FIREGOD, the new Swedish/Danish “all-star” project featuring Hal Patino (bass; KING DIAMOND), Snowy Shaw (drums; ex-KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL), Mike Wead (guitar; KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE) and Simon Johannsson (guitar; MEMORY GARDEN, FIFTH REASON), has a inked a two-album deal with Vic Records. The group, whose sound is being described as “progressive doom,” is still […]

30-second audio samples of the songs that will appear on the forthcoming tribute album to the DEFTONES, entitled “The String Quartet Tribute to the Deftones“, have been posted online at Amazon.com.Due on September 19 via Vitamin Records, the album is described as follows: “The rage and haunting beauty that is at the core of DEFTONES […]

California’s traditional melodic metal band CRESCENT SHIELD, which features which features the talents of former DESTINY’S END guitarist Dan DeLucie and former ONWARD vocalist Michael Grant, has posted the cover artwork for its upcoming debut album, entitled “The Last of My Kind“. A full-length MP3 of the album’s title cut can be downloaded here. “The […]

AUDIOSLAVE‘s “Revelations” sold 142,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release to land at No. 2 on next week’s The Billboard 200 chart. This is a sharp drop from the first-week performance of last year’s “Out of Exile“, which premiered with 263,000 units to debut at No. 1 on The Billboard […]

A California judge has ordered producers of the CBS reality show “Rock Star” to find a new name for its group Supernova, ruling that an established band already exists with that moniker. The original Supernova had previously filed for a preliminary injunction protecting its name.The news comes at a particularly bad time for the TV […]

FREEDOM CALL/GAMMA RAY drummer Daniel Zimmermann has posted the following message on the FREEDOM CALL web site:“I have some good news for all FREEDOM CALL fans and those who join in in the future!“Right after the successful European tour with RAGE in March and April the band went into the sudio again to write new […]

Debabani Majumdar of BBC News reports: It has played its part in rock history and was named after Britain’s first foreign secretary. But one of London’s oldest pubs — the Intrepid Fox in Soho — is facing closure, inspiring 5,000 people to back a campaign to save it. These days those seeking a night of […]

Vitamin Records has set a September 19 release date for the CRADLE OF FILTH tribute album, “Scorched Earth Orchestra Plays Cradle of Filth: The Orchestral Tribute” (view cover artwork below). A description of the album on the Vitamin web site reads as follows:“With a revolving-door line-up and fanbase that is equally ready to embrace and […]

KISS‘ “20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, Volume 3” CD will be released by Universal Music on October 10. “Volume 3″ is the companion piece to “The Best of KISS“, “The Millennium Collection”s volumes 1 and 2 and it is the first-ever KISS collection to focus on the band’s ’90s recordings.“20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, Volume […]

Nick Cave has won the inaugural Gucci prize for script writing at the Venice Film Festival for ‘The Proposition‘.The criteria for the award, made on Friday (September 8), was any internationally acclaimed artist for outside cinema who has made a remarkable contribution to a film in any capacity in the previous 18 months.Cave hopes the […]