According to The Publican's Morning Advertiser, IRON MAIDEN's Trooper beer has sold 3.5 million pints since its launch in May 2013 without its brewer, Robinsons, spending a penny on marketing. As U.K. beer in general struggled to raise the bar, with sales dropping by nearly 5 percent last year, worldwide demand for Trooper ...
On March 18, Armoury Records will release a 3CD set of TWISTED SISTER's "You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll", "Come Out And Play" and "Love Is For Suckers" as part of the Armoury Classics series. This is the first time these albums will be available in a single set. All three of these original Atlantic ...
Tuomas Holopainen — the keyboardist and main songwriter of NIGHTWISH — has spent most of 2013 writing and producing his solo album based on a graphic novel called "The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck", written and illustrated by Don Rosa. "Music Inspired By The Life And Times Of Scrooge - Written And Produced By ...
Italy's Linearock recently spoke to BUTCHER BABIES. You can now watch the chat below. BUTCHER BABIES' debut album, "Goliath", sold around 3,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 107 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD came out on July 9, 2013 via ...
Impact metal channel conducted an interview with bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. of Brazilian/American metallers SEPULTURA prior to the band's February 4 concert in Dublin, Ireland. 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 ...
German alcoholic thrashers TANKARD entered Studio 23 in Frankfurt, Germany last monh to begin recording the follow-up to their acclaimed 2012 album "A Girl Called Cerveza". Entitled "R.I.B." (Rest In Beer), the new CD will be released on June 20 via Nuclear Blast. The fourth and final video report from the studio in which TANKARD ...
The latest episode of the "Couch Of Metal" podcast features an interview with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson and Joel McIver, the co-author of Ellefson's memoir, "My Life With Deth". You can now listen to the chat, which was conducted in early December 2013, using the audio player below. "My Life With Deth" was made available ...
On February 25, Char Tupper of MetalTitans.com conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho of Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. You can now listen to the chat below. CHILDREN OF BODOM kicked off a six-week major-market North American headlining tour on February 14 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada ...
Los Angeles-based, occult-themed traditional heavy metal band HUNTRESS has uploaded behind-the-scenes footage from the U.K. leg of its recent European tour with LAMB OF GOD. Check it out below. HUNTRESS' sophomore album, "Starbound Beast", was released on June 28, 2013 in Europe and on July 2, 2013 in North America via Napalm Records. The CD ...
Frontiers Records will release L.R.S.'s debut album, "Down To The Core", on March 21 in Europe and March 25 in North America. L.R.S. stands for the new melodic rock musical alliance between singer Tommy La Verdi (21 GUNS), guitarist Josh Ramos (THE STORM, HARDLINE) and drummer Michael Shotton (VON GROOVE, AIRTIME). Started initially as a ...
