My Chemical Romance have scored their first ever UK number one with ‘Welcome To The Black Parade.’The emo band knocked Razorlight’s ‘America’ from its perch, while Scissor Sisters slip to three.Other new entries came courtesy of James Morrison’s ‘Wonderful World’ at 20 and Hot Chip’s ‘Over and Over’ at 27.

Thom Yorke has confirmed that Radiohead have begun recording their seventh album.The singer told fans about the plans in a bizarre footnote to a posting about the Big Ask environmental campaign.“We’ve started the record properly now. Staring to get somewhere I think. Finally,” he wrote on the band’s official site Radiohead.com before adding:“If it scares […]

Long-running Canadian thrashers INFERNAL MAJESTY will release a five-song EP, entitled “Demo’n God“, on December 1. The EP will feature four demo versions of songs produced by JF Dagenais (KATAKLYSM), who is also producing the group’s upcoming album, “Systematical Extermination“, that is tenatively scheduled for a spring 2007 release.“Demo’n God” will feature a re-recorded version […]

NOSTRADAMEUS drummer Esko Salow has posted the following message on the band’s official web site:“This is a happy moment for us in NOSTRADAMEUS. Time has come for us too announce the latest addition to the band, a dear friend and excellent guitar player with the name Lennart Specht. After the decision too split our ways […]

Swedish death metallers NOMINON have announced the addition of bassist Anders MalmstrГ¶m (IMMEMOREAL, PROPHANITY) to the group’s ranks. “After completely shocking the other members by learning eight songs in just a weekend, [there] were no discussions at all, besides that Anders definitely is the right man for the job,” the band writes on its web […]

“The Open Door“, the latest album from the EVANESCENCE, has entered the national charts in the following countries (in alphabetical order):Australia: #1Belgium: #10Brazil: #28Canada: #2Denmark: #5Finland: #5France: #2Germany: #1Holland: #2Hungary: #11Ireland: #3New Zealand: #2Norway: #3Poland: #49Spain: #5Sweden: #2Switzerland: #1U.K.: #2USA: #1

E-FORCE, the band featuring former VOIVOD bassist/vocalist Eric Forrest, is scheduled to enter the studio in Toulouse, France on October 30 with producer Patrick Fredrich to begin recording its sophomore album, tentatively due in early 2007 via France’s Thundering Records.As previously reported, E-FORCE have posted three songs from their 2006 demo on their MySpace.com page. […]

Spinefarm Records has set a November 15 release date for a “best of” collection from Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA, entitled “The Collection 1999-2006“. In addition to material from the band’s studio albums, the CD will include new versions of the songs “My Land” and “Replica“, both of which originally appeared on the group’s 1999 […]

Patti Smith and Blondie are amongst the artists performing at the closing of the legendary CBGB venue this weekend.Both artists alongside such acts as The Ramones and the Talking Heads made a name for themselves at the venue in the seventies.Owner Hilly Kristal has been forced to close its doors after the landlords, the Bowery […]

KISS‘ official web site, KissOnline.com, has been updated with three video clips from classic live performance from the Cobo Hall in Detroit in 1976, taken from the band’s upcoming “Kissology: Volume One 1974-1977” two-disc DVD set:“C’mon and Love Me” (video)“Deuce” (video)“Strutter” (video)Due on October 31, “Kissology: Volume One 1974-1977” chronicles the early development of KISS. […]