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 […]

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 […]

Scars on Broadway – the current project by System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan – has posted the song “Chemicals” for streaming on myspace.com/scarsonbroadway. The track comes off the group’s self-titled debut album (view cover in the left), due out on July 29 via Interscope Records. Scars on Broadway – […]

U.S. hard rockers Tesla are going to release a new concert DVD on July 15 via their own label Tesla Electric Company Recordings. Entitled “Comin’ Atcha Live! 2008” (view cover in the left), the disc features “over two hours of live music, over an hour of special behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen material, including footage of […]

Yesterday we revealed to you the tracklist of Slipknot‘s upcoming new full-length studio album,В “All Hope Is Gone“, due out onВ August 26В via Roadrunner Records. Now it’s time to show you the front cover artwork: