Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have posted the following message on their official web site: "We're writing this at the backstage of Harpo's, a venue in Detroit. We've done seven shows so far — five in U.S. and two in Canada. One more is coming up in an hour and a half. After a long time ...
Faroe Islands metallers TÝR have lined up the following dates in January: Jan. 24 - Odense, DEN - Badstuen Jan. 25 - Lübeck, GER - Treibsand Jan. 26 - Osnabrück, GER - N8 (Winternoise Festival) Support at the shows will come from SVARTSOT. TÝR will enter Jacob Hansen's (RAUNCHY, ROB ROCK, HATESPHERE, MERCENARY) studio in ...
Finnish folk/pagan metal band MOONSORROW will enter the studio in January to record a new mini-CD, entitled "Tulimyrsky" (Firestorm). The effort is tentatively scheduled for release on March 26, 2008 through Spinefarm Records. More information will be made available soon. MOONSORROW has been confirmed for the Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August ...
Former SCORPIONS drummer Herman Rarebell will be a special guest on the Greek Internet radio station Rockmachine.gr on Sunday, November 24 between 11.00 and 13.00 Central European Time. During the first half of the show, members of the Greek SCORPIONS fan club will play rare tunes from the band before Herman takes over ...
SEPULTURA frontman Derrick Green has posted the fourth entry in an ongoing tour diary covering the band's first-ever appearance in India. It reads as follows: "We have a long travel day ahead of us to Shillong and we check out of the hotel at 5 in the morning and head to the airport. We will ...
Vocalist Mikkel Sandager of the Danish metallers MERCENARY has issued the following update: "Today is quite a big day for me as I finished the final clean parts and did all of my screaming parts for the next MERCENARY album. The album has a title but that's not official yet. "I think it is safe ...
RAM, the traditional Gothenburg, Sweden-based heavy metal band featuring Leif Larsson (ex-FROZEN EYES, NME WITHIN) and Morgan Pettersson (ex-B-THONG), will headline the Scandinavian Metal Attack festival at Boite à Musiques in Wattleros, France on January 19, 2008. As previously reported, RAM also headline the Pounding Metal Fest on November 17 at Sala Ritmo in Madrid, ...
Belgian death metallers PREJUDICE have commented on the passing of DECAPITATED drummer Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, who died in a Russian hospital from injuries sustained in a recent road collision. He was 23 years old. "RIP Vitek! Spent seven weeks on tour with DECAPITATED in 2002. Vitek was without no doubt the most down to earth ...
Video footage of former SEPULTURA drummer Igor "Iggor" Cavalera laying down drum beats along to a track by MIXHELL — the DJ/hip hop/electro project featuring Igor and his wife Laima Leyton — at the Skol Beats 2007 electronic music festival, which took place May 4-5, 2007 in São Paulo, Brazil, can be viewed below. Igor ...
