A new studio album from Dokken titled “Broken Bones”, will be released in North America on September 25, 2012 (Frontiers Records).
The first single and video is called “Empire” and features a post-apocalyptic take on the band’s signature sound of catchy melodies, hot riffs and monster production.
Armored Saint guitarist Phillip Sandoval made a special guest appearance at ‘Rock A Bello’ on Saint Patrick’s Day (March 17, 2013). Held in Montebello, California and hosted by METAL SHOP Rocks, Rock A Bello was a first of its kind music fest, featuring great local bands out of Southern California. Sandoval was…
Blabbermouth.net: On August 16, 1986, German metal queen Doro Pesch was the first woman to front a heavy metal band (WARLOCK) at the Monsters Of Rock festival in Castle Donington, England, the most important European rock meeting of the ’80s. Doro recounts the experience in the video below.
Blabbermouth.net: SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman passed away at about 11 a.m. today (Thursday, May 2) near his Southern California home. He was 49. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael and Larry, and will be sorely missed….
You might remember this British trio as hair metal second-stringers from the 80’s, but they actually came together in 1974. They’re at their best playing the kind of fierce hard rock that marks them out as contemporaries of Judas Priest—their proto-thrash attack is good enough to make me forgive those schlocky 80s records and the…
‘Where Have All The Good Times Gone?’ For a David Lee Roth fan, we now know. In 1999, Greg Aulick took pictures of Roth’s performance in Austin, Texas with a disposable camera, but lost it after partying a little too hard. 12 years later, that camera is being returned thanks to Facebook…
Iron Maiden are on the road in much of Europe, Russia, Turkey and Croatia in July and the U.K. in early August before heading to North and South America. Check out the first in a series of Iron Maiden tour diary videos below the band has posted on their Facebook page.