A two-minute Sky News TV report on the opening show of IRON MAIDEN’s Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour ‘08 — which kicked off last night (Friday, February 1) at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India — can be viewed below.

IRON MAIDEN’s Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour ‘08 trek revisits the […]

Nuclear Blast have created a new EPK (electronic press kit) for Swiss, Celtic folk-metal band ELUVEITIE in the run up to the release of their second album ‘Slania’ which will be relased on February 14th. The video the concepts and lyrics of the music and allows us to hear some small samples of the new […]

Virginia’s ARSIS will release its new album, “We Are The Nightmare”, on April 15 via Nuclear Blast Records. Produced by Zeuss (AGNOSTIC FRONT, HATEBREED, MUNICIPAL WASTE) at Planet Z Studios in Massachussetts and mastered by Alan Douches (KATAKLYSM, UNEARTH, SHADOWS FALL), the CD will feature the following track listing:
01. We Are The Nightmare
02. Shattering […]

LIVEFORTHEMETAL.COM is still less than a month old (as this is being written) but is growing steadily. Over the next few weeks and months we intend to increase the content exponentially with loads more reviews, interviews, photos and reports. Our numbers aren’t quite double figures yet so if you’re interested in helping out, please get […]

The original lineup of the highly influential New York-based group BIOHAZARD, whose intense fusion of the aggression of hardcore, punk and thrash metal with the socio-critical commentary and authenticity of hip-hop earned the band extensive international acclaim will reunite for a series of performances in the summer of 2008 to commemorate the band’s 20th anniversary. […]

Virginians DARKEST HOUR are halfway through their UK tour when they arrive at Cardiff to play the Barfly. The dark, underground venue makes for an intimate experience if the atmosphere is right and that atmosphere depends upon those present. At times, the turnout can be quite poor at this venue but on this Tuesday night […]

DIVINE CHAOS took the trip over the bridge from Slough to a soggy Pontypridd in South Wales to play at Tom’s Bar tonight. It cost the band their time, money and effort to do this and despite getting lost on the way through the narrow, hillside streets to find the venue, the band aren’t going […]

A recently unearthed live show from seminal Swedish death metallers AT THE GATES will form part of a limited edition version of their classic 1995 album ‘Slaughter of the Soul’, to be released on March 10 in Europe and March 25 in North America.
Issued as a 2 disc set containing the original album, 6 bonus […]

Artisan News Service has posted a short video interview with legendary heavy metal drummer Vinny Appice (HEAVEN AND HELL, DIO, BLACK SABBATH) in which he confirms that the songwriting sessions for the new album from HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring Appice alongside vocalist Ronnie James Dio, bassist Geezer Butler and guitarist Tony Iommi […]

The Bloodstock team are pleased to announce that Canadian death metal legends KATAKLYSM have been added to the bill for Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival 2008.
Kataklysm formed in Montreal in late 1991, releasing a demo entitled ‘Death Gate Cycle Of Reincarnation’ the following year which secured them a deal with Germany’s Nuclear Blast records. The […]