Rob Halford offers the song “Christmas Ride” by his project Fight, originally released by Epic Records as a promo CD single in 1994, for free download via HalfordMusic.com. Simply add it to your shopping cart, check out (no payment necessary at checkout unless you are purchasing something else) and download it from your download library.

Dutch-Mexican gothic/progressive metal band Stream of Passion have entered the studio to begin recording their sophomore album. The follow-up to the debut “Embrace the Storm” (2005) is due in early 2009 via Napalm Records. Stream of Passion – “Out in the Real World“

Sepultura have posted new tracks “The Treatment” and “We’ve Lost You” at www.myspace.com/sepultura. These are to be featured on new album “A-Lex”, due out at the end of January.

Report comin’ soon… Meanwhile check out some photos in the РІ GALLERY.

The Revenge Project shall release their second album by the end of the year. The CD shall be entitled “Through Blood and Ashes” (view cover below), and here’s its final tracklist: 1. The Gate to My Soul2. 1000 Voices3. Blood and Ashes4. Read My Lips5. Diseased by Emotions6. Visions7. Quickly I’m Sinking

Atlanta, Georgia-based metal bulldozers Organ have tapped Warren Riker (a.o. Down, Crowbar, Cynic) to produce their new album for an early 2009 release. The follow-up to “Volume of Hate” (2005) is being recorded at PigPen Studio in Athens, Georgia. To hear what Organ sound like, visit myspace.com/organband.

Sepultura have offered a “X-mas gift for you guys” – a free download of the band’s “Coquinho” bossa nova, especially composed for Volkswagen’s TV that we informed you a while ago. The ad can be see below, and “Coquinho” can be downloaded HERE.

Bon Jovi, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am have been forced to pull out of Live Earth India following the recent attacks in Mumbai. The charity concert was scheduled to take place on December 7. Organisers have released a statement saying they are “shocked and saddened by the tragic events of […]

Al Jourgensen’s 13th Planet Records is preparing a remix CD as a follow-up to Prong;s latest studio album, “Power of the Damager”. The effort is due out by the end of the winter…

Arkaea – the new band featuring Fear Factory members Christian Olde Wolbers (guitar) and Raymond Herrera (drums) alongside Threat Signal vocalist Jon Howard and bassist Pat Kavanaugh, will make its live debut on January 15, 2009 at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, California, together with God Forbid. Some two months later, on March […]