Mark Kelson (guitar and vocals) and Chris Stevenson (keyboards) of the acclaimed Australian ambient/dark/doom metal act THE ETERNAL will be doing a number of acoustic gigs in the upcoming months, featuring both THE ETERNAL songs and "a few surprises.' According to the band, this is not their new direction, but a way to experiment some ...
The new double album of unreleased material by THE BLACK CROWES, titled "The Lost Crowes", was originally scheduled to be in stores August 29 (Rhino). However, due to a recently discovered manufacturing error, the release date has been moved to September 26. "The Lost Crowes" contains two previously recorded albums that THE BLACK CROWES never ...
Finnish goth metallers TO/DIE/FOR will team up with SINAMORE, DAS SCHEIT and INDIGO CHILD for European tour beginning in November. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. As previously reported, TO/DIE/FOR have uploaded a sample of their new single "Like Never Before", at their official MySpace page. The single was delivered to ...
KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley is rumored to have scheduled a solo gig at the House of Blues in Hollywood, California on November 14. The concert is expected to be part of a solo trek in support of Stanley's new solo album, "Live to Win", due on October 24, 2006 via New Door Records/Universal Musical Enterprises. ...
VELVET REVOLVER's Scott Weiland, LINKIN PARK's Chester Bennington, Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton of AEROSMITH, and Daron Malakian of SYSTEM OF A DOWN are among the musicians who talk about THE DOORS' enduring influence on the current rock music scene in an essay, "The Doors in Their Own Words", to be released in the upcoming ...
Long-running Oakland, California-based band NEUROSIS will enter the studio in December to record their next album. Once again they will be returning to Electrical Audio in Chicago with engineer Steve Albini. "The sounds emanating from the rehearsal room are frighteningly strange and not very nice," reads a posting on the group's web site. In other ...
STRATOVARIUS's Jörg Michael will be laying down drum tracks for an as-yet-undisclosed cover song next week with singer Boris of FEUERENGEL and DER BOTE fame. No further information is currently available. Michael was one of several guest musicians who appeared on the DER BOTE CD "Kalt!", which came out last year. Other musicians who contributed ...
Live recordings of SLAYER and BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE performing at this past weekend's Reading festival in England were aired Tuesday night (August 29) on the "Mike Davies Rock Show" on BBC Radio 1. The following songs were aired: SLAYER: Live From Reading 01. Dead Skin Mask 02. Seasons in the Abyss 03. Post Mortem ...
POWERWORLD, the new German band formed by ex-FREEDOM CALL bassist Ilker Ersin, has posted two songs — "Your World Is Not Mine" and "Reach the Light" — on its MySpace page. The group is currently working on material for its debut album, which is tentatively due to be recorded later in the year ...
MACHINE HEAD has set "The Blackening" as the title of its sixth studio album, tentatively due in early 2007 via Roadrunner Records. The group is recording the new CD at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA, with MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn returning to the producer's chair, and Mark Keaton once again handling engineering duties. Longtime ...
