Opeth‘s long-awaited concert DVD “The Roundhouse Tapes” will finally be released via Peaceville Records on October 27. The effort contains footage from the critically acclaimed Opeth performance at The Roundhouse in London in 2006. A mini-site featuring a trailer for the DVD, info on the release, downloads and more is now online at peaceville.com/opeth/theroundhousetapes.

Holy Moses spread the following newsletter: “So, long time ago we can be online again. More than one week here on tour in Eastern Europe without lan connection. And so many things happened during the last days… After our great show in Ostrava, the bus started to drive to Leipzig for the next show. But […]

Al Di Meola and his band theВ New World Sinfonia shall play live in Bylgaria, respectively inВ Plovdiv (Nov. 22) andВ RusseВ (Nov. 23). Tickets are available viaВ ticketstream.bg.

More than a decade after its conception, Guns N’ Roses‘ “Chinese Democracy” will finally see the light of day before year’s end, Billboard reports. The long-awaited follow-up to “The Spaghetti Incident?” (1993) will be a Best Buy exclusive and will be available Sunday, November 23. In the run-up to release date, album track “Shackler’s Revenge” […]

Megadeth have decided to call their new studio, located near San Diego, California, Vic’s Garage. Recordings for the band’s new album have started there yestereday, October 9. The follow-up to “United Abominations” (2007) shall be produced by Andy Sneap, and is going to be the first CD with Megadeth’s new guitarist Chris Broderick (Nevermore, Jag […]

Franz Ferdinand have decided to entitle their new, their full-length studio third album “Tonight“. What’s known so far is that the follow-up to “You Could Have It So Much Better” (2005) shall contain a dozen of tracks, a.o. “Bite Hard”, “Turn It On”, “Katherine, Kiss Me”, “Ulysses” and “What She Came For”.

EMI has set a November 17 release date for “Queen: The Singles Collection Volume 1” – a project spanning no less than sixteen albums, from the debut LP, “Queen”, in 1973, to the last project with Freddie Mercury, “Made in Heaven”, in 1995, and beyond. This box, the first of four, kicks off with the […]

Rush will release a compilation CD/DVD on December 9.Entitled “Retrospective 3“, the follow-up to the first two “Retrospective” albums (released via Mercury Records in 1997), the effort will feature following tracks: “Retrospective 3” CD: 01. One Little Victory (remix)02. Dreamline03. Workin’ Them Angels04. Presto05. Bravado06. Driven07. The Pass08. Animate09. Roll the Bones10. Ghost of a […]

“Broken Wings“, the new video from Swedish metallers Evergrey, can be viewed below.The song comes off the band’s current album, “Torn” (view cover in the left). Evergrey – “Broken Wings“

The cover artwork for Slipknot‘s next single, “Dead Memories“, can be viewed below. The MCD is due in Europe on December 1, with a video in the works. “Dead Memories” comes off Slipknot’s current album, “All Hope Is Gone”.