British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST and Dutch death metallers GOD DETHRONED have been confirmed for next year's FortaRock festival, set to take place July 2, 2011 at Park Brakkestein in Nijmegen, Holland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): GOD DETHRONED IMMORTAL PARADISE LOST SACRED REICH For more information, visit ...
Bassy Stacy of BayAreaRocks.com conducted an interview with with vocalist Hansi Kürsch of German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN on December 8, 2010 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, California. You can now watch the chat below. "At The Edge Of Time", the tenth studio album from BLIND GUARDIAN, sold around 4,400 copies ...
Zoom has announced the addition of guitarist and lead vocalist Dave Mustaine of the iconic band MEGADETH to its family of artists. Mustaine has been a mainstay in the metal community for over 25 years, having formed MEGADETH in 1983. Internationally acclaimed as one of the greatest metal guitarists in the world, Mustaine is also ...
Continuing to devastate America one tour at a time, sludgemongers BUZZOV*EN today announce their third tour installment since reuniting early in the year. Hitting all new markets throughout the Southern and Southeastern U.S. this time, the band will hit the old dusty trail again in early February with Virginia's sludgesters COUGH providing direct support. Confirmed ...
AC/DC, GODSMACK, AVENGED SEVENFOLD and DISTURBED have released some of the top-selling hard rock/heavy metal albums of 2010, according to Billboard.com. The following CDs have made Billboard.com's Top 200 list of the year-end top-selling albums across all genres, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan: 42. Dark Horse - NICKELBACK 53. ...
According to The Pulse Of Radio, Alice Cooper has revealed in a new interview with ClashMusic.com how he would like to spend his last day on Earth, saying he would start the day on Hawaii before hitting the legendary golf courses at Augusta and Pine Valley. He explained, "I'd wake up in Maui. That's the ...
QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton's side-project WRATCHET HEAD made its live debut on December 3 at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, Washington as part of KISW's Holiday Hangover Le-BALL-ski with HELLYEAH and HAIL THE VILLAIN. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be viewed below. Also available is a video interview with WRATCHET HEAD singer Rane Stone ...
Scott Koenig of King Artist Management, which represents Los Angeles cyber metallers FEAR FACTORY, has released a statement citing "a family emergency" as the reason for the postponement of the band's short stretch of U.S. shows (December 29 - January 8). The rescheduled dates will be announced in the coming weeks. Affected shows: Dec. 29 ...
Video footage of LIFE OF AGONY's December 16, 2010 concert at the Best Buy Theater (formerly Nokia Theater) in New York City can be viewed below. Also appearing on the bill were BIOHAZARD and VISION OF DISORDER (V.O.D.). On December 6, LIFE OF AGONY was invited by MTV2 for an exclusive in-studio performance and interview ...
A short audio sample of a new song from the North Texas death metal outfit THE FAMINE can heard in the YouTube clip below. The track comes off the band's new album, "The Architects Of Guilt", which will be released on February 15 via Solid State Records. The follow-up to 2008's "The Raven And The ...
