Canadians Three Days Grace are to release their new album next month. Called ‘One-X’, it’ their second record.

Rise To Addiction, featuring former Blaze members Rob Naylor (bass), John Slater (guitars) and Steve Wray (guitars), have posted their Second Video Diary on their website. Рўhe band recently finished tracking their as-yet-untitled debut with producer Andy Sneap (Nevermore, Arch Enemy, Blaze). Mixing is expected to be done in July.

Congratulations to Pink Floyd. Their 1973 album ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ has now clocked up an astonishing 1500 weeks on the ‘Billboard’ charts in America. No other record comes even close to matching that achievement.

Derek Sherinian was blessed to gain two top-notch guest musicians for his new solo album ‘Blood of the Snake’ (release date in July): Billy Idol and Guns’n’Roses icon Slash. Sherinian already supported Idol on his previous tour and recorded, both with Idol and Slash, Mungo Jerry‘s classic song ‘In the Summertime’. ‘That was my favourite […]

Sweden’s Soilwork have a replacement for recently departed guitarist Pete Wichers. He’s Daniel Antonsson, who was previously with Dimension Zero.

Sikth are to play a warm-up gig prior to their performance at this year’s Download Festival. The show happens at Club Nirvana in Wigan on June 7, with support from Machiavellian, Hector and Car Crash Radio.

Diecast are shortly to start recording a new album with producer Zeuss. As yet untitled, this should be released towards the end of the year.

Florida-based Wykked Wytch has made available for download as an online exclusive, the uncensored video for the title track of their forthcoming album ‘Awakened’ at this location. The audio in the track is from a pre-production demo. A new edit of the video including new audio will be able as a multimedia file on the […]

Gay For Johnny Depp, Get cape Wear Cape Fly, Getamped, Viking Skull and Evergrey have all been confirmed for the Snicker’s Stage at this year’s Download Festival. This happens at Donington from June 9-11.

US rockers Firehouse are the latest act confirmed for Z Rock 06 Part 2, which is being held on Sunday, September 24th at JB’s in Dudley, UK. Other acts confirmed for the event include: Toby Jepson (ex-Little Angels), Snakeryder, Lost Weekend, Tiger Tailz, Eden.