Status Quo have just released a new version of In The Army Now for charity. This update of the 1986 single is for charity. With all proceeds being split between the British Forces Foundation and Help For Heroes. This version, produced by Pip Williams (as was the original), features backing singers from the Corps Of […]

Joe Satriani says he’d love Tommy Lee to replace Chad Smith in CHICKENFOOT if the Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer can’t fulfill his obligations with the supergroup. Satch, Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony are gearing up to record their second album with Smith in January – but the skinbeater’s duties with his main band could […]

Long-running Swedish metal band In Flames will enter the studio next week to begin pre-production for their next album. The group will be recording at their own IF Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden for the remainder of this year and into the beginning of 2011. Further details have yet to be disclosed.

Mike Tramp has written a tribute to Ronnie James Dio called ‘Hymn To Ronnie.’ On the music-player below you can listen to and download the song for free. In a previously issued press release Mike said: “The song always needed to stand by itself and I never felt that I could include it in any […]

Primus mainman Les Claypool says rumours about Metallica believing he was too good to join them are just that: rumours. He was in the running to replace Cliff Burton in the band after the tour bus crash which killed him in 1986. He was far from the only candidate – along with Jason Newsted who […]

Dutch death metallers Sinister will release their new album, ‘Legacy of Ashes’, on December 10 via Massacre Records. The CD was recorded at Soundlodge studios in Rhauderfehn, Germany with producer JГ¶rg Uken (God Dethroned, Obscenity). The band states, “Expect the most brutal and fast Sinister album ever.” Check out the cover artwork below:

Author Joel McIver, whose previous books include Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Holy Rock & Rollers: The Story of Kings of Leon, will deliver two new hard rock bios for the coming year. On his website, McIver announced the 2011 release of Crazy Train: The High Life and Tragic Death of Randy Rhoads and Overkill: The […]

INXS will release a new single on Monday, with Australian vocalist/actor Dan Sultan at the mic. The song is a new version of their 1980 hit ‘Just Keep Walking’. Sultan – who appeared in the 2009 film Bran Nue Dae with Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush – isn’t the only guest vocalist appearing on INXS’s forthcoming […]

Roger Waters has responded to accusations that his stage show of ‘The Wall’ is anti-Semitic. Last week the Anti-Defamation League claimed the stage show uses imagery associated with stereotypes about Jews and money. In particular, the claims pointed out that during the performance of the song ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’, an animated projection shows aeroplanes dropping […]

A two day festival will be held at the R.B.F. Club in Sofia on the occasion ofВ the sixth anniversary of Bulgaria’s rock musicians’ society website – muzikant.org. Friday, 15 October will be headlined by Bulgarian Idol winner Toma, supported by fice more acts -В LockMaruhu, Overgame, Juvigy, Da Madafuckin’ Madafaka’s and Angel Dimitrov. Saturday, 16 October […]