Frontman Johnny Hedlund of the legendary Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED has issued the following update via the group's official web site: "UNLEASHED are currently in the studio, completing the pre-production of our eighth full-length album. We have more qualified songs to choose from than ever before, and I am very confident that this will be ...
Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector.com recently conducted an interview with legendary vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On his new solo album, "Music for the Divine": Hughes: "The 'Soul Mover' record really showed me how an album should be made, so we've carried on the ...
OPETH frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has confirmed reports that he is planning on collaborating with PORCUPINE TREE's Steven Wilson and DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy on an as-yet-unnamed new project. "We've been talking the three of us," Mikael said in a recent interview with Tony of KASC The Blaze 1260 AM (web site) (the ...
DISTURBED drummer Mike Wengren spoke with Time Off magazine about the band's line-up change since their last visit to Australia, with original bass-player Fuzz being replaced by ex-UNION UNDERGROUND member John Moyer. "I was a little nervous about that at first — John is a different player than our original bass player," Wengren ...
AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello has told MTV.com that the band finished tracking their third album, tentatively titled "Revelations", three weeks ago with producer Brendan O'Brien. The follow-up to last year's "Out of Exile", which will be issued later than its previously announced June release date, is being described by Morello as "really unique" ...
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that musicians Angry Anderson, Jimmy Barnes and Jon Stevens were among the 150 friends and family who farewelled ROSE TATTOO guitarist Pete Wells at his Sydney funeral on Friday (March 31) Guests gathered at St Brendan's Church at Annandale, in Sydney's inner-west, to celebrate the "rock n' ...
MelodicRock.com is reporting that Island/Universal has set an April 25 release date for the CINDERELLA retrospective collection, entitled "Gold". The track listing for the two-disc release is as follows: CD1: 01. Bad Attitude Shuffle 02. The More Things Change 03. Don't Know What You Got ('Til It's Gone) 04. Once Around The Ride ...
Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love has told RollingStone.com that she has finally sold twenty-five percent of her share of NIRVANA's sought-after publishing catalog — to Larry Mestel of Primary Wave Music Publishing, former COO/GM of Virgin Records. "I took on a strategic partner, Larry Mestel, to help me co-manage the estate because it ...
MTV.com is reporting that HATEBREED have been in continuing negotiations with Roadrunner Records and are close to signing a deal with the label. "We ended up doing two records with Universal, and our time at that label was killer," frontman Jamey Jasta explained to MTV.com when asked about the talks. "We sold over ...
Former P.O.D. founder/guitarist Marcos Curiel's band THE ACCIDENT EXPERIMENT will finally release their long-anticipated debut album, "United We Fear", on May 9. The band will begin a coast-to-coast tour along with FIVE.BOLT.MAIN and ELEMENT EIGHTY on May 6 in Longview, TX. So far 25 dates have been announced with more on the way. After eleven ...
