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RONNIE JAMES DIO's Final Resting Place (Video)

Legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio was laid to rest at the Hall Of Liberty at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles after public and private memorials and was entombed in the erstwhile Jackson Three Children sarcophagus in the Courts of Remembrance. Nearby notable crypts include Sand...

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Ex-TNT Vocalist TONY HARNELL Featured In New 'The Right To Rock' Podcast

TheRightToRock.com has issued its latest podcast (episode #107),featuring an interview with former TNT vocalist Tony Harnell. The chat lasts approximately 40 minutes and can be streamed using the audio player below. "Northern Lights", the debut video from Harnell's new project, TONY HARNELL & T...

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ICED EARTH Mainman Interviewed In Hollywood

On September 25, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with guitarist Jon Schaffer of U.S. power metallers ICED EARTH at the House Of Blues in Hollywood, California. You can now watch the chat in two parts below. ICED EARTH kicked off its four-city U.S. tour on September 1...

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DRAGSTRIP: Debut Album Out Now

DRAGSTRIP, the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring former TANK drummer Gary "Bulldog" Taylor, has released its debut album, "A Heartbeat Away From Disaster", via Riff City Records. DRAGSTRIP is fronted by U.K. vocalist and showman Kevan Overend, who is described in a press release as "a true...

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STEVEN ADLER On GUNS N' ROSES: 'We Didn't Finish What We Started'

A Geek Girl of Technorati recently conducted an interview with original GUNS N' ROSES and current ADLER'S APPETITE drummer Steven Adler about his tell-all autobiography, "My Appetite For Destruction: Sex, And Drugs, And Guns N' Roses". A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. A Geek Girl: St...

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SCOTT WEILAND Talks About SANTANA Collaboration (Video)

A short video clip of STONE TEMPLE PILOTS/ex-VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland talking about his contribution to Carlos Santana's "Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time" album can be viewed at this location. The longest-running, most successful partnership in the history of rock...

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TESTAMENT Guitarist's ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO To Film 'Bollywood Jam' Video

ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO, the experimental band led by TESTAMENT/ex-SAVATAGE guitarist Alex Skolnick, will film a video for the song "Bollywood Jam" on Monday, September 20 at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Lyceum, located at 227 4th Ave. in Brooklyn, New York. For an optional cash donation you'll be a part of th...

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SACHA BARON COHEN To Play FREDDIE MERCURY In QUEEN Movie

According to MTV.com, comic and filmmaker Sacha Baron Cohen will play legendary QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury in an upcoming movie. Cohen will portray the British singer in a film focusing on QUEEN's developing years up until the band's historic 1985 Live Aid set. GK Films ("The Tourist"),Robert D...

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QUEEN: 'Singles Collection 4' Detailed

The final volume in the massively impressive retrospective four box set, "Queen: The Singles Collection 4", will be released October 18. The closing chapter to the entire history of QUEEN's worldwide singles releases, Volume 4 tracks the band's output through the latter years of 1989 to 1999. The 13...

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QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS Photobook Due Next Month

"Rockmos!" is the name of the first and onlly QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS photobook containing 342 pages with hundreds of great pictures and interesting stories of 22 shows from 2005 to 2008 in Europe and North America. The foreword was written by guitarist Brian May, singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Roger...

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Former WITCHCRAFT Drummer Joins ATLANTIC TIDE

Former WITCHCRAFT/ABRAMIS BRAMA drummer Fredrik Jansson, who also plays bass in COUNT RAVEN, has joined ATLANTIC TIDE, the Swedish project featuring guitarist Freddie Eugene (UNLEASHED, TERRA FIRMA, LOUD PIPES, HARMS WAY) alongside ex-TERRA FIRMA bassist Izmo Ledderfejs, former BLACKSHINE axeman Sta...

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ICED EARTH Mainman Promises 'Surprises' On Upcoming Mini-Tour

When Jon Schaffer does something, he does it right. Like creating an eclectic, fan-favorite set list for ICED EARTH's upcoming limited-engagement U.S. tour. "I wanted to give fans something really special," Schaffer said. "So I put together songs that include some we've rarely played live before, an...

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CHESTER BENNINGTON, CHRIS CORNELL, SCOTT WEILAND On New SANTANA Album; Audio Samples

11 of the 12 tracks that are set to appear on Carlos Santana's "Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time" album are available for streaming at Amazon.com. The longest-running, most successful partnership in the history of rock takes flight anew, as legendary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame...

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STEVEN ADLER On AXL ROSE: 'I Love Him And I Want Him To Be A Part Of My Life More'

Steve Johnson of Icon Vs. Icon recently conducted an interview with former GUNS N' ROSES and current ADLER'S APPETITE drummer Steven Adler about Steven's new autobiography, "My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses". A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Icon Vs. Icon: Did...

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CLUTCH: 'Robot Hive/Exodus' Reissue To Include Bonus DVD

Maryland hard rock band CLUTCH has announced the track listing for the expanded, two-disc-edition reissue of "Robot Hive/Exodus", due on September 28 through Weathermaker Music. Currently out of print, "Robot Hive/Exodus" was at one point the band's largest selling title of the decade due to the str...