Former Machine Head/Testament drummer Chris Kontos has joined Spiralarms. The US metal band also includes ex-members of Forbidden and Systematic.

Californian extreme metalheads Wicked Wisdom and French metallers Gojira will both play at this year’s Download Festival on June 9.

Finnish goth metalheads To/Die/For are to call their new album ‘Wounds Wide Open‘. Expect a release in October.

Stone Sour have posted the song ’30/30-150′ online. This comes from new album ‘Come What(ever) May’, due out in late August.

On May 28, at the Kokaracha club, Stand Up Comedians will present their new single. Also to take part in the event will be Djamesbong and DJ Dontworrior. The vision will be taken care of by OPNN and Kemura. Start: 21:00h.

Audioslave have explaiend the reasons behind the decision to pull out of the Carling Weekend Festival in Reading and Leeds. This is because new album, ‘Revelations’, won’t be ready in time.

The Rolling Stones have been forced to postpone the first 15 shows of their summer tour. The band will not hit the road until July.The dates have been put back while Keith Richards recovers from brain surgery. The guitarist required an operation after reportedly falling out of a tree in Fiji. The postponed dates are: […]

John Waite returns with a new album through Frontiers on July 7. Called ‘Downtown Journey Of A Heart’, it features re-recordings of some of the British singer’s best known songs, plus a new version of Bob Dylan‘s ‘Highway 61’.

Panic! At The Disco have posted their new video online. It’s for the song ‘But It’s Better If You Do’.

The Monsters are coming. The legendary Monsters Of Rock Festival returns on June 3, at the Milton Keynes Bowl. See Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Journey, Thunder, Queensryche and Ted Nugent.