The second stage at this year’s Download Festival, due to take place between June 8-10 in Donington Park, England, will be called The Dimebag Darrell Stage. During the three days of the event, the honour of performing on the stage named after the late guitarist of Pantera and Damageplan, will be given to bands like […]

Buffalo-based metalcore quintet Every Time I Die is to release its new, fourth full-length album in August via Ferret Music. Entitled “The Big Dirty”, the CD was produced by Steve Evetts, known for his work with bands like He Is Legend, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sepultura, Saves the Day, Earth Crisis, etc.

Our current Band of the Week, the mighty Machine Head, shall support British metal legends Iron Maiden on their show at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy, on June 20. Robb Flynn & Co. shall perform prior to Bruce Dickinson’s gang along with Motorhead and Mastodon.

May 29 shall see the birth of “Fancy” – the first solo live concert DVD by the unique mumbling bass player Les Claypool, known for his work with Primus and various side-projects like Oysterhead and Colonel Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. Appearing under the Les Claypool moniker, “Fancy” shows the musician on his 2006 summer […]

Professionally filmed video footage of Hatebreed‘s entire performance at last year’s Download Festival, which took place in June 2006 at Donington Park, England, is available for viewing HERE. At the moment Hatebreed continue touring in support of their latest album, “Supremacy”, which has sold around 100,000 copies in the USA alone since its August 2006 […]

As we informed you a week ago, legendary Bay Area thrash/death metal veterans Possessed are to reform at this year’s Wacken Open Air festival in Germany. However, it turned out that the band’s line-up will feature only one of the original members, frontman Jeff Becerra. The rest of the group shall be rounded by members […]

After drummer Nick Oshiro broke his hand and was temporarily replaced by Will Hunt (a.o. Vince Neil, Dark New Day, Stuck Mojo, Tommy Lee) for the last couple of weeks, Static-X have recruited Bevan Davies (ex-Danzig, Jerry Cantrell, Comes with the Fall) to beat the skins during the next month or so, until Nick has […]

After “postponing” their shows in Japan due to an injury suffered by bassist Tommy Stinson a week ago, Guns N’ Roses have cancelled their shows in South Africa, too, leaving the nation’s largest outdoor festival without a headliner. Axl Rose & Co. were scheduled to headline the My Coke Festival 2007 in Johannesburg on April […]

Sofia Music Enterprises announced the third concert scheduled to take place as part of this year’s edition of the Arena Muzika Festival in Bulgaria. The word goes about Marilyn Manson and Type O Negative, who shall play together at the Academic Stadium in Sofia on July 4 (Wednesday)! Tickets for the show shall be available […]

The second official single off Nine Inch Nails‘ current album, “Year Zero”, shall be “Capital G”. The follow up to “Survivalism” shall hit the stores in its physical format on June 4 via Nothing/Interscope Records. According to NIN mastermind Trent Reznor, the “G” in “Capital G”, also known under the title “Halo 25”, stands for […]