Over the past month, a mighty storm has been tearing its way across Europe. The THRASHING LIKE A MANIAC European tour - featuring Irish thrashers GAMA BOMB, LA shredders BONDED BY BLOOD and UK openers SWORN AMONGST - has been relentlessly hitting cit... » Read more

Earache Records is proud to announce the signing of Toronto, Canada's CAULDRON to a multi-album worldwide deal. The high energy traditional heavy metal three piece have built a steady following while producing a fresh heavy metal sound built out o... » Read more

Chicago deathcore heavyweights OCEANO entered the studio on October 3rd to begin recording one of the angriest albums ever. ANDREW MIKHAIL, guitarist for OCEANO - the band who famously had a series of photos BANNED from MySpace for being too grues... » Read more

Bandleader Morten Veland of Norwegian Symphonic/Gothic metallers SIRENIA just issued the following statement regarding the band’s next album: ""The 13th Floor" is the title of the new album. The release date is set to the 23rd of January 2009. Expect... » Read more

SCAR SYMMETRY have announced some new decisions among the band: "When things went from bad to worse and we realized that it wasn't going to work out with Christian, we were faced with two options; either calling it quits, or seizing the opportunity t... » Read more

Season of Mist is proud to announce the freshly inked deal the label signed with play Slavonic heathen metal band DRUDKH. Their cinematic, folk-influenced music focuses on a strong atmosphere with a lot of feeling, and the lyrical contents are about ... » Read more

For too long, the city of Birmingham, UK has failed to celebrate what is rightfully theirs - to claim the city as the home of heavy metal. Now, 40 years after the term "heavy metal" was coined, it's time to start celebrating! The city of Birmingha... » Read more

Irish Pagan Metallers PRIMORDIAL are nominated in the category of the Best International Album at Danish Metal Awards 2008 (side by side with Metallica, Slipknot, Opeth and Testament). The Danish Metal Awards take place on the 15th of November in Cop... » Read more

Dutch Death Metal Grandmasters GOD DETHRONED have finished the songwriting for their upcoming new album! “”We're ready ! We finished 8 songs for our new album "Passiondale". Those of you who are fans of our "Bloody Blasphemy" and "The Lair of the... » Read more

Culver City, CA October 6, 2008 -- Even before its release, Weezer's "Troublemaker" video is a record breaker: Weezer and friends gathered to play the song together and break Guinness World Records during the shooting of the video. Guinness World R... » Read more

NOVA EXPRESS, the recently announced noise/darkwave/ambient project set up by SKITLIV front man Maniac (ex MAYHEM), has undergone a name change. The band, comprising Maniac himself on vocals and guitars, GALLHAMMER’S Vivian Slaughter on bass, sax an... » Read more

TAKARA was originally formed in August of 1987 by guitarist Neal Grusky. In 1990, Takara with Jeff Scott Soto producing and singing, entered into the studio to record new songs what would become their debut CD. In 1992 Takara added new members, Rober... » Read more

Joacim of GENERAL SURGERY sent us an update about the band 's upcoming album recording : “ As of today (2nd of October), we have once again entered the filthy and repulsive confinements of Off Beat Studio to record our 2nd still untitled full len... » Read more

Poland’s ANTIGAMA have entered the studio to begin work on their as-yet-untitled second album for Relapse Records. The follow-up to last year’s Resonance is being recorded in the band’s hometown of Warsaw at Progresja Sound, once again with produc... » Read more