Former FEAR FACTORY/current ASESINO guitarist Dino Cazares unveiled his new, as-yet-unnamed project Saturday night (September 2) at the Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood, California prior to ASESINO‘s performance as part of Dino‘s birthday bash. According to one attendee, the band’s musical direction “was reminiscent of old FEAR FACTORY — ‘Soul of a New Machine‘ […]

The cover artwork for the new ANGRA single, “The Course of Nature“, has been posted online. The title song, which will also appear on the band’s upcoming full-length CD “Aurora Consurgens“, is expected to be released as a “virtual single” later this month. You can see the two covers below: “Aurora Consurgens” track listing: 01. […]

Legendary hard rock vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) is featured on two songs on the forthcoming solo album from Howard Leese (HEART, PAUL RODGERS).Leese is recording the CD for Stuart Smith and Richie Onori’s Black Star Records label. Joe Lynn Turner recently spent time working on helping to put together the […]

Finnish metallers BURNING POINT have finished recording their third album, tentatively titled “Burned Down The Enemy“, for a late 2006/early 2007 release via Metal Heaven Records. The mixing sessions have just began at the Tonebox studio in the band’s hometown of Oulu. Kari “Kakke” VГ¤hГ¤kuopus, who handled the mixing process for the previous albums, “Salvation […]

AC/DC biography is to be released for the first time in Bulgarian. The book, which is to come out at the beginning of October is 320 pages, 16 of them with colour pictures. For more information: www.addix.org

The Bulgarian bands CLAYMORE and AGONIC FAINT have been invited to take part in the festival “Hatework Festival“, which is to be held on the 7 of October in Buchurest, Romania. The headliners of the event are the Dutch legendary band SINISTER. Other bands to perform at the festival are PARRICIDE, CODE RED, DEVIANT, BOLTHARD […]

KAMELOT‘s first-ever DVD, entitled “One Cold Winter’s Night“, will be released via Steamhammer/SPV on October 30.“One Cold Winter’s Night” was recorded on February 11, 2006 at the historic Rockefeller Musichall in Oslo, Norway. KAMELOT enlisted renowned film and video director Patric Ullaeus (DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES) to chronicle the night’s events. Bringing with […]

PAPA ROACH‘s upcoming fourth major label album, “The Paramour Sessions” (due Sept. 12), is available streaming in its entirety at this location. In a recent interview with Launch Radio Networks the group’s lead singer, Jacoby Shaddix, revealed that he’s a little nervous about people hearing the record because it’s an especially personal one. The first […]

German thrashers DESTRUCTION will enter the studio later this month to record the “Best of Classix” album, tentatively due in early 2007 via AFM Records. The band previously stated about the upcoming CD, “As it’s really difficult to get the old records those days and to avoid a ‘best of album’ with only old recordings […]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY‘s video for the song “Concrete Jungle” has been posted online at the MySpace page of the New York-based publisher Terminal Press. The artwork for the video was done by Terminal Press comic artist Rolo Ledesma (“Phony-Baloney”, “Terminal Press Presents”, “Toxic Teddies”, “Spraycan Monsters”, “DUB-BOTS”) and is said to be “one of the […]