Two of the biggest European summer festivals – Germany’s Rock am RingВ and Rock im Park – start today, June 6. For three days (until Sunday) their stages shall host dozens of world-famous rock acts, a.o. Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, MotГ¶rhead, Queens of the Stone Age, Nightwish, Opeth, The Verve, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Cavalera […]

The readers of Modern Drummer MagazineВ chose Thomas Haake of Meshuggah for Best Metal Drummer in this year’s annual poll of the issue. Here’s how the Top 5 looks like: 1. Tomas Haake (Meshuggah)2. Jason Bittner (Shadows Fall)3. Chris Adler (Lamb of God)4. Derek Roddy (ex-Hate Eternal)5. Joey Jordison (Slipknot) Tomas Haake in action

Fan-filmed footage of Anthrax‘s performance with new singer Dan Nelson (on the photo) on May 31, 2008 – just three days after his stage debut with Scott Ian & Co. – can be viewed below. This guy’s definitely good! Except for playing live, Anthrax is currently writing material for its new album – the band’s […]

Drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia (a.o. Primus, Guns N’ Roses, Godflesh), funky bass legend William “Bootsy” Collins (ex-Parliament, Funkadelic), current Guns N’ Roses guitarist Buckethead, and vocalist Greg Hampton have finally finished working on the debut album by their project Science Faxtion. The CD is going to be entitled “Living on Another Frequency” and is due […]

Former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch is to release his debut solo album in mid-September. As already known, the CD by the musician who found god shall be entitled “Save Me from Myself“…

Van Halen‘s two-month-long reunion tour ended up a massive success, wrapping with a total gross of more than $93 million and close to one million in attendance from 74 shows. The shows marked the first time original vocalist David Lee Roth had performed with Eddie and Alex Van Halen in more than 23 years.

The 2008 edition of Serbia’s Castle Festival, which was slated to take place July 1-5 at the Smederevo Fortress, has been cancelled. According to a posting on Helloween’s website, this is due to “the political situation and local incidents in the country”. Except for “the pumpkins”, other bands that were scheduled to perform at the […]

MotГ¶rhead have completed the recordings for their next album. The CD shall be entitled “MotГ¶rize” and is going to surface by the end of the year via SPV. The follow-up to 2006’s “Kiss of Death” was recorded at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Northridge, California.

French progressive extreme metallers Gojira have set “The Way of All Flesh” as the title of their new album, due on October 13 in Europe via Listenable Records. The follow-up to 2005’s “From Mars to Sirius” is currently being tracked in Los Angeles with producer and ex-Machine Head and Soulfly guitarist Logan Mader.

Kiss are giving UK fans the chance to take home recordings of their first performance in England in almost a decade. Their live set at the Download Festival in Donington Park on June 13 will be recorded and burned onto CDs, which will be available to buy from the merchandise stall straight after the gig. […]