Former Sentenced vocalist Taneli Jarva and his current Finnish band The Black League are working on their fifth full-length album. The follow-up to last year’s “A Place Called Bad” is going to surface by the summer of 2008, and its working title is “No Parole”.

Electric Light Orchestra are to have a 20-track compilation released by SonyBMG on October 8. It’s called “The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, Volume 2: Ticket to the Moon”, and playes the role of a sequel to 2005’s “The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra: All Over the World”.

Axl Rose is being sued by security guard Gary Armijo. The latter claims the Guns N’ Roses singer kicked him in the head during a show at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California last December. As a result, Armijo says he suffered severe injuries. Poor Gary…

Ben Moody and David Hodges, both former members and songwriters of Evanescence, have teamed up to write and produce the new Celine Dion song “This Time”, set to appear on her new album, “Taking Chances”, due out on November 13 via Columbia. The happy trio can be seen on the small photo in the left… […]

Ian Brown‘s new studio album, “The World Is Yours”, is being exclusively streamed on New Musical Express’ website. To check out the 12 songs on the CD, due out on September 24, click HERE. Meanwhile, you may also vote for Ian Brown’s song “Illegal Attacks” (featuring Sinead O’Connor) in our Tuborg Top 40 Mega Rock […]

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has been given a 120-day suspended jail sentence as a result of no less than seven misdemeanours. He’s also been ordered to do 20 hours of community service and fined $1,500. All these arise from charges of assault, battery and reckless driving, and for deliberately hitting two people with his […]

Marilyn Manson has started producing his own brand of absinthe – “Mansinthe” – in collaboration with the family-run distillery Matter-Luginbuehl in the Swiss village of Kallnach, Agence France-Presse reported. Manson created the artwork for the label himself (view it in the left), and the production started in the beginning of August. So far 6,000 bottles […]

Marduk, KoldbrannВ and Massemord were supposed to tour the Balkans during the second half of September. Local promoters in Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Croatia, Greece and Hungary blame the Polish booking agency Rose Production, calling it a fake one. Hopefully new dates should be rescheduled for the beginning on 2008.

A brand-new Down song, entitled “I Scream”, is now available for streaming HERE. The track comes off the band’s upcoming third full-length studio album, “Over the Under” (view cover in the left), due in Europe on September 24 via Roadrunner Records. The complete tracklist for Phis Anselmo & Co.’s effort has already been revealed here.

A month before taking part in the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Fest in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 3, Bulgaria’s extreme metal leaders The Revenge ProjectВ shall headline the first evening of the Chaos Festival in Romania. The event, set to take place at the Live Metal Club in BucharestВ on October 5-6, shall also feature performances by […]