It’s official. MOTÖRHEAD‘s new album will be called "Hammered" and will be released in Europe on April 8th and in North America on April 9th. DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER have signed a multi-abum deal with Nuclear Blast. They’ve already booked the Stage One Studios for June to record the new album, which has the working title […]
41-year-old EXODUS frontman PAUL BALOFF (birth date: April 25th, 1960), whose unique personality and distinctive vocal style have endeared him to thousands of Metal fans all over the world, passed away just before noon yesterday, February 2nd, 2002(Pacific time), after suffering a massive stroke Thursday night (January 31st) that has left him lying in a […]
PAUL BALOFF, vocalist of Bay Area Thrash vets Exodus, reportedly suffered a massive stroke and is said to be on life support and barely clinging to life at a local hospital. Baloff was rushed to an Oakland hospital suffering from what was initially believed to be a brain aneurysm, but doctors have since determined that […]
IMMORTAL‘s "Sons Of Northern Darkness" album will be released on regular and picture disc vinyl on February 4th. The European digi will be released the same day. SKYMNING‘s "Artificial Supernova" album will be released in Europe through Blackend on February 25th. The tracklisting: ‘Synthetic Visions’, ‘Shadowed / Astral Silver’, ‘Shatter The World / Artificial Supernova’, […]
According to their website, IN FLAMES will support ICED EARTH on a US tour in April. More details soon. DECAPITATED are currently planning to tour in support of their upcoming "Nihility" album, due for release on February 25th. Due to the bands young age, school commitments have meant that the band have had to cancel […]
Longtime SINISTER-member Bart van Wallenberg has decided to quit Sinister because of personal reasons. Therefore the band is urgently looking out for a new guitarist that can play with the band on their upcoming single shows and on their upcoming European Tour to promote their most recent album "Creative Killings", out on Hammerheart Records. The […]
The DEPTH OF WINTER FESTIVAL V – 2001 is done and 2000,-DM could be spend for children with cancer. Therefore a big THANK YOU to all bands, mags, labels and helping people! Without your help this festival couldn’t get started. The next festival (No.6) is fore sure in the year 2002 in autumn / winter […]
PROFANITY (www.profanity.de) will play on the coming CRYPTOPSY (www.cryptopsy.net) European tour together with HAEMORRHAGE (www.come.to/haemorrhage) and SPAWN (www.spawn666.de). This tour starts on April 12, 2002, lasts until May 05, 2002 and will include the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. For booking, all kinds of […]
VADER‘s next album, tentatively titled "Epitaph", will be recorded in February 2002 in Red Studio. Peter has given us the titles of some of the tracks: ‘The Absolut’, ‘When The Fallen Rise Again’, ‘Torch Of War’ and ‘I Am Who I Am’. The album is scheduled for release on the 3rd of June, 2002. Be […]
According to their website, INTERNAL BLEEDING vocalist was removed from the band recently – irresponsibility being cited as the main reason. He has been replaced by ex-BODYFARM vocalist Jerry Lowe. His vocals will debut on the band’s next album, "Hatefuel". KATAKLYSM has confirmed that they will appear at the With Full Force Festival in Germany […]