VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen spent three weeks in the hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for diverticulitis, and will now need four to six months at home to recover from the procedure. According to CNN (as reported by Van Halen News Desk), the guitarist first developed the condition while on tour and ...
Metal Mark of SkullsNBones.com conducted an interview with Massachusetts metallers UNEARTH before the band's August 22 concert in Atlanta, Georgia. You can now watch the chat below. UNEARTH recently announced the addition of drummer Nick Pierce to the group's ranks. Pierce is a self-taught drummer who's been playing since age 10. He grew ...
The Age Of Metal recently conducted an interview with vocalist Chris Boltendahl of German power metallers GRAVE DIGGER. You can now listen to the chat using the Mixcloud player below. GRAVE DIGGER's new album, "Clash Of The Gods", will be released on August 31 in Europe and September 4 in North America via Napalm Records. ...
"Clockwork Angels: The Novel", the landmark literary collaboration between RUSH drummer and lyricist Neil Peart and bestselling sci-fi author Kevin J. Anderson, will be released in September via ECW Press. The book's first chapter is now available on RollingStone.com. Speaking to SciFiPulse.Net, Anderson stated about how the novelization came to life, ...
The third and final episode in a new web series from Deanna Adler, the mother of original GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler can be seen below. In the latest clip, she visits one of GN'R's old hangouts, the Rainbow Bar & Grill in West Hollywood, California, and discusses "what the life of a rock ...
After releasing an amped-up cover of a holiday classic in each of the past four years, Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based Christian metalcore quintet AUGUST BURNS RED will issue a full-length Christmas album, "August Burns Red Presents: Sleddin' Hill, A Holiday Album". The 13-track release features not only fresh takes on classics such as "Jingle Bells", "Winter Wonderland" ...
Guitarist Scott Holiday of Californian blues rockers RIVAL SONS is featured in a new interview in which he discusses his musical upbringing, recording the band's new album, "Head Down", in Nashville, and some of the equipment used by the group in the studio. Check it out below. RIVAL SONS will celebrate the release of "Head ...
"The Beast", the new Pedro Matos-directed video from New York hardcore legends MADBALL, can be seen below. The clip, which was filmed in Badalona, Spain while the band was on tour with Portugal's DEVIL IN ME, utilizes gritty backdrops and shots of the group's crushing stage performance. Commenting on the video's guerilla style of filming ...
British heavy metal singer Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) is working on songs for a new classical EP with Belgium-based classical guitarist Thomas Zwijsen. The five-song effort will include a "full classical guitar arrangement" of the IRON MAIDEN song "Sign Of The Cross", which the duo performed on their recent U.K. acoustic tour (see video ...
DETHKLOK returns this fall with "Metalocalypse: Dethklok Dethalbum III", the highly anticipated album that fans of the animated band have been begging for. The stars of the Adult Swim series "Metalocalypse" will unleash 12 brand new tracks, set to hit stores throughout North America on October 16 from Williams Street Records. "Dethalbum III" was once ...
