Except for reuniting with his main band Extreme,В vocalist Gary Cherone has started a new band called Hurtsmile. The quartet’s line-up is completed by the singer’s brother Markus Cherone, Joe Pessia of Dramagods, and Dana Spellman. You can already check out and download three of Hurtsmile’s tracks on www.myspace.com/hurtsmile.

Guitar legend Gary Moore has revealed the artwork and final tracklist of his upcoming studio album on hiw official homepage. Entitled “Close As You Get”, the CD shall surface in Europe on May 21 via Eagle Records, containing the following 11 compositions: If The Devil Made Whiskey Trouble at Home Thirty Days Hard Times Have […]

Despite their new album “Because of the Times” having been released just a week ago, Kings of Leon are already writing material fo their fourth record. The American indie rockers are a total hit at the moment, especially in the United Kingdom, where their current CD entered the charts straight at number one.

British heavy metal veterans Saxon shall release their new single, “If I Was You”, on April 16 via SPV Records. All proceeds from the MCD, which is meant to be a statement against guns, will be split equally between The Non-Violence Foundation and The Gun Control Network. “If I Was You” comes off Saxon’s current […]

Finland’s monster metal finest Lordi have begun filming a horror movie, set for release before Christmas, vocalist Mr. Lordi (real name – Tomi Putaansuu) has told Reuters. After completing work on the film, Lordi plan to start composing new songs with the aim of producing a new album by late 2008.

Slipknot are to start work on a new album before the end of the year. The songwriting process shall start immediately after the Iowa band membrs finish their touring with their side-projects (Corey Taylor and James Root with Stone Sour, Sid Wilson as DJ Starscream, Joey Jordison with Ministry, Paul Gray with Reggie & The […]

The American metalcore sextet Bleeding Through has parted ways with guitarist Scott Donaugh. A replacement has been immediately found in the face of Jona Weinhofer, who left his band I Killed The Prom Queen because of this. As a result, I Killed The Prom Queen have split up…

After parting waysВ with frontman Tzvetan Hadjijski (vocals, bagpipe, percussion) some time ago, the Bulgarian ethno metal masters Smallman have revealed they’ve managed to find a suitable replacement. The name of the new vocalist shall be officially announced on April 29 during the quartet’s someback show at the Petnoto Club in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

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Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan released an autobiographical double DVD (view cover in the left). Entitled “Highway Star – A Journey in Rock”, it offers six hours of footage from the vocalist’s 4-decade-long professional career – concert shots, documentaries, interviews with Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Don Airey, Steve Morse, Tony Iommi, Luciano Pavarotti, […]