THE MAN-EATING TREE — the new atmospheric metal band featuring former SENTENCED drummer Vesa Ranta alongside current/former members of POISONBLACK, REFLEXION and EMBRAZE — paid tribute to late TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele by performing a c…

According to Koolmuzone, VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N’ ROSES drummer Matt Sorum and American guitarist, songwriter and producer Lanny Cordola (GIUFFRIA, HOUSE OF LORDS, MAGDALLAN) will lead a group of musicians from the U.S.

Steven DiLodovico of the Philadelphia Indie Music Examiner recently conducted an interview with SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo.

IRON MAIDEN and HELLYEAH are rumored to be taking part in the 2011 edition of Australia’s Soundwave festival, which will kick off on February 26 in Brisbane.

Japanese heavy metal veterans LOUDNESS played a headlinining show on July 19, 2010 at the Dynamo Club in Eindhoven, Netherlands as part of their short European tour.

Holland’s REVAMP (featuring former AFTER FOREVER vocalist Floor Jansen) and French symphonic metallers KELLS will support EPICA on their European headlining tour in September/October.

German power metallers GRAVE DIGGER will release their new album, “The Clans Will Rise Again” in Europe on October 1 via Napalm Records.

German melodic metallers SYMPHORCE, who feature in their ranks guitarist Cédric “Cede” Dupont and singer Andy B.

NME TV conducted an interview with singer Charlotte Wessels of Dutch symphonic metallers DELAIN at the U.K.

Robert Williams of Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with Roxana Shirazi, an unrepentant groupie who has just published a memoir, “The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage”, about her sexcapades with members of the most illustri…

Video footage of BLIND ILLUSION’s July 25, 2010 performance at the 2010 edition of the Tidal Wave free outdoor metal festival at John McLaren Park’s Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco, California can be viewed below.

Video footage of DUBLIN DEATH PATROL’s (DDP) June 26, 2010 performance at Soundwave Studios in Oakland, California can be viewed below.