A 30-second TV commercial for GUNS N' ROSES' long-awaited new album, "Chinese Democracy" can be viewed below. "Chinese Democracy" will be released in the U.S. exclusively through Best Buy. The 14-song set will be available on CD, vinyl, and as a download. While singer Axl Rose has remained silent, co-managers Irving Azoff and Andy Gould ...
Portugal's Hardsound TV has posted video footage of EXTREME's October 29, 2008 concert in Libson. Watch the clip below. EXTREME filmed a video for the track "Ghost" on October 23 inside an old church in Massachusetts. Guitarist Nuno Bettencourt came up with the concept and directed the video. "Saudades de Rock", the new ...
Germán García of Moxtla.com has uploaded photos of TESTAMENT and JUDAS PRIEST's October 31, 2008 performances in Mexico City. TESTAMENT has recruited guitarist Glen Drover (ex-MEGADETH, KING DIAMOND) to fill in for Alex Skolnick on the band's current Mexican tour dates with JUDAS PRIEST. The two bands' setlists were as follows: TESTAMENT: 01. ...
NWOBHM legends TYGERS OF PAN TANG will play four shows in Italy in January 2009. The details are as follows: Jan. 09 - Stonehenge - Verona, Italy Jan. 10 - Sottotetto Sound Club - Bologna, Italy Jan. 11 - MotoRock - Como, Italy Jan. 12 - Viper Theatre - Firenze, Italy Special guests for the ...
According to VG Nett, the former boyfriend of GORGOROTH frontman Gaahl (real name: Kristian Espedal), 20-year-old Norwegian modeling agent Dan DeVero, claims to have received death threats from the black metal community after Gaahl publicly acknowledged that he was gay. In an interview that was published in the latest issue of ...
THE 11TH HOUR, the doom metal collaboration between Ed Warby (drums, guitar, bass, vocals, programming; GOREFEST, DEMIURG, HAIL OF BULLETS) and Rogga Johansson (vocals, additional guitar; RIBSPREADER, PAGANIZER, DEMIURG), has uploaded two tracks from its promotional recording, "The Origins Of Mourning", to MySpace. Check out the songs "One Last Smoke" and "Weep For Me" at ...
W.A.S.P. mainman Blackie Lawless has released the following message via the band's official web site, W.A.S.P. Nation: "'We the people of the United States.' These are the first seven words of the constitution of the United States of America. As I stood in the reception area of the Pentagon in Washington D.C. early ...
According to Metalhead.ro, MANOWAR will headline the last day of the B'estfest on July 5, 2009 in Bucharest, Romania. The festival will take place between July 2 and July 5, and the last day of the four-day event, dubbed "The Aftershock," is dedicated solely to heavy metal fans. The "Magic Circle Festival Volume ...
Video footage of AC/DC's October 30, 2008 and November 1, 2008 concerts at Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois can be viewed below (clips courtesy of AC/DC Italia). AC/DC's new album, "Black Ice", earned the second biggest sales week of 2008 in its first week on shelves, selling 784,000 copies in the U.S. since ...
Aaron Beck of The Columbus Dispatch recently conducted an interview with METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Columbus Dispatch: You've been doing this since you were a teenager. What do you physically and mentally still get out of playing METALLICA music? Hetfield: When I don't ...
