Ozzy Osbourne returned to San Antonio, Texas on Thursday (November 5) to apologize for urinating on the Alamo Cenotaph in 1982. The BLACK SABBATH singer visited the historical monument with his son Jack as part of their new show for the History channel. According to Kens5.com, Osbourne was greeted at 4 p.m. by ...
Guitar legends Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde and John 5, along with drum powerhouse Mike Portnoy, bass icon Billy Sheehan and keyboard phenomenon Derek Sherinian are joining forces to play a benefit concert for guitar and keyboard virtuoso Tony MacAlpine, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. The benefit for Tony MacAlpine will take place at ...
THE CULT will release its tenth album, "Hidden City", on February 5, 2016 via Cooking Vinyl. The follow-up to 2012's "Choice Of Weapon" was written by singer Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy and was produced by Bob Rock, who has previously worked with METALLICA and MÖTLEY CRÜE. "Hidden City" is described as the final ...
Fan-filmed video footage of THE WINERY DOGS' November 5 performance at The Canyon club in Agoura Hills, California can be seen below. THE WINERY DOGS is the power trio featuring drummer Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ADRENALINE MOB), legendary bassist Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG, TALAS, DAVID LEE ROTH) and guitarist/vocalist Richie Kotzen (MR. BIG, ...
After 15 years and 10 CDs as guitarist, producer and composer for the German heavy metal institution RAGE, and with hits penned by him like "Down", "Soundchaser", "War Of Worlds", "Straight To Hell" (well known from the German blockbuster movie "Manitou's Shoe"), "Carved In Stone", "Forever Dead", "Empty Hollow" and "Cleansed By Fire", Victor Smolski ...
Legendary jewelers The Great Frog, synonymous with the rock and roll scene since 1972, are preparing to launch the first of four official IRON MAIDEN rings with "Powerslave Eddie" ahead of the band's "The Book Of Souls" 2016 tour. The Great Frog, now in its 43rd year as the go-to brand for alternative, high-end jewelry, ...
German guitar hero Axel Rudi Pell will release his sixteenth studio album, "Game Of Sins" on January 15, 2016 (January 22 in the U.S.) through SPV/Steamhammer. When Axel Rudi Pell celebrated his first 25 years as a solo artist with a three-hour-plus show in Balingen, Germany on July 11, 2014, he not only awed the ...
Former EXODUS singer Rob Dukes says that he was "unhappy" before he was fired from the group, due in part to the fact that his bandmates were writing music that was "regurgitated shit" with "no life to it." EXODUS in June 2014 announced the departure of Dukes and the return of his predecessor, Steve "Zetro" ...
In the five-minute clip below from Louder Noise, former PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo talks about the band's legendary appearance at the very first open-air rock festival to be held in the former Soviet Union. In September 1991, only a few days after an attempted military coup failed to restore Communism to the newly ...
