Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N’ ROSES), Warren DeMartini (RATT) and Billy Duffy (THE CULT) are among the musicians that performed with CAMP FREDDY last Saturday night (August 5) at a private event being held at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California. Other guests at the concert included Steve Isaacs, Steve Jones, Mark McGrath, […]

Two songs from the VIRGIN STEELE‘s forthcoming eleventh album, “Visions of Eden – The Lilith Project – A Barbaric Romantic Movie of the Mind” — “Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam)” and “The Hidden God” — have been made available for streaming. Check them out: “Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam)” : Windows […]

Finnish band EMBRAZE has a posted a new MP3 file containing audio samples of tracks that will appear on its fourth album, “The Last Embrace“, due on August 16. Download it at this location. “The Last Embrace” tentative track listing: 01. Carvings on the Gallowstree02. Branded03. Racing Against Time04. Dead Roses05. Liquid Fire06. Memory Trace […]

Critically-acclaimed sonic trailblazers THE ESOTERIC have posted three new tracks from their highly-anticipated new album, “Subverter“, online at their MySpace page. The tracks include the rocking “Destroy, She Said” as well as the titanic “Language Is a Virus / Shipyards of Foreign Cities” and the mind-bending “Clone Culture and the Cut-Up Method“. Produced and engineered […]

Norway’s GRIMFIST has issued the following update:“As many of you know, Frediablo sent out a statement a couple of weeks ago, about how fed up he is with being in a metal band, the genre and all that goes with it. Since we were already booked to do the Hole In The Sky festival and […]

IRON MAIDEN‘s new song “Different World” has been made available for streaming at this location.The opening track on MAIDEN‘s upcoming album “A Matter of Life and Death“, “Different World” is the shortest song on the CD at a mere four minutes.

Indiana-based thrashers YEAR OF DESOLATION have posted an early mix of the band’s song “Flavor of the Weak” on their MySpace page as a pre-cursor to their forthcoming Prosthetic Records debut.Currently on tour across the United States with CERBERUS and FOREVER IN TERROR on the “Cultivating The Masses” tour, YEAR OF DESOLATION just recently completed […]

Relapse Records has uploaded another new SUFFOCATION song, entitled “Abomination Reborn“, at this location. The track comes off the group’s new, self-titled album, due on September 19 in North America (September 25 internationally) via Relapse. The CD was recorded at Full Force Studios in Long Island, NY and will feature artwork from tattoo artist JonZig. […]

TRUE SYMPHONIC ROCKESTRA, the international opera-oriented project featuring contributions from DREAM THEATER frontman James LaBrie, has posted audio samples of the tracks “Nessun Dorma“, “La Donna e Mobile“, “My Way” and “Tu Ca Nun Chiange” on its official MySpace page.When the TRUE SYMPHONIC ROCKESTRA concept was started back in 2000, the basic idea behind it […]

With only two weeks to go until the Kerrang! Awards 2006, the Nominations for the most debauched rock ‘n’ roll event of the year have been unveiled. Exclusively announced at the Kerrang! Day of Rock on 10 August 2006 at Virgin Megastore (the Official Retail Sponsor of the Kerrang! Awards) on London’s Oxford Street, the […]