More chart positions have been reported for the GUNS N' ROSES "Greatest Hits" collection, which was issued internationally one week ahead of its U.S. release. The following is an updated list of the first-week chart positions for the album around the world: Argentina: #4 Austria: #1 Belgium: #45 Denmark: #12 Finland: #6 Germany: #4 Iceland: ...
Reno Kiilerich (PANZERCHRIST, VILE, HUMAN ERUPT) is strongly rumored to have landed the session-drummer gig in DIMMU BORGIR for the group's upcoming live appearances. The Danish skinsman, who rehearsed with DIMMU on Friday (March 26), is expected to join the band during Ozzfest 2004 as well as for the preceding European and South American dates, ...
According to www.rockreview.co.uk, LOSTPROPHETS have been confirmed to support METALLICA on their upcoming European festival/arena tour. The bill is also set to include SLIPKNOT at most dates. The following METALLICA shows will feature support from LOSTPROPHETS: May 26 - Copenhagen, DEN @ Parken May 28 - Helsinki, FIN @ Olympic Stadium May 30 ...
SATYRICON's participation in the upcoming MORBID ANGEL North American tour appears to be in jeopardy after the group's drummer, 30-year-old Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad, was denied a work visa required for him to work and perform in the U.S., the Norwegian newspaper VG Nett has reported. As a result, the planned million Norwegian krone ...
In the April 2004 issue of Metal Hammer U.K., current VELVER REVOLVER and former STONE TEMPLE PILOTS frontman Scott Weiland discusses his relationship with drugs. "I've been drinking since I was 15. I've been doing drugs since I was 16, I've been doing heroin since I was 23, " Weiland said in the interview conducted ...
Finland's THROES OF DAWN have uploaded a bunch of pictures from their first live appearance in five years, which took place on March 13 at Shadow Bar in Turku, Finland. Check them out here. As previously reported, THROES OF DAWN will release their new album, "Quicksilver Clouds", in April through Avantgarde/Wounded Love Records. ...
Finnish metallers DYECREST (formerly DYECAST) have been added to the upcoming W.A.S.P. European tour beginning on May 3 in Dublin, Ireland. Also appearing on the bill will be the London-based "extreme power metal" band DRAGONFORCE. DYECREST's debut album, "The Way Of Pain", was released in January through Noise Records. The drums for the CD were ...
H.I.M.'s "best of" collection, entitled "And Love Said No - The Greatest Hits 1997-2004", has entered the Finnish national album chart at position No. 2 (right behind TIMO RAUTIAINEN & TRIO NISKALAUKAUS' latest release, "Kylmä Tila"). View the whole chart here. As previously reported, the CD debuted on the German Media Control chart ...
Reunited San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN will appear on Billy Steel's "Metal Zone" show on San Francisco radio station 107.7 The Bone on Friday, April 2. The show will air between 9:00 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. PST. For those of you not in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can still listen in with ...
