Stern Pinball, Inc., the world's oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball machines, proudly announced today the addition of AC/DC to The Stern Pinball Arcade, available on Oculus Gear VR. The newest game honors one of the most iconic rock...

GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna will launch the "Hometown Tour" in celebration of the release of his new solo album, "Hometown Life", due out Friday, September 30 via BMG. Only this time, Erna plans on stripping it down for an intimate acoustic evening with guitar player and bandmember Tim Theriault. The "Hometown Tour" will launch October 26 in Atlanta, Georgia (see itinerary below). Tickets and limited amount of VIP experiences will go on sale starting Friday, September 9. Composed by Sully on piano and acoustic guitar and produced in his...

British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) was interviewed by rock journalist Mitch Lafon for a recent edition of the "One On One With Mitch Lafon" podcast (Facebook page). You can now listen to the chat using the Spreaker widget below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On what he contributed to IRON MAIDEN during his time with the band: Blaze: "Well, my era is really the start of the progressive era. And there was no music written before I joined IRON MAIDEN; there was nothing ready for a...

Swedish paleontology professor and heavy metal aficionado Mats E. Eriksson named a fossil worm, Kalloprion Kilmisteri, in honor of Lemmy Kilmister in 2006. Now — ten years later — the fossil has come to brutal sonic life with the aid of prolific Swedish metal musicians, notably members of WOLF, DENATA and SEANCE, interpreting the "paleo metal" song "Silurian Overkill". The "Kalloprion Kilmisteri - Silurian Overkill" record features three, thrash/death metal tracks with lyrics by Eriksson. The lyrics hail the fossil and honor...

MÖTLEY CRÜE has been sued by photographers Neil Zlozower and Barry Levine over photographs the due took of the band three decades ago, claiming CRÜE never got their permission to use the photos on merchandise in connection with the group's "The Final Tour". The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday (September 6) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, states: "In the 1980s, Zlozower and Levine photographed the members of the MÖTLEY CRÜE band at Zlozower and Levine's respective studios in Los...