Faith No More, Kiss and Queen are to headline this year’s Sonisphere Festival, which happens from July 6-8 at Knebworth Park. Kiss headlining on the first night. Queen top the bill on the second night, with ‘American Idol’s Adam Lambert on vocals. And Faith No More will close the festival on the final night. Joining […]

Desert rockers KYUSS LIVES! – featuring the near total return of the California rock pioneers including vocalist and frontman John Garcia, original drummer Brant Bjork, original bassist and former QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE four stringer Nick Oliveri – have entered Thunder Underground Studios in Palm Springs, CA to begin work on a live album. […]

The new SONATA ARCTICA record will be called ‘Stones Grow Her Name’, and will be released on May, 18th. It was recorded in several studios all over Finland, mixed at Sonic Pump Studios by Mikko Karmila and mastered at Chartmakers by Svante Forsbäck. The album will be released as limited edition digipak, standard jewel case, […]

Long-running German metallers RAGE will release their new album, 21, on February 24th via Nuclear Blast. The band recently shot a video for the track, ‘Twenty One’, at a casino in the Czech Republic. Check out the premiere below. The material for 21 was recorded with Charlie Bauerfeind (BLIND GUARDIAN, HALFORD, HAMMERFALL) at Twilight Hall […]

Van Halen kicked off their 2012 tour Saturday night in Louisville, Kentucky. Out in support of the band’s new album, ‘A Different Kind Of Truth,’ Van Halen put in a “vintage performance,” according to Jeffrey Lee Puckett of the Louisville Courier-Journal. And here’s what NASSO RUSKOV of Tangra Mega Rock has to say about the […]

LAMB OF GOD performed at the Mao Livehouse in Shanghai, China on February 14th for the first time and blew attendees away with a show of epic proportions. Footage from the night can be seen below. The show came as part of LOG’s current tour in support of their new album Resolution. The band was […]

Graham Coxon says “there will definitely be another Blur album,” and now there’s a new BLUR song. Last night, Coxon and Damon Albarn debuted a brand new BLUR song entitled ‘Under the West Way’ during War Chid’s benefit concert at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire.   It marks the band’s first new song since the 2010 Record […]

According to The Associated Press, MICHAEL DAVIS, the bassist of influential late 1960s rock band MC5, has died of liver failure, his wife said Saturday. He was 68. DAVIS died at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif., on Friday afternoon after a month-long hospitalization for liver disease, said Angela Davis. Born on June 5, 1943, the […]

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will release their new self-titled album on February 28th via Candlelight Records. The band are currently streaming the full album online at this location. Recorded at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles, the album was produced by the band in cooperation with long-time collaborator John Custer. It was mixed by John […]

Bulgarian prog metallers JUVIGI are setting up a headline show on Sunday, 26 February. The gig will start at 10:30 pm at Sofia’s Sound Wave club (ex-Toucan Bluzz&Rock) and JUVIGI will play a two-hours set with material from the bands forthcoming second album. There are no tickets on sale, since the admittance is free. Last January, JUVIGI […]