BREAKDOWN, TOKEN ENTRY, CRO-MAGS, ANTIDOTE and MAXIMUM PENALTY will play a free show on Saturday, July 23 from 1:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. in the East Village's Tompkins Square Park in New York City to raise awareness of the plight of legendary BAD BRAINS guitarist Gary "Dr. Know" Miller. Black N' Blue Productions and "The New York Hardcore Chronicles" have joined forces to bring this very special event to the public. Attendees will be able to support Dr. Know's Go Fund Me campaign on-site at a station that will be accepting donations. Dr. Know...
The original lineup of the Swedish garage rock band THE HELLACOPTERS celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the release of its debut album, "Supershitty To The Max!", with an appearance at this year's edition of the Sweden Rock Festival earlier today (Friday, June 10) in Sölvesborg, Sweden. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. On June 3, THE HELLACOPTERS released an exclusive vinyl 12-inch single containing "My Mephistophelean Creed" and "Don't Stop Now", two tracks written by the band back in 1996 but never...
Finnish heavy metal monsters LORDI are mixng their new album for a September release. The as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2014's "Scare Force One" is being produced by Nino Laurenne, who previously worked on the band's 2008 effort "Deadache". Speaking to Spark TV, which is part of the Czech monthly magazine Spark, LORDI frontman Mr. Lordi stated about the band's new album (see video below): "We are trying to do something different within the LORDI frame this time. It's like a split album between ourselves. "There's two kinds of LORDI material...
Finnish heavy metal monsters LORDI are mixng their new album for a September release. The as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2014's "Scare Force One" is being produced by Nino Laurenne, who previously worked on the band's 2008 effort "Deadache". Speaking to Spark TV, which is part of the Czech monthly magazine Spark, LORDI frontman Mr. Lordi stated about the band's new album (see video below): "We are trying to do something different within the LORDI frame this time. It's like a split album between ourselves. "There's two kinds of LORDI material...
PAIN, the Swedish metal band led by multi-instrumentalist and producer Peter Tägtgren, will release its new album, "Coming Home", on September 9 through Nuclear Blast. The cover artwork for the follow-up to 2011's "You Only Live Twice" was created by Stefan Heilemann and can be seen below. Tägtgren, who last year collaborated with vocalist Till Lindemann of German industrial metallers RAMMSTEIN on the debut album from their LINDEMANN project, commented: "I was brainstorming about the cover with Heile again... And we got the result...
