In his latest video update, AYREON / STAR ONE mastermind ARJEN LUCASSEN reveals the title of his upcoming solo album, as well as the poster created from the cover artwork, designed by artist extraordinaire Claudio Bergamin (watch here). Entitled Lost In The New Real, the album will be released on April 23rd in Europe via […]

According to the UK’s The Telegraph, former THIN LIZZY guitarist GARY MOORE died after drinking enough alcohol to put himself nearly five times over the drink-drive limit, tests have shown. The musician suffered a heart attack brought on by the massive amount of booze he knocked back at the start of a sunshine holiday, the […]

Thrash legends OVERKILL will release their 16th full-length studio album, entitled The Electric Age, on March 30th via Nuclear Blast Records. The band has released the first single, ‘Electric Rattlesnake and it is now available via iTunes. Check out ‘Electric Rattlesnake’, streaming below. OVERKILL traveled to Asbury Park, NJ this weekend to shoot a brand new music […]

Legendary German metallers ACCEPT will follow-up their highly-praised return to form, Blood Of The Nations, with their new album, Stalingrad. Nuclear Blast will release the album on April 6th. Check out the title track of the album below. Because of the huge success of Blood Of The Nations, the expections are very high for the […]

Legendary frontman for Black Label Society, ZAKK WYLDE will release his handbook to everything heavy metal, ‘Bringing Metal to the Children,’ on April 10 on William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Tales of “general mayhem” aboard Wylde’s tour bus on adventure, including stories of rocking with some legendary metal personalities, including Metallica’s Lars Ulrich […]

MARIJUANA DEATHSQUADS sound almost exactly like their name suggests: Brash, chaotic, and drugged out as hell. The “noise collective” can be traced back to Ryan Olson, who also founded the Gayngs collective (which also includes Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Mike Noyce). ‘Crazy Master’ is the title track of the group’s four-song debut (hear the […]

Music fans were in for a rare treat Friday night at New York’s Apollo Theater. Eric Clapton was joined by Keith Richards at Howlin For Hubert: A Concert to Benefit the Jazz Foundation of America. The event was a tribute to guitarist Hubert Sumlin, who played in Howlin’ Wolf’s band for decades and passed away […]

Punk rock band THE SEX PISTOLS have signed a record deal with Universal, it has been announced. An “expanded and repackaged edition” of the band’s Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols album will be released later this year. Universal said the release will tie in with the record’s 35th anniversary. “To be given […]

ARCTIC MONKEYS have debuted their brand new single ‘R U Mine?’ online, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to hear the track. The track, which does not feature on the band’s 2011 fourth album ‘Suck It And See’, was posted online in the early hours of this morning (February 27), with […]

MOTLEY CRUE have recorded a brand new track. It’s been done at Tommy Lee’s home studio in Calabasis, California, and will be released in time for the band’s summer touring schedule. Says Nikki Sixx: “Haven’t been in the studio in a few years with the guys and it feels like magic. Hard to explain what […]