Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O’Brien will fill in for Exodus’ Gary Holt when Holt leaves the Slayer European tour to play with his own band Exodus at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile on April 4. Holt has been filling in for Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman since the tour kicked off February 26 in Australia. […]

A snippet of a brand new KORN song that will appear on the band’s next album can be streamed using the SoundCloud player below (courtesy of the official KORN SoundCloud channel). In a January 2011 interview with Zoiks! Online, KORN guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer stated about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band’s […]

The fans demanded it… WHITESNAKE’s “Live At Donington 1990” DVD/live double CD set will now be available on June 3 in Europe and June 7 in North America via Frontiers Records. Since the inception of Whitesnake.com more than ten years ago, this DVD has been the most requested product from fans of the ‘SNAKE. On […]

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has inked a new deal with an indie label and plans to put out a new album this summer. The former Audioslave member has signed with New West Records, who will release World Wide Rebel Songs in a few months, according to Billboard.com. As with the guitarist’s previous […]

Arctic Monkeys have revealed that they enlisted Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme to sing on their new album. Homme produced some of the band’s 2009 album ‘Humbug’ and has joined the Sheffield band again to sing on their new effort, ‘Suck It And See’. The band told Q that Homme sings backing vocals […]

Black Country Communion have made public the artwork for their second albumВ  – and it’s below. Called 2, this is to be released on June 13 by Mascot Records in the UK and Europe. The band have also lined up the following shows for July: Sat. 23: Llandudno Cymru Arena Sun. 24: London High Voltage […]

Billboard reports ZZ Top is “in full production” on a new album, its long-awaited follow-up to 2003’s ‘Mescalero,’ which guitarist Billy F. Gibbons predicts will be out “by the end of the year.” Gibbons tells Billboard.com that the Texas trio has been working on the set in both Houston and Los Angeles. “I’ve got a […]

Sebadoh singer/guitarist Lou Barlow says he plans to tour and record again with J Mascis as Dinosaur Jr. The Sub Pop label is releasing a double-disc expanded version of Sebadoh’s 1994 album Bakesale in June, and Barlow will also reunite with former Dinosaur Jr. bandmate Mascis for a series of shows to play 1998’s Dinosaur […]

The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes have agreed to pay the band’s EMI Group label $950,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit, court papers showed Monday. A federal judge ruled last December that Santa Cruz-based Media Rights Technologies […]

Legendary rocker Alice Cooper spoke to Aol’s Noisecreep about ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’, a sequel to his 1975 concept album ‘Welcome to My Nightmare’ – his first “solo” release after the break-up of the original Alice Cooper band. “It will be out next year,” he said, “We have to do the whole festivals tour first […]