“Tragic Kingdom” – the 6th of the 13 tracks from Cradle of Filth‘s upcoming album “Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder”, will be available for 24 hours as a free mp3 download from all Roadrunner Records and Cradle of Filth websites from Wednesday, August 27, at 6 a.m. CET. The CD itself (view cover in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Guitarist Jimmy Page played an updated version of Led Zeppelin’s classic “Whole Lotta Love” alongside Leona Lewis, winner of the UK reality TV show “The X Factor”, at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing yesterday, August 24. The two Brits appeared at the stadium to mark the fact that London will […]