Rusty Cage Records from Holland will be reissuing some classic Dutch metal albums from DEFENDER, HAMMERHAWK, JEWEL, LWS INC and MYSTO DYSTO (pre-MANDATOR). All these releases will be available worldwide through Dis-Order mailorder (www.dis-order.com) from mid-July.

Original WHITE ZOMBIE members Tom Five (guitar) and Ivan de Prume (drums) have teamed up to perform with HEALER on the San Diego stop of the Vans Warped Tour. The concert was yesterday (July 6) at the Coors Ampitheatre. HEALER‘s lineup for the performance was:(mungk) SiddiQ – Vocals/Singing BowlsTom Five – Guitars/VocalsNathaniel Grant – Guitars/Percussion/VocalsJerry […]

E-FORCE, the band featuring former VOIVOD bassist/vocalist Eric Forrest, have signed a new three-album deal with France’s Thundering Records. The band will enter the studio in October in Toulouse, France with producer Patrick Fredrich to begin recording their sophomore album, tentatively due in early 2007.E-FORCE have posted three songs from their 2006 demo on their […]

Paul Stenning, author of GUNS N’ ROSES “The Band That Time Forgot” and AC/DC “Two Sides to Every Glory“, will publish a 130,000-word biography on IRON MAIDEN, entitled “30 Years of the Beast – The Complete Biography 1976-2006” (cover), in September 2006.

World Entertainment News Network is reporting that SLAYER are courting controversy among Christian groups by releasing sacrilegious artwork on their latest album.The cover for upcoming record, “Christ Illusion“, depicts a tattooed and amputated Jesus Christ standing in a sea of blood and corpses, and has infuriated right-wing religious groups.The Californian foursome are preparing themselves for […]

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor recently spoke to AOL Music about his other band, STONE SOUR, who are scheduled to release their second album, “Come What(ever) May“, on August 1.“We don’t look at it as a side project,” Taylor told AOL Music. “It’s an actual band so we put the same amount of energy, work and […]

Finnish goth metallers TO/DIE/FOR have uploaded a sample of their new single “Like Never Before“, at their official MySpace page. The single will be delivered to Finnish radio stations later this month, and it wll be released in Finland on September 6. The group’s fifth album, “Wounds Wide Open“, is scheduled for release on October […]

SIRENIA have posted the following message on their official web site: “We will start the recordings of our new album on the 17th of July. We have chosen a somewhat different solution this time, and will record in altogether three different studios. This is a solution that we feel can add something new and different […]

MELDRUM, the Swedish/American band led by former PHANTOM BLUE guitarist Michelle Meldrum recently spent time at a Los Angeles studio with producer Toby Wright (ALICE IN CHAINS, KORN, METALLICA, SLAYER, PRIMUS, JERRY CANTRELL, SEVENDUST) recording material for the follow-up to their debut album, “Loaded Mental Cannon“. Several audio samples of newly recorded material can be […]