Italy's LACUNA COIL are currently in Sweden filming a video for the track "Swamped". "Swamped" comes off the band's latest album, "Comalies", which has surpassed the 60,000 Nielsen SoundScan mark since its late 2002 release. LACUNA COIL are scheduled to embark on a national U.S. theater tour alongside P.O.D., BLINDSIDE and HAZEN ST. beginning on ...
ZYKLON's Trym (ex-EMPEROR) will be filling in on drums for SATYRICON during their North American tour with MORBID ANGEL, according to a representative for the bands' booking agency, The Agency Group. Trym will be joining SATYRICON as a temporary replacement for the group's regular skinsman, Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad, who was denied a U.S. ...
Pictures from ANVIL's appearance at Heads Or Tails in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada on March 27 have been uploaded at this location (scroll all the way down). As previously reported, ANVIL's new album, "Back to Basics", is being released in Europe today (March 29) through Massacre Records. Included with the CD is a bonus ...
On May 18, 2004, "An Evening With John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess" will be re-released by Favored Nations. The re-release will feature new artwork and three bonus tracks. The live album contains original material from the DREAM THEATER guitarist and keyboardist's semi-acoustic show at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center in Nyack, NY, recorded June ...
British black metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have announced the following dates during the summer: Jun. 05 - Download Festival UK Jun. 19 – Bergum, NETH @ Waldrock Festival Jun. 25-57 - Dessel, BEL @ Graspop Festival Jul. 15-17 – Arvika, SWE @ Arvikafestivalen Jul. 16-18 – Joensuu, FIN @ Ilosaarirock As previously reported, CRADLE OF ...
GUNS N' ROSES' "Greatest Hits" CD is expected to shift in excess of 100,000 copies in the U.S. during its first week of release to debut in the Top Ten of next week's The Billboard 200 chart, according to Reuters. Other albums expected to sell over 100,000 copies during the same weeks are CARL THOMAS' ...
DEF IGNITION, the San Francisco Bay Area-based band led by SKINLAB's Steev Esquivel, have made two demo songs available for download via their official web site at this location. The tracks "Lost Memories" and "By a Thread" were both recorded with Chris Hanson (TECHNOCRACY, PRIMATE, MACHINE HEAD) and are said to feature a ...
An MP3 containing the audio of VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar's appearance last Friday (March 26) on "The Howard Stern Show" has been made available for download at this location [UPDATE: file has since been removed]. In other news, Hagar has posted the following message at his official web site: "Sorry I couldn't ...
BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION, the new band featuring MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx, L.A. GUNS guitarist Tracii Guns, vocalist London LeGrand, and drummer Scot Coogan (ex-PAUL GILBERT, ONI LOGAN/ROWAN ROBERTSON, SINÉAD O'CONNOR), will play a special gig at CBGB in New York City on May 5. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. and tickets are priced at ...
HAMMEFALL singer Joacim Cans has posted the following message on his official web site: "Well, after traveling around Europe for 11 days, promoting [my solo] album ['Beyond the Gates'] in Finland, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany and Holland, I am finally home to continue the promotion campaign with phoners. Springtime is in the air ...
