Bassist Johan Husgafvel of Swedish industrial metallers PAIN will sit out the band's upcoming European headlining tour for "family" reasons. His temporary replacement will be Andre Skaug (CLAWFINGER), who previously toured with PAIN in 2007. Commented Johan: "The forthcoming PAIN tour is just about to start and I'm completely sure that all of the shows ...
BLIND GUARDIAN, KREATOR, HYPOCRISY and ENSIFERUM have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Metalfest festival. Metalfest 2011 was a huge success, having taken place over two weekends in five countries. Bands such as SABATON, CRADLE OF FILTH, AMON AMARTH, ARCH ENEMY and AMORPHIS rocked the Metalfest stages this year, with almost 100,000 fans ...
BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, the English-American rock supergroup featuring the talents of bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, TRAPEZE, BLACK SABBATH), blues rock guitarist/vocalist Joe Bonamassa, drummer Jason Bonham (LED ZEPPELIN), and keyboardist Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER), will release its first concert DVD, "Live Over Europe", on October 24, 2011 (Blu-ray to follow November 15) on the ...
To celebrate the release of Marcus Nispel's remake of the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger action adventure "Conan The Barbarian", U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine caught up with the film's star, Jason Momoa. Perhaps best-known for his role as Khal Drogo in HBO fantasy epic "Game Of Thrones", the Hawaiian-born actor is a heavy metal fan who says ...
Vocalist Martin Schnherr has left Swedish death metal band DERANGED for "personal reasons". "I've lost my motivation in DERANGED and after some 'issues' within the band, I felt it was time to quit. I will now focus 150% on my other bands SPLATTERED MERMAIDS and RAZORRAPE; both bands will enter the studio this year and ...
FOR ALL WE KNOW, the new project led by Ruud Jolie from WITHIN TEMPTATION, has inked a distribution deal with Rough Trade for the worldwide distribution of the band's self-titled debut album. For the last four years, Jolie has been working on this music both when he was on the road with various bands (WITHIN ...
GOD SEED the Norwegian band featuring former GORGOROTH members King (bass; real name: Tom Cato Visnes) and Gaahl (vocals; real name: Kristian Espedal) will release a concert DVD, "Live At Wacken", in Europe on October 21 and in North America on October 25 via Indie Recordings. The set will include footage of the group's infamous ...
"Someday When", the new video from HOUSE OF LORDS, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's new album, "Big Money", which is scheduled for release on September 23 in Europe and September 27 in North America via Frontiers Records. Following on the heels of "Cartesian Dreams", HOUSE OF LORDS is coming back ...
According to KSEE-TV Channel 24, dozens of heavy metal fans came out to Edwards Theater in Fresno, California on August 24 to be the first to see "God Bless Ozzy Osbourne", the feature-length documentary about the life of the legendary heavy metal singer that Ozzy's son Jack co-produced. Longtime Osbourne fans say they have waited ...
