June 21, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: TESLA • 0 Comments
California rockers TESLA will release “Twisted Wires And The Acoustic Sessions” on July 12. The album will feature six songs that were recorded back in 2005 at bassist Brian Wheat’s J Street Recorders studio — which also serve as the last recordings with original member Tommy Skeoch — and six newly recorded tracks, including acoustic […]
June 21, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: KING KOBRA • 0 Comments
“Turn Up The Good (Times)”, the new video from KING KOBRA, can be seen below. The song comes off the band’s new self-titled comeback album, which came out in April via Frontiers Records. Formed in 1984 by legendary drummer Carmine Appice (VANILLA FUDGE, ROD STEWART, OZZY OSBOURNE), Los Angeles heavy metal outfit KING KOBRA recorded […]
June 21, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: ACCEPT, UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER • 0 Comments
Kaaos TV conducted an interview with guitarist Wolf Hoffmann of reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT before the band’s June 11, 2011 concert at the Sauna Open Air festival in Tampere, Finland. You can now watch the chat below. Also available is ACCEPT performance footage from Sauna Open Air. When asked about ACCEPT’s current relationship with […]
June 21, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Bathory, Bill Andrews, Bloody Kisses, Carnivore, Death, Doomraiser, Elizabigore, Elizaveat, Extreme Metal Radio, Gezolucifer, Massacre, Metalucifer, Mithotyn, Q-throne, Type O Negative, Zuriaake • 0 Comments
What’s on the airwaves around the world? Mithotyn – ‘Guided By History‘ – very heavy frenetic, crushing Swedish battleroar. ‘Chariot Of Power‘ – The Q-throne is assuaged for a fist full of minutes. Note: The Q-throne is the name I’ve reserved for the Valhalla enthroned, late Quorthon Bathory. Both of the above cuts […]
June 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Unearth • 0 Comments
“Darkness In The Light”, the new album from Massachusetts metallers UNEARTH, can be streamed in its entirety at AltPress.com. Due on July 5 via Metal Blade Records, the CD was recorded at Zing Studios in Westfield, Massachusetts with producer (and KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist) Adam Dutkiewicz. The effort was mixed by Mark Lewis (THE BLACK DAHLIA […]
June 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: ADRENALINE MOB • 0 Comments
ADRENALINE MOB, the new band featuring former DREAM THEATER/AVENGED SEVENFOLD drummer Mike Portnoy, SYMPHONY X frontman Russell Allen, guitar virtuoso Mike Orlando (SONIC STOMP), bassist Paul DiLeo and STUCK MOJO/FOZZY axeman Rich Ward, has posted audio samples from its upcoming debut album on the group’s Facebook page (you must “like” the page in order to […]
June 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Anthrax, Sepultura • 0 Comments
SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser will fill in for ANTHRAX axeman Scott Ian at 11 ANTHRAX shows in July while Ian spends time with his family following the birth of his first child. The first shows that Scott will play with ANTHRAX after his “paternity leave” will be the July 23 Heavy T.O. festival in Toronto, […]
June 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Queensryche • 0 Comments
Seattle progressive rockers QUEENSRŸCHE will take part in a very special performance and meet-and-greet for those fans who purchase the band’s new album, “Dedicated To Chaos”, at East Street Records. The first 300 fans to pick up the CD from Easy Street on release day, June 28, will get a ticket to the QUEENSRŸCHE CD-release […]
June 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Metallica, RICK RUBIN • 0 Comments
Producer Rick Rubin, who is also co-chairman of Columbia Records, tells Billboard.com in a new interview that METALLICA is “about to start writing” material for the follow-up to 2008’s “Death Magnetic” album, Rubin’s first collaboration with the group. “I had a meeting with [METALLICA drummer] Lars [Ulrich] in San Francisco… to explore what the focus […]
BLACK TIDE: New Song Available For Streaming
June 21, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: BLACK TIDE • 0 Comments
“That Fire”, a brand new song from the Miami hard rock quartet BLACK TIDE, can be streamed at this location. The track will appear on BLACK TIDE’s sophomore album, “Post Mortem”, which is scheduled for release on August 23 via DGC/Interscope Records. Commented the band: “This is just a fun song for everyone out there. […]