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, […]

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 […]

Virginia Records / Universal Music presents “On The Road” Vol.2There are 19 perfect songs – for the road, for the setting the right mood and saving nice memories. All that is expect form you is to load the fuel up, and listen. With the compilation On The Road you will get to anywhere, even the […]

IAN BROWN AND NEW GENERATION & CIGARETTA PERFORM AT SOUTH PARK SOFIA AND HERBALISER, SCRATCH PERVERTS AND DJ KINK FEAT. RACHEL ROW AND OGONEK & COOH PERFORM IN BLACK BOX IN THE EVENING AS PART OF MTV EXIT‘S UNPRECEDENTED PAN-EUROPEAN ANTI-TRAFFICKING EVENT TOUR.The MTV Europe Foundation and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) continue […]

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. […]