‘Juggernaut Of Justice’, a brand new song from Canadian heavy metal legends Anvil, is available for free download as part of The End Records’ spring 2011 sampler at this location. “Juggernaut Of Justice” is the title track of Anvil’s new album, due on May 10 via The End Records. The CD was recorded at Dave […]

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser will play eight shows with Anthrax in July as a temporary replacement for Scott Ian, whose wife, Pearl Aday, is reportedly expecting the couple’s first baby. The daughter of legendary crooner Meat Loaf, Pearl was named after the infamous Janis Joplin and is the god daughter to Maria Muldaur. In addition, […]

D.R.I. will be playing for the first time ever in Bulgaria next Tuesday, 15 March. Tangra Mega Rock hook up with vocalist Kurt Brecht on the phone: YOU HAVE SOME VERY SHORT SONGS WITHIN YOUR DISCOGRAPHY, PLEASE TELL US – HOW MANY SONGS IS THE AVERAGE SETLIST OF D.R.I. NOWADAYS? Around thirty five. WHAT IS […]

For their upcoming shows in 2011, SLIPKNOT has asked Donnie Steele to fill in for the late Paul Gray on bass. Donnie was the original guitar player in Slipknot and had actually reconnected with Paul in recent years. Said the band on their decision, “Donnie was in the band at the very beginning, and rather […]

MOTГ–RHEAD frontman Lemmy Kilmister has topped video and DVD charts with his movie 49%, Motherfucker, 51% Son Of A Bitch, and his bandmembers – guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee – have spoken out for not being more in the film. See the Artisan News video report below:

Kyle Buchanan of NYmag.com reports that HBO has cast METALLICA drummer LARS ULRICH in Hemingway and Gellhorn, starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen. Ulrich will play Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens in the TV movie, which chronicles the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.В  pictured below: Joris Ivens (left) with Ernest Hemingway […]

The surviving members of Pantera will never play together again, the band’s manager has stated. Rumors have been circulating about the possibility of a one-off appearance by Phil Anselmo, Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown – with Black Label Society mainman Zakk Wylde playing guitar in place of Dimebag Darrell Abbott, who was shot dead on […]

Bob Rock, the mega-producer behind such massive hits as Metallica’s “Black Album” and MГ¶tley CrГјe’s Dr. Feelgood, is now setting his sites on one of the biggest hitmakers of the early ’80s, Loverboy. Rock, who engineered the band’s debut album (which included the FM staple, “Turn Me Loose”), contacted the Calgary, Alberta band, who were […]

Rocker Gene Simmons is heading back to Israel for the first time in more than 50 years to explore his Jewish roots. The KISS star, born Chaim Witz, emigrated to America with his mother Flora, a Holocaust survivor, at the age of eight after his parents divorced, and he has never returned. But the 61 […]

R.E.M. continue to roll out the videos for their new album, ‘Collapse Into Now,’ which was released this week. Michael Stipe oversaw the plan to have noted filmmakers create videos for each of the disc’s 12 tracks. The newest one to surface is ‘Oh My Heart,’ directed by Jem Cohen. A new York-based filmmaker, Cohen […]