Drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia (ex-Primus, Guns N’ Roses, Godflesh, Tom Waits, a.o) and guitarist Brian “Buckethead” Carroll (on the photo; ex-Guns N’ Roses, Praxis, Les Claypool) have teamed up with legendary American funk bass player William “Bootsy” Collins in new band, Science Faction. Their debut album is expected in early 2008.

Electric Wizard are currently laying down tracks at London’s Toe Rag Studio together with the vacility’s owner and producer Liam Watson, who, amongst other things, is known for his work on the massiveely successful The White Stripes album “Elephant”. The still untitled effort by the British doomsters shall be released by the end of the […]

ratm82407.com – the mysterious Rage Against the Machine website with two counters we informed you about last week – has revealed its secret. As you probably remember, the left counter on the homepage was ticking towards June 11, while the right one – towards August 24. Well, it’s all clear now. Yesterday, June 11, RATM […]

The Greek old-school thrashers Suicidal Angels shall release their debut full-length studio album, “Eternal Domination” (view cover in the left), on July 16 via OSM Records. The quartet impressed quite a lot Bulgarian fans as an opening act for this year’s shows by Behemoth and Rotting Christ in Sofia.

Dutch melancho-rockers The Gathering have launched a vocalist search, following the recent departure of Anneke van Giersbergen (currently active with her brand-new project, Agua de Annique). Interested candidates – both male and female – are invited to send a short bio and one or two mp3’s to audition@gathering.nl.

The video for the new UNKLE single, “Burn My Shadow”, featuring The Cult’s Ian Astbury on vocals, is available for watching below. The track is the 7th one of the 14 tunes on UNKLE’s upcoming third full-length studio album, “War Stories” (view cover in the left), due to be released on July 9 in Europe […]

A previously unreleased Stone Sour song, entitled “Suffer”, is available for free download HERE. The track will be included on the special edition of the band’s latest CD, “Come (What)ever May”, due on June 26 via Roadrunner Records. The new edition will be containing “Suffer” plus five more previously unreleased cuts (including an acoustic cover […]

Former Megadeth and Cacophony guitar player Marty Friedman is currently mixing two live solo releases in Japan’s capital Tokyo. The word goes about the audio CD “Live in Europe” and the DVD “Live in Tokyo”. Both efforts feature different setlists, however recorded with the same band members, namely drummer Jeremy Colson, bassist Chris Catero and […]

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) veterans Blitzkried have completed work on their new full-length album. Entitled “Theatre of the Damned” (view cover in the left), the CD is going to contain 10 tracks of “the same authentic heavy metal of the ’80’s along with a super freshness and total attitude.” Due on August […]

Download Festival 2007 director Stuart Galbraith has announced plans to move the 3-day rock event back a week next year. In other words, Download 2008 shall take place from June 13 to June 15, 2008. Tickets for the fest are due to go on sale this Friday, June 15, at 9 a.m. GMT sharp at […]