KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons will publish his book, “Ladies of the Night: A Historical and Personal Perspective of the First and Oldest Profession“, on November 1, 2006 via Simmons Books/Phoenix Books. Amazon is currently taking pre-orders for the 244-page book at this location.

Swedish death/thrash metal band TAETRE has posted a couple of video clips online at YouTube.com: a live video for the song “Virus” (from TAETRE‘s third album, “Divine Misanthropic Madness“, released by Mighty Music back in 2002), recorded in the summer of 2005 at Belsepub in Gothenburg, Sweden; and a clip for the song “Departure Suicide” […]

Florida-based death metallers OBITUARY have set “Frozen Alive” as the title of their first-ever live DVD, which was shot on August 24 at the Stodola Club in Warsaw, Poland. The group’s setlist was as follows:01. Intro: Rain02. Redneck Stomp03. On The Floor04. Insane05. Chopped In Half06. Turned Inside Out07. Dying08. Intro09. Internal Bleeding10. Back To […]

A video clip of GUNS N’ ROSES frontman Axl Rose stopping the band’s performance halfway through the song “Sweet Child O’ Mine” on Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Warfield in San Francisco in order to have an unruly “fan” removed from the premises has been posted online at YouTube.com.

Swedish gore death masters DERANGED have changed the projected title of the follow-up to their sixth full-length album, “Obscenities in B Flat“, to “The Red Light Murder Case” from the previously announced “213“. Recording is set to commence “sometime early next year.” Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “Death Walks on High Heels”, […]

The cover artwork for Texas-based long-running heavy doomsters SOLITUDE AETURNUS‘ sixth studio album, entitled “Alone“, has been posted online and you can see it below (artwork created by Travis Smith).Due in Europe on November 10 through Massacre Records, “Alone” was recorded at Nomad Studios in Carrolton, Texas with Sterling Winfield (PANTERA) and J.T. Longoria (KING […]

Finnish metallers DREAMTALE have parted ways with keyboardist Turkka Vuorinen and have replaced him with 17-year-old Akseli Kaasalainen.In other news, the band has been busy preparing material for the fourth DREAMTALE album. “The second demo session is on its way at the moment and we have about 15 songs ready,” the group writes on its […]

THE BIG DIRTY BAND, the one-off project featuring Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of RUSH alongside ex-TEA PARTY drummer Jeff Burrows, Adam Gantier of THREE DAYS GRACE, THORNLEY‘s Ian Thornley, and singer Care Failure of Toronto band DIE MANNEQUIN, recently shot a video for its version of the often-covered “I Fought The Law” by the […]

More than 400,000 wildly enthusiastic fans turned out for The Family Values Tour, one of the hottest tickets of the summer. The 30-show trek — headlined and founded by KORN — boasted some record-setting attendance figures. Kicking off with a sold-out show of 17,000 rocking fans at Nashville’s Starwood Amphitheatre, The Family Values Tour set […]

Neil Young has won the Artist Of The Year gong at the Americana Honours And Awards.The singer-songwriter, 60, won plaudits this year for his anti-Bush album ‘Living With War’, which he famously recorded in a matter of weeks after being challenged to return to his radical roots.Other winners at the bash in Nashville – the […]