The first part of our exclusive Anterior tour diary is written by front-man Luke Davies…
28th Feb – Day 1
European Himsa tour starts tomorrow! That sounds exciting, right up until I start the car to begin a head on full day of driving, to pick up our tour bus with driver Glyn. […]

Earlier today, the people behind the Prog Power festival made the following announcement:
This is the hardest decision we have ever had to make, but it is with great regret that we have had to cancel ProgPower UK 3.

 
We have made no secret of the financial difficulties that have dogged our first two […]

Swedish metallers SOILWORK, who recently completed the Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage U.S. tour in support of their new album Sworn To A Great Divide, have decided to part ways with guitarist Ola Frenning.

It was felt that Ola resisted the demands of the road and found it difficult to come to terms with the amount of touring […]

ANTERIOR, now with new bassist James Britton and former Mendeed man Steve Nixon on guitar will join Dying Fetus for a run of UK dates in June.
June 2008
23rd    LONDON – Underworld
24th    PLYMOUTH – White Rabbit
25th    GLASGOW – Ivory Blacks
26th    MANCHESTER – Music Box
27th    PETERBOROUGH – The Park
ANTERIOR will also headline the Avalanche Festival in […]

Photograph: © Owain Richards
On a mild afternoon in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, we climbed aboard a big Swedish tourbus parked almost right outside Cardiff’s illustrious castle in the centre of the city to have a chat with Finnish metal band Omnium Gatherum. Meanwhile, Dark Tranquillity’s Mikael Stanne slept soundly in a bunk next door.
We […]

According to Kerrang! magazine, KISS, MOTÖRHEAD and RISE AGAINST have been added to the bill of this year’s Download festival.

Fan-filmed video footage of CHILDREN OF BODOM performing the new song “Tie My Rope” for the first time at this year’s annual Spinefeast event (dubbed Spinefeast At Sea 2008), which took place January 31 - February 1 aboard the Tallink Galaxy cruise chip in Finland, can be viewed below.
TIE MY ROPE 

AMARANTH (NIGHTWISH COVER)

CHILDREN OF BODOM […]

“Watershed” is the name of OPETH´s 9th studio observation. The album has just been mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren with M. Åkerfeldt. The album consist of 7 songs and the titles are as follows:
1. Coil
2. Heir Apparent
3. The Lotus Eater
4. Burden
5. Porcelain Heart
6. Hessian Peel
7 Hex Omega
All the songs have been written by […]

Swedish thrashers CARNAL FORGE have announced the addition of singer
Jens C. Mortensen (LEECH, ex-REVOLVER, SLAPDASH) to the group’s ranks. Mortensen joins the band as the replacement for Jonas Kjellgren, who left CARNAL FORGE earlier in the month after a seven-year, five-album stint with the group.
CARNAL FORGE’s new studio album, “Aren’t You Dead Yet”, was released […]

If you know anything about Wales you know that when their rugby team plays against England, it’s a big deal. Even though the match is being played in Twickenham, the streets of Cardiff are teeming with red jerseys moving to and from pubs and clubs after a monumental victory. The general mood of the entire […]