MTV.com is reporting that former STATIC-X and DOPE guitarist Tripp Eisen was released from a California state prison last week, a little more than six months after his arrest on a single crimes-against-children count. Eisen's freedom could end up being short-lived, depending on what next week brings. He's due to stand before a ...
Austrian "angelic bombast metal" act EDENBRIDGE have set "The Grand Design" as the title of their fifth CD, tentatively due next spring via Massacre Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Shine" will be recorded at The Farpoint Station studio in Austria and the Thin Ice facility in England under the watchful eye of Karl Groom (THRESHOLD). ...
Reunited Brazilian death metallers SEXTRASH will enter the studio this weekend to begin recording their as-yet-untitled fourth album, tentatively due December 2005 via Cogumelo Records. "We spent last two months preparing this album and we had enough time to do what we wanted and I can say that the new songs are really brutal old-school ...
ZEKE will appear on a nationally run Jones Soda label that will be available in stores this December. The Jones Soda Company, who are known for their music-friendly marketing, choose ZEKE to appear on the "Fufu Berry Soda" label that can be viewed at this location. The Seattle, WA quartet have just completed ...
NON-FICTION, the long-defunct New Jersey band which featured in its ranks Alan Tecchio (HADES, WATCHTOWER) on vocals and Dan Lorenzo (HADES) on guitar, have finalized a deal to re-release the group's first two CDs, "Preface" (1991) and "In The Know" (1992), on November 8 via Tom Derr's Rock Ridge Records (who recently re-released the first ...
CLOUDSCAPE frontman Mike Andersson will handle all vocals on the Swiss project-band SILENT MEMORIAL's second album. The CD will most likely surface next year. SILENT MEMORIAL released their debut album in 1998 in Asia with Thomas Vikstrom (STORMWIND, BRAZEN ABBOT, ex-CANDLEMASS) on vocals. Mike is also handling the lead vocals on one song on the ...
According to an online posting by NINE INCH NAILS mainman Trent Reznor, the group's drummer, Jerome Dillon, "is back in hospital" as of Thursday morning (Sept. 29). "I have no idea what this means..." Reznor writes. Dillon was hospitalized in California earlier this month after suffering chest pains during a concert in San Diego, California. ...
Norway's Metal Express Radio has uploaded a streaming audio interview with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing. Listen to the 16-minute chat at this location (Windows Media required). JUDAS PRIEST are in the middle of a North American tour with ANTHRAX. The group's next live appearance is scheduled for Thursday night (Sept. ...
In response to the announcement of the finalists for this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions, fans of rock group KISS have issued a warning to the Hall: "We're sending in our forces." Known as the KISS Army, fans of the make-up wearing, blood-spitting icons say they are tired of the lack of ...
Launch Radio Networks reports: Is Ted Nugent planning to hang up his guitar and get into politics? It looks like that's a good possibility, according to the New York Times. Nugent told the paper that he was "99 percent ready" to run for governor of his home state of Michigan next year, but he's decided ...
