Sweden’s LAKE OF TEARS have set “Moons and Mushrooms” as the title of their seventh full-length album, due on August 28 via Dockyard 1.

Brian D’Souza, former guitarist/vocalist for the India-based death metal band DEMENTRA, has joined forces with old friend and “extremely talented” pianist/jazz player Jeremy Fonseca to record a re-arranged version of the DEF LEPPARD classic “Two Steps Behind“. Download an MP3 of the song at this location.

GWAR recently shot a video for “School’s Out” with acclaimed director Dave Brodsky (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, THE RED CHORD) at Paul Robeson High School in Brooklyn, NY. The video should be available shortly. Some photos of the making of the video are available below: Photo#1 Photo#2 В  Photo#3 Photo#4 If you wanna know what all […]

KING DIAMOND is featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture “Clerks II”, the 2006 sequel to Kevin Smith’s 1994 movie “Clerks”. The “Clerks II” soundtrack contains 11 music tracks (plus one bonus music track) from the movie, including two KING DIAMOND tracks ― “Welcome Home” and “The Invisible Guests” ― as well as 13 […]

According to Roadrunner Records Germany, NEGATIVE‘s new single, “Planet of the Sun“, has already been streamed more than 10,000 times from the band’s official MySpace page. The song comes off the Finnish hard/glam rock band’s upcoming third album, “Anorectic“, due in Europe on September 29.

BROTHER FIRETRIBE, the Finnish AOR/hard rock band featuring NIGHTWISH guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, filmed a video for their track “One Single Breath” on July 2 at Nosturi in Helsinki. Check out pictures from the shoot at this location. BROTHER FIRETRIBE‘s debut album is called “False Metal“.For audio samples, check out www.myspace.com/brotherfiretribe.

According to Undercover News, Australian rock legends ROSE TATTOO have been announced as one of the inductees at the 2006 ARIA Hall Of Fame ceremony, which will take place on August 16. The ARIA Hall Of Fame event will be broadcast on VH1 in Australia on August 20.

30 high-quality photos of HATEBREED, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, DISTURBED and SYSTEM OF A DOWN, taken at the Phoenix stop of this year’s Ozzfest tour, on July 7 at Cricket Pavilion, have been posted online at this location.

Glenn Danzig‘s long-awaited “Black Aria II” CD will be available in stores on September 19, 2006. The album, the material for which has apparently been written for five years, is a classical, operatic piece based on Lilith, the mythological first wife of Adam, according to Danzig. Check out the cover artwork at this location.

Syd Barrett, one of the original members of legendary rock group Pink Floyd, has died at the age of 60 from complications arising from diabetes.He was born Roger Barrett in Cambridge and met future bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour at school there.The guitarist was invited to join Pink Floyd by Waters in 1965 but […]