THE GENTLE STORM, the collaboration between AYREON mastermind Arjen Lucassen and former THE GATHERING singer Anneke Van Giersbergen, will release its debut album, "The Diary", on March 25 via InsideOut Music. The effort will be "an epic concept double album" and "a combination of classical meets metal and acoustic folk," according to Lucassen. The first ...
Australian hard rockers AIRBOURNE have signed a worldwide deal with Spinefarm Records. The band is tentatively scheduled to release its fourth album later this year. "We're pumped up to have signed on the dotted line to the world's toughest and truest hard rock label, Spinefarm," says AIRBOURNE in a statement. "We have worked with some ...
Italy's Accordo.it recently conducted an interview with former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman. You can now watch the chat below. Asked what he would have become had he not gotten into heavy metal music, Friedman responded: "I'm not just a metal musician, although metal is maybe what I'm known for. What I love about ...
The Front Row Report recently conducted an interview with PAPA ROACH bassist Tobin Esperance. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. Speaking about PAPA ROACH's collaboration with father-and-son super-producers Kevin and Kane Churko (FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, IN THIS MOMENT) on the band's eighth full-length album, "F.E.A.R.", which is being ...
According to The Pulse Of Radio, THREE DAYS GRACE has revealed that the band's fifth studio album will be called "Human" and will arrive on March 31. The announcement comes just as the first single, "I Am Machine", tops the rock radio chart and gives the Canadian act its thirteenth No. 1 track on the ...
During a brand new interview with Australia's Loud magazine, MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson was asked if he feels in hindsight that the band's most recent lineup changes — with the departures of drummer Shawn Drover and guitarist Chris Broderick — had been coming for a while. "Everything kind of shut down after the ...
"Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck", the first documentary about late NIRVANA frontman Kurt Cobain made with the authorization and cooperation of his family, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Saturday (January 24). According to The Pulse Of Radio, the film was praised in several reviews, with The Wrap calling it ...
On Monday, January 26, RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson was interviewed by John Derringer of the Toronto, Ontario, Canada rock station Q107. You can listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. Celebrating 40 years, RUSH confirmed that the "R40 Live" tour will visit 34 cities throughout North America this summer beginning May 8 in ...
According to AP.com, Denis Shaforostov, formerly of Ukrainian metalcore act MAKE ME FAMOUS, is rumored to have joined ASKING ALEXANDRIA as the replacement for recently departed singer Danny Worsnop. AP.com has listed several reasons why Shaforostov would make the ideal candidate to step in for Worsnop. Firstly, MAKE ME FAMOUS was stylistically similar ...
"Unholy Savior", the third studio album from Finnish female-fronted metallers BATTLE BEAST, has registered the following first-week chart positions: Germany: #39 Switzerland: #71 France: #166 Commented BATTLE BEAST guitarist/vocalist Anton Kabanen: "After the extremely painful birth of 'Unholy Savior', to be rewarded with the first place on the official charts in our home country feels ...
