Canada's FINNR'S CANE has inked a deal with Prophecy Productions. The band will enter the studio later in the year to begin recording its second album. With its atmospherically gripping debut album, "Wanderlust", FINNR'S CANE has fascinated and enthused lovers of wintery soundscapes somewhere between mighty offshoots of traditionally grim black metal and sublime post ...
DIAMOND HEAD, AIRBOURNE, ARCHITECTS and WEEZER have been confirmed for the U.K. edition of the Sonisphere festival, set to take place July 8-10 at Knebworth. Commented DIAMOND HEAD guitarist Brian Tatler: "DIAMOND HEAD have been given the fantastic opportunity of opening for the 'Big Four' [METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX] at this year's Sonisphere festival, ...
THE NIBIRUAN, the new Finnish metal band featuring former AMORAL guitarist Silver Ots alongside Lauri Koskenniemi (guitar) and Eerik Purdon (bass) of SHEAR, has issued the following update: "We entered the studio last weekend to record some new stuff and man has it been a blast. Everything has worked out better than we anticipated and ...
Fastball Music has set a March 18 release date for "Thousand Men Strong", the brand new studio album from the newly revamped lineup of the NWOBHM band TOKYO BLADE — featuring Andy Boulton (guitar), John Wiggins (guitar), Andy Wrighton (bass) and Steve Pierce (drums), alongside new singer Nicolaj "Nick" Ruhnow (IRONY, VOIVITTU, DOMAIN, NICK HELLFORT). ...
"Chaos Elecdead", the new video from Greek modern metallers INSIDEAD, can be viewed below. The song is the title track of the band's debut album, which will be released on April 29 via Massacre Records. The CD was produced by Roberto Dimitri Liapakis at Prophecy and Music Factory studios in Germany, and was mixed and ...
Chicago-based doom metal legends TROUBLE are in the studio working on their ninth album for a tentative summer release. The as-yet-untitled CD is being helmed by Bill Metoyer, who has produced albums from SLAYER, D.R.I., SACRED REICH and CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, among others, and has worked with TROUBLE in the past. Also involved in the ...
More behind-the-scenes footage from the recording sessions for "Khaos Legions", the forthcoming album from Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY, can be viewed below. The CD was tracked at Sweet Spot Studio in the south of Sweden with engineer Rickard Bengtsson (who produced 2005's "Doomsday Machine") and is scheduled for a May release via Century Media ...
Shroom of the "Shroom Show", which airs weeknights on Cincinnati, Ohio's 102.7 WEBN radio station, conducted an interview with bassist Johnny Christ of Orange County, California's AVENGED SEVENFOLD on January 29, 2011 at U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati. You can now watch the chat below. Also available is backstage and performance footage from the U.S. ...
According to The Pulse Of Radio, producer Butch Vig spoke with MTV News late last week about the making of the new FOO FIGHTERS album, on which he reunited with Dave Grohl and NIRVANA bass player Krist Novoselic 20 years after working with them on NIRVANA's landmark album, "Nevermind". Vig revealed, "When Krist came up ...
