Legendary hard rock vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) is featured on two songs on the forthcoming solo album from Howard Leese (HEART, PAUL RODGERS).Leese is recording the CD for Stuart Smith and Richie Onori’s Black Star Records label. Joe Lynn Turner recently spent time working on helping to put together the […]

Finnish metallers BURNING POINT have finished recording their third album, tentatively titled “Burned Down The Enemy“, for a late 2006/early 2007 release via Metal Heaven Records. The mixing sessions have just began at the Tonebox studio in the band’s hometown of Oulu. Kari “Kakke” VГ¤hГ¤kuopus, who handled the mixing process for the previous albums, “Salvation […]

AC/DC biography is to be released for the first time in Bulgarian. The book, which is to come out at the beginning of October is 320 pages, 16 of them with colour pictures. For more information: www.addix.org

If Freddie Mercury was alive today, he’d have been 60 years old. Tangra Mega Rock is dedicating an hour to the legendary musician! Listen today, from 8 pm!

MOTГ–RHEAD‘s “Kiss Of Death” has entered the Norwegian album chart at position No. 9. According to a representative for the band’s record label, a recent MOTГ–RHEAD resurgence in Norway has led to twice as many copies of “Kiss of Death” being shipped compared its predecessor, “Inferno“.As previously reported, “Kiss Of Death” debuted on the Swedish […]

Chicago metal act WRATH has posted two “archive” videos from their 1990 release “Insane Society” on the band’s MySpace page. The title track, “Insane Society“, and “Test of Faith” were filmed in 1990, and were shown on MTV’s original “Headbanger’s Ball“.

Bassist Jan BГјnning of the German power metallers PARAGON has posted the following message on the band’s official web site:“Chris [Gripp] has almost recorded most of his drum stuff [for the new PARAGON album]. Tomorrow he will play the final songs and after next weekend I will start to record my bass tracks. I not […]

German metallers SACRED STEEL have announced the final track listing for their upcoming sixth album, “Hammer of Destruction“, due on November 10 via Massacre Records. The CD was recorded at the Spiderhouse studio in LГјtte (near Berlin) with legendary producer Harris Johns (VOIVOD, HELLOWEEN, ST. VITUS, DEPRESSIVE AGE, SODOM, KREATOR). Mixing took place at the […]

According to several online sources, Gene Simmons‘ Simmons Comics Group will release “Gene Simmons House of Horrors” ( view cover below) on or around October 25, 2006. A description of the comic book’s contents reads as follows: “Young Eugene, while on a family picnic, stumbles upon an abandoned house in the woods the week before […]

PAPA ROACH‘s upcoming fourth major label album, “The Paramour Sessions” (due Sept. 12), is available streaming in its entirety at this location. In a recent interview with Launch Radio Networks the group’s lead singer, Jacoby Shaddix, revealed that he’s a little nervous about people hearing the record because it’s an especially personal one. The first […]