BLOODSIMPLE bassist Kyle Sanders and vocalist Tim Williams joined ALICE IN CHAINS on stage at Goffert Park in Nijmegen, Holland this past Sunday (July 2) to perform “We Die Young“. Check out pictures from WENN.The group’s debut album, “A Cruel World“, was released in March 2005 on MUDVAYNE singer Chad Gray‘s Bullygoat label imprint (via […]

Chris Harris of MTV.com is reporting that the video for “Seize the Day“, the third single from AVENGED SEVENFOLD‘s 2005 LP, “City of Evil” — intentionally or not — borrows a few cues from GUNS N’ ROSES‘ epic 1992 clip for “November Rain“. “Seize the Day” was directed by Wayne Isham (METALLICA, VELVET REVOLVER).Check out […]

AUDIOSLAVE filmed the video for their upcoming single, “Original Fire“, with director Paul Brown (MГ–TLEY CRГњE, OTEP, STONE SOUR) on June 29 at the Sunset Gower Studios in Los Angeles. Check out pictures from Wire Image.“Original Fire” is the first single off AUDIOSLAVE‘s third album, “Revelations“, due on September 5 via Epic Records.

Deb Rao of Glam-Metal.com recently conducted an interview with ROB ZOMBIE drummer Tommy Clufetos. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:Glam-Metal.com: Now the new ROB ZOMBIE album, “Educated Horses”, is phenomenal. How do you like performing the new songs live?Tommy: “The new songs are killer and people love them. The record is stretched out […]

E-FORCE, the band featuring former VOIVOD bassist/vocalist Eric Forrest, have signed a new three-album deal with France’s Thundering Records. The band will enter the studio in October in Toulouse, France with producer Patrick Fredrich to begin recording their sophomore album, tentatively due in early 2007.E-FORCE have posted three songs from their 2006 demo on their […]

Paul Stenning, author of GUNS N’ ROSES “The Band That Time Forgot” and AC/DC “Two Sides to Every Glory“, will publish a 130,000-word biography on IRON MAIDEN, entitled “30 Years of the Beast – The Complete Biography 1976-2006” (cover), in September 2006.

World Entertainment News Network is reporting that SLAYER are courting controversy among Christian groups by releasing sacrilegious artwork on their latest album.The cover for upcoming record, “Christ Illusion“, depicts a tattooed and amputated Jesus Christ standing in a sea of blood and corpses, and has infuriated right-wing religious groups.The Californian foursome are preparing themselves for […]

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor recently spoke to AOL Music about his other band, STONE SOUR, who are scheduled to release their second album, “Come What(ever) May“, on August 1.“We don’t look at it as a side project,” Taylor told AOL Music. “It’s an actual band so we put the same amount of energy, work and […]

MELDRUM, the Swedish/American band led by former PHANTOM BLUE guitarist Michelle Meldrum recently spent time at a Los Angeles studio with producer Toby Wright (ALICE IN CHAINS, KORN, METALLICA, SLAYER, PRIMUS, JERRY CANTRELL, SEVENDUST) recording material for the follow-up to their debut album, “Loaded Mental Cannon“. Several audio samples of newly recorded material can be […]