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 […]

Swiss folk metallers, Eluveitie, have their new album “Slania” available for streaming on their MySpace page.
The track listing is:-
01. Samon
02. Primordial Breath
03. Inis Mona
04. Gray Sublime Archon
05. Anagantios
06. Bloodstained Ground
07. The Somber Lay
08. Slanias Song
09. Giamonios
10. Tarvos
11. Calling The Rain
12. Elembivos
The album is due out in the UK on 18th February through Nuclear Blast records.

Finnish folk metal band MOONSORROW have released the following details regarding their forthcoming EP:
The release date of “Tulimyrsky EP” is set to March 26th by Spikefarm Records. Although called an EP, the length of this opus is somewhere past one hour. It consists of one new song, two covers and two old demo songs reworked.
Looking […]

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 […]

According to Kerrang! magazine, this year’s Download festival will take place the weekend of June 13-15 and will be headlined by Welsh rockers LOSTPROPHETS, Orange County punkers THE OFFSPRING and one other as-yet-undisclosed legendary rock band (strongly rumored to be KISS).
Other bands confirmed for this year’s festival include metal gods JUDAS PRIEST and Finnish love […]

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 […]