According to Deep-Purple.net, the second of the planned series of Tommy Bolin (late DEEP PURPLE/JAMES GANG guitarist) CDs and DVD has been compiled by Johnnie Bolin (Tommy Bolin‘s brother/drummer) and producer Greg Hampton. Due late September, “Whips and Roses II” features four alternate tracks from “Teaser” (“Vol. 1” contained alternate takes of the other five […]

METALLICA performed another new song (Video, Windows Media) — tentatively dubbed “New Song No. 2” — during their headlining appearance Saturday night (August 12) at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo, Japan.As was the case with all the concerts on the band’s recent European tour, METALLICA played their entire 1986 album, “Master of Puppets“, during […]

TRIVIUM shot a video for the song “Entrance of the Conflagration” with director Dale “Rage” Resteghini (MUDVAYNE, HATEBREED, UNEARTH, SHADOWS FALL) on Thursday, August 10 at Eon Loft in Los Angeles, California.Watch footage of TRIVIUM shooting the “Entrance of the Conflagration” video at YouTube.com.

Vocalist Urban Breed (ex-TAD MOROSE) has officially left BLOODBOUND, the Swedish metal band also featuring Fredrik Bergh (STREET TALK; bass, keyboards and backing vocals) and Tomas Olsson (lead and rhythm guitars). “I’ve thought about this for some time and I’ve decided not to let Tomas and Bergh have any more of my time,” Urban said […]

Two songs from the VIRGIN STEELE‘s forthcoming eleventh album, “Visions of Eden – The Lilith Project – A Barbaric Romantic Movie of the Mind” — “Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam)” and “The Hidden God” — have been made available for streaming. Check them out: “Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam)” : Windows […]

Finnish band EMBRAZE has a posted a new MP3 file containing audio samples of tracks that will appear on its fourth album, “The Last Embrace“, due on August 16. Download it at this location. “The Last Embrace” tentative track listing: 01. Carvings on the Gallowstree02. Branded03. Racing Against Time04. Dead Roses05. Liquid Fire06. Memory Trace […]

Critically-acclaimed sonic trailblazers THE ESOTERIC have posted three new tracks from their highly-anticipated new album, “Subverter“, online at their MySpace page. The tracks include the rocking “Destroy, She Said” as well as the titanic “Language Is a Virus / Shipyards of Foreign Cities” and the mind-bending “Clone Culture and the Cut-Up Method“. Produced and engineered […]

Norway’s GRIMFIST has issued the following update:“As many of you know, Frediablo sent out a statement a couple of weeks ago, about how fed up he is with being in a metal band, the genre and all that goes with it. Since we were already booked to do the Hole In The Sky festival and […]

Reunited New York thrashers NUCLEAR ASSAULT will release their first-ever DVD, “Louder Harder Faster“, on October 10 via Screaming Ferret Wreckords.Recorded during the band’s performance at the 2005 Louder Harder Faster Festival (taped on June 5, 2005), “Louder Harder Faster” also includes such extra bits as vintage live footage, slide shows (put to the original […]

SEVEN WITCHES, the East Coast-based band featuring former SAVATAGE guitarist Jack Frost and ex-HADES frontman Alan Tecchio, will release its first-ever DVD, “Years of the Witch“, on September 26 via Screaming Ferret Wreckords.Concert footage track listing on “Years of the Witch“:01. Open02. Dance With the Dead03. Apocalyptic Dreams04. Metal Tyrant05. The Answer06. Johnny07. Jam Session08. […]