The following update has been posted at Hammerfall‘s official website:“As usual, the album will contain around ten songs. Some of the completed ones are: ‘Dark Wings, Dark Words’, ‘Carved In Stone’, ‘Titan’, ‘Shadow Empire’, ‘Threshold’, ‘Rebel Inside’.Says (guitarist) Oscar (Dronjak): “The music is very varied and ranges from six year-old material to freshly written stuff. […]

A whole host of new additions have been confirmed for the Carling Festival this summer. Amongst the new acts are The Long Blondes, iForward Russia!, Clap You Hands Say Yeah, Giant Drag, The Automatic and Mystery Jets. Broken Social Scene, Plan B, Goldie Lookin Chain, Tapes N Tapes and Milburn are also amongst those confirmed. […]

Red Hot Chili Peppers return with ‘Dani California’ on May 1st on Warner Bros. Records. ‘Dani California’ represents the first track to be taken from their eagerly anticipated double-CD album ‘Stadium Arcadium’ that follows on May 8th.

Beautiful Days, the 3 day festival organised by The Levellers which takes place at Escot Park near Honiton in Devon, has announced details of this years line up. Killing Joke, Gomez and The Levellers themselves will headline the three days from 18th to the 20th August. Other artists will include reggae legends Steel Pulse along […]

Hours ago the Bulgarian doomy blues five-piece band Cigaretta finished the production work on their new video to a track taken from their recent album “Pluke” (released on April 3rd, 2006В through Stain Studio). The song is called “Ascetic” and is featured on the album as the fatal track number 13. The video is written, directed […]

In Flames and Lauren Harris (daughter of Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris) are the latest acts confirmed for this year’s Download Festival, which happens from June 9-11 at Donington.

A new website has just been started to celebrate Slayer. Called www.nationaldayofslayer.org, it’s urging everyone to turn June 6, 2006 into ‘Slayer Day’, by listening to the band veryВ l-o-u-d-l-y wherever you may be.

Former Led Zeppelin pair Robert Plant and Jimmy Page at to get back together onstage for a performance at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. They play on June 30.

Norwegian trio Communic are to release a new album through Nuclear Blast on May 22. It’s called ‘Waves Of Visceral Decay’.

Tarja Turunen, the former Nightwish singer, is to release a Christmas album at the end of the year. The English title is ‘Breath From Heaven’, and this will be on the Universal label. Recording will happen during the Summer, with producer Esa Nieminen.