New York City-based avant/prog-metal act TIME OF ORCHIDS will release their next album on Tzadik Records, as part of the Composer Series, alongside other bands like KAYO DOT (featuring former members of MAUDLIN OF THE WELL). "It will be their most epic work yet," according to an official press release. TIME OF ORCHIDS had previously ...
Italian heavy/power metallers BEJELIT will issue their debut album, "Hellgate", in July through Underground Symphony Records. An Italian release will follow in September. BEJELIT are already working on the material for their second full-length CD, tentatively due in 2005. Download MP3 clips from the "Hellgate" album: "Slave of Vengeance" (mp3) and "Skull Knight ...
Sony Music will be releasing a Steve Vai live album, entitled "Steve Vai - Live In London", on July 13. Part of Sony's "bootleg" series, the CD will be available online only through Sony Music's web site. The track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. Shy Boy 02. Erotic Nightmares 03. ...
Former DOKKEN/DIO bassist Jeff Pilson's web site has been updated with photos of his baby daughter, Olivia Marcelene Pilson, who was born on June 9 at 8:19 p.m. Olivia weighed in at a healthy 4 lbs. 14 oz. Check out the pictures here. As previously reported, Pilson's band WAR & PEACE have been ...
JUDAS PRIEST headlined the 2004 edition of the Metal Mania Festival on Friday (June 25) in Valencia, Spain. Check out tons of pictures and a Spanish review from www.rafabasa.com at this location. JUDAS PRIEST completed a run of European festival dates with an appearance at the Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium Sunday ...
Melissa Ruggieri of The Richmond Times-Dispatch reviewed VAN HALEN's show at the MCI Center in Washington D.C. Friday night (June 25). "When you're Eddie Van Halen and you've weathered a hip replacement, overcome tongue cancer and watched your marriage dissolve after 20 years, you deserve the ovation," she wrote. "When you're Eddie Van Halen and ...
The New York Post's Page Six reports: Former MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee has undergone a tattooed tribute to his sons, Brandon and Dylan. The rowdy rocker asked his offspring by Pamela Anderson to write their names on his wrists, then had the signatures indelibly inked into his skin. "The love he's got for his ...
ELEGY guitarist Patrick Rondat has lined up the following live appearances in support of his new solo album, "An Emepheral World": Nov. 10 – Nancy, FRA - Mai Nov. 11 – Raismes, FRA - Fest Nov. 12 – Tours, FRA - Odesia Nov. 13 - Bordeaux, FRA - Th. Barbey Nov. 14 - Lyon, FRA ...
German thrashers DESTRUCTION have uploaded their video for the track "The Ravenous Beast" at this location. "The Ravenous Beast" comes off the band's most recent album, "Metal Discharge", which was released last September through Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2001's "The Antichrist" was the first DESTRUCTION album to feature drummer Marc Reign, ...
