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SteelHeart To Celebrate 30th Anniversary with a Best Of Compilation Album

Next year, SteelHeart will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of their self titled debut album “SteelHeart” released in 1989. The album gave the band immediate commercial success reaching #…

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SteelHeart To Celebrate 30th Anniversary with a Best Of Compilation Album

SteelHeart To Celebrate 30th Anniversary with a Best Of Compilation Album

Next year, SteelHeart will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of their self titled debut album “SteelHeart” released in 1989. The album gave the band immediate commercial success reaching #40 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album quickly hit platinum status internationally, and gold domestically. The power ballad, “She’s Gone” hit #1on…

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SLASH Ordered To Pay Millions To Ex-Wife In Divorce Settlement

SLASH Ordered To Pay Millions To Ex-Wife In Divorce Settlement

According to TMZ, GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash is officially single after reaching a divorce settlement with his wife of 17 years, Perla Ferrar.

As per the settlement — obtained by TMZ — Slash will pay Perla $6.6 million as well as $100,000 per month in spousal support and $39,000 per month in child support.

Slashwill keep all his guitars and any musical compositions he owns, with future…

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Tenacious D Announce New Album With Dave Grohl + Animated Series

Tenacious D Announce New Album With Dave Grohl + Animated Series

The comedic rock duo composed of Jack Black and Kyle Gass, Tenacious D, is preparing for a mighty return bolstered by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl on drums. In November, the metal-loving acoustic guitar-strumming team will release the new album, Post-Apocalypto, and in the fall they’ll debut a new six-episode animated series on their YouTube channel.

Post-Apocalypto, which comes out November…

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10 Unforgettable Korn Moments

10 Unforgettable Korn Moments

With over a quarter century of history, Korn have given the world plenty of unforgettable moments. Of course, cutting this down to just 10 of them was a challenge, but this Loud List places emphasis on all aspects of the band from the stage to deep and personal interviews to, yes, an appearance on the legendary animated sitcom South Park.

First, we take it back to 1993, the year Korn was formed.

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VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Releases Music Video For 'The Last Home'

VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Releases Music Video For ‘The Last Home’

The official video for the song “The Last Home” from symphonic metal masters VISIONS OF ATLANTIS can be seen below. The track is taken from the band’s seventh studio album, “The Deep & The Dark”, which was released in February via Napalm Records.

Says the band: “This is the album we have always dreamed of making. It is everything fans of this genre love and VISIONS OF ATLANTISwas founded for.…

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CHTHONIC Releases Music Video For New Single 'Millennia's Faith Undone'

CHTHONIC Releases Music Video For New Single ‘Millennia’s Faith Undone’

Five years since the release of their last album, in response to fans’ keen anticipation, Taiwanese metallers CHTHONIC announced their new album “Battlefields Of Asura” last month. Today, CHTHONIC has dropped the music video for first track “Millennia’s Faith Undone”, featuring Hong Kong singer Denise Ho, and announced a festival appearance in Japan.

Doris Yeh, the spokesperson and bassist in CHT…

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SLASH Says 'Living The Dream' Is 'First Pro Tools Record' He Has Ever Made

SLASH Says ‘Living The Dream’ Is ‘First Pro Tools Record’ He Has Ever Made

Slash has revealed to Japan’s “Rock City” that his upcoming fourth solo album, “Living The Dream”, is the first record he has made using the digital audio workstation Pro Tools after recording all his previous LPs to analog tape.

The “Living The Dream” sessions, which commenced in late March, saw Slash and his SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS bandmates Myles Kennedy (vocals), Br…

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Watch LINKIN PARK's MIKE SHINODA Perform In Moscow

Watch LINKIN PARK’s MIKE SHINODA Perform In Moscow

Fan-filmed video footage of LINKIN PARK singer Mike Shinoda‘s entire September 1 performance at Adrenaline Stadium in Moscow, Russia can be seen below.

In June, Shinoda released his raw and inspiring solo album, “Post Traumatic”, via Warner Bros. Records. These are the first recordings by a LINKIN PARK member since singer Chester Bennington‘s death, and it’s also the first time Shinoda— who…

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DORO Recruits Guitarist BILL HUDSON For PROGPOWER USA Performance

DORO Recruits Guitarist BILL HUDSON For PROGPOWER USA Performance

Guitarist Bill Hudson will perform with German metal queen Doro Pesch at this year’s ProgPower USA festival on Thursday, September 6 at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hudson, who has previously played with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, CIRCLE II CIRCLE, JON OLIVA’S PAIN and DIRKSCHNEIDER, says: “This is due to very unfortunate circumstances, and I will be replacing my brother, amazing guitarist and

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MEGADETH's DAVID ELLEFSON Inducted Into 'Iowa Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame'

MEGADETH’s DAVID ELLEFSON Inducted Into ‘Iowa Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall Of Fame’

Grammy Award-winning MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson was inducted into the Iowa Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall Of Fame over the weekend, in a ceremony Sunday in Okoboji, Iowa, presented by the Iowa Rock ‘N’ Roll Music Association.

David, a native of nearby Jackson, Minnesota, spent his formative years, pre-MEGADETH, performing on the club circuit in Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Ellefsonwas inducted in…

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ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN To Release 'Symphonized' Live Album In November

ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN To Release ‘Symphonized’ Live Album In November

In May 2018, Anneke Van Giersbergen performed two career-spanning concerts with orchestral arrangements together with Residentie Orkest The Hague. Now those special concerts will be available for all to hear when they are released as “Symphonized”, an 11-track live album due out on November 16.

Taking in material from across her career, she performs stunning versions of songs by VUUR, THE GENTLE…

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FOO FIGHTERS Reschedule Two Canadian Dates After DAVE GROHL Suffers Loss Of Voice

FOO FIGHTERS Reschedule Two Canadian Dates After DAVE GROHL Suffers Loss Of Voice

FOO FIGHTERS have had to reschedule two shows on the Canadian leg of the “Concrete And Gold” tour: September 4 in Edmonton at Rogers Place and September 6 in Calgary at Scotiabank Saddledome.

The new Edmonton date is now October 22 and the new Calgary date is October 23.

After opening this leg of the tour September 1 at Safeco Field in Seattle, Dave Grohlsuffered a loss of voice and is now on…

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BUCKCHERRY To Reteam With '15' Producer For Upcoming Album

BUCKCHERRY To Reteam With ’15’ Producer For Upcoming Album

Californian rockers BUCKCHERRY will enter the studio later this month to begin recording their new album for an early 2019 release. Helming the sessions will be producer Mike Plotnikoff, who previously worked with the band on 2005’s platinum-certified “15” record.

Speaking to the 105.7 The Point radio station earlier today (Monday, September 3) at the Wayback Pointfestin Maryland Heights,…

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We Came as Romans Singer Kyle Pavone Died of 'Accidental Overdose'

We Came as Romans Singer Kyle Pavone Died of ‘Accidental Overdose’

We Came as Romans singer Kyle Pavone died of an “accidental overdose.” The news comes in the form of an official press statement, which you can read below. TMZ reports that a full toxicology report will take up to eight weeks to complete.

On Saturday, August 25, we lost our son, our brother, our best friend, and bandmate to an accidental overdose.

The opposite of addiction is connection. If you…

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Ghost Honoring Fan Who Died at Show by Returning, Finishing Set

Ghost Honoring Fan Who Died at Show by Returning, Finishing Set

Earlier this year, Ghost were performing a show in Milwaukee when a fan, Jeffrey Fortune, collapsed in the pit and later died that night after being transported to a local hospital. Soon thereafter, fans launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for Fortune’s family. While the campaign had a goal of $1,000, over $10,000 were raised.

It has now been announced that Ghost will be returning to…

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Perplexed by Vext?: Five Finger Death Punch Prank Indiana Crowd With Surprise Duet

Perplexed by Vext?: Five Finger Death Punch Prank Indiana Crowd With Surprise Duet

“Oh no, here we go again.” That was the reaction Five Finger Death Punch were hoping for, and got, when the curtain lifted on their show in Noblesville, Ind. this past week and Tommy Vext was once again fronting the band. However, it was just Five Finger Death Punch having a little fun before setting up a memorable stage moment for the crowd.

Vext, the Bad Wolves singer, memorably filled in for I…

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