Former Trouble singer Eric Wagner has launched a new Illinois-based “rock/acoustic/psychedelic project” called Blackfinger. A song called “All the Leaves Are Brown” is already being streamed on myspace.com/blackfingereric. Eric left Trouble in April 2008, and was quickly replaced by no other that Kory Clarke of Warrior Soul.

Former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman has launched a brand-new project called Lovefixer. The word goes about an American/Japanese collaboration featuring Marty on guitar and Shinichiro Suzuki on vocals. For more information, visit Lovefixer’s official website at lovefixer.syncl.jp.

Peter Tagtgren will release the new album by his electro-metal project Pain on October 31 via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to “Psalms of Extinction” (2007) shall be entitled “Cynic Paradise” (view cover in the left), and will feature 11 songs. Two of them – “Follow Me” and “Feed Us” – were recorded with a special […]

AC/DC will release much-anticipated new album “Black Ice” in three different collectible covers, which can be seen below. The CD is due out on October 20 worldwide, and the first single off it, “Rock’n’Roll Train“, shall hit radiostations this Thursday. A 30-second sample of it is already available on myspace.com/acdc. В  В  В 

After “The Day That Never Comes“, Metallica offered a second out of the 10 songs set to appear on the band’s eagerly anticipated new album, “Death Magnetic” (view cover in the left), scheduled for release in less than 3 weeks – on Friday, September 12. The track chosen is the CD’s closer, “My Apocalypse“, which […]

The weekly metal show Fracture on MM TV shall return on air on September 7, 2008. The first issue shall feature tons of exclusive footage by a.o. Cradle of Filth, The Sisters of Mercy, Exodus, 3 Inches of BloodВ and Overkill, among others.

Lee Dorrian’s record label Rise Above Records shall celebrate its 20th anniversary with a show at ULU in London on December 13, 2008. Headliners for the event shall be Grand Magus and Electric Wizard. Other bands to appear include Taint, Gentleman’s Pistols, Litmus, SerpenCult, Moss and Diagonal. Tickets are on sale now via ticketweb.co.uk at […]

In the wake of the birth of German thrash metal veterans Destruction’s tenth full-length studio album, “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“, the trio’s frontman and mastermind Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer revealed everything we need to know about this special project. The entire interview is available HERE, and the album’s acrostic tracklist looks like this: 01. “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.”02. “Elevator to Hell”03. “Vicious […]

The White Stripes frontman Jack White composed the theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie, “Quantum of Solace“, due to be premiered on on October 31, 2008 in the UK (and a week later in the USA). The track, entitled “Another Way to Die“, was recorded by Jack and Alicia Keys, thus marking the […]

Drummer Jason Bonham has revealed that he’ll be leaving Foreigner at the end of this month. Besides, the son of the late John Bonham has mentioned, “I’ve been over to England a couple of times. I’ve been working with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones and trying to just do some new material and some […]