The long-awaited music industry documentary “Working Class Rock Star” will be released on DVD in North America on November 11, 2008. The film’s synopsis reads: “The music industry is changing, record sales are down, artists are making less money, yet there are more bands than ever before working for years just to receive even the […]

“Da Capo Press” has set an April 6, 2009 release date for a 288-page book from Zac Crain entitled “Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of ‘Dimebag’ Darrell Abbott”. “Black Tooth Grin” is the first biography of Dimebag Darrell (Pantera, Damageplan), but Zac is a controversial figure. Dimebag’s family and […]

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker says he’s glad to be alive after suffering severe burns in a plane crash last month. “I hate planes,” Barker said “My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened.” The 32-year-old musician and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM were the only survivors […]

Former members of the Guns N’ Roses family of bands gathered into a supergroup calledВ Guns Of Destruction.В В  The band features the original Guns’n’Roses drummer Steven Adler, Tracii Guns (LA Guns/Brides of Destruction), Eric Dover of Slash’s SnakepitВ as well as Chip Z’nuff (Enuff Z’nuffВ  and Adler’s Appetite). Let’s hope that at least this band will release […]

Ministry, Clutch, Testament, Prong, Filter, The Almighty and The Revolting Cocks have songs on the upcoming soundtrackВ CD for the cultВ modern horror “Saw V” movie.В It is to be released at the end of October.

Green Day chose Butch Vig (on the photo) – Garbage’s drummer, also known as the man who produced Nirvana’s “Nevermind” – to man the boards on their next album. The follow-up to “American Idiot” (2004) is slated to hit stores “sometime next year”.

The three-disc unrated collector’s edition DVD of Rob Zombie‘s hit 2007 remake of the 1978 horror classic “Halloween” hits stores in the USA today, October 7. In addition to the movie (view cover below), the set contains an all-new four-and-a-half-hour documentary about the making of the film. John Carpenter filmed his 1978 indie chiller on […]

A 30-second trailer for “If All Goes Wrong” – a double DVD commemorative package celebrating the recent reunion and extraordinary 20-year career of the Smashing Pumpkins, can be viewed below. Due on November 11 via Coming Home Media, the two-DVD set contains the 105-minute documentary titled “If All Goes Wrong“, plus “The Fillmore Residency” – […]

Politically fueled rockers Filter will release a remix album featuring brand-new takes on various tracks from their latest CD, “Anthems for the Damned”. Entitled “The Remixes for the Damned“, the album will be in stores on November 4 – just in time for the Presidential Election! Here’s the effort’s tracklist: 01. What’s Next (The Art […]

Scar Symmetry have hired two singers to replace the recently departed Christian Alvestam. These are Robert Karlsson, who’ll handle lead growls and backing clean vocals, and Lars Palmqvist, who’ll be responsible for lead clean vocals and backing growls. Here’s how the audutions took place: