The current line-up for this year’s Download Festival is as follows: June 9: Main Stage Tool, Deftones, Coheed & Cambria, Soulfly, Strapping Young Lad, Soil, Amplifier. Snickers Stage All-American Rejects, Atreyu, InMe, Sevendust, Clutch, Fishbone, Dredg, Bleeding Through, Throwdown. Gibson/ MySpace.Com Stage Ginger & The Sonic Circus, Backyard Babies, Cathedral Engerica, Bullets & Octane, My […]

House Of Blow, featuring Sean Martin of Hatebreed and Daryl Palumbo from Glassjaw/Head Automatica, are working on an album. Wanna see them in action?

Slayer‘s Tom Araya has had a minor gallbladder operation. But this does mean that the start of the ‘Unholy Alliance’ US tour, headlined by Slayer, has been postponed until June 10. Also on the bill are Lamb Of God, Children Of Bodom and Mastodon.

Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor is currently working songs with poet/rapper Saul Williams. These are expected to be used by the latter on his next album, due out in ’07.

’80s melodic hard rockers Winger have re-formed, and are planning to release a new studio album in October, through Frontiers. Three original members are in the new-look band – bassist/vocalist Kip Winger, guitarist Reb Beach and drummer Rod Morgenstein. They’re joined by guitarist/vocalist John Roth keyboard player Cenk Eroglu. Expect a full world tour to […]

The Tuska Festival in Finland have now confirmed the line-up for the event, which happens from June 30 to July 2: June 30 – Anathema, Arch Enemy, Sonata Arctica, Mokoma, Suburban Tribe, DragonForce, Wintersun, Deathstars, Impaled Nazarene. July 1 – Venom, Opeth, Diablo, Amorphis, Nine, Epica, Stam1na, Norther, Metsat? Kalmah, The Scourger, Pain Confessor, April. […]

The Manic Street Preachers front man James Dean Bradfield will release his debut album ‘The Great Western’ on July 24 and precede it with the single ‘That’s No Way To Tell A Lie’ on July 10.The album also sees a contribution from Nicky Wire who wrote the lyrics for ‘Bad Boys And Painkillers’ and a […]

Former Prong guitarist Atron has temporarily joined Society 1. This will allow the band to carry on touring and recording, while regular guitarist Slin is on the road with the Revolting Cocks.

Society 1 have set “The Years of Spiritual Dissent” as the title for their first release through Crash Music, Inc. The set is a collection of material featured on Society 1‘s first two albums — “Slacker Jesus” and “Words as Carriers” — plus two cover songs, a brand new track entitled “This Is The End”, […]

Stone Sour have now brought in Roy Mayorga of Soulfly as their permanent drummer. The band’s new album, ‘Come What(ever) May’, is due out in late August.