On May 9 Lacuna Coil were featured artist on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, performing on the show’s outdoor stage in front of hundreds of fans. A video clip of Lacuna Coil playing their latest single, “Our Truth” in what was their first live U.S. television appearance can be viewed here.

St. Louis, Missouri’s End Of Destiny have inked a deal with Open Grave & Red State Records. The band’s debut full-length album is tentatively due late summer/early fall. A sample track, entitled “The Day the World Fell Apart”, is available for download at this location.

On May 28th Holy Moses will re-release their 1992 Best Of album Too Drunk To Fuck, which will feature the legendary live demo, Death Bells, as bonus material. The demo tracks were recorded betweem 1982 and 1984. The track list for the re-release is as follows: ‘Too Drunk To Fuck’, ‘Fight For Your Rights’, ‘Nothing […]

According to The End Records, Agalloch‘s new album Asheds Against The Grain has been slated for an August 8th release.Рўhe track list is as follows: ‘Limbs’, ‘Falling Snow’, ‘This White Mountain On Which You Will Die’, ‘Fire Above, Ice Below’, ‘Not Unlike The Waves’, ‘Our Fortress Is Burning… I’, ‘Our Fortress Is Burning… II – […]

Stunted Records have just released a nine-track compilation called ‘Sound Invasion’. This features Fulc, Kite, Ten Seconds Of Chaos, Tacoma and Somewherenothere. It’s currently available only on Karmadownload as digital downloads.

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 […]