RATT guitarist Warren DeMartini and FOZZY/STUCK MOJO axeman Rich Ward were interviewed on this past Saturday's (February 27) edition of the "Maximum Threshold" show. The program is now available for streaming using the audio player below. RATT's new album, "Infestation", will be released on April 20 via Loud & Proud. The band's first studio record ...
Rock My Monkey recently conducted an interview with producer/director Ian McFarland of Killswitch Productions about MESHUGGAH's recently released first-ever DVD, "Alive". The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. "Alive" sold around 3,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. ...
PRIMAL FEAR frontman Ralf Scheepers will enter a Swedish studio this summer to begin recording his debut solo album for a January 2011 release via Frontiers Records. The CD will be tracked with the help of Ralf's former GAMMA RAY bandmate and drummer extraordinaire Uli Kusch. An "impressive list of some very prominent guests is ...
GUNS N' ROSES frontman and sole original member Axl Rose has released the following statement via Twitlonger.com, a related Twitter site where one can post messages longer than 140 characters: "IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! "There are NO new GUNS N' ROSES shows added to our current onsale itinerary dated as of February 25. This means NO SHOWS ...
Scott Simon, host of NPR's "Weekend Edition", recently conducted an interview with legendary heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne. The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. On the incidents with the dove and the bat.: "I'm so over the dove, the bat. It's just one of those things people ...
M.A.N — the group formed out of the ashes of Sweden's TRANSPORT LEAGUE (featuring former MNEMIC frontman Tony Jelencovich) — filmed a video for the song "Logocide" the weekend of February 13-14 at Redbergs Theatre in Gothenburg with director Gabriel Engberg. Photos from the video shoot can be viewed below. "Logocide" is available for streaming ...
According to CBC News, Canadian rock trio RUSH is one of the rumored performers at the closing of the Vancouver Olympics, which gets underway at 5:30 p.m. local time on Sunday (February 28). The big farewell celebration may even poke fun at Canada, according to Vancouver Organizing Committee head John Furlong. Furlong promised ...
Guitarist Matt Wilcock has left British extreme metal veterans AKERCOCKE. He says in a statement, "After five years with AKERCOCKE and a lot of good times, it's now time for me to move on. Musically, I'm differing a bit with the natural path that AKERCOCKE's taking, so it's best for me to part ways now. ...
Swedish death metal veterans UNLEASHED will release their tenth full-length album, "As Yggdrasil Trembles", on March 19 in Europe and April 6 in the U.S. via Nuclear Blast Records. According to the band, the musical direction of the forthcoming CD, which was recorded at guitarist Fredrik Folkare's Chrome studio, is "the logical continuation from 'Midvinterblot' ...
GLOBAL SOUND LODGE, the "new musical consciousness" formed by VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES drummer Matt Sorum and American guitarist, songwriter and producer Lanny Cordola (GIUFFRIA, HOUSE OF LORDS, MAGDALLAN), has made its first track — "Hands Together" — available via iTunes. The track, which features vocals by Sorum and Cordola and a guest ...
