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EVERGREY: EPK For 'Hymns For The Broken' Album
An EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for "Hymns For The Broken", the new album from Swedish metallers EVERGREY, can be found below. Not too long ago EVERGREY was almost dead. Long live EVERGREY. Yes it's true, one of the most original metal bands to come out of Sweden almost called it quits. It wasn't a de...August 28, 2014
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OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT: 'We Still Feel That We Belong To The Metal Scene'
Italy's SpazioRock.it recently conducted an interview with Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On where OPETH stands in the metal scene today: Mikael: "It's easy...August 28, 2014
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Video: EXMORTUS Performs Shred-Tastic Rendition Of National Anthem At Baseball Game
Heavy metal up-and-comers EXMORTUS decided to warm up for their current North American tour supporting ARSIS and ALLEGAEON by stopping by a home game of the Class A minor league baseball team Bakersfield Blaze to deliver a rousing, metallic rendition of the national anthem. You can watch guitarists...August 27, 2014
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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Releases Original Cut Of 'Unholy Confessions' Video
Out now in stores is the special edition reissue of AVENGED SEVENFOLD's second album, "Waking The Fallen". The 2003 disc was the first to feature guitarist Synyster Gates and bassist Johnny Christ as full-fledged members, and its last independent release before signing a major deal with Warner Bros....August 27, 2014
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JOE LYNN TURNER Says RAINBOW Reunion Is 'Very Possible'
Former RAINBOW singer Joe Lynn Turner says that it is "very possible" that the band will reunite at some point in the near future but has declined to elaborate, claiming that he is "not supposed to talk about it." Speaking to Greece's Rock Overdose 17 years after RAINBOW played its last concert in ....August 27, 2014
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SLAYER Returns To Studio To Record New Album
SLAYER has returned to the studio to resume recording its new album for a tentative early 2015 release. The effort will make SLAYER history as it will be released on Nuclear Blast Records through the band's own label imprint, closing out a 28-year relationship with Rick Rubin and American Recordings...August 26, 2014
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IRON MAIDEN: Classic '80s Vinyl Reissues On The Way
Parlophone Records (BMG/INgrooves Music Group for North America) will follow the 2012/13 IRON MAIDEN vinyl picture disc reissues of the first eight IRON MAIDEN albums, which spanned the 1980s, with brand new pressings of the albums in heavyweight 180-gram black vinyl. In conjunction with these premi...August 26, 2014
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SLIPKNOT To Tour North America With KORN, KING 810
SLIPKNOT has announced the next phase of its uncompromising history — the release of ".5: The Gray Chapter", the fifth studio album from the Grammy Award-winning group, which arrives on October 21. The band's North American "Prepare For Hell" tour, promoted exclusively by Live Nation, is set to kick...August 25, 2014
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WOLF's NIKLAS STÅLVIND Interviewed By Spain's GoetiaMedia.com (Audio)
Jorge Fretes of Spain's GoetiaMedia.com recently conducted an interview with vocalist/guitarist Niklas "Viper" Stålvind of Swedish metallers WOLF. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. WOLF's video for the song "Shark Attack" was helmed by Owe Lingvall at Dreamday Media, who prev...August 23, 2014
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'Metal Down Under': A History Of Australian Heavy Metal DVD Now Available
One of the most anticipated projects in Australian heavy music history has been released. "Metal Down Under" was an epic undertaking, over two years in the making and chronicles over 40 years of Australian metal heritage. Since the late 1970s, a thriving underground scene of extreme music has contin...August 21, 2014
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Former MEGADETH Guitarist GLEN DROVER Collaborates With QUEENSRŸCHE Singer TODD LA TORRE
Canadian guitarist Glen Drover (MEGADETH, KING DIAMOND) has collaborated with American singer Todd La Torre (QUEENSRŸCHE, CRIMSON GLORY) on a song called "Discordia". The single will be available for digital download by the end of the week. Says Drover: "We are both very happy and proud of how this...August 20, 2014
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SLIPKNOT, FAITH NO MORE, JUDAS PRIEST, SOUNDGARDEN Confirmed For Australia's SOUNDWAVE
JUDAS PRIEST, SLIPKNOT, FAITH NO MORE, SOUNDGARDEN, LAMB OF GOD and FEAR FACTORY are among the confirmed bands for Australia's Soundwave XV festival, set to take place February 21-22 at Bonython Park in Adelaide and Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne and February 28- and March 1 at Olympic Park in S...August 20, 2014
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JOE PERRY: First 'Rocks: My Life In And Out Of Aerosmith' Book-Signing Appearances Announced
AEROSMITH guitarist Joe Perry will release his long-awaited memoir, "Rocks: My Life In And Out Of Aerosmith", on October 7 via Simon & Schuster. Perry worked with author David Ritz, who has written books with B.B. King, Jerry Wexler and Bettye LaVette. In the tradition of the mega-bestseller "Li...August 19, 2014
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SOUNDGARDEN's KIM THAYIL Takes Slight Jab At SMASHING PUMPKINS' BILLY CORGAN
Did SOUNDGARDEN guitarist Kim Thayil take a slight jab at SMASHING PUMPKINS mainman Billy Corgan in a recent interview with the Dallas Observer? Thayil seemed to be continuing the low-level war of words between the two acts when he remarked that SOUNDGARDEN wasn't the kind of band that is "led by on...August 19, 2014
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EVERGREY's TOM S. ENGLUND Says 'Hymns For The Broken' Album Is '100% What We Wanted'
Not too long ago EVERGREY was almost dead. Long live EVERGREY. Yes it's true, one of the most original metal bands to come out of Sweden almost called it quits. It wasn't a decision vocalist/guitarist Tom S. Englund had spent hours or weeks brooding over, but as time passed following the band's "Glo...August 18, 2014
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