Finnish rock outfit HIM has cancelled a two-week North American tour and will instead hit the studio to record a new album, with an eye on a 2007 release via Sire. The trek was to begin Oct. 18 in Lowell, Mass., and wrap Oct. 31 in Universal City, Calif.In a statement, the band said its […]

As teenagers in northern Minnesota in the late 1950s, Ric Kangas and Bobby Zimmerman would spend hours playing guitar and singing. During one of those sessions, Zimmerman asked his friend to record it.Kangas had no idea he was recording the man who would soon become Bob Dylan. Years later, he came across the tape, which […]

Watch Juliette run around in some terrifying pink neon leggings and some kind of Red Indian outfit in the Licks’s video for single Hot Kiss. It’s mental and brilliant. Click hereВ  for the Windows Media version and click here for Quicktime.

Joe Shooman has written the first ever book about Roadrunner’s Trivium.Entitled ‘The Mark Of Perseverance’ the book explores the history of band from start to current day metal world domination.In the words of Joe himself it is “the story of how they got from pissing around in school and garages to mega success and Maiden […]

Graham Coxon has announced that he next single, released next month, will be a double A-side.The release will feature the tracks ‘What Ya Gonna Do Now?’ and ‘Bloody Annoying’ and will hit the shops on October 23.The tracks are the first to feature Coxon’s all new band.They will be available via download and on a […]

Legendary death metallers DYING FETUS have entered Hit & Run Studios in Rockville, MD to begin recording the follow-up to 2003’s “Stop at Nothing“. Songtitles set to appear on the as-yet-untitled CD include “Parasites of Catastrophe”, “Unadulterated Hatred”, “Raping the System” and “The Ancient Rivalry”. The band will complete recording by winter for an early […]

SLIPKNOT DJ Sid Wilson (a.k.a. DJ Starscream) has told The Des Moines Register that he is currently collaborating with FEAR FACTORY drummer Raymond Herrera on a new project. “There’s not really a per se style yet,” he said. “We’re just kind of creating music and seeing what we’re coming up with. We haven’t decided what […]

AGNOSTIC FRONT drummer Steve Gallo has rejoined the New York hardcore band INHUMAN. Steve was in INHUMAN from 2001-2003 and recorded the band’s finest release to date, “The New Nightmare“, for A-F Records.INHUMAN is currently working on the last set of songs for what will become the band’s fourth full-length release, entitled “Last Rites“. The […]

Revered vocalist Siouxsie Sioux has signed with the new Universal imprint W14 and will begin recording a new album before the end of the year. “I am really excited about making new music,” the artist said in a statement. “I have various collaborators in mind and am itching to get back in the studio.”Siouxsie‘s last […]

Morrissey has been asked by influential composer Ennio Morricone to collaborate on one of his musical pieces. Morricone is the man behind one of the string arrangements on Mozza’s latest long-player ‘Ringleader of the Tormentors’ and the pair are now eyeing up a performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall. He told Morrissey fan site True […]