ALICE IN CHAINS’ October 8 concert at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington as part of the BlackDiamondSkye tour will be filmed in 3D with current 3D camera technology, according to a posting on the band’s Facebook page. The BlackDiamondSkye tour also features DEFTONES and MASTODON. The trek is named after each of the three […]

Lordi drummer Kita has been fired – for unmasking himself. The band have issued the following statement: “Kita has made a decision to pursue his own career publicly as himself, without his alter ego Kita. This is in direct conflict with one of the cornerstones of Lordi’s image. Therefore it is not possible for him […]

Dutch death metallers Sinister will release their new album, ‘Legacy of Ashes’, on December 10 via Massacre Records. The CD was recorded at Soundlodge studios in Rhauderfehn, Germany with producer JГ¶rg Uken (God Dethroned, Obscenity). The band states, “Expect the most brutal and fast Sinister album ever.” Check out the cover artwork below:

Author Joel McIver, whose previous books include Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Holy Rock & Rollers: The Story of Kings of Leon, will deliver two new hard rock bios for the coming year. On his website, McIver announced the 2011 release of Crazy Train: The High Life and Tragic Death of Randy Rhoads and Overkill: The […]

INXS will release a new single on Monday, with Australian vocalist/actor Dan Sultan at the mic. The song is a new version of their 1980 hit ‘Just Keep Walking’. Sultan – who appeared in the 2009 film Bran Nue Dae with Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush – isn’t the only guest vocalist appearing on INXS’s forthcoming […]

The festivalВ open to the public last Saturday, October 2 at the ‘Hristo Botev’ hall in Sofia. And it was a pretty successful edition of the convention. A Bodysuspension showВ was presented for the first time in Bulgaria by Spannish artists Sangre Fria (Cold blood). TheyВ were hanging on hooks …erm, pretty spectacular stuff, don’t you think? Check […]

The Sun newspaper reports that the imprisoned George Michael was delighted to receive a handwritten letter from Sir Paul McCartney. The ‘Faith’ singer is serving an eight-week sentence after crashing his car into a high street store. A source told The Sun, “He got the letter on Monday and was really chuffed. Sir Paul said […]

STYX frontman Tommy Shaw has posted an audio clip from his new Bluegrass side-project, THE GREAT DIVIDE, due out in 2011. Check it out ‘The Next Right Thing’ here using the music player in the left hand column. More details will be revealed soon. As previously reported, STYX are streaming their new EP, Regeneration Volume […]

Ex-DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy, who is currently performing with AVENGED SEVENFOLD filling in James “The Rev” Sullivan, met up with Sullivan’s family for the first time on on September 17th in Irvine, CA. Sullivan died on December 28th, 2009 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol. Chris Epting at Beliefnet.com documented the […]

The allegations come from the Anti-Defamation League, who claim the stage show uses imagery associated with stereotypes about Jews and money. In particular the claims point out that during the performance of the song ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’, an animated projection shows airplanes dropping bombs in the shapes of Jewish Stars of David followed by dollar […]