Finnish metallers DREAMTALE have parted ways with keyboardist Turkka Vuorinen and have replaced him with 17-year-old Akseli Kaasalainen.In other news, the band has been busy preparing material for the fourth DREAMTALE album. “The second demo session is on its way at the moment and we have about 15 songs ready,” the group writes on its […]

THE BIG DIRTY BAND, the one-off project featuring Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of RUSH alongside ex-TEA PARTY drummer Jeff Burrows, Adam Gantier of THREE DAYS GRACE, THORNLEY‘s Ian Thornley, and singer Care Failure of Toronto band DIE MANNEQUIN, recently shot a video for its version of the often-covered “I Fought The Law” by the […]

More than 400,000 wildly enthusiastic fans turned out for The Family Values Tour, one of the hottest tickets of the summer. The 30-show trek — headlined and founded by KORN — boasted some record-setting attendance figures. Kicking off with a sold-out show of 17,000 rocking fans at Nashville’s Starwood Amphitheatre, The Family Values Tour set […]

Open Grave Records has set a September 26 release date for the third album from NECRODEMON, entitled “Ice Fields of Hyperion“. The track listing for the CD is as follows:01. The Abominable02. Terror in the Arctic03. Funeral in the Snow04. The Deep Freeze05. Avalanche!06. Frozen Sorcerer (Chant of Making V)07. Mesopotamia – Warriors of Ice08. […]

Willowtip Records has uploaded the cover art to the highly anticipated second full-length album from Virginia’s melodic death metallers ARSIS, entitled “United in Regret“. It can be viewed below. In addition, a sample MP3 of the track “Lust before the Maggots Conquest” has been posted online here.“United in Regret” is scheduled for release on October […]

Swiss doomsters PЕёLON are scheduled to release their second album, “Th’ Eternal Wedding Band“, on September 26 via Quam Libet Records. The CD contains twelve original cuts, written by all three members/vocalists, plus the video for the instrumental “2046“.“Th’ Eternal Wedding Band” track listing:01. And Thus It Ends …02. Anaconda03. Falling Into The Sun04. Cannibal […]

OBITUARY frontman John Tardy has posted the following message on the band’s official web site:“Things are moving right along with the [live] DVD [that was recorded in Poland in August]. DT [drummer Donald Tardy] and I spent the week at the RedRoom [studio] with Mark Prator mixing the audio portion of the DVD. We expect […]

Paul Stenning, author of the GUNS N’ ROSES book “The Band That Time Forgot” and the AC/DC book “Two Sides to Every Glory“, has posted an unpublished excerpt from his recently released 130,000-word biography on IRON MAIDEN, entitled “30 Years of the Beast – The Complete Biography 1976-2006“, at this location.

Florida’s WYKKED WYTCH has changed the projected title of its fourth album to “Memories of a Dying Whore” from the previously announced “Awakened“. The band entered Redroom Recorders studio in Tampa, FL in May to begin recording the new CD with engineer Mark Prator. Two demo tracks that are set to be included on the […]

A trailer for NINE INCH NAILS‘ upcoming DVD has been posted online at this location (Quicktime required). The footage for the set is believed to have been shot at several performances in late March 2006, including the March 28 show at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and the March 30 concert at the […]