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TONY IOMMI: Birmingham Book-Signing Event Announced

BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi will undertake a select number of signings in the U.K. and New York to promote his upcoming memoir, "Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven And Hell With Black Sabbath". The book will be released in the United States on November 1 in hardback by Perseus Books/DeCapo P...
September 19, 2011
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Brazilian Pop/Country Singer Says She Is Looking Forward To Seeing METALLICA Perform

Paula Fernandes, the 27-year-old Brazilian pop/sertanejo (Brazilian country) singer who recorded a version of METALLICA's "Nothing Else Matters" (hear audio below) on her 2007 album of covers, told the TopTVZ web site that she is looking forward to seeing heavy metal legends perform at the Rock In R...
September 17, 2011
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CHRIS CAFFERY Talks Hot Sauce In New Audio Interview

Mark Uricheck of The Musician's Voice recently conducted an interview with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA/SAVATAGE guitarist Chris Caffery. In the 20-minute chat, Chris chats about his newly launched hot sauce called Tears Of The Sun; his ongoing solo career; TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA; and the possibility...
September 15, 2011
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TONY IOMMI: London Book-Signing Event Announced

BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi will undertake a select number of signings in the U.K. and New York to promote his upcoming memoir, "Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven And Hell With Black Sabbath". The book will be released in the United States on November 1 in hardback by Perseus Books/DeCapo P...
September 15, 2011
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PARADISE LOST To Perform 'Best-Of' Set At Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2012 in Wacken, Germany. The band, which released its self-titled debut in 1990 the same year Wacken was lanched will perform a best-of set at the ev...
September 15, 2011
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Former BIOHAZARD Frontman Joins ATTIKA7

Former BIOHAZARD vocalist/bassist Evan Seinfeld has joined ATTIKA7 (formerly ATTIKA),the Los Angeles-based heavy metal/hard rock band featuring Tony Campos (SOULFLY, POSSESSED, STATIC-X, ASESINO, MINISTRY) on bass. A short video clip of Seinfeld announcing his involvement with ATTIKA7 from the stag...
September 15, 2011
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ANATHEMA Recording New Album

Guitarist/singer Vincent Cavanagh of the U.K. atmospheric rock band ANATHEMA has told Greece's Rock Overdoseweb site that the band is in the studio recording 14 songs for its next studio album, which is tentatively due in April 2012. A six-and-a-half-minute excerpt from the chat can be streamed usin...
September 14, 2011
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ACE FREHLEY And GENE SIMMONS Dine Out

KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons has shot down rumors of a possible reunion with the band's original guitarist Ace Frehley after they were spotted dining together at a Los Angeles restaurant on Monday (September 12). Simmons writes on Twitter, "Ace and I had nice, friendly lunch together [yesterda...
September 13, 2011
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ALICE COOPER: 'I Sometimes Rebel Against My Own Fans'

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with legendary rocker Alice Cooper. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Classic Rock Revisited: When did the idea come up to do a sequel [to the album "Welcome To My Nightmare"]? Alice: It's funny, we weren't even goin...
September 12, 2011
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DUFF MCKAGAN: First 80 Pages Of 'It's So Easy' Autobiography Posted Online

Duff McKagan's (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED) much-anticipated autobiography, "It's So Easy (And Other Lies)", is scheduled to arrive on October 4 via Touchstone Books (formerly Touchstone Fireside),a division of Simon & Schuster. The first 80 pages of the book can now...
September 10, 2011
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PARADISE LOST: Drum-Cam Footage From Austria's TWO DAYS A WEEK Festival

Drum-cam footage of PARADISE LOST's Adrian Erlandsson performing during the band's September 3 appearance at the Two Days A Week festival in Wiesen, Austria can be seen below. PARADISE LOST will release the "Draconian Times MMXI" DVD on November 7 via Century Media Records. Sony Music reissued PARAD...
September 8, 2011
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BLINDSIDE: 'Our Love Saves Us' Video Released

"Our Love Saves Us", the new video from Swedish post-hardcore veterans BLINDSIDE, can be seen below. The track comes off the band's sixth album, "With Shivering Hearts We Wait", which was released in June via INO Records/RED. "We have a good friend named Marcus von Boisman, who is a great filmmaker,...
September 1, 2011
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SCOTT WEILAND Releases Collection Of Covers

Former VELVET REVOLVER and current STONE TEMPLE PILOTS frontman Scott Weiland is selling a digital album, "A Compilation Of Scott Weiland Cover Songs", via his official store. The track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. I Am The Resurrection (STONE ROSES) 02. Personality Crisis (NEW YORK DOL...
August 30, 2011
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BIOHAZARD Launches Singer Search

Seminal New York City hardcore/metal band BIOHAZARD will hold open auditions to find a replacement for recently departed frontman Evan Seinfeld. Seinfeld left BIOHAZARD in June after the band's new CD was completed and was temporarily replaced by Scott Roberts, who played on the band's 2005 "Means T...
August 26, 2011
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MICHAEL SCHENKER: More 'Temple Of Rock' Details Revealed

Legendary guitarist Michael Schenker will release his new album, "Temple Of Rock", in Japan on September 7, in Europe on September 23 and in North America on October 11. "The Temple of Rock is within me," says Michael, "where I create since I was introduced to the amazing invention of the distorted...
August 25, 2011