Canadian thrash metallers Exciter shall joinВ Germany’s Haggard and Remember Twilight at Sofia’s Blue Box ClubВ on November 20, 2008. Exciter – “In Mortal Fear” (live)

Always-thirsty German thrashers Tankard have completed work on their 13th studio album. Entitled “Thirst“, the effort was recorded at Stage One Studio in August, and is slated for a December 19 release via AFM Records.

While the search for a new Velvet Revolver singer is still going on, Slash doesn’t waste time ans is hard at work on his first ever entirely solo album. The latest news revealed by the guitar icon about it that he will bring in different singers for every song, though he won’t name them yet…

Chimaira have chosen Zeuss, known for his wirk with dozens of bands, a.o. Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, Agnostic Front, Madball, Staind, Throwdown, God Forbid and Unearth, to mix their new, as yet untitled album. The follow-up to “Resurrection” (2007) is being produced by Ben Schigel, who has worked with the band on “The Impossibility of Reason” […]

A hospital spokeswoman says former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and popular disc jockey DJ AM (real name – Adam Goldstein) have been critically injured in a Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when […]

Just a few months after releasing their self-titled album (a.k.a. “The Red Album”), Weezer doesn’t plan to waste any time in getting to work on the next one. Drummer Pat Wilson told Billboard that the quartet plans to start recording the CD in early November.

Canadian progressive rock gods Rush are to release their eagerly awaited “Snakes & Arrows Live” DVD at the end of November. The three-disc set was mainly filmed during the band’s show in Rotterdam, Holland in October 2007.

This Sunday’s Fracture weekly metal show on MM TV shall feature videos by Nile, W.A.S.P., Def Leppard, Rammstein, Scar Symmetry, Trivium, One Way Warrior, In Flames, Sonic Syndicate, Nightwish, Die apokalyptischen Reiter, Metallica and many more.

Italian metallers Eldritch shall support Firewind in Sofia, Bulgaria on December 12, 2008. Eldritch – “The Blackened Day“

Despite the rumours that Thin Lizzy won’t do their planned fall European tour, the band’s management has confirmed that the concerts will take place.