Launch Radio Networks reports: A celebration planned for this weekend in Zanzibar to honor native son Freddie Mercury has been called off due to religious protests. The population of the Tanzanian islands off the East Coast of Africa is primarily Islamic, and conservative Muslims threatened to disrupt the event, which would have marked the 60th […]

Brian May is apparently at the end of his rag (not rug) with news he’s discovered three bogus Brian Mays on MySpace.According to www.musictowers.com, Brian is threatening to get handy with his dukes with these impersonators, who even have the audacity to write blogs assuming the character of Brian May.Anyway, May apparently wrote: “It seems […]

Atlanta’s MASTODON has made its entire new album, “Blood Mountain“, available for streaming via its MySpace page.“Blood Mountain” is scheduled for release on September 12 via Warner Bros. Records. A video for the song “The Wolf is Loose” can be viewed by clicking here. The clip was shot on August 12 with director Jonathan Rej […]

Defunct Swedish grindcore merchants NASUM have uploaded video footage of two complete live shows from the band’s very first tour.According to former NASUM drummer Anders Jakobson, Rob of Loudnet.tv “shot these videos back in 1999 at CBGBs in New York and Melody Bar in New Brunswick, and they bring back a lot of memories. The […]

MJI Interactive reports: WOLFMOTHER have won over lots of new fans this year, but apparently Mike Patton isn’t one of them. “Are you hearing this shit?” the former FAITH NO MORE singer exclaimed while listening to the band during an interview held backstage at this year’s Lollapalooza festival. “Forgive me, but WOLFMOTHER, you suck! Enough […]

A new KOLDBORN track, entitled “Lord of Stupidity“, has been made available for download at this location. The song comes off the Danish death metal band’s new album, “The Uncanny Valley“, due on October 16 via Listenable Records.The follow-up to 2002’s “First Enslavement“, “The Uncanny Valley” was recorded in August 2005 and mixed in January […]

According to Rockdetector.com, Swedish melodic hard rockers BALTIMOORE are currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on their tenth album, to be titled “X“, which is due for release in October. The album will be issued via BLP Music, the label set up by BALTIMOORE vocalist/band leader BjГ¶rn Lodin, which saw the band’s latest […]

Swedish thrashers THE HAUNTED will release “The Dead Eye“, the band’s fifth official studio album, on October 31 via Century Media Records (one day earlier internationally).The track listing for “The Dead Eye” is as follows:01. The Premonition02. The Flood03. The Medication04. The Crowning05. The Reflection06. The Prosecution07. The Fallout08. The Medusa09. The Shifter10. The Cynic11. […]

HATEBREED‘s video for the song “Defeatist” has been posted online at this location. The clip was shot on July 31 in Naugatuck, Connecticut in an abandoned factory which was also used by Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise for the end sequence of the film “War of the Worlds” and was helmed by acclaimed director Dale […]

Finnish metallers CELESTY have posted the cover artwork for their third full-length effort, “Mortal Mind Creation“. Due on October 23 via Dockyard 1, the follow-up to 2004’s “Legacy of Hate” was recorded at Midas Studios in Vaasa, Finland with producer Sami “Hannu” Koivisto, who has previously worked with AMORPHIS, NORTHER, WALTARI and NICOLE.“Mortal Mind Creation” […]