EVERGREY, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR and AVATAR will team up for the third annual "Chaos Before New Year" concert, set to take place on December 29 at Trädgårn in Gothenburg, Sweden. Previous participants in the event, which takes place between Christmas and New Year, have included IN FLAMES and DARK TRANQUILLITY. EVERGREY's latest album, "Monday Morning Apocalypse", ...
Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA have been confirmed as one of the headliners of the ProgPower USA VIII festival, set to take place October 5-6, 2007 at Center Stage Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. Also scheduled to appear are VIRGIN STEELE, REDEMPTION, FIREWIND, COMMUNIC and RAINTIME. Four more bands will be announced for the festival over ...
LUPARA vocalist Noa Brady recently got a new tattoo as a tribute to late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. A famous Dimebag photo taken by rock-photographer Chad Lee inspired the ink. The tattoo was done by Paul Miller of In Your Face Tattooz in Beaver Dam, WI. Noa had this to say about immortalizing Dime ...
JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford will be the featured guest on "Jim Breuer Unleashed", airing on Sirius Satellite Radio's Raw Dog Comedy / channel 104 on Tuesday, December 5 at 4:00 p.m. EST. As previously reported, a brand new HALFORD song, entitled "Forgotten Generation", has been made available for streaming at MP3.com. The ...
NME.com reports that EAGLES OF DEATH METAL band leader Jesse "The Devil" Hughes has vented his anger at Axl Rose, saying the singer is "fucking out of his mind" after his band were thrown off GUNS N' ROSES' U.S. tour. The band were reportedly "let go" after getting a hostile reception from the ...
Norwegian progressive/power metal band COMMUNIC, who feature in their ranks ex-SCARIOT members Oddleif Stensland (vocals) and Tor Atle Andersen (drums), have been confirmed for the ProgPower USA VIII festival, set to take place October 5-6, 2007 at Center Stage Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. Also scheduled to appear are VIRGIN STEELE, REDEMPTION, FIREWIND and RAINTIME. Five ...
KISS' official web site has posted images of the appoved pre-production samples of the four KISS solo album gold awards. They are being released by KISS licensee California Gold, who released several other KISS awards. Each title — Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss — will be released in a ...
Montreal tech-death stars AUGURY have been confirmed as the headliners of the third annual Ashes of Autumn concert, set to take place December 2 at The Metal Bar in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Also scheduled to appear are hyper folk-black metal newcomers PROFUGUS MORTIS, THREAT SIGNAL, and ADYTUM. Attendees can expect to hear performances of brand ...
U.S.-based chaos core outfit THE CHARIOT and progressive modern death metal act BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE are teaming up for a powerful tour package set to hit Europe in January/February 2007. also scheduled to appear on the bill are SHAPED BY FATE. The dates are as follows: Jan. 16 - Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow Jan. 17 ...
A Jimi Hendrix guitar sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds at an auction of rock memorabilia in London, according to News.com.au. A spokeswoman for promoter Magnum Communications said that a Fender Stratocaster guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix went for £60,000 (approximately $117,000). It was one of 160 lots sold at the It's More Than ...
