A California judge has ordered producers of the CBS reality show “Rock Star” to find a new name for its group Supernova, ruling that an established band already exists with that moniker. The original Supernova had previously filed for a preliminary injunction protecting its name.The news comes at a particularly bad time for the TV […]

FREEDOM CALL/GAMMA RAY drummer Daniel Zimmermann has posted the following message on the FREEDOM CALL web site:“I have some good news for all FREEDOM CALL fans and those who join in in the future!“Right after the successful European tour with RAGE in March and April the band went into the sudio again to write new […]

Debabani Majumdar of BBC News reports: It has played its part in rock history and was named after Britain’s first foreign secretary. But one of London’s oldest pubs — the Intrepid Fox in Soho — is facing closure, inspiring 5,000 people to back a campaign to save it. These days those seeking a night of […]

Vitamin Records has set a September 19 release date for the CRADLE OF FILTH tribute album, “Scorched Earth Orchestra Plays Cradle of Filth: The Orchestral Tribute” (view cover artwork below). A description of the album on the Vitamin web site reads as follows:“With a revolving-door line-up and fanbase that is equally ready to embrace and […]

KISS‘ “20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, Volume 3” CD will be released by Universal Music on October 10. “Volume 3″ is the companion piece to “The Best of KISS“, “The Millennium Collection”s volumes 1 and 2 and it is the first-ever KISS collection to focus on the band’s ’90s recordings.“20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, Volume […]

Nick Cave has won the inaugural Gucci prize for script writing at the Venice Film Festival for ‘The Proposition‘.The criteria for the award, made on Friday (September 8), was any internationally acclaimed artist for outside cinema who has made a remarkable contribution to a film in any capacity in the previous 18 months.Cave hopes the […]

Australia’s Soundworks Touring has announced that the upcoming CANNIBAL CORPSE shows in Adelaide and Sydney have officially sold out. Sydney fans who have missed out need not worry as CANNIBAL CORPSE have agreed to schedule a second all-ages show on Sunday, October 8 at the Gaelic Club.The West Australian newspaper reported in its July 8, […]

Swedish melodic metallers NOSTRADAMEUS have posted the following message on their official web site:“We’ve just put the final hands on the new NOSTRADAMEUS album ‘Pathway‘. It’s finally mixed and mastered and now we’re looking forward too completing the album cover. At this point we’ve seen a raw sketch of the front cover and the band […]

Italian metallers SOUL TAKERS have completed work on their second full-length album, tentatively titled “Flies in a Jar“, at Luigi Stefanini’s New Sin Studio in Loria (TV), Italy. The follow-up to 2005’s “Tides” (Northwind Records) will contain 11 tracks for a total running time of more than fifty minutes and will be released in early […]

A lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges that Warner Music Group, Atlantic Records and others helped coerce a 16-year-old girl into making a pornographic rock video when the band BUCKCHERRY advertised for extras on MySpace. According to a Los Angeles Times report, the suit alleges that BUCKCHERRY asked fans to come […]