Sweden's LITHIUM, the new band featuring former TIAMAT bassist Johnny Hagel on keyboards, have posted a video for the track "Anti Anthem" online at this location. "Anti Anthem" comes off the group's debut album, "Cold", available since Oct. 28 through MNW/No Fashion Records. As previously reported, LITHIUM will support PARADISE LOST and WITHIN ...
Norway's OLD MAN'S CHILD, featuring DIMMU BORGIR members Galder (guitars) and Nick Barker (drums, also in LOCKUP), have entered the national Norwegian Albums chart at position #34 with latest CD, "In Defiance Of Existence". "In Defiance Of Existence" is OLD MAN'S CHILD's first release since founder Galder joined DIMMU BORGIR, and it features original OMC ...
Seattle's hardcore/metalcore HIMSA have inked a worldwide deal with Prosthetic Records and have begun work on their latest album with producer Steve Carter at Bob Lang Studios in the band's hometown. A June release is expected. ...
ANDREW W.K. has commenced the recording sessions for the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed debut, "I Get Wet", tentatively due in late spring/early summer through Island DefJam Records. "You know when you get one of those weird things underneath your armpit?" Andrew told Rolling Stone. "That's what this album is — a growth. It's branching off, ...
Swedish death metallers PAGANIZER are currently completing work on their fourth full-length album, "Murder.Death.Kill", for a tentative late April release through Xtreem Music. The follow-up to last year's "Dead Unburied" is being recorded in two separate sessions, with the first half of the CD having been tracked in October 2002 at Soundlab Studios with producer ...
Despite the fact that it's already been two years since bassist Jason Newsted announced he was leaving METALLICA, the legal aspects of the separation have just now been fully resolved. "We're just now actually coming to a resolution on all of our agreements for our business things and stuff," Newsted told Launch. "It took awhile ...
IRON MAIDEN producer Kevin Shirley, who is currently working with the band at a London studio on their as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2000's "Brave New World", has posted the following recording update via his web site: "We tracked another new song [Tuesday], and as these are the last tracks for the album, the guys don't know ...
VOIVOD are hard at work producing the first music video for their new self-titled album, due on March 4 through Chophouse Records in partnership with Surfdog Records. Filming for the video for the album's first single, "We Carry On", was shot on location in San Francisco January 24-25 by directors Keith McCabe and Jeff Ertl. ...
ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow has posted the following tour report to the "Reports" section of the band's official web site: "We've played 4 of the 6 Scandinavian shows now...last night it was Gothenburg and we had a blast! The crowd was great and there were a few friends and realitves at the show too ...
The following is a re-posting of the latest installment of ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante's regular online update, as it appears on the group's official web site at www.anthrax.com: "THOSE WHOM WE COMETH FOR- "Yo, just wanted to drop a quick line about the US release for the new album. All that stuff people have been ...
