Circus Diablo – featuring Camp Freddy‘s Billy Morrison (guitars/vocals), The Almighty‘s Ricky Warwick (guitars) and The Cult‘s Billy Duffy (guitars) – recently finished work on their as-yet-untitled debut album, due for release later this year. They are in the process of rounding out their line-up and have now confirmed former Fuel frontman Brett Scallions as […]

Manowar vocalist Eric Adams has teamed up with outdoors adventurer Chester Moore for a hunting DVD called ‘Wild Life And Wild Times’. It sees the pair on the prowl for emus, American bison, king salmon, elk and wild boar. They also investigate the rattlesnake round-ups. The DVD, featuring incidental music from Adams, is released next […]

Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin is to have a new book published next month. Co-written with Professor Preston Jones from John Brown University, it’s called ‘Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?: A Professor And a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity’.

Face To Face are to release a posthumous DVD in October. It’s to be called ‘Shoot The Moon: The Essential DVD’. It will feature the Californian punks’ last ever show, at the House Of Blues in Hollywood, plus interview footage.

Aussie punks The Living End have signed a North American label deal with Adeline, which is partly owned by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. As a result, he band’s new album, ‘State Of Emergency’, is to be issued in the US and Canada in July.

Shadows Fall have uploaded a new track called ‘In Effigy’ onto their official website. This is taken from upcoming album ‘Fallout From The War’, due for release next month.

Former UFO guitarist Paul Chapman has teamed up with ex-MSG singer Robin McAuley and Doro drummer Johnny Dee in a new, as yet unnamed project. The trio have been recording new versions of classic UFO songs from Chapman’s time in the band.

German metalcore crew Heaven Shall Burn are currently finishing up their new, as yet untitled album. Expect a release later in the year.

The Russian Art Progressive Folk Metal band Tumulus are to have two concerts in Bulgaria. On May 9th (Tuesday) the band will play in Sofia at O!Shipka club. Support will come from the Bulgarian band Granulom. On May 11th (Thursday), Tumulus will have a gig in Varna, at Zone 51 club, where the bands Catalepsia, […]

‘Coachella: The Film’ is to be released on DVD on June 19. It features performances filmed at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival over the past six years. Included are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pixies, The Mars Volta, plus Iggy & The Stooges. There’s also more than hour of bonus interview footage.