DIMMU BORGIR, MAYHEM, RED HARVEST and AUDREY HORNE have been nominated in the "Metal" category at the 36th annual Spellemann awards (the Norwegian equivalent to the Grammy Awards). The largest and oldest Norwegian music awards show will be held Saturday, February 2 at the Spektrum in Oslo, Norway and will be broadcast live on the ...
"Reborn", the covers album from NORTHERN KINGS, the new Finnish band consisting of four well-known metal musicians — J. Ahola (TERÄSBETONI), Marco Hietala (TAROT, NIGHTWISH), Tony Kakko (SONATA ARCTICA), J-P Leppäluoto (CHARON) — has been certified gold in Finland for sales in excess of 15,000 copies. NORTHERN KINGS's video for its cover of TINA TURNER's ...
A video clip of STREAM OF PASSION keyboardist Jeffrey Revet working at his studio on some of the songs for the band's upcoming sophomore album can be viewed below. STREAM OF PASSION members Johan van Stratum (bass), Davy Mickers (drums) and Marcela Bovio (vocals, lyrics, violin) last year announced the addition of Stephan Schultz (guitar), ...
MY RUIN frontwoman Tarrie B has issued the following update: "Matt [LeChevalier, drums] is no longer in MY RUIN. Before you think what we KNOW you must be thinking, let me explain....because there are no hard feelings. "Matt joined MY RUIN in 2005 right after we released our last album, 'The Brutal Language'. We were ...
HELLOWEEN's web site has been updated with the following message: "After successful appearances in Sweden and Finland, 3,500 fans have welcomed HELLOWEEN and GAMMA RAY at the first concert on the Czech part of the Hellish Rock tour in the Lokomotiva Sports Hall in Plzen. "Together with the Swedish opening act SABATON both of the ...
Riverside, California-based quintet SUICIDE SILENCE has just secured the direct support slot on the upcoming BEHEMOTH European tour in February before they will come back with PARKWAY DRIVE and BURY YOUR DEAD in April/May. SUICIDE SILENCE's "The Cleansing" album will finally receive a European release on February 18 (except in the UK, where it will ...
Danish metalcore act AS WE FIGHT has issued the following update: "We have a new singer!!! His name is Jesper Gün, and he has been with us for about 5-6 months, so some of you have already seen him at the shows with ALL THAT REMAINS, Ieperfest and the MTV Headbanger's Ball Tour. We are ...
Belinda Goldsmith of Reuters recently conducted an interview with KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Q: Your art has become quite a business, selling for $2 million last year? Stanley: "It is incredible. For me the dollar figure is more of an acknowledgment of how people are ...
The reformed lineup of the Dutch death metal outfit ASPHYX — Martin van Drunen (vocals), Wannes Gubbels (bass/vocals), Paul Baayens (guitar) and Bob Bagchus (drums) — has issued the following update: "ASPHYX will record two songs at the end of January 2008 at the Harrow studios: covering CELTIC FROST's 'Os Abysmi Vel Daath' from their ...
German death metallers B.G.T. have split up after 12 years of existence. "We have to thank all of you for all the support and loyalty," the band writes in a statement. "Our homepage, www.bgtmetal.de, will stay online, so you can spam us with your feedback. Also you can still download all our songs ...
