The cover artwork for Texas-based long-running heavy doomsters SOLITUDE AETURNUS‘ sixth studio album, entitled “Alone“, has been posted online and you can see it below (artwork created by Travis Smith).Due in Europe on November 10 through Massacre Records, “Alone” was recorded at Nomad Studios in Carrolton, Texas with Sterling Winfield (PANTERA) and J.T. Longoria (KING […]

Finnish metallers DREAMTALE have parted ways with keyboardist Turkka Vuorinen and have replaced him with 17-year-old Akseli Kaasalainen.In other news, the band has been busy preparing material for the fourth DREAMTALE album. “The second demo session is on its way at the moment and we have about 15 songs ready,” the group writes on its […]

THE BIG DIRTY BAND, the one-off project featuring Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of RUSH alongside ex-TEA PARTY drummer Jeff Burrows, Adam Gantier of THREE DAYS GRACE, THORNLEY‘s Ian Thornley, and singer Care Failure of Toronto band DIE MANNEQUIN, recently shot a video for its version of the often-covered “I Fought The Law” by the […]

More than 400,000 wildly enthusiastic fans turned out for The Family Values Tour, one of the hottest tickets of the summer. The 30-show trek — headlined and founded by KORN — boasted some record-setting attendance figures. Kicking off with a sold-out show of 17,000 rocking fans at Nashville’s Starwood Amphitheatre, The Family Values Tour set […]

Neil Young has won the Artist Of The Year gong at the Americana Honours And Awards.The singer-songwriter, 60, won plaudits this year for his anti-Bush album ‘Living With War’, which he famously recorded in a matter of weeks after being challenged to return to his radical roots.Other winners at the bash in Nashville – the […]

OBITUARY frontman John Tardy has posted the following message on the band’s official web site:“Things are moving right along with the [live] DVD [that was recorded in Poland in August]. DT [drummer Donald Tardy] and I spent the week at the RedRoom [studio] with Mark Prator mixing the audio portion of the DVD. We expect […]

Paul Stenning, author of the GUNS N’ ROSES book “The Band That Time Forgot” and the AC/DC book “Two Sides to Every Glory“, has posted an unpublished excerpt from his recently released 130,000-word biography on IRON MAIDEN, entitled “30 Years of the Beast – The Complete Biography 1976-2006“, at this location.

Florida’s WYKKED WYTCH has changed the projected title of its fourth album to “Memories of a Dying Whore” from the previously announced “Awakened“. The band entered Redroom Recorders studio in Tampa, FL in May to begin recording the new CD with engineer Mark Prator. Two demo tracks that are set to be included on the […]

A trailer for NINE INCH NAILS‘ upcoming DVD has been posted online at this location (Quicktime required). The footage for the set is believed to have been shot at several performances in late March 2006, including the March 28 show at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and the March 30 concert at the […]

Nuclear Blast Records has set an October 6 release date for the “deluxe edition” of CHILDREN OF BODOM‘s “Follow the Reaper” album featuring bonus material. The track listing for the new CD is as follows:01. Follow the Reaper02. Bodom after Midnight03. Children of Decadence04. Everytime I Die05. Mask of Sanity06. Taste of My Scythe07. Hate […]