Due to "technical reasons," Finnish cello-rockers APOCALYPTICA will not be able to record their upcoming live DVD in Erfurt (Dec. 2) and have changed the location of the shoot to Duesseldorf, Germany (Dec. 4). As previously reported, APOCALYPTICA will be headliner of the prestigious opening night party for the "MIDEM - The World’s Music Market", ...
According to Deep-Purple.net, BMG will be releasing two full shows from guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's last tour with DEEP PURPLE — recorded in Stuttgart and Birmingham in October/November 1993 on "The Battle Rages On" trek — as a four-CD box set. Both shows will be completely unedited and will make up for any disappointment that fans ...
What do Geezer Butler, the longtime bassist of heavy metal pioneers BLACK SABBATH, and Bobby Ingram, the frontman of the venerable Southern rock band MOLLY HATCHET, have in common besides making legendary music? Both rockers have joined PETA's boycott of KFC until the company ends the worst abuses of chickens raised and killed to fill ...
Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector has just published "New Wave of American Heavy Metal", a 376-page book with over 90 photos, featuring over 600 U.S. and Canadian alternative metal, emocore, hardcore, math metal, metal, metalcore, neo-thrash and screamo bands. In the mid-'90s, in the wake of grunge, the metal movement underwent its most radical evolution to ...
The same week the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its newest inductees, fans of the hard rock group KISS responded in numbers. “We already knew KISS wasn’t on the ballot, but now it's time to put a global spotlight on the omission," says George Xirocostas, spokesman for the Australian KISS Army. "The U.S. ...
Launch Radio Networks reports: PAPA ROACH released its first DVD, "Live and Murderous In Chicago", last Tuesday (November 22). Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix told Launch that filming the concert that appears on the disc was not without its risks. "When we shot it, it was a one-night shoot, so it was like, you better nail ...
WITHIN TEMPTATION's "The Silent Force Tour" DVD has entered the Dutch DVD-Music chart at position No. 2. The disc features footage from the band's July 22, 2005 concert on the Java Island in Amsterdam, clips from many other live shows, interviews and backstage footage plus all the promo videos filmed since the group issued their ...
Due to overwhelming sales on previously announced EMPEROR shows in New York City and Los Angeles, Candlelight Records has confirmed additional shows in each city to meet fan demand. Momentum for ticket sales in the first hours on sale in New York had fans buying tickets at a rate of one every six minutes. B.B. ...
PUNGENT STENCH and EISREGEN will be teaming up for a European co-headlining tour in January/February. Confirmed dates are as follows: Jan. 20 - Bad Salzungen, GER @ Kallewerk* Jan. 21 - Bochum, GER @ Matrix Jan. 22 - Schwerin, GER @ Doc K Jan. 23 - Hamburg, GER @ Logo Jan. 24 - Bielefeld, GER ...
