News.com.au reports that GUNS N’ ROSES‘ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and VAN HALEN‘s “Eruption” were selected as two of the tracks with the best guitar solos of all time.PINK FLOYD‘s “Comfortably Numb” topped the list, with “Sweet Child O’ Mine” following in second place.Third was “Freebird” by LYNYRD SKYNYRD, while “Eruption” by VAN HALEN was […]

Nuclear Blast Records Greece has uploaded 12 new music videos to its MySpace page. Check out the following clips at www.myspace.com/nbgreece:THREAT SIGNAL – “Counterbalance” (home video)DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER – “Friede Sei Mit Dir”SCAR SYMMETRY – “The Illusionist”CHROME DIVISION – “Serial Killer”AMORPHIS – “House of Sleep”IN FLAMES – “Take This Life”EDGUY – “Superheroes”DIMMU BORGIR – “Progenies […]

A brand new BY NIGHT track, entitled “Cursed by the Thought“, has been made available for download at the band’s official MySpace page. The song comes off the Swedish metallers’ sophomore album, “A New Shape of Desperation“, which is available for streaming at this location. Due on September 25 in Europe and October 17 in […]

Danish black metal horde HORNED ALMIGHTY, featuring current members of EXMORTEM and former members of KOLDBORN, have uploaded another song from their second album, “The Devil’s Music – Songs of Death and Damnation“, at their MySpace page. The track “To Despise the Life” can be streamed at this location.“The Devil’s Music – Songs of Death […]

German death/thrash metal act BURDEN OF GRIEF will enter Krachgarten Tonstudio in Kassel, Germany in October to begin recording its fourth album, “Death End Road“, for a February/March 2007 release. The follow-up to 2004’s “Fields of Salvation” will once again be mixed at Jailhouse Studios in Denmark with producer Tommy Hansen (HELLOWEEN, PRETTY MAIDS, HATESPHERE). […]

Keith Richards could be in trouble with Scottish authorities for smoking throughout the Rolling Stones gig in Edinburgh on Friday.The guitarist flouted new laws banning smoking in public places by lighting up frequently during the show at Hampden Park and the city council says it will investigate the incident.Richards could face a ВЈ50 fine, somehow […]

Florida-based death metallers OBITUARY shot their first-ever live DVD shoot last night (Thursday, August 24) at the Stodola Club in Warsaw, Poland. The group’s setlist was as follows:01. Intro: Rain02. Redneck Stomp03. On The Floor04. Insane05. Chopped In Half06. Turned Inside Out07. Dying08. Intro09. Internal Bleeding10. Back To One11. Find The Arise12. Back Inside13. Threatening […]

Thom Yorke has promised that Radiohead will be releasing a live DVD eventually. The singer revealed that their show at the Bonnaroo festival – widely regarded as yet another defining Radiohead moment – has been recorded and plans are underway for it to released. Yorke made the revelation while on BBC6 music’s Tom Robinson show. […]

Rhino is devoting massive new boxed sets to the careers of the Doors and Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, both of which will arrive in time for the holiday season. First up on Nov. 14 is the Plant box, “Nine Lives,” which includes all nine of his post-Zeppelin solo discs as well as a DVD. […]

Anders Teglund (keyboards and electronics) and Magnus Lindberg (drums) of Sweden’s CULT OF LUNA will put a special song for streaming/downloading on the CULT OF LUNA MySpace profile. The track, which is described by the band as “‘Marching to the Heartbeats‘ in a quite different form,” will be uploaded on Sunday, August 27 at noon […]