According to TMZ.com, two tour buses that are being used on the “The Soundtrack Of Summer” trek featuring STYX and FOREIGNER went up in flames early Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia. The fire started shortly after noon at a tour bus parking facility and involved only “crew buses” and not “band buses,” according to the report. […]
BABYMETAL — the heavy metal offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Japanese mix of schoolgirl J-pop and death metal — kicked off its world tour with headlining show last night (Tuesday, July 1) at La Cigale in Paris, France. Fan-filme video footage of the concert can be seen […]
Heating up summer to a boiling point, Grammy Award-winning hard rock luminaries KORN have revealed the official details for their latest release, a deluxe reissue of their 2013 album, “The Paradigm Shift: World Tour Edition” (Prospect Park). The collection will be exclusively available at Best Buy stores in North America starting July 15 and available […]
Guitarist Andreas Kisser of Brazilian/American metallers SEPULTURA was interviewed at this year’s edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting, which was held June 27-29 in Dessel, Belgium. You can now watch the chat below. SEPULTURA‘s new album, “The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart”, sold around 1,800 copies in the United States in […]
Swedish metallers IN FLAMES are filming a video for their new single, “Rusted Nail”. A photo from the set of the video shoot can be seen below. “Rusted Nail” is taken from IN FLAMES‘ eleventh album, “Siren Charms”, which will be released in the U.S. on September 9 via Sony/RED. The CD was recorded at […]
Joe Daly of The Weeklings recently conducted an interview with former AS I LAY DYING and current WOVENWAR guitarist Nick Hipa. The Weeklings: When and how did the new band come together? Nick: Last May, the fourth or the fifth [of May 2013], we played our last AS I LAY DYING show in Shanghai, China, […]
Seminal Swedish metallers AT THE GATES are preparing to enter Studio Fredman in Gothenburg to begin recording their much-anticipated comeback studio album, “At War With Reality”, for a tentative October/November release via Century Media. The CD will be mixed at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with Jens Bogren (OPETH, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, PARADISE LOST, KREATOR). […]
The official video for “Magic Forest”, the title track of the new album from the Finnish female-fronted symphonic metal band AMBERIAN DAWN, can be seen below. The CD will be released on July 8 (one day earlier internationally) via Napalm Records. Says AMBERIAN DAWN songwriter Tuomas Seppälä: “I’m very glad about this new deal with […]
AMON AMARTH and SABATON will join forces for a North American tour this fall. The trek kicks off on September 25 in Riverside, California and visits a total of 35 North American cities before coming to an end on November 9 in Tucson, Arizona. Thrash metal band SKELETONWITCH will open each show, except in New […]
METALLICA played the “…And Justice For All” song “Frayed Ends Of Sanity” live in its entirety for the first time earlier tonight (Wednesday, May 28) at the Sonisphere festival in Helsinki, Finland. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below.METALLICA‘s setlist for the Helsinki concert: 01. Battery 02. Master Of Puppets 03. Welcome […]
GUNS N’ ROSES frontman Axl Rose has responded to a recent ConcertHotels.com list of “The World’s Greatest Singers,” which placed him in the top spot. The chart ranked vocalists based on their vocal range and claimed Axl‘s recorded notes spanned nearly six octaves, from F1 (in the 2008 “Chinese Democracy” song “There Was a Time”), […]
NIGHTWISH singer Floor Jansen, who is currently touring South America with her REVAMP project, has released the following open letter to her fans: “Dear fans, “After nightmares and many worried thoughts, I decided to write this letter in reaction to the negative messages that are going around about me on the Internet. Messages that […]