NOSTRADAMEUS drummer Esko Salow has posted the following message on the band’s official web site:“This is a happy moment for us in NOSTRADAMEUS. Time has come for us too announce the latest addition to the band, a dear friend and excellent guitar player with the name Lennart Specht. After the decision too split our ways […]

Swedish death metallers NOMINON have announced the addition of bassist Anders MalmstrГ¶m (IMMEMOREAL, PROPHANITY) to the group’s ranks. “After completely shocking the other members by learning eight songs in just a weekend, [there] were no discussions at all, besides that Anders definitely is the right man for the job,” the band writes on its web […]

Norwegian melodic metal band ENSLAVEMENT OF BEAUTY has had a change of heart and will carry on despite a previous announcement that the group was about to split. ENSLAVEMENT OF BEAUTY‘s new album will be titled “Mere Contemplations” and will contain 10 tracks of the band’s unique melodic metal. The CD will be released via […]

WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale has issued the following update on the band’s current activities:“We have LOTS of ‘irons in the fire’ right now, and all important. I feel it’s time to address the future and know the past will ultimately take care of itself.“I’m coming into London for the Classic Rock Awards, with fingers crossed, […]

“The Open Door“, the latest album from the EVANESCENCE, has entered the national charts in the following countries (in alphabetical order):Australia: #1Belgium: #10Brazil: #28Canada: #2Denmark: #5Finland: #5France: #2Germany: #1Holland: #2Hungary: #11Ireland: #3New Zealand: #2Norway: #3Poland: #49Spain: #5Sweden: #2Switzerland: #1U.K.: #2USA: #1

E-FORCE, the band featuring former VOIVOD bassist/vocalist Eric Forrest, is scheduled to enter the studio in Toulouse, France on October 30 with producer Patrick Fredrich to begin recording its sophomore album, tentatively due in early 2007 via France’s Thundering Records.As previously reported, E-FORCE have posted three songs from their 2006 demo on their MySpace.com page. […]

Spinefarm Records has set a November 15 release date for a “best of” collection from Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA, entitled “The Collection 1999-2006“. In addition to material from the band’s studio albums, the CD will include new versions of the songs “My Land” and “Replica“, both of which originally appeared on the group’s 1999 […]

Patti Smith and Blondie are amongst the artists performing at the closing of the legendary CBGB venue this weekend.Both artists alongside such acts as The Ramones and the Talking Heads made a name for themselves at the venue in the seventies.Owner Hilly Kristal has been forced to close its doors after the landlords, the Bowery […]

NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends DIAMOND HEAD, one of the most influential British rock bands of the past 25 years, will release their new DVD, entitled “To the Devil His Due“, in North America on November 21 via MVD Visual.“To the Devil His Due” was recorded at London’s Astoria theatre on November […]

Finnish metallers BURNING POINT have posted the cover artwork (by Mattias NorГ©n; EVERGREY, KAMELOT, KOTIPELTO) for their third album, entitled “Burned Down the Enemy“, at this location. The CD is scheduled for a late 2006/early 2007 release via Metal Heaven Records.Songtitles that were recorded are as follows (in no particular order):01. Hell Awaits02. Heart Of […]