Southern California black metal outfit THE FUNERAL PYRE has posted a new song, "To Walk, To Maintain", on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's new EP, "December", which is scheduled for release on March 10 via Creator-Destructor Records. THE FUNERAL PYRE's latest full-length album, "Wounds", was released in May ...
Santa Barbara, California's DEVILDRIVER, the group fronted by former COAL CHAMBER singer Dez Fafara, has entered Edge of the Earth studios in Los Angeles to begin recording the band's as-yet untitled fourth album with producer Logan Mader (FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, GOJIRA, DIVINE HERESY). A two-minute video clip featuring early footage from the studio can ...
Renaissance rock act BLACKMORE'S NIGHT, featuring legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Candice Night, can now be heard in Warner Bros. major motion picture release "Yes Man". The film, starring Jim Carrey, features the song "Olde Mill Inn" from the BLACKMORE'S NIGHT CD "The Village Lanterne" (released April 2006 on SPV). "Secret Voyage", the latest ...
Former DARKEST HOUR guitarist Kris Norris has uploaded the final version of the "Everything Expires" video, a song from his new solo CD (under the THE KRIS NORRIS PROJEKT banner), "Icons of the Illogical", which was released on Magna Carta Records. The clip was shot outside in Kent, Ohio in 6-degree (Fahrenheit) weather in a ...
Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB recently entered Trident studios in Pacheco, California with producer Juan Urteaga to begin recording their new album. Bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel states, "Drums are done!!! And fuckin sick at that; no doctoring up or fuckin' beat detected... Paul [Hopkins] crushed his tracks out in three days and [they] sound ...
According to WWE.com, AC/DC's "Shoot to Thrill" (live) and "War Machine" have been chosen as the official theme songs for the 25th anniversary of "WrestleMania" a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced annually by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) (formerly known as the World Wrestling Federation). The live version of "Shoot to Thrill" comes off the 1992 ...
"Let There Be Blood", the controversial re-recording of EXODUS' classic 1985 debut album "Bonded by Blood", has been released on limited-edition red vinyl. Only 2,500 numbered copies are available via Zaentz Records' web site. "Let There Be Blood" sold 2,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to ...
SCORPIONS drummer James Kottak will perform one night only with his band KOTTAK (in which he plays guitar and sings) on February 7 at Coach's in Lancaster, California. The show is in celebration of radio DJ Jeff Duran's one-year anniversary back on Southern California airwaves. The concert was organized by club owner Joey Raborn, a ...
LEAVES' EYES — the German/Norwegian band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY — will release its new DVD/CD, "We Came With The Northern Winds - En Saga I Belgia", via Napalm Records on the following dates: Feb. 25 - Finland, Spain Feb. 27 - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, ...
