IRON MAIDEN are going back on the road this summer, and they’re turning the clock back to 1988. The band will launch their Maiden England world tour in North America on June 21, in Charlotte, North Carolina. And the set list and stage production will closely mirror the Maiden England video, which was filmed on […]

Liverpool, UK-based atmospheric rockers ANATHEMA will release their new album Weather Systems on April 24th. The track ‘The Beginning And The End’ off the new album can be downloaded for free at this location. And here’s the Weather Systems tracklist: 01. ‘Untouchable, Part 1 02. Untouchable, Part 2 03. The Gathering Of The Clouds 04. […]

A full length sample of EPICA’s new song ‘Storm The Sorrow’, the first single from their new album Requiem For The Indifferent, is available below. Click the Amazon.com widget at the bottom of the page to order. EPICA will release their new album, Requiem For The Indifferent, in Europe on March 9th via Nuclear Blast. The North […]

OPETH will be playing for teh first time in Sofia on 1 March for radio Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH Anniversary bash. According to Swedenabroad.com, in celebration of OPETH’s nomination to the Swedish Music Export Prize and the Swedish Grammy Award, the Ambassador of Sweden hosted a reception at the Swedish residence where the band members had the opportunity to […]

Drummer Tonmi Lillman, known as ‘Otus’ in the Finnish heavy metal group LORDI, passed away yesterday (Feb. 14) at the age of 38. No cause of death has been revealed as of yet. The full identity of Otus, in keeping with Lordi’s policy, remained a secret until now. The band wears masks and all the […]

All five members of the classic Guns N’ Roses line-up are now expected to turn up for the band’s induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland on April 14. Vocalist Axl Rose will be joined on stage by guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler – […]

JOHN LYDON is back in the news. It’s been more than four years since the former Johnny Rotten last reunited legendary first-wave U.K. punk band the Sex Pistols, whose best-known bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose so long ago Iran wasn’t quite yet a fundamentalist theocracy. In 2009, though, Lydon reunited his other […]

Australian thrashers MORTAL SIN are currently without singer, since Mat Maurer has left the band. Here´s the official statement: “This is an official announcement from Mat Maurer. I have decided to leave the band for personal reasons, & irreconcilable differences. Last year was an incredibly difficult year for me personally & I have decided to […]

THE CRIBS have announced full details of their forthcoming fifth studio album. The Wakefield band, a trio once more after the departure of Johnny Marr last April, will release ‘In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull’ on May 7. The album was largely recorded in New York with MGMT and Flaming Lips producer David Fridmann […]

JACK WHITE has released the video for ‘Love Interruption’, the lead single from his upcoming solo debut, Blunderbuss.   Directed by White himself, the clip also features back-up vocalist Ruby Amanfu, clarinet/bass clarinet player Emily Bowland, and Brooke Waggoner on wurlitzer electric piano. Watch it below. Blunderbuss is out April 24th via Third Man/Columbia.