Three Los Angeles performances from the Foo Fighters‘ recent stripped-down tour form the basis for the live album “Skin and Bones,” Billboard.com can reveal. Due Nov. 7 via RCA, the 15-track set was taped in late August at the Pantages Theater and spotlights an expanded eight-piece lineup featuring violinist Petra Haden and keyboardist Rami Jaffee.A […]

Denmark’s self-professed “fusion future metal” band MNEMIC has set “Passenger” as the title of its upcoming third studio album, which is scheduled for release in Europe on February 2 and in North America on February 6 via Nuclear Blast Records.In regards to the potent lyrical content, MNEMIC guitarist Mircea Gabriel Eftemie states: “It’s thematically built […]

Guitarist Mick Murphy of MY RUIN — boyfriend of the group’s lead vocalist, Tairrie B. — has issued the following message:“Tairrie was in a car accident last night [Thursday, Sept. 28] and her left arm was seriously injured. Considering the nature of the accident she is lucky to be alive. She had emergency surgery last […]

Sacramento’s melodic, blackened tech-metallers WITH PASSION are headed to Mana Studios in Florida to record their second album, entitled “What We See When We Shut Our Eyes“, with Brian Elliott and have announced a string of tour dates to and from their album recording session. The upcoming CD will contain 10 tracks, including re-recorded versions […]

Anglo-Italian melodic power metal band POWER QUEST has set “Master of Illusion” as the title of its fourth album, which the group plans to record next spring. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “Hearts and Voices”, “The Vigil”, “The Right Place and the Wrong Time”, “Count My Sins” and “The Tragedy Suite”.POWER QUEST […]

Norwegian melodic metallers THUNDERBOLT have announced the addition of former WHERE ANGELS FALL drummer Ole Kristian LГёvberg to the group’s ranks. LГёvberg joins the band as the replacement for Vegard Waske, who has left THUNDERBOLT earlier in the month “due to an extremely heavy workload over the past years.”THUNDERBOLT‘s sophomore album, “Love and Destruction“, was […]

DANZIG has enlisted TYPE O NEGATIVE‘s Kenny Hickey as the group’s new guitarist. Hickey joins drummer Johnny Kelly as the second TYPE O NEGATIVE member to join DANZIG‘s touring lineup.DANZIG will perform a dozen West Coast “Blackest of The Black” live dates in November alongside LACUNA COIL, THE HAUNTED, BELPHEGOR and ASESINO. “This is sort […]

The Bulgarian band Awake are releasing their third single from their upcoming debut studio album in October. The album is supposed to come out at the end of the autumn. The single is the song “Freedom” and the video is to be shoot to accompany the track. Director of the clip will be Atanas Hristoskov, […]

Artist-photographer Katja Piolka has created a video for the SINNER song “Die on Command“, using stop-motion photography. Watch it at this location. The track comes off the German hard rock band’s 2003 album “There Will Be Execution“.Piolka has previously created cover art for such acts as LEAVES’ EYES, AGATHODAIMON, ATROCITY, DAWN and TRAIL OF TEARS. […]

Metalcore pioneers WILL HAVEN will enter Bieler Bros. Studio in Pompano Beach, Florida in November to begin recording its Bieler Bros. Records debut, tentatively due in early 2007. The album will mark the group’s first release since 2001’s critically acclaimed “Carpe Diem“. A 2006 demo track can be streamed on the band’s official MySpace page.In […]