IRON MAIDEN's official web site has been updated with the following message: "The IRON MAIDEN shows in Western Canada have now sold every available ticket in each market in just four days. The band encourages any non-ticket holders to check back in a couple weeks and just before the show as production releases may become ...
Fan-filmed video footage of KYPCK ("Kursk" in the western alphabet) the new Russian-singing Finnish doom metal band featuring former SENTENCED guitarist Sami Lopakka (a.k.a. S.S. Lopakka) performing a cover of BLACK SABBATH's "Black Sabbath" in Russian at the group's first-ever concert on March 23, 2008 at at Teatria in Oulu, Finland can be viewed below. ...
Germany's DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER has posted the first in a series of video blog entries covering the recording sessions for the band's as-yet-untitled seventh studio album, due late summer via Nuclear Blast Records. The upcoming CD will be the group's first to feature new guitar player Lady Cat-Man, who replaced Pitrone in February 2008. DIE ...
ABATTOIR (featuring Steve Gaines, Mark Caro, Mel Sanchez, Juan Garcia and Rob Analeze), TYRANT (original lineup), EXUMER (featuring both singers), MILITIA (original lineup) and HELL (three original members plus SABBAT's Andy Sneap and Martin Walkyier) are among the confirmed artists for the Keep It True XII festival, set to take place April 24-25, 2009 at ...
Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA will celebrate the five-year anniversary of the release of their debut album, "The Phantom Agony", by performing the CD in its entirety at Tivoli in Utrecht, The Netherlands on May 16. EPICA is currently utilizing the services of singer-songwriter and vocal coach Amanda Somerville as the stand-in vocalist for the ...
Long-running Seattle metallers METAL CHURCH have issued the following update: "After an overwhelming response to the album cover art [contest] for our new release, we have finally decided on a wining cover. The artist's name is Rainer Kalwitz from Germany who is amazingly talented. "Due to so many talented entries, we have decided ...
Night Of The Vinyl Dead will release the ARCH ENEMY's "Stigmata" album (originally issued in 1998 on CD only) on limited-edition blue vinyl (333 hand-numbered copies) later this month. The track listing is as follows: Side A 01. Beast Of Man 02. Stigmata 03. Sinister Mephisto 04. Dark Of The Sun Side B: 01. Let ...
'80s rockers POISON have announced the following "Live Raw & Uncut Tour" dates: Jun. 07 - Slvesborg, Sweden - Sweden Rock Festival Jul. 03 - Salt Lake City, UT - Energy Solution Jul. 05 - Island Grove Park, CO - Independant Stampede Jul. 08 - Nashville, TN - Sommet Center Jul. 09 - Kansas City, ...
Producer Kevin Shirley (LED ZEPPELIN, IRON MAIDEN, DREAM THEATER, AEROSMITH, JOURNEY, HIM) is currently in the studio mixing IRON MAIDEN tracks for a new feature documentary that follows the band's current "Somewhere Back in Time" tour. The film is being helmed by directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. creators of the ...
