The cult British label 4AD (a.o. Dead Can Dance, The Birthday Party, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, This Mortal Coil) has signed the band Department of Eagles. The word goes about a project featuring three members of Brooklyn’s experimental act Grizzly Bear (Daniel Rossen, Chris Bear and Chris Taylor),В plus frontman Fred Nicolaus. The group’s first issue for […]

After we offered you a live report of the Graspop Metal Meeting 2008В and showed you part of Judas Priest’s set, now it’s time to see what Testament did at the Belgian festival on June 27. Here’s how Chuck Billy & Co. performed “Into the Pit“: Testament – “Into the Pit” (live 2008)

A lost album Jimi Hendrix recorded with Stephen Stills has been discovered more than 30 years after it was created. Stills recently found the recording among a stack of material he taped during the 70’s, and is due to be released by his Crosby, Stills and Nash bandmate Graham Nash. The lost Jimi Hendrix album […]

The video for “Love Is Noise” – the debut single off The Verve‘s comeback album – is available for watching below. As for the follow-up to 1997’s “Urban Hymns”, it was already revealed that its title shall be “Forth“. The Verve – “Love Is Noise“

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are to release their entire album back catalogue digitally re-mastered and remixed in 5.1 surround sound. The first four albums – “From Her to Eternity“, “The First Born Is Dead“, “Kicking Against the Pricks” and “Your Funeral, My Trial” – are set to surface at the end of the […]

Bulgarian punk rockersВ New FlowersВ have just released a new vinyl EPВ (view cover in the left). The effort is limited to 500 pieces and features 5 songs recorded between 1980 and 1991. Meanwhile, New Flowers are preparing for a U.S. tour in November-December 2008.

A live report of this year’s edition of Belgium’s Graspop Metal Meeting, which featured sets by a.o. Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kiss, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Arch Enemy, Avenged Sevenfold, Throwdown, Bullet for My Valentine, Cavalera Conspiracy and many, many more can be found HERE.

The next edition of the Fracture weekly metal show on РњРњ TV, due to be aired on Suday at 10 p.m., is going to feature interviews with Whitesnake and Sonata Arctica, as well as videos by Tyr, Lamb of God, The Sisters of Mercy, Machine Head, Down, Brazen Abott, Yngwie Malmsteen, System of a Down […]

Bulgarian avantgardists Bluba Lu shall release their new album in September 2008. The follow-up to “World Melancholy” (2007) is going to be entitled “Groove Euroope“. Bluba Lu – “Free Me” (live)

Metal Hammer reporter Joel McIver received an unexpected phonecall in the evening of July 8 from Morbid Angel frontman David Vincent: “I was arrested in Italy today and charged with a weapons offense!” The singer went on to explain that the veteran death metal outfit had arrived at Milan airport that morning for a flight […]