Vitamin Records has set a September 19 release date for the CRADLE OF FILTH tribute album, “Scorched Earth Orchestra Plays Cradle of Filth: The Orchestral Tribute” (view cover artwork below). A description of the album on the Vitamin web site reads as follows:“With a revolving-door line-up and fanbase that is equally ready to embrace and […]

Several video clips of SUPERNOVA members Tommy Lee (MГ–TLEY CRГњE), Jason Newsted (VOIVOD, ex-METALLICA) and Gilby Clarke (ex-GUNS N’ ROSES) recording the group’s debut album have been posted online at their official web site.SUPERNOVA is using the “Rock Star” TV program to search for a lead singer from a pool of 15 contestants selected in […]

Nick Cave has won the inaugural Gucci prize for script writing at the Venice Film Festival for ‘The Proposition‘.The criteria for the award, made on Friday (September 8), was any internationally acclaimed artist for outside cinema who has made a remarkable contribution to a film in any capacity in the previous 18 months.Cave hopes the […]

Australia’s Soundworks Touring has announced that the upcoming CANNIBAL CORPSE shows in Adelaide and Sydney have officially sold out. Sydney fans who have missed out need not worry as CANNIBAL CORPSE have agreed to schedule a second all-ages show on Sunday, October 8 at the Gaelic Club.The West Australian newspaper reported in its July 8, […]

Swedish melodic metallers NOSTRADAMEUS have posted the following message on their official web site:“We’ve just put the final hands on the new NOSTRADAMEUS album ‘Pathway‘. It’s finally mixed and mastered and now we’re looking forward too completing the album cover. At this point we’ve seen a raw sketch of the front cover and the band […]

Italian metallers SOUL TAKERS have completed work on their second full-length album, tentatively titled “Flies in a Jar“, at Luigi Stefanini’s New Sin Studio in Loria (TV), Italy. The follow-up to 2005’s “Tides” (Northwind Records) will contain 11 tracks for a total running time of more than fifty minutes and will be released in early […]

A lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges that Warner Music Group, Atlantic Records and others helped coerce a 16-year-old girl into making a pornographic rock video when the band BUCKCHERRY advertised for extras on MySpace. According to a Los Angeles Times report, the suit alleges that BUCKCHERRY asked fans to come […]

Sofia Music Enterprises has the pleasure to invite you to the 11th edittion of MUSIC JAM 2006. The event will take place in Sofia from the 20th to the 28th of October 2006. This year there will be two very special appearances: by Duran Duran (October, 20) and one of the greatest guitar players of […]

MONSTER MAGNET guitarist Ed Mundell has formed a new band with fellow MONSTER MAGNET bandmembers Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino, tentatively called THE ULTRA ELECTRIC MEGA GALACTIC. The group’s first show will take place on Tuesday, October 3 at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, New Jersey.Mundell is currently in Los Angeles writing and recording […]

Australian retro-rockers WOLFMOTHER will perform a tribute to LED ZEPPELIN at the upcoming UK Music Hall of Fame ceremony, according to Undercover News. Whether they will play a ZEPPELIN tune or one of their own remains unclear.LED ZEPPELIN is set to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in November, alongside BRIAN WILSON, […]