Guitarist Stefania Ponzilacqua of the Italian metallers ETERNAL TRAGEDY has announced the track listing for the group’s debut album, entitled “Forever“. The CD, which will be produced by Tim Aymar (CONTROL DENIED) and engineered by Curran Murphy (ex-ANNIHILATOR), will feature guest appearances by Kelly Conlon (ex-DEATH, MONSTROSITY) on bass and Robert Falzano (ex-ANNIHILATOR) on drums. […]

Former GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Buckethead‘s cover of “Game of Death“, the theme song from Bruce Lee’s classic movie, has been made available for download at this location.Buckethead last year issued the album “Enter the Chicken” — including the song “We Are One“, featuring a guest appearance by the album’s producer, SYSTEM OF A DOWN […]

A brand new TRIVIUM track, entitled “Anthem (We are the Fire)“, has been made available for streaming at this location. The song comes off the Florida-based metallers’ upcoming third album, “The Crusade“, due on October 10 via Roadrunner Records.“The Crusade” will contain 13 songs, including “Detonation“, which is available for download at this location.

DEICIDE guitarist Ralph Santolla (ex-ICED EARTH, DEATH) has issued the following update:“I’m almost finished writing my new instrumental album, tentatively titled (say that fast) ‘Requiem for Hope‘. I’ll start recording soon, with some very well-known musicians. It will be a LOT different than ‘Shaolin Monks in the Temple of Metal‘, and will include an orchestral […]

Swedish metallers DREAM EVIL have set “United” as the title of their new album, due in October via Century Media Records. The exact release dates by territory are as follows:Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux: October 13, 2006.U.K., France, Spain, Denmark, Norway, rest of Europe: October 16, 2006.Finland, Sweden, Hungary: October 18, 2006.Italy: Friday, October 20, 2006USA: […]

Reuters reports that DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan is trying his hand at a new form of writing — a novel.Gillan, 61, said he had already lined up a publisher for his novel, which is a political thriller titled “Wessex“.“This is my one and only novel. This really is a labor of love. It’s the […]

A low-quality video clip of METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett performing with TOOL during their headlining appearance at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii on Friday (August 18) has been posted online at YouTube.com.

Beck has released yet more of his forthcoming album ‘The Information’ online.Three tracks are now streaming on his official website. they are – ‘Nausea’, ‘Strange Apaarition’ and ‘Motorcade’.You can also see the video for ‘Motorcade’ on the site.Beck releases ‘The Information’ on October 2.

So how’s Jeff Beck doing on his next album? “I wish you hadn’t asked that,” the British guitar legend tells Billboard.com with a laugh, before revealing that he plans to be quite productive during his upcoming U.S. concert tour. “On the road we’re gonna have little portable studios and we’re going to be writing, hopefully,” […]

WITHOUT END, the band featuring guitarist/vocalist Adam Tranquilli (BLOODFEAST, HEADLOCK) and bassist Tom Lorenzo ( M.O.D., HEADLOCK), will enter Big Blue Meenie studio in Jersey City, New Jersey on September 25 to begin recording its second full-length album, entitled “Doctrine of Hate“. Tentatively due in the spring of 2007, the album will contain 11 tracks, […]