Italian power metallers BATTLE RAM will play a special cover set at the official Headbangers Open Air warm-up show on July 22, 2009 at Planet Alsen in Itzehoe, Germany. Headbangers Open Air festival will take place July 23-25, 2009 in in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ANGEL WITCH BULLET DEATHRIDERS ...
According to Metro Canada, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons will make his third appearance in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada this year when he returns on December 6 to cut the ribbon on a gigantic new electronics store. Simmons will be signing autographs and welcoming adoring fans into the new Future Shop at South Edmonton. The ...
HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — has entered Rockfield studios in Wales, U.K. to begin recording its new album, the group's first since SABBATH's "Dehumanizer" (which was also recorded at Rockfield) in 1992. Appice has issued ...
Aleksander "Olass" Mendyk, guitar player for long-running Polish thrash band ACID DRINKERS, died on November 30 in Krakow. The cause of death has not yet been determined. He was 29 years old. Formed in 1986, ACID DRINKERS has played over 500 gigs, including support slots with such international artists as DEEP PURPLE, MEGADETH, BRUCE DICKINSON, ...
Austrian heavy 'zine Stormbringer.at conducted an interview with vocalist Myles Kennedy and guitarist Mark Tremonti of ALTER BRIDGE prior to the band's November 27, 2008 concert in Vienna, Austria. Watch the 13-minute chat below. Mark Tremonti recently spoke with Music Radar about the possibility of his former band CREED reuniting next year if ...
Guitarist Jakob Batten of Danish metallers ILLDISPOSED has issued the following update: "After only one year's co-operation we have decided to part ways with AFM Records. We had two more albums to do with them but the co-operation went so bad we decided to split with them. We will soon introduce a new label." "The ...
ARTIFACT, the Norwegian band featuring former SIRENIA guitarist Björnar Landa, has finished filming a video for the song "New Messiah". The group says, "Although [the clip] hasn't been edited yet, we can promise you lots of smoke, sparks and pyrotechnics. We've even included a special surprise for you at the end of the video." ARTIFACT ...
Vocalist Tobias Sammet of German metallers EDGUY has clarified a statement that he made in a recent interview regarding his opinion of the U.S. and whether he would ever want to live there. Asked if the band would ever be really big outside mainland Europe, Sammet told Rushonrock.com, "It's getting better for us ...
Atlanta, Georgia-based metal band ORGAN has tapped Warren Riker (DOWN, CROWBAR, CYNIC) to produce its new album for an early 2009 release. Recording began in November 2008 at PigPen Studio in Athens, Georgia and will continue at Broken Wave Studios in Glendale, California. A new song, "Burnt Down Again", is available for streaming on ORGAN's ...
Huntington Beach, California-based progressive metallers PRYMARY have announced the addition of singer Chance Addison to the group's ranks. The band says, "It was thankfully a very short but fruitful search. PRYMARY has been in the studio adding Chance's vocals to the already completed songs. Chance comes to us from Las Vegas and brings a wealth ...
