According to WDEL.com, ICED EARTH guitarist Ernie Carletti — who is accused of a 2003 rape in Newark, DE — is back in Delaware to face the charges against him.Newark police say 31-year-old Carletti waived extradition Monday.He was wanted in connection with the rape of a 19-year-old University of Delaware student back in May of […]

PAPA ROACH‘s “The Paramour Sessions” sold nearly 37,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release — a drop from the 52,000 first-week performance of 2004’s “Getting Away with Murder” — to debut at position No. 16 on next week’s The Billboard 200 chart. Meanwhile, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY‘s “Shot to Hell” premiered […]

A major exhibition has been planned to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the punk explosion.‘Panic Attack: Art in the Punk Years’ will be held at the Barbican Centre in London next year.It will feature classic album artwork by the likes of The Clash and the Sex Pistols and runs from June 7 to September 9.A […]

Legendary Australian power/thrash metallers DUNGEON are putting the finishing touches on their last-ever full-length release, titled “The Final Chapter“, due in October through LMP in Europe/USA and Modern Invasion in Australia/New Zealand.DUNGEON called it a day late 2005 and this release will mark end of an era for Australian heavy metal.“The Final Chapter” track listing:01. […]

KROKUS‘s latest album, “Hellraiser“, reached “gold” status in the band’s home country of Switzerland within a day of its release, according to the group’s official newsletter. The CD, which will be issued in North America on October 24, was recorded with producer Dennis Ward (PINK CREAM 69).The new KROKUS single, “Angel of My Dreams“, has […]

Bassist Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING, ANTHRAX) has posted the following message on his official web site:“Just released is my new solo project A CHINESE FIREDRILL ‘Circles’. I know I said it wasn’t available until Sept. 26 but I just couldn’t wait another week! So, here it is and available now. And through October […]

The owners of the legendary club O! Shipka in Sofia are planning to “redecorate” the whole club and that will hopefully bring more classy people into the club. According to the Art director of O! Shipka – Mos Krindo: “After the renovations the pizzaria is refined so the people going downstairs to the club will […]

German death metal band SCYTHE has completed work on its fourth album for Witches Brew, entitled “Decay“. “Whether you are getting pounded by the heavy old-school death metal of ‘Bitterness‘ or floating away on an atmospheric composition like ‘Pretending Not To See‘, this new masterpiece offers the perfect mixture between both extremes,” according to a […]

Swedish melodic hard rockers BALTIMOORE have finished recording their tenth album, to be titled “X“, which is due for release on October 29. The album will be issued via BLP Music, the label set up by BALTIMOORE vocalist/band leader BjГ¶rn Lodin, which saw the band’s latest offering, “Kaleidoscope“, released in April 2006.“X” marks the return […]

Online video giant YouTube has penned a deal with Warner Music Group to legally show their footage through their website.Warners will show music videos, artist interviews, original programming and behind the scenes footage through YouTube.YouTube – which shows a massive 100million videos a day – will also be using archive footage from the label.Both parties […]