New York quintet BRAND NEW SIN have returned with their anticipated new offering, “Tequila“, due on October 3 via Century Media Records. The track “Motormeth” can currently be streamed at this location. Soon after completing a six-week nationwide tour as direct support to BLACK LABEL SOCIETY last fall, BRAND NEW SIN entered Method of Groove […]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY fans can check out three clips from the band’s new DVD, The European Invasion – Doom Troopin’, which was released on August 22nd through Eagle Vision. Click the following links to check them out: ‘Stillborn’ ‘Suicide Messiah’ ‘In This River’ An e-card containing a preview clip is available here. And finally, GuitarPlayerTV.com […]

Norwegian metallers ALLFADER have posted their video for the song “We Will Go” at their official web site: Quicktime Windows Media The clip was directed by Stein Elvestad and edited by Elvestad and John Erik Andersen. The track taken comes off the group’s album “At Least We Will Die Together“, which is scheduled for release […]

Garry Dalloway, lead singer for the longtime NWOBHM rockers THE HANDSOME BEASTS, was found dead this past Sunday (August 20) from an apparent heart attack.THE HANDSOME BEASTS were the first signing of the indie Heavy Metal Records label (in fact, Paul Birch, a fan of the band, founded the label to release the band’s first […]

IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain joined the New York-based band VOICES OF EXTREME (V.O.X.) for a rendition of the MAIDEN classic “The Trooper” during their August 13 appearance at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, MA for the Locobazooka! United We Rock Festival. Check out pictures by Jennifer Simon at this location.McBrain — who is VOICES […]

Brazil’s Marquee Records has just re-released the third album from legendary Canadian thrashers SACRIFICE, entitled “Soldiers of Misfortune“. It comes as a double CD in a limited-edition hand-numbered slipcase and contains a massive booklet with liner notes by Laurent Ramadier, live pictures and personal comments by Joe Rico (guitar), Rob Urbinati (guitar, vocals), Scott Watts […]

Video clips of DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan performing on August 16 at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo, New York at the opening night of his “Gillan’s Inn” solo tour have been posted online at YouTube.com. Check them out: “Smoke on the Water” (video) and “Bluesy Blue Sea” (video).Ian Gillan‘s setlist for the August 17 […]

Guitarist Stefania Ponzilacqua of the Italian metallers ETERNAL TRAGEDY has announced the track listing for the group’s debut album, entitled “Forever“. The CD, which will be produced by Tim Aymar (CONTROL DENIED) and engineered by Curran Murphy (ex-ANNIHILATOR), will feature guest appearances by Kelly Conlon (ex-DEATH, MONSTROSITY) on bass and Robert Falzano (ex-ANNIHILATOR) on drums. […]

ANNIHILATOR/DUSKMACHINE bassist Russ Bergquist — who was in ANNIHILATOR between 1999 and 2003, and rejoining the group for its recent European summer tour — has posted the following message on his official web site:“I just finished a few dates with ANNIHILATOR at the Metalway festivals in Spain at the end of July. We played two […]

“Black Knight“, the first-ever unauthorized Ritchie Blackmore biography, will be published in the U.K. on September 4 by Omnibus Press.“Black Knight” was written and researched by Jerry Bloom, who first met Ritchie more than twenty years ago; has followed his career since the Seventies, and since 1996 has published and edited the international Ritchie Blackmore […]