April 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Metallica • 0 Comments
METALLICA has been officially confirmed for this year’s edition of Quebec’s Summer Festival (Festival d’été de Québec). The event runs July 7-17 in Québec City, Québec, Canada, with an amazing 300 shows spanning 11 days, making it Canada’s biggest outdoor artistic festival. METALLICA will perform on Saturday, July 16. This is the 44th year for […]
April 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: CANNABIS CORPSE • 0 Comments
CANNABIS CORPSE — the Richmond, Virginia-based old-school death metal band featuring Philip “Landphil” Hall (bass) from MUNICIPAL WASTE and his brother Josh “HallHammer” Hall (drums) — has completed work on its brand-new full-length album, “Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise”. The CD will be issued on July 12 via Tankcrimes, the label that issued the […]
April 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: LIV KRISTINE, Tarja Turunen • 0 Comments
LEAVES’ EYES — the German/Norwegian band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY — will be direct support for former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen on the following dates: May 3 – Stuttgart, Germany – Longhorn May 04 – Erlangen, Germany – E-Werk May 06 – München, Germany – […]
April 19, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: NORTHER • 0 Comments
“Circle Regenerated”, the new album from the Finnish melodic death/black metal act NORTHER, is available for streaming in its entirety until April 26 at the Record Shop X web site. The follow-up to 2008’s “N” marks the recording debut of the band’s new vocalist Aleksi Sihvonen “and will leave no long-time fan of the band […]
April 19, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Cavalera Conspiracy, Soulfly • 0 Comments
Phlamencore Records has released a new song from SOULFLY/CAVALERA CONSPIRACY guitarist Marc Rizzo. The previously unreleased track “Cascades”, which was originally intended to appear on Rizzo’s third solo effort, “Legionnaire”, is now available as a digital single on iTunes. New Jersey native Marc Rizzo embarked on his first U.S. solo tour in 2007. He released […]
April 19, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: XERATH • 0 Comments
U.K. modern cutting-edge orchestral metal band XERATH will release its sophomore album, simply titled “II”, in North America on May 3 via Candlelight Records. The follow-up to 2009’s “I” is described in a press release as “a huge and fully refined slab of XERATH’s unique sound from the production genius of Jacob Hansen (ABORTED, PESTILENCE, […]
April 19, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: SHARON OSBOURNE • 0 Comments
Ozzy Osbourne’s wife/manager Sharon discussed the reasons behind their huge unpaid tax bill and took responsibility for the debt, saying “I’m to blame.” It was reported earlier in the month that the IRS placed a lien on the house belonging to Sharon and Ozzy — who reportedly owed $718,948 from 2008 and $1.024 million from […]
April 19, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Motorhead • 0 Comments
MOTÖRHEAD performed in Montevideo, Uruguay for the first time on April 14 at Teatro de Verano. Fan-filmed video footage from the airport and Radisson hotel where the band stayed during their visit to the country can be viewed below. MOTÖRHEAD’s new album, “The Wörld Is Yours”, sold 7,000 copies in the United States in its […]
April 19, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: AC/DC • 0 Comments
All five members of AC/DC will attend the exclusive world premiere of AC/DC “Live At River Plate” Friday, May 6 at London, England’s legendary HMV Hammersmith Apollo. Shot entirely in HD with 32 cameras, the thunderous excitement and intensity of AC/DC “Live At River Plate” will be experienced by fans on the U.K.’s largest movie […]
TESTAMENT To Enter Studio This Summer
April 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Testament • 0 Comments
British producer Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE, EXODUS) has revealed to Radio Metalthat he will enter the studio this summer with San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans TESTAMENT to begin work on the follow-up to 2008’s “The Formation Of Damnation”. A late 2011/early 2012 release is expected. “The new album will most likely be […]
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