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 […]

American progressive metal legends, DREAM THEATER, are to release the EP ‘Forsaken’ on March 31 through Roadrunner Records.
The title track is taken from the album ‘Systematic Chaos’ and is joined with three live tracks.
The full track lising is as follows:
01. Forsaken (Edit)
02. Forsaken (Live)
03. Constant Motion (Live)
04. The Dark Eternal Night (Live)

Details about the tracklisting and release date have been posted by the awesome UNEARTH. ‘Alive from the Apocalypse’ will be released on the 18th March through Metal Blade.
DVD1:
01. Giles
02. This Lying World
03. This Glorious Nightmare
04. Zombie Autopilot
05. Endless
06. March Of The Mutes
07. Only The People
08. Sanctity Of Brothers
09. The Great Dividers
10. Black Hearts Now Reign
11. […]

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 […]

IRON MAIDEN have announced on their website that Californian rockers AVENGED SEVENFOLD will support during their forthcoming tour, which includes one UK date:
IRON MAIDEN are very pleased to announce that AVENGED SEVENFOLD will join them as SPECIAL GUESTS at Twickenham Stadium on July 5, Paris Bercy July 2 and 3 and a number of dates […]

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 […]

Progressive metallers SYMPHONY X have invited fans to let the band know which songs they’d like to be played during their forthcoming tour. The following was posted to the band’s MySpace blog:
There have been rumblings here and there about the band’s tour setlist & how it needs some changes. We did a setlist poll a […]

MEGADETH have announced JOB FOR A COWBOY and EVILE as support for their forthcoming UK tour. According to their official website:
The UK run of Megadeth’s tour this spring has been rebranded under the Gigantour banner. Gigantour UK will make its debut in Norwich on Feb 17th and finish up in London on Feb 24th. Scheduled […]

UNEARTH have issued the following update on the year just passed:
2007 was another killer year for all things UNEARTH as we toured North America with metal legends SLAYER. We headlined tours in Europe, Australia and New Zealand for the first time, played the biggest European festivals of our career, brought our metal to the awesome […]