast) ‘Requiem for Hope‘. I’ll start recording soon, with some very well-known musicians. It will be a LOT different than ‘Shaolin Monks in the Temple of Metal‘, and will include an orchestral […]

A video clip of ROLLINS BAND — the group led by punk rock icon Henry Rollins — performing the song “Volume 4” on the season finale of “The Henry Rollins Show” has been posted online at this location. Also available on the same page is the web-exclusive video of ROLLINS BAND playing “Burned Beyond Recognition”.

Reuters reports that DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan is trying his hand at a new form of writing — a novel.Gillan, 61, said he had already lined up a publisher for his novel, which is a political thriller titled “Wessex“.“This is my one and only novel. This really is a labor of love. It’s the […]

A brand new TRIVIUM track, entitled “Anthem (We are the Fire)“, has been made available for streaming at this location. The song comes off the Florida-based metallers’ upcoming third album, “The Crusade“, due on October 10 via Roadrunner Records.“The Crusade” will contain 13 songs, including “Detonation“, which is available for download at this location.

Beck has released yet more of his forthcoming album ‘The Information’ online.Three tracks are now streaming on his official website. they are – ‘Nausea’, ‘Strange Apaarition’ and ‘Motorcade’.You can also see the video for ‘Motorcade’ on the site.Beck releases ‘The Information’ on October 2.

Swedish metallers DREAM EVIL have set “United” as the title of their new album, due in October via Century Media Records. The exact release dates by territory are as follows:Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux: October 13, 2006.U.K., France, Spain, Denmark, Norway, rest of Europe: October 16, 2006.Finland, Sweden, Hungary: October 18, 2006.Italy: Friday, October 20, 2006USA: […]

So how’s Jeff Beck doing on his next album? “I wish you hadn’t asked that,” the British guitar legend tells Billboard.com with a laugh, before revealing that he plans to be quite productive during his upcoming U.S. concert tour. “On the road we’re gonna have little portable studios and we’re going to be writing, hopefully,” […]

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, […]