Finnish band EMBRAZE has a posted a new MP3 file containing audio samples of tracks that will appear on its fourth album, “The Last Embrace“, due on August 16. Download it at this location. “The Last Embrace” tentative track listing: 01. Carvings on the Gallowstree02. Branded03. Racing Against Time04. Dead Roses05. Liquid Fire06. Memory Trace […]

Critically-acclaimed sonic trailblazers THE ESOTERIC have posted three new tracks from their highly-anticipated new album, “Subverter“, online at their MySpace page. The tracks include the rocking “Destroy, She Said” as well as the titanic “Language Is a Virus / Shipyards of Foreign Cities” and the mind-bending “Clone Culture and the Cut-Up Method“. Produced and engineered […]

Norway’s GRIMFIST has issued the following update:“As many of you know, Frediablo sent out a statement a couple of weeks ago, about how fed up he is with being in a metal band, the genre and all that goes with it. Since we were already booked to do the Hole In The Sky festival and […]

Reunited New York thrashers NUCLEAR ASSAULT will release their first-ever DVD, “Louder Harder Faster“, on October 10 via Screaming Ferret Wreckords.Recorded during the band’s performance at the 2005 Louder Harder Faster Festival (taped on June 5, 2005), “Louder Harder Faster” also includes such extra bits as vintage live footage, slide shows (put to the original […]

SEVEN WITCHES, the East Coast-based band featuring former SAVATAGE guitarist Jack Frost and ex-HADES frontman Alan Tecchio, will release its first-ever DVD, “Years of the Witch“, on September 26 via Screaming Ferret Wreckords.Concert footage track listing on “Years of the Witch“:01. Open02. Dance With the Dead03. Apocalyptic Dreams04. Metal Tyrant05. The Answer06. Johnny07. Jam Session08. […]

GWAR‘s video for its cover of ALICE COOPER‘s “School’s Out” — directed by David Brodsky of My Good Eye — has been posted online at SingingFool.com.

Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N’ ROSES), Warren DeMartini (RATT) and Billy Duffy (THE CULT) are among the musicians that performed with CAMP FREDDY last Saturday night (August 5) at a private event being held at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California. Other guests at the concert included Steve Isaacs, Steve Jones, Mark McGrath, […]

TRUE SYMPHONIC ROCKESTRA, the international opera-oriented project featuring contributions from DREAM THEATER frontman James LaBrie, has posted audio samples of the tracks “Nessun Dorma“, “La Donna e Mobile“, “My Way” and “Tu Ca Nun Chiange” on its official MySpace page.When the TRUE SYMPHONIC ROCKESTRA concept was started back in 2000, the basic idea behind it […]

With only two weeks to go until the Kerrang! Awards 2006, the Nominations for the most debauched rock ‘n’ roll event of the year have been unveiled. Exclusively announced at the Kerrang! Day of Rock on 10 August 2006 at Virgin Megastore (the Official Retail Sponsor of the Kerrang! Awards) on London’s Oxford Street, the […]

IRON MAIDEN‘s new song “Different World” has been made available for streaming at this location.The opening track on MAIDEN‘s upcoming album “A Matter of Life and Death“, “Different World” is the shortest song on the CD at a mere four minutes.