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 […]

Sofia Music Enterprises has the pleasure to invite you to the 11th edittion of MUSIC JAM 2006. The event will take place in Sofia from the 20th to the 28th of October 2006. This year there will be two very special appearances: by Duran Duran (October, 20) and one of the greatest guitar players of […]

MONSTER MAGNET guitarist Ed Mundell has formed a new band with fellow MONSTER MAGNET bandmembers Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino, tentatively called THE ULTRA ELECTRIC MEGA GALACTIC. The group’s first show will take place on Tuesday, October 3 at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, New Jersey.Mundell is currently in Los Angeles writing and recording […]

Australian retro-rockers WOLFMOTHER will perform a tribute to LED ZEPPELIN at the upcoming UK Music Hall of Fame ceremony, according to Undercover News. Whether they will play a ZEPPELIN tune or one of their own remains unclear.LED ZEPPELIN is set to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in November, alongside BRIAN WILSON, […]

Video footage of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young being presented with the “Legend” award by Kerrang! magazine at the 13th annual Kerrang! Awards in London on August 24, 2006 has been posted online at YouTube.com. AC/DC graced the first cover of the British rock magazine back in 1981.

Finnish melodic power metallers THUNDERSTONE have entered Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki to begin recording their fourth album. The band is currently working on 11 as-yet-untitled original tracks and two cover songs which will be included as bonus tracks on special-edition versions of the new album.You can read the band’s studio diary and check out […]

SUICIDE CITY, the new group featuring ex-BIOHAZARD guitarist/vocalist Billy Graziadei and former KITTIE bassist Jennifer Arroyo, has uploaded its video for the song “Give Me Your Pity” to its MySpace page.As previously reported, SUICIDE CITY were recently named “Best Indie Band of the Year” by the IMC (Independent Music Conference). Graziadei and Arroyo were invited […]

KORN will re-release its seventh studio album, “See You on the Other Side“, on September 26 in an expanded edition, including a “Chopped And Screwed” remix EP, live tracks, bonus DVD footage and more. The track listing for the bonus material is as follows:CD 1:01. Twisted Transistor02. Hypocrites03. Getting Off04. Getting Off05. For No One06. […]