Famed producer Kevin Shirley, notable for his work with Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith, has posted the following message: "Here I am, in a downtown Toronto hotel, suffering the ill effects of an hermetically sealed hotel room when both the air and the temperature outside are perfect for camping under the stars! Not that you're likely to... Read More / Post Your Comments

Due to the overwhelming response and growth of the August 23, 2008 Rock Against Diabetes show, the event organizers have decided that the only solution to handle the demand and offer the best experience for fans, was to move from the soundstage to a venue. The Rox Club has donated their full facility for the Pre-party and the main show on August... Read More / Post Your Comments

At The Gates has sold out their Gothenburg show on September 5th already, and have therefore added a second date there on the 8th. Venue: Trädgårn. Show time 20:00 Age Restriction: 13 Here are the latest Swedish shows announced (support still yet to be announced): Sept. 03, Kulturbolaget- Malmö, Sweden Sept. 05, Göteborg - Trädgår'n Se... Read More / Post Your Comments

Blabbermouth.net reports: According to XM's Boneyard host Eddie Trunk (who has a long-running radio show, "Friday Night Rocks", on New York's Q104.3 FM), Australian hard rockers AC/DC will travel to London, England in early August to shoot a video for the first single off their new album, "Black Ice". The track, which is believed to be titled eithe... Read More / Post Your Comments

Death metal legends Obituary have posted the following message online: "We flew from Tampa to New York to Frankfurt to Copenhagen and then to Vilnius, Lithuania to make it to the first show of this third and final leg of our European Summer Festival Tour. We lost our luggage, equipment and Frank on the way, but everything and everyone eventually... Read More / Post Your Comments

Walls Of Jericho have posted their brand new album, "The American Dream" online for streaming. You can listen to it at the bands official Myspace. The album is schedule to be released on July 29th. Read More / Post Your Comments

According to Rushisaband.com, RUSH filmed their Tuesday, July 22nd at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Alpharetta, GA. The main purpose for the filming was to capture video of the new songs - 'Red Barchetta', 'The Trees', 'Ghost Of A Chance', '2112', and Neil's drum solo for bonus footage on the upcoming DVD, but the entire show was filmed for post... Read More / Post Your Comments

Ever wanted to rock out with your cock out? Well fans got the chance at General Motors Place on July 24th as Judas Priest and Testament played the 3rd date of their North American tour. Apparently belts with metal studs, chains and fake bullets are considered potential weapons and were confiscated before the show leaving many fans irate and holdin... Read More / Post Your Comments

Daytona Beach, Florida hardcore/metal band Meantime has signed with Double or Nothing Records. Their Double or Nothing debut is a self-titled 7", due for release on August 5, 2008. In the meantime, you can check out some of the band's material on their MySpace page. Read More / Post Your Comments

MACABRE have lined up the following upcoming shows: August 13 - Columbus, OH @ High 5 August 14 - Cincinnati, OH @ Dirty Jacks August 15 - Parma, OH@ Jigsaw Saloon August 16 - Long Branch, NJ @ Brighton Bar August 17 - New York, NY @ Rebel w/ Brutal Truth, Devourment October 4 - Dallas, TX @ Fear Jam at Fear Fest Read More / Post Your Comments

Texas-based brutal death metallers DEVOURMENT have lined up the following East Coast shows for next month with MALIGNANCY: August 16 - Fall River, MA @ PAL of Fall River August 17 - New York, NY @ Rebel w/ Brutal Truth, Macabre Read More / Post Your Comments

Century Media Records artists OPIATE FOR THE MASSES have issued the following message: "Due to current commitments we will no longer be continuing the tour with FILTER in July." "We are sorry for those who had planned to come out and support the band and we encourage you to still go and see Filter as they are a great band." "Current plans ... Read More / Post Your Comments

Sweden's FALCONER have finished work on their forthcoming new album, "Among Beggars And Thieves," at Andy LaRoque's (KING DIAMOND guitarist) Sonic Train Studio in Sweden. Metal Blade Records has posted the track "Man Of The Hour," lifted from the album, at this location. Read More / Post Your Comments

EARACHE RECORDS has announced the signing of IGNOMINIOUS INCARCERATION to a multi-album, worldwide recording deal. Hailing from the historical Roman city of Bath, UK, this talented young five-piece delivers instantly recognisable, crushing, modern death metal, whilst being unmistakably rooted in traditional death metal. IGNOMINIOUS INCARCERAT... Read More / Post Your Comments

General Surgery recently posted an update on their much awaited follow up to acclaimed "Left hand pathology" and planned live appearances: "Next up is Party-San in Bad Berka, Germany on Saturday August the 9th, and the weekend after that you can get your dosage of gore at the Brutal Assault Festival in Jaromer, Czech Rep. Our stage slots are sti... Read More / Post Your Comments

Heavy metal icon King Diamond has posted the following lengthy message: "Now that it's been made official, yes, I will participate in the tribute to Dimebag at Ozzfest. It's an honor to have been asked to participate, and my back is steadily getting better, definitely good enough for a short appearance, and it couldn't be for a better cause. ... Read More / Post Your Comments

Cynic have announced that their highly anticipated new album will be named "Traced In Air" and that the disc is scheduled to hit record stores on October 27th. The album contains eight songs and clocks in at around thirty five minutes long. The band have posted a trailer for the new album below: Read More / Post Your Comments

Legendary Brummie godfathers of grindcore Napalm Death have entered the studio to record the follow up album to 2006's "Smear Campaign." Vocalist Mark ?Barney? Greenway says: ?As always, when trying to decide when we should enter the studio, we threw a dart at a dartboard and, sadly, for all our sanities? sakes, it landed on a date which was soo... Read More / Post Your Comments

Australian-based technical, groove metal band Kunvuk have announced their new drummer. They have issued the following welcoming message: "Kunvuk welcomes in to its ranks the explosive and insanely dynamic (Hurrikane Ka)Trina Tuffy! After an extensive and thoroughly debilitating search of the Sydney landscape we have found the missing piece to th... Read More / Post Your Comments

Labelmates Pelican and Torche have announced a month-long run of European tour dates starting in mid-September. Here are the latest dates: 9/12 Brighton, UK @ Engine Room 9/13 Sheffield, UK @ Corporation 9/14 Glasgow, UK @ Oran Mor 9/15 Belfast, UK @ The Limelight 9/16 Dublin, Ireland @ Whelans 9/17 Birmingham, UK @ Medicine Bar 9/18 Londo... Read More / Post Your Comments

Nonpoint's version of "In The Air Tonight" was featured this past weekend in a captivating montage during ESPN's "ESPY Awards" ceremony. For anyone unfamiliar, the ESPYs are a huge event and are the sports world's version of the Oscars. Fans can check out a video of the segment below. Read More / Post Your Comments

Scars On Broadway will be webcasting live its record release shopw from Union Station in California this July 28. The webcast can be seen exclusively at scarsonbroadway.com at 9:25pm PST on Monday, July 28. To view the webcast, make sure to download Microsoft Silverlight (a Flash-like plugin) for free by following instructions here. In relat... Read More / Post Your Comments

Determined to complete a tour with no car accidents, illnesses, or other distressing turmoil and ready to brave the road once again for the upcoming Thrash And Burn Tour, ARSIS bassist Noah Martin checks in to bring us up-to-date on tour preparations and the band?s newest addition: ?We?re really pumped about this tour. I don?t think there?s any... Read More / Post Your Comments

Metal band So Much to Fear has dared to cover the Black Sabbath classic, ?Paranoid.? Dark Sky Records has released this rendition of the classic by the Santa Maria, California band, which was recorded at Montecito Sound in Montecito, California under the direction of Producer Jay Ferguson. Currently the single can be found at the Dark Sky Recor... Read More / Post Your Comments

DON CABALLERO recently posted a second new track, "Lord Krepelka," from their brand new full length "Punkgasm" via ILike. "Lord Krepelka" is currently streaming and is available as a free download for a limited time at this location. "Punkgasm" was recorded at Rust Belt Studios in Michigan with long-time producer / engineer Al Sutton. The album'... Read More / Post Your Comments

Craig Owens, the singer for hardcore band Chiodos is currently in a mental health facility following a suicide attempt at his home in Michigan on July 20, reports Alsolutepunk.net. According to the site, Owens posted the following message, which has since been removed, on the band?s Web site: "So, after an attempted overdose early yesterday m... Read More / Post Your Comments

Winning the show's online poll after their performance last weekend, MADE OUT OF BABIES will be on Fearless Music TV for the second time in as many weeks this Saturday night, July 26, with a live performance of ?Grimace? off their latest LP, "The Ruiner." Fearless Music TV airs Saturday nights at 12:30am on Fox 5 in NYC. For those not living in NYC... Read More / Post Your Comments

Staind co-founder Mike Mushok has posted the following update: "Hey everybody, how's it going? All is well here - we've been on the road now for just over two weeks and we're playing in the New England area so we get to spend some days at home which is nice. We had a real hectic past week - we were all in New York doing a bunch of press to... Read More / Post Your Comments

Avenged Sevenfold has announced a headlining fall tour beginning September 9th. Co-headlining dates with Buckcherry kick off in mid-September. Avenged Sevenfold and Buckcherry will alternate as headliners, with Shinedown and Saving Abel filling out the rest of the bill. Here are the latest Avenged Sevenfold tour dates: A7X Headlining: Sep. ... Read More / Post Your Comments

Austrian Death Machine's debut album, "Total Brutal," was released this week. In celebration, the band has posted a teaser for the first Austrian Death Machine music video that they're working on. The video for the song "Get To The Choppa" isn't finished shooting yet, but "there is enough footage and ideas going on to give you an idea of where it's... Read More / Post Your Comments

Faster Pussycat is currently rolling through town across the US with Bang Tango and L.A. Guns. Jason Price and Steve Johnson of Live-Metal.Net recently spoke to Taime Downe about his beginnings, his current undertakings, and what exactly might lie in store for Faster Pussycat. In a candid interview, Downe talks about new material for the band, a po... Read More / Post Your Comments

After trying out guitarists for several months, Society 1 has just announced they have found a new guitarist. Los Angeles native Eric Franklin will be joining Matt "The Lord" Zane, Dirt, and Sic Rik on guitars. You can view video of Eric Franklin in action at Ultimate-Guitar.com. Raised by his parents on Beethoven, Bach and the Star Wars Soundtr... Read More / Post Your Comments

After a successful comeback last year at the Keep It True festival (Germany), Up the Hammers Festival (Greece) and a small tour with legendary Diamond Head, Dutch metal cult band Defender will show their stuff at these two great festivals: 30-08-2008 - Elsrock 06-09-2008 - Occultfest Read More / Post Your Comments

Obsidian has booked itself in the Excess Studio's to record the drum tracks for the follow up to 2007's "Emerging." The recordings will take place in the middle of August. The new album will feature nine brand new tracks. Titles and more info concerning the album will follow later. There will be a studio log kept through the band's MySpace page, so... Read More / Post Your Comments

Rusty Cage recording artists Izegrim has announced a replacement for thier now departed drummer. Due to a loss of interest in metal and a subsequent lack of motivation, drummer Joep van Leeuwen decided to leave Izegrim. He has been replaced by Ivo Maarhuis. Ivo will make his first appearance with Izegrim at Dokkem Open Air. Read More / Post Your Comments

Tenessee metallers THE SHOWDOWN have posted another brand-new track from their upcoming album, "Back Breaker." "Hephaestus ? The Hammer of The Gods" is streaming now on the band?s official MySpace, and Purevolume pages. "Back Breaker" will see an August 19 release date by way of the band?s new home at Solid State Records. "Back Breaker" is THE S... Read More / Post Your Comments

TIAMAT has been confirmed for the Zeytinli Rock Fest 2008, set to take place August 14-17 in Balikesir, Turkey. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: KURBAN YÜKSEK SADAKAT BADEM BUZ DINAR BANDOSU FALSE IN TRUTH GÖKÇE HAYKO CEPKIN IHTIYAÇ MOLASI MAKINE MARSIS MOGOLLAR NEV OGUN SANLISOY PENTAGRAM ZARDANADAM TIBET AGIRT... Read More / Post Your Comments

Through The Eyes Of The Dead has announced that they've been added to the Whitechapel tour with Impending Doom and A Different Breed Of Killer. The latest tour dates are as follows: 08.28.08 Seattle, WA Studio Seven 08.30.08 Orangevale, CA The Boardwalk 08.31.08 San Jose, CA MACLA 09.01.08 Fresno, CA The Exit 09.02.08 Bakersfield, CA Jerry's... Read More / Post Your Comments

Bhelliom and Truth Be Known will be playing some gigs in Asia in support of their upcoming efforts. Truth Be Known's new album will finally be release in August, while Bhelliom's "The Colossal Tragedy" is targeted for late August or the first week of September. In October and November, Bhelliom will be heading for to a 1 week Asia tour to includ... Read More / Post Your Comments

The Ozzfest live tribute to fallen Pantera/ Damageplan guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott has began to take a clearer shape with many big name members of the metal community confirmed. The musicians will perform a set of Pantera classics after the set of Hellyeah at Ozzfest. Among the confirmed artists are: Vinnie Paul (Pantera, Damageplan, Hell... Read More / Post Your Comments

Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French has posted the following update on the bands forthcoming live DVD: "Recorded in London, in August 2004, the critics hailed Twisted Sister's performance as one of their greatest ever. If you're an SMF, and have wondered what Twisted Sister thought about any of their live shows throughout their 35 year histo... Read More / Post Your Comments

Alaska/San Diego based metal band, DOWNSPELL, are mixing and recording the final guest tracks on their 2nd release yet to be named. Guest's include Josh & Troy from, Ed from DISGORGE and the one and only Randy Blythe from LAMB OF GOD. DOWNSPELL singer, Tyson Montrucchio, has also formed a new side project called THROATCLOSER. This project will ... Read More / Post Your Comments

Relapse Records has announced the signing of Geneva, Switzerland's grindcore band MUMAKIL. MUMAKIL is currently writing the follow-up album to their debut full-length, "Customized Warfare." MUMAKIL's Sebastien Schacher says of the signing and new album: "We're all really excited here since the signature with Relapse Records. This means a lot of ... Read More / Post Your Comments

Kerrang! reports: The Russian government is in the process of drafting a law to make emo and goth music illegal. Last month a parliamentary committee was convened to discuss a draft proposal of the Russian government's Government Strategy In The Sphere Of Spiritual And Ethical Education bill, the details of which were leaked to The Moscow Ti... Read More / Post Your Comments

Blabbermouth.net reports: Vassil Varbanov of Bulgaria's Tangra Mega Rock recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow. Tangra Mega Rock: Do you feel something like a clash between the younger rock generations and you guys ? I mean in terms of musicians, not the crowd? Elliott... Read More / Post Your Comments

The co-creation of comedic geniuses Brendon Small (creator of Adult Swim's Home Movies) and Tommy Blacha (writer of Late Nite with Conan O'Brien and Ali G), Metalocalypse is the most brutal metal cartoon to date. The show is about the metal band Dethklok, the most famous and influential band in the world. So influential, in fact, that Dethklok fans... Read More / Post Your Comments

Swarms is Kim Sølve, a visual artist behind acclaimed artwork for artists such as Mayhem, Darkthrone, Manes, DHG, Solefald, Ved Buens Ende, Arcturus, She Said Destroy, Nocturno Culto's The Misanthrope DVD and Ulver, paired with the very unorthodox bass player Petter Berntsen (Virus, Audiopain). Together they brush off the conventions of genre and s... Read More / Post Your Comments

Swedish thrashers DARKANE have issued the following update: "Finally the mixing of [the new DARKANE album] 'Demonic Art' is completed and the album is being mastered right now. 12 songs ended up on the final version, with about 48 minutes of pure aggressive, brutal, melodic, modern, technical, furious, fast, heavy and insane thrash metal! We are... Read More / Post Your Comments

Quebec?s KATAKLYSM has been creating quite a stir at this year?s Summer Slaughter tour with their show stealing performances all over the North America. Now after years of hard work and other successful tours, which most recently included runs with bands like DIMMU BORGIR and CHIMAIRA, they will finally play a headlining tour of North America this ... Read More / Post Your Comments

Nuclear Blast Records will be hosting a booth (#116) at this year?s Comic-Con International from Wednesday, July 23rd through Sunday, July 27th in San Diego, California. Fans stopping by the table will have the opportunity to pick up free Nuclear Blast CD samplers, stickers, posters, postcards, band coasters and more! Also, fans will be able to ... Read More / Post Your Comments