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IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER, ICED EARTH Confirmed For Spain's METALWAY FESTIVAL

IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER and ICED EARTH are among the confirmed bands for the Metalway Festival, set to take place Saturday, July 12 at Feria de Muestras, Zaragoza, Spain. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: IRON MAIDEN SLAYER AVANTASIA BARON ROJO ICED EARTH ROSE TATOO AVENGED SEVENFOLD LAUREN...

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THE AGONIST: Video Footage From Recording Studio Posted Online

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based female-fronted metal band THE AGONIST has released the first video diary from the group's current recording sessions for its second album. Watch the six-minute clip below. A THE AGONIST e-card is available, featuring video messages from vocalist Alissa White-Gluz discu...

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BOOK OF BLACK EARTH Signs With PROSTHETIC RECORDS

Prosthetic Records has announced the signing of Seattle's death/black metallers BOOK OF BLACK EARTH. The group, which consists of members of venerable metal underground band TEEN CTHULHU, is currently writing material for its second full-length album, having already released a self-financed demo in...

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MUSTASCH: Stockholm Live Performance Available For Streaming

Swedish broadcaster SVT is currently streaming footage from MUSTASCH's sold-out concert in January 2008 at Tyrol in Stockholm. Watch the performance at this location. MUSTASCH recently replaced Denmark's VOLBEAT on the billing of the ProgPower USA IX festival, which is set to return to Center Stage...

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FILTER's Tour Schedule Keeps Growing

The Pulse of Radio reports that FILTER has expanded its upcoming live schedule as the band gears up for the May 13 release of its first new album in six years, "Anthems for the Damned". The trek, which kicks off on April 24, now includes 20 dates, including headlining shows and radio festivals. Fron...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS To Be Inducted Into HOLLYWOOD'S ROCKWALK

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin of the SMASHING PUMPKINS will be inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at noon. Corgan and Chamberlin will be honored by fans with a special ceremony at Guitar Center in Hollywood. Hollywood's RockWalk is...

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AGENT STEEL Begins Work On New Material

California-based power metallers AGENT STEEL have issued the following update: "We just loaded in our gear this week into our new rehearsal studio in Los Angeles and started working on new song ideas; and also revisiting the 'STEEL' catalog. We've begun to kick around guitar riff ideas in attempt to...

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SABBAT: Interview With MARTIN WALKYIER

By Keith Bergman While they never rose to the levels of fame that their contemporaries enjoyed, England's SABBAT built up quite a cult following during their short tenure in the 1980s. Vocalist Martin Walkyier, guitarist Andy Sneap, bassist Frazer Craske and drummer Simon Negus rose from the UK unde...

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DEICIDE Drummer On New Album, Lack Of Touring

Darren Cowan of Blistering.com recently conducted an interview with DEICIDE drummer Steve Asheim. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Blistering.com: How do you feel about your forthcoming album "Till Death Do Us Part"? Steve Asheim: I feel pretty stoked about it. There was a really high expe...

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EXODUS Confirmed For Germany's ROCK HARD FESTIVAL

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS have been confirmed as the "very special guests" at this year's Rock Hard Festival, set to take place May 9-11, 2008 at the Gelsenkirchen Amphitheatre in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The festival running order is now as follows: Friday, May 9: 15:00 - 15:35...

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WYKKED WYTCH Singer Demonstrates Her 'Technique' On 'Howard Stern Show'; Audio Available

For the last two weeks, Howard Stern has been playing a clip of WYKKED WYTCH's cover version of the EURYTHMICS hit song "Sweet Dreams". On this week's "The Howard Stern Show", Richard Christy the former drummer of ICED EARTH, DEATH, LEASH LAW, CONTROL DENIED and BURNING INSIDE, who currently works f...

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TIMO TOLKKI's REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE: Audio Samples Available

STRATOVARIUS guitarist Timo Tolkki's new project REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE will release its debut album, "New Era", on June 6 via Frontiers Records. According to a press release, the CD "is a masterpiece of melodic power metal, taking the listener straight back to the 'Visions'-era STRATOVARIUS. In fac...

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TESTAMENT Replaces CELTIC FROST At Germany's ROCK HARD FESTIVAL

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers TESTAMENT have replaced CELTIC FROST on the billing of this year's Rock Hard Festival, set to take place May 9-11, 2008 at the Gelsenkirchen Amphitheatre in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The festival running order is now as follows: Friday, May 9: 15:00 - 15:35 THE...

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ANNIHILATOR Mainman Issues New Album Update

Guitarist Jeff Waters of the long-running Canadian thrashers ANNIHILATOR has issued the following update: "[The songwriting process for the] new CD [is] coming along just delightfully. Something strange happened in the last few years in that I have started to really play guitar more than usual, thus...

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ENSLAVED Replaces CELTIC FROST At Holland's ROADBURN Festival

Norway's ENSLAVED has replaced CELTIC FROST on the billing of the Roadburn festival, which will take place April 17-20 at 013 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. CELTIC FROST singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer announced his departure from the group earlier today "due to the irresolvable, severe erosi...