LOUDNESS guitarist Akira Takasaki will release his new solo album, “Nenriki“, on September 20 via Tricycle Entertainment. The track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Surf Trip02. Mars03. I Want To Take You Higher04. Neighborhood05. Mindphase06. Chicago Drive07. The Sun Goes Down08. No One To Depend On09. Black Gold10. Paradise Jungle11. Echoes12. Funk […]

MONSTER MAGNET guitarist Ed Mundell is currently in Los Angeles writing and recording demos for a solo project. Several new demo tracks, most of which feature Ed on guitars and bass, and Bob Pantella on drums, have been posted online at EdMundell.com.

According to Deep-Purple.net, the second of the planned series of Tommy Bolin (late DEEP PURPLE/JAMES GANG guitarist) CDs and DVD has been compiled by Johnnie Bolin (Tommy Bolin‘s brother/drummer) and producer Greg Hampton. Due late September, “Whips and Roses II” features four alternate tracks from “Teaser” (“Vol. 1” contained alternate takes of the other five […]

METALLICA performed another new song (Video, Windows Media) — tentatively dubbed “New Song No. 2” — during their headlining appearance Saturday night (August 12) at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo, Japan.As was the case with all the concerts on the band’s recent European tour, METALLICA played their entire 1986 album, “Master of Puppets“, during […]

GWAR‘s video for its cover of ALICE COOPER‘s “School’s Out” — directed by David Brodsky of My Good Eye — has been posted online at SingingFool.com.

Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N’ ROSES), Warren DeMartini (RATT) and Billy Duffy (THE CULT) are among the musicians that performed with CAMP FREDDY last Saturday night (August 5) at a private event being held at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California. Other guests at the concert included Steve Isaacs, Steve Jones, Mark McGrath, […]

Two songs from the VIRGIN STEELE‘s forthcoming eleventh album, “Visions of Eden – The Lilith Project – A Barbaric Romantic Movie of the Mind” — “Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam)” and “The Hidden God” — have been made available for streaming. Check them out: “Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam)” : Windows […]

Finnish band EMBRAZE has a posted a new MP3 file containing audio samples of tracks that will appear on its fourth album, “The Last Embrace“, due on August 16. Download it at this location. “The Last Embrace” tentative track listing: 01. Carvings on the Gallowstree02. Branded03. Racing Against Time04. Dead Roses05. Liquid Fire06. Memory Trace […]

Critically-acclaimed sonic trailblazers THE ESOTERIC have posted three new tracks from their highly-anticipated new album, “Subverter“, online at their MySpace page. The tracks include the rocking “Destroy, She Said” as well as the titanic “Language Is a Virus / Shipyards of Foreign Cities” and the mind-bending “Clone Culture and the Cut-Up Method“. Produced and engineered […]

Norway’s GRIMFIST has issued the following update:“As many of you know, Frediablo sent out a statement a couple of weeks ago, about how fed up he is with being in a metal band, the genre and all that goes with it. Since we were already booked to do the Hole In The Sky festival and […]