The masked metal masters Slipknot have revealed that their long-awaited new full-length studio album will be entitled “All Hope Is Gone“. As you already know, the CD shall be released via Roadrunner Records on August 25 in Europe, and its title track shall be made available for free download tomorrow from RoadrunneRrecords.com Рё Slipknot1.com. The […]

As we informed you a month ago, Holland’s sympho metallers Within Temptation shall release a double DVD on September 22, recorded live at Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena on February 7, 2008. The edition, which will be entitled “Black Symphony“, was shot with 14 full HD cameras and shows the band performing to 10,000 fans with the […]

Iced Earth have revealed the release dates for their new full-length studio album, “The Crucible of Man (Something Wicked Part II)” (view cover in the left). The follow-up to last year’s “Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part I)” will surface via SPV on Records on September 5 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and on September 8 […]

As a tribute to Iron Maiden, UK’s Kerrang! Magazine has persuaded 15 of its favorite bands to record cover versions of the NWOBHM gods’ greatest anthems for an exciting free CD entitled “Maiden Heaven” (view cover in the left), which will be available only with the July 19 issue of the magazine. The tracklist and […]

Norwegian gothic metallers Sirenia, who recently recruited 25-year-old Spanish singer Ailyn as the replacement for Monika Pedersen, have announced they’ve completed the songwriting process for their next album and will start recording it in July. The work will take place at Sound Suite Studios in France and Stargoth Studios in Norway, while mixing and mastering […]

Nine mastered and finished tracks from Guns N’ Roses‘ 14-years-in-the-making album “Chinese Democracy” were leaked online yesterday by the website Antiquiet.com, prompting a quick cease-and-desist from the band’s handlers and the removal of the links. Six of the songs have already leaked in one unfinished form or another – “Better”, “The Blues”, “Chinese Democracy”, “Madagascar”, […]

Ahead of the release of their new album “Beautiful Future”, Primal Scream have made a brand-new track available to download for free. The word goes about “Urban Guerilla” – a cover version of a Hawkwind song, which will not be on the album, but provides a taster of the record’s krautrock-pop feel. To get it, […]

Kerry King has told music journalist Joel McIver (a.o. Metal Hammer) that Slayer have already completed some new song ideas. “We’re supposed to have a new album ready at the end of the year!”, the guitarist has revealed. There’s a possibility the thrash metal four-piece to perfom some of the new songs at the upcoming […]

Bulgarian heavy metal aprtiots Epizod have just released a new album. It’s called “The Old Warrior” (view cover in the left).

After guitarist and main composer Timo Tolkki left Stratovarius in the end of May, the future of Finland’s metal defenders was uncertain, but things seem to get better now. The remaining members Timo Kotipelto (vocals), Jens Johansson (keyboards), Lauri Porra (bass), and JГ¶rg Michael (drums), as well as a new, young Finnish guitarist whose name […]