A short video clip of Metallica frontman James Hetfield doing his impression of Dave Mustaine’s singing style in Megadeth’s song “Symphony of Destruction” can be viewed below. The footage was part of an interview aired on October 15 on the French TV show “Taratata” on the France 4 channel. James Hetfield – “Symphony of Destruction“

Most of Evil Music confirmed that Samael shall play live in Bulgaria for the first time ever in February 2009! More info coming soon… Samael – “Telepath“

Metallica have have announced the support acts for their upcoming 2009 European tour dates. The first shows announced are for Sweden in March with support coming from Machine Head and The Sword. Other dates are in June and July in countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark and Spain, with support coming from Mastodon and Lamb of […]

Former Judas Priest and Iced Earth and current Yngwie Malmsteen singer Tim “Ripper” Owens is working on his first solo album. The CD, due out next year, will include various guest appearances from a.o. guitarists Bob Kulick and Chris Caffrey and bass players Dave Ellefson, Billy Sheehan and Rudy Sarzo.

One of the front cover versions for Guns N’ Roses‘ notorious upcoming album,В “Chinese Democracy“, can be viewed below. As already revealed, the CD should be finally release on November 23, 2008… “Chinese Democracy” tracklist: 01. Chinese Democracy02. Scraped03. Shackler’s Revenge 04. Street of Dreams 05. If the World 06. Better 07. This I Love 08. […]

Awake shot a video for their song “Away”. Check it out below. Awake – “Away“

AC/DC announced via myspace.com/acdc that they’ll play in the Czech Republic and Hungary in March 2009. The dates are March 17В and 23, and the venues – respectively O2 Arena inВ PragueВ and Papp LГЎszlГі Budapest Sportarena in Budapest.

Nickelback will release a new live DVD in Europe on December 1 via SPV. Entitled “Live At Sturgis – 2006” (view cover in the left), the effort was recorded by 15 cameras in front of 40,000 screaming fans at Sturgis, South Dakota, and features 75 minute of live performance plus behind-the-scenes footage, the “Rockstar” video […]

Bulgarian metallers Renegat have honoured the local turbo folk gay Azis in a song. Check it out here.

The new Joe Satriani video, “Revelation“, can be watched below. The footage has been shot live in Paris in August 2008, while the song comes off the guitarist’s current album, “Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock”. Joe Satriani – “Revelation“