Gerald M. Gay of www.azstarnet.com recently spoke to ALICE IN CHAINS bassist Mike Inez about the band’s decision to reunite after the 2002 death of the rock band’s lead vocalist, Layne Staley.“It is going to be a lot different without our brother Layne there with us,” Inez said. “But we thought maybe we could do […]

Italy’s LACUNA COIL will release “Closer” — the third single off their critically acclaimed “Karmacode” album — in October via Century Media Records.The radio mix and edit of “Closer” was overseen by Brian Malouf. The accompanying live tracks were recorded at The State Theatre in St Petersburg, FL on March 20, 2006 by Mark Prator […]

Osmose Productions has set an October 30 European release date for the new MELECHESH album, entitled “Emissaries“. The track listing for the effort is as follows01. Rebirth of the Nemesis (Enuma Elish Rewritten)02. Ladders to Sumeria03. Deluge of Delusional Dreams:Act I: Cast Tempest from the EastAct II: Enlil’s Retaliation04. Touching the Spheres of Sephiroth05. Gyroscope06. […]

Spanish black metallers BERSERK will release their third album, “Cries of Blood and Hate“, in October/November via the Swedish label Unexploded Records.Recorded at Artica Studios in Ciudad Real, Spain in December 2005, and mixed and mastered by BГёrge Finstad at Toproom Studio (BORKNAGAR, MAYHEM, VINTERSORG, ULVER) in Norway in March-April 2006, “Cries of Blood and […]

The first new music from The Who in 24 years has been posted online.You can hear two brand new tracks from the bands forthcoming studio album online. “Tea & Theatre” and “It’s Not Enough” can be heard here.

After fourteen years flying solo Bjork is to reunite this autumn with her former band The Sugarcubes.The Icelandic quintet will play a 20th birthday gig in Reykjavic on November 17 according to an announcement on Bjork’s official website.All the money form the gig will be ploughed into the bands non-profit record label Smekkleysa SM which […]

MTV.com reports that a court order barring the “Rock Star: Supernova” band (featuring Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted, Gilby Clarke and now vocalist Lukas Rossi) from using the moniker SUPERNOVA has forced the act to amend its name to, er, ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA, in deference to a California band that already holds the rights to the […]

AFTER DEATH, the Tampa-based band featuring former MORBID ANGEL, NOCTURNUS and ACHERON drummer/vocalist Mike Browning, has made its latest four-song demo, “Secret Lords of The Star Chamber Below“, available for download via its MySpace page. The recording is described in a press release as “four songs of atmospheric occult metal.”

An audio recording of TOOL‘s first-ever live performance of the song “10,000 Days” (from the Sept. 14, 2006 concert in Dallas, Texas) has been posted online at YouTube.com.TOOL was forced to cancel its concert at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin last night (Sept. 19) due to frontman Maynard Keenan being sick. This is the […]

Californian alternative rockers MONSTER IN THE MACHINE are the second confirmed act to be signed to KORN guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer‘s record label emotionalSYPHON Recordings, according to Korn-Locker.MONSTER IN THE MACHINE features Shannon Crawford and Doug Ardito, both of whom were previously in CELLOPHANE. Ardito also spent time in PUDDLE OF MUDD. After CELLOPHANE, Crawford […]