Finnish thrashers THE SCOURGER — who scored a sensational No. 1 single in their home country with “Hatehead” last year — will have their debut album, “Blind Date with Violence“, re-released across Europe on October 6 via Germany’s Cyclone Records. The bonus material is taken from “To the Slayground” EP, the “Maximum Intensity” single and […]

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Two new CANDIRIA tracks — “Legion” and “Reflection Eleven” — have been posted online on the group’s MySpace page. Both songs come off the group’s upcoming album, “Kiss the Lie“, tentatively due before the end of the year. The CD was produced by John LaMacchia and Carley Coma at Jupiter 4 and Purple Light studios […]

Welsh band Lostprophets were the big winners at the 13th annual Kerrang! awards in London.The group were awarded both best British band and best album, for Liberation Transmission.On a good night for Welsh music, Bullet For My Valentine scooped best single. US goth group My Chemical Romance were named as the best band on the […]

MORDICHRIST, the Swedish black metal band featuring DARK FUNERAL guitarist Chaq Mol, has set “Dressed In Menace” as the title of its upcoming limited-edition seven-inch single, due in September via Danza Ipnotica. The single will feature two songs, both of which will appear on the band’s full-length CD, due in early 2007 via Regain Records. […]

On August 3, 1987, British rock band DEF LEPPARD released the album “Hysteria“. Already a major force in rock music, “Hysteria” catapulted the band into the stratosphere. The statistics for “Hysteria” are astounding. The album has sold in excess of 17 million copies and counting. Due to the incredible success of previous album “Pyromania” (released […]

Former TOURNIQUET members Victor Macias (bass), Erik Mendez (guitar), and Gary Lenaire (guitar) are back together and working on new music with their brand new project 2050BELLS. The group, which cites its influences as BLACK SABBATH, SLAYER, MAGMA and MOTГ–RHEAD, has launched its MySpace page at this location.Lenaire played on all of TOURNIQUET‘s releases between […]

Hundred Reasons have announced that guitarist Paul Townsend will leave the band after their Japanese tour in September. “The departure is totally amicable,” says a statement from the band, who will shortly announcehis replacement exclusively via their website www.hundredreasons.com. The band will release The Chance as a single to coincide with their tour, which kicks […]

Supernova, which is in the process of searching for a singer via the CBS show “Rockstar,” will play its first live show on New Year’s Eve at the Joint in Las Vegas. A five-week North American tour will follow, beginning Jan. 16 in Hollywood, Fla.The lead vocalist for the band, which is comprised of drummer […]

Ginza.se, one of Sweden’s largest online music stores, has dismissed as “completely wrong” a press release issued by Earache Records claiming that “Ginza.se has barred the sale of DEICIDE‘s latest album, ‘The Stench of Redemption‘, citing the blasphemous CD sleeve art, controversial lyrical subject matter and the fact that DEICIDE mainman Glen Benton has an […]