Carmine Appice (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLUE MURDER, VANILLA FUDGE) and Paul Shortino (ROUGH CUTT, QUIET RIOT, HEAVEN & EARTH) are the latest musicians to confirm their guest appearances on the upcoming CD from MOONSTONE, the new project of Italian guitarist Matteo Filippini. Appice and Shortino will be heard on the song "Pictures of My Lonely Days". ...
HATESPHERE, CATARACT, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, EKTOMORF and MAROON are among the bands confirmed to perform at the "Fuck Christmas 2004" festival on December 18 in Hamburg, Germany. Said to be one of the biggest indoor festivals in Germany for modern metal, "Fuck Christmas 2004" will feature more than 25 bands performing for about eight hours ...
Finland's SUNRIDE have set "The End Justifies the Means" as the title of their third album, tentatively due in February/March 2005 through People Like You Records. A video for the first single, "Waiting For the Grace", will be shot later this year. The follow-up to last year's "Through the Red", "The End Justifies the Means" ...
KAMELOT have finalized the track listing for their new album, "The Black Halo", due on February 28, 2005 through SPV Records. The follow-up to last year's "Epica" was produced by Sascha Paeth and Miro at Gate and Pathway studios in Germany and features guest appearances by Shagrath (DIMMU BORGIR), Jens Johansson (STRATOVARIUS), Simone Simons (EPICA), ...
Demo MP3 samples from DEATH DESTRUCTION, the new extreme metal project featuring EVERGREY members Henrik Danhage (guitar) and Jonas Ekdahl (drums), have been posted online at BeyondEarCandy.com. Songs available for preview are as follows: "Hellfire", "Chained In Thoughts", "Immortal Dream" and "Nothing Less Than God". In a recent interview with BeyondEarCandy.com, Danhage spoke ...
SLAYER fan site SlaverSaves.com is currently hosting live videos from SLAYER's 1983 performance at the Woodstock in Los Angeles. The tracks available for download are "Black Magic", "Tormentor" and "Blitzkrieg (Final Command)". SLAYER recently issued a live DVD, "Still Reigning", via Universal Music. The disc features, for the first time ever, the original ...
KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons attended the "Art Rocks" event at The Z Gallery on Thursday (November 25) at The Old Truman Brewery in London, England. Check out pictures from Film Magic and Wire Image. Simmons is currently taping a British reality TV series in which he is starring as a public ...
The Sunday Mirror reports that detectives are probing a possible link between the $3.8 million jewel raid at Ozzy Osbourne's home and the pop talent show "The X Factor" on which Sharon Osbourne is a judge. Contestants and crew who visited the Osbournes' mansion during filming for the TV series could face questioning as part ...
Did METALLICA inadvertently "borrow" a musical idea from another band for their 1986 dark "power ballad" "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"? Several Internet reports definitely seem to suggest so. A song called "Rainbow Warrior" by the obscure NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) band BLEAK HOUSE (photo) appears to contain undeniable similarities to the ...
Finnish cello-rockers APOCALYPTICA have set "Apocalyptica" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in February 2005. "In my opinion, our next album comes across like a mixture of 'Reflections' [2003] and the group's current live sound," Eicca Toppinen told Finland's Sonera Plaza. "So I think that we are now about to ...
