The Jam‘s leader Paul Weller is to be the subject of a biography, entitled “Paul Weller: The Changing Man” and due to be released in September. The author of the book, music journalist Paolo Hewitt, has been a friend of the singer and guitar player since they were teenagers in Woking, Surrey, UK. According to […]

While touring the world in support of their latest album, “In Sorte Diaboli”,В Metal Videos has uploaded professionally filmed video footage of an entire live performance by Norway’s black metal stars Dimmu Borgir for free watching. The 88-minute-long concert was shot in Amsterdam, Holland during the band’s Death Cult Armageddon Tour in 2003. So relax, sit […]

Sofia-based punk bands C4 (on the photo)В and Empty Face shall play live at the opening of Atomic Wave Cool Shop at the Sky City Trade Center in Bulgaria’s capital onВ July 18В (Wednesday). Both gagns shall perform for free at 7 p.m. on a stage at the parking in front of Sky City, situated on 52 Kosta […]

In a recent interview published in the Journal de Quebec newspaper, Voivod‘s drummer Michel “Away” Langevin has indicated that Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser (on the photo) would likely play guitar for the group when they head out on the road in support of their next album. The Canadian thrash metal avantgardists’ upcoming 13-song CD shall […]

Franz Ferdinand have revealed that their upcoming third full-length studio album shall be quite “synth-led”. Guitarist Paul Thomson has added that “we’ve gone crazy buying old synths…” The follow-up to 2005’s “You Could Have It So Much Better” is slated for a spring 2008 release.

Germany’s progressive thrash metal veterans Mekong Delta have revealed the substance of their comback album, “Lurking Fear” (view final cover in the left), due on August 24 via AFM Records. The effort will be available as a standard jewelcase CD, as well as in the form of a limited edition digipack with bonus DVD, containing […]

Marilyn Manson‘s long-awaited horror movie, “Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll”, is finally set to begin shooting in November or December. The postponement had to made due to the shock rock star’s current Rape the World Tour. Manson, who is to direct the film, shall also act in it as Lewis Carroll, along with girlfriend […]

Guitarist Kirk Hammett has revealed a bunch of quite interesting facts regarding the highly anticipated new Metallica album: “We wrote 22 songs with the intention of recording 12 or 14, with the intention of putting maybe 9 or 10 tracksВ on the new album, depending on how they all turn out once they’re all finally recorded […]

After starting a glorious comeback tour and taking part at the mega-festival Live Earth on July 7 in front of millions of viewers all over the globe, Britain’s (ex-prog) pop rock veterans Genesis have obviously got highly inspired and are planning a to release a bunch of retrospetive stuff to coincide with their 40th anniversary. […]

Irish rockers The Answer (on the photo) were chosen to support The Rolling Stones in front of 80,000 people in Belgrade, Serbia today, July 14. So far the youngsters have played together with bands like The Who and Aerosmith, but never in front of so many people…