Bande À Part, an indie music initiative in Quebec, Canada, has uploaded a 32-minute episode of "Les Sessions" featuring Montreal extreme metallers DESPISED ICON. The footage, which was recorded before a live audience on October 29, 2008 at studio 14 in Maison Radio-Canada in Montréal, can be viewed at this location. DESPISED ...
Abort magazine's E.S. Day conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Steve "Lips" Kudlow and drummer Robb Reiner of the Canadian metal legends ANVIL earlier this month when the band was in Vancouver, British Columbia to promote its film "Anvil! The Story of Anvil". Listen to the 18-minute chat at this location. "Anvil! The Story ...
PORTRAIT, ENFORCER and STONE VENGEANCE are among the confirmed bands for the Fist Held High Festival, set to take place February 21, 2009 at B-Hof in Würzburg, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: PORTRAIT (SWE) ENFORCER (SWE) STONE VENGEANCE (USA) ETRUSGRAVE (ITA) CONQUEST OF STEEL (UK) ASSEDIUM (ITA) For more information, visit ...
An interview with MANOWAR guitarist Karl Logan about the newly released "Magic Circle Festival Volume II" DVD can be viewed below. From Wednesday, July 9 until the sunset on Saturday, July 12, 2008, 35,000 true metal fans (over the course of the entire festival) from 44 different countries across the globe poured onto the festival ...
Funeral services for British drummer Michael Lee (ROBERT PLANT, LENNY KRAVITZ, THIN LIZZY, THE CULT, LITTLE ANGELS, THE QUIREBOYS) will be held on Wednesday, December 3 at 10:45 a.m. at Darlington Crematorium in Darlington, England. All flowers and cards can be sent to: John Meynell Funeral Service 150 North Road Darlington County Durham, DL1 2EJ ...
Cameron Edney of Inside Out webzine recently conducted an interview with legendary guitarist George Lynch (DOKKEN, LYNCH MOB) and singer Oni Logan (LYNCH MOB). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Inside Out: You recently went back into the studio to begin work on the next LYNCH MOB album. After so ...
Fan-filmed video footage of Swedish Viking metallers AMON AMARTH performing the song "The Pursuit Of Vikings" on November 23, 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden during the "Unholy Alliance: Chapter III" tour (with SLAYER, TRIVIUM and MASTODON) can be viewed below (clip uploaded by "LosRutaDos"). AMON AMARTH will embark on a full European headlining tour in March ...
Vocalist Peter Dolving of the Swedish metal band THE HAUNTED has issued the following update: "I'm exhausted, it's a couple of hours after the show we just played in Santiago de Chile. How did the show go? It was insane. Really. "I want to thank everyone who have come out to the shows so far ...
Video footage of METALLICA performing the songs "Last Caress" and "Hit the Lights" on November 23, 2008 at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana can be viewed below (Note: Clip features soundboard audio). METALLICA's new album, "Death Magnetic", was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) just six weeks after ...
