DYING FETUS and ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY are the latest acts to have been officially confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which is scheduled to take place on August 2-3 in Wacken, Germany. The full line-up of acts that are presently scheduled to perform at Wacken Open Air now looks like this: ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY AMON ...
Less-than-stellar copies of DOWN's 1992 and 1993 demos have been made available for download online at this location. ...
OZZY OSBOURNE, TOOL, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SLAYER and CRADLE OF FILTH have all been confirmed for the main stage at this year's Ozzfest UK, which is scheduled to take place at Castle Donington on May 25th. The event will mark the first time a major rock festival has been held at the venue since ...
SAXON have announced the dates for their forthcoming world tour. They are as follows: Mar. 16 - Spodek-Metal Mania Festival – Katowice, POL Mar. 29 - Lucky Rijssen – Zwolle, NETH Mar. 30 - Splendid – Lille, FRA Mar. 31 - Paaspop Festival – Schijndel, NETH Apr. 05 - New Jersey Metalfest - Asbury Park, ...
KAMELOT have resumed the writing process for their as-yet-untitled new studio album, which will reportedly be the band's first concept release to date. Singer/songwriter Khan will be making a trip to Florida in March for the first of several meetings and writing sessions. The follow-up to last year's phenomenal Karma effort, KAMELOT's next CD “will ...
L.A. heavyweights DIESEL MACHINE, who feature in their ranks HALFORD guitarist Patrick Lachman, will be performing at the Musicians Institute, 1655 N. McFadden Pl. in Hollywood this Saturday, March 2nd. The show is FREE, but all parties interested in attending must e-mail the group so that the band can put the names on the list. ...
The diaries and notebooks of NIRVANA singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain were purchased by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putnam, for $4 million, and a published compilation will be in stores by November. The proceeds from the book will go to the Cobain estate. “The journals are an intimate portrait of an artist of great influence,” ...
LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst has refused to testify in-person at an Australian court's inquest into LIMP BIZKIT's possible role in the death of a 15-year-old girl at the 2001 Big Day Out Festival. Coroner Jacqueline Milledge had requested in-person testimony from Durst when Sydney's Glebe Coroner's Court started looking into the factors that contributed ...
SLIPKNOT's Paul Gray on the possibility of the group winning a Grammy in the “Best Metal Performance” category (for "Left Behind") at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards, which are scheduled to air live at 8:00 PM via CBS tonight, Wednesday, February 27th from the Staples Center in Los Angeles: “It's cool that we're nominated. I ...
