DEICIDE’s concert at the Rio Grande Hotel in Laredo, TX Friday night (July 14) was shut down by the police after four songs and DEICIDE guitarist Ralph Santolla was reportedly arrested after he allegedly threw a “Red Bull” at one of the officers.

According to Loud! Online, Jeremy Lammas, guitarist and founding member of Australia’s avant garde grind combo ONE STEP BEYOND, was killed in a road accident. Jeremy died on July 12 when his car veered into a truck as he drove to Melbourne.At the time of Lammas‘ death, ONE STEP BEYOND was preparing material for its […]

Swedish hardcore rockers WONDERLAND DEMENTATION DEPT. will release their brand new EP, “Conquest of the Last Frontier“, at the end of July through Mind Riot Records (Europe) and The Orchard (U.S.). Three tracks from the upcoming EP — “American Liberation”, “Puppeteers of the New Age” and the first single, “Black Channel” — can be found […]

UNEARTH‘s video for the track “Giles” has been posted online in the following formats: Windows Media Quicktime In other news, Metal Blade Records has uploaded two new UNEARTH songs: “This Glorious Nightmare” (mp3) “Sanctity of Brothers” (mp3)

Swedish melodic metal masters LION’S SHARE have uploaded another batch of photos from last week’s vocal recording sessions for their new album at www.myspace.com/lionsshare. This time the band went to a house in Falun, Sweden (to be able to work closer to singer Patrik Johansson‘s home), and set up a mobile studio there. Patrik (also […]

Versailles Records, in conjunction with Rocketman Management, has announced plans to release the first-ever live album by THE SCREAM. Featuring John Corabi on lead vocals prior to joining MГ–TLEY CRГњE, and former RACER X guitarist Bruce Bouillet on lead guitar, this seven-song show was recorded for KNAC in 1992, and marks one of Corabi‘s last […]

You can now listen to two new songs — “Carve Your Heart Out” and “The Wrecking” — taken from the upcoming FUCK THE FACTS album, “Stigmata High-Five“, at this location.“Stigmata High-Five” will be released August 22 (August 28 internationally) through Relapse Records. Check out the e-card here.View the album cover at this location.“Stigmata High-Five” track […]

Due to copyright and trademark issues, the band formerly known as RHAPSODY has changed its name to RHAPSODY OF FIRE. The band members consider this a great new start, reflecting the emboldened and increasingly grandiose direction that their music has taken. With a new record company in Magic Circle Music, a new tour planned and […]

IGNITE‘s video for the song “Bleeding” has been posted online at this location. The clip is the first video from IGNITE‘s new album, “Our Darkest Days“, which was recently released through Abacus Recordings. The performance footage of the video was shot in the blistering California desert by director Chris Sims (LAMB OF GOD, AS I […]

Steve Penhollow of The Journal Gazette recently conducted an interview with Rob Zombie. A few excerpts from the chat follow:On bands that offer stripped-down shows:“I think people go to concerts now expecting to be bored, which is horrible. I find myself watching concerts and thinking: ‘What are they doing? Why would they think I would […]