Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has given up drugs because they’re too weak nowadays.He told Q magazine: “I think the quality’s gone down. All they do is tryand take the high out of everything.”He did, however, confess to over using during his recent fall from grace out of a Fijian bush.“I’ve had a couple of […]

Sweden’s LORD BELIAL has been rejoined by guitarist Niclas “Pepa” Andersson following the departure of Hjalmar Nielsen earlier in the week.“After the decision to look for a new guitarist was made, all of us in LORD BELIAL felt that we ought to ask Niclas ‘Pepa’ Andersson to rejoin LORD BELIAL after a few years of […]

SOULFLY bassist Bobby Burns will sit out the band’s U.S. Dark Ages Tour with after suffering a stroke last Thursday. Although home at this time, Burns will need long rest for recovery.The two bassists stepping up to the plate for their SOULFLY brother are Dave Ellefson (formerly of MEGADETH, currently of F5/TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY). Ellefson […]

According to WDEL.com, ICED EARTH guitarist Ernie Carletti — who is accused of a 2003 rape in Newark, DE — is back in Delaware to face the charges against him.Newark police say 31-year-old Carletti waived extradition Monday.He was wanted in connection with the rape of a 19-year-old University of Delaware student back in May of […]

PAPA ROACH‘s “The Paramour Sessions” sold nearly 37,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release — a drop from the 52,000 first-week performance of 2004’s “Getting Away with Murder” — to debut at position No. 16 on next week’s The Billboard 200 chart. Meanwhile, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY‘s “Shot to Hell” premiered […]

A major exhibition has been planned to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the punk explosion.‘Panic Attack: Art in the Punk Years’ will be held at the Barbican Centre in London next year.It will feature classic album artwork by the likes of The Clash and the Sex Pistols and runs from June 7 to September 9.A […]

The owners of the legendary club O! Shipka in Sofia are planning to “redecorate” the whole club and that will hopefully bring more classy people into the club. According to the Art director of O! Shipka – Mos Krindo: “After the renovations the pizzaria is refined so the people going downstairs to the club will […]

Sweden’s LORD BELIAL has parted ways with guitarist Hjalmar Nielsen. “No search for another guitarist will take place, from now on LORD BELIAL will continue with only three members,” reads a posting on the group’s web site. “A statement from Hjalmar will soon be published as well.”LORD BELIAL recently entered Los Angered studio (owned by […]

Australia’s PyroMusic.net webzine has uploaded video and audio footage of Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY performing a new song, entitled “Where Death Is Most Alive“, live at the Manning Bar in Sydney on Sunday, September 17. Support at the show came from Melbourne’s ALARUM and Sydney locals INFERNAL METHOD. DARK TRANQUILLITY recently announced that […]

German death metal band SCYTHE has completed work on its fourth album for Witches Brew, entitled “Decay“. “Whether you are getting pounded by the heavy old-school death metal of ‘Bitterness‘ or floating away on an atmospheric composition like ‘Pretending Not To See‘, this new masterpiece offers the perfect mixture between both extremes,” according to a […]