A live DVD shot on last year’s inaugural ‘Sounds Of The Underground Tour’ is released by DRT at the end of June. The bands featured are All That Remains, DevilDriver, A Life Once Lost, Madball, High On Fire, Strapping Young Lad, Throwdown, Norma Jean, Every Time I Die, GWAR, Chimaira, Unearth, Clutch, Poison The Well, […]

Extreme, one of the biggest bands of the late 1980s, are to re-form for a show in their home town, Boston, on June 30. The line-up is Gary Cherone (vocals), Nuno Bettencourt (guitar), Pat Badger (bass) and Paul Geary (drums).

Motorhead, Saliva, P.O.D. and Shadows Fall all have tracks featured on the album ‘WWE: Wreckless Intent’. Released by Columbia in America at the end of May, this is a compilation of intro themes, used by WWE superstars. Also included are songs from Brand New Sin, Zebrahead, Killswitch Engage and Theory Of A Deadman.

Motley Crue will have to finish up their Canadian tour without drummer Tommy Lee, who’s still suffering from tendonitis. His replacement is former Skrape man Will Hunt, with Dark New Day.

Swedish metalheads Wolf are to start recording their new, as yet untitled album in June. It’s to be produced by Fredrik Nordstrom, and released towards the end of the year.

The Southport lads Gomez release their new long-player ‘How To Operate’ on May 29, which will be preceded by the single ‘Girlhshapedlovedrug’ a week earlier. The band then play a nine date jaunt around the UK in June.

Robert Plant is to be the main attraction at the Cornbury Oxford Music Festival 2006, which happens on July 8/9.

The Doors will celebrate their 40th anniversary by releasing a 12-disc box set in the Autumn through Rhino. As yet untitled, this will include their first six studio albums – all remastered, with bonus tracks – plus six DVDs featuring 5.1 remixes of the studio albums and bonus material.

Limp Bizkit mainman Fred Durst has announced that the band’s next release, ‘The Unquestionable Truth (Part 2)’, will be a full album, followed by a tour. Durst is currently directing his first movie, ‘The Education Of Charlie Banks’.

According to unconfirmed reports, Velvet Revolver – and former Guns n’ Roses – bassist Duff McKagan will join the re-formed Alice In Chains for their Summer tour of the UK and Europe. This will be as a second guitarist.