According to The New Zealand Herald, a "person of interest" in the brutal murder of the lead singer of one of New Zealand's longest-running death metal bands, BACKYARD BURIAL, died a few weeks after the killing. Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Thornton told the Stuff web site the man was hit by a train ...
Lead singer Sharon den Adel of Dutch symphonic metallers WITHIN TEMPTATION gave birth to a beautiful baby boy yesterday (Wednesday, March 30). Logan Arwin Westerholt (pictured below), who weighed in at five pounds, 8.7 ounces and measured 47 centimeters long, came into the world a little over five weeks early but both mother and son ...
According to Undercover, original AC/DC singer Dave Evans claims that he was dropped from the "Long Live Bon Scott" series of tribute concerts because of pressure from the the family of late AC/DC frontman Bon Scott. Evans was a member of AC/DC from the band's inception in 1973 until 1974. Following his departure ...
The Brooklyn Projects skateboard shop in Los Angeles has unveiled its very own Nike Dunk High sneaker draws its inspiration from SLAYER's "Reign In Blood" artwork. With a suede upper that bears shades of brown, black and red, the sneaker still makes room for a black leather toe box and side panel. The Brooklyn Projects ...
The new AVANTASIA four-disc box, "The Flying Opera - Around The World In 20 Days", has entered the official Austrian chart at position No. 1. In Germany, the double DVD that comes with the double CD has landed on the official album chart at No. 18. According to a press release, the "The Flying Opera ...
NONPOINT's May 6 hometown concert at Revolution in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida will be professionally filmed and recorded for a future DVD release. Singer Elias Soriano says, "The DVD shoot is going to consist of six cameras, with behind-the-scenes footage of what it takes to put on a NONPOINT show for a hometown populated by some ...
Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with Sakis Tolis of Greek extreme metallers ROTTING CHRIST when the band played at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California on March 29 . A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metal Assault: Do you think the future direction of the ...
TESTAMENT/ex-SAVATAGE guitarist and leader of ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO, Alex Skolnick, was interviewed for the latest edition of "The Metal File" podcast from Montreal's CHOM-FM. You can now stream the chat using the audio player below. Interview (audio):
A snippet of a brand new KORN song that will appear on the band's next album can be streamed using the SoundCloud player below (courtesy of the official KORN SoundCloud channel). In a January 2011 interview with Zoiks! Online, KORN guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer stated about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's ...
