Over the next few days, Headbanger's Blog will present exclusive interview footage with SEPULTURA founding members and current CAVALERA CONSPIRACY collaborators Max Cavalera (guitar, vocals) and Igor Cavalera (drums) about their new band and their new bond.

A guitar once owned by ARCH ENEMY guitarist Christopher Amott is currently being auctioned on eBay.

Skelmersdale England's death-thrash outfit MACHIAVELLIAN has signed with Year of the Sun Records for the release of its upcoming debut four-song EP, "The Impossibility of Death in the Minds of the Living".

QUEENSR CHE will guest on Diana DeVille's KNAC.COM '80s hair metal specialty program "WildSide" this Saturday, February 23 at 3 p.m.

Finnish metallers TERÄSBETONI are competing in the Finnish national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.

DORO, W.A.S.P., GOTTHARD and BRAZEN ABBOT (featuring the classic voice of ex-RAINBOW/DEEP PURPLE singer Joe Lynn Turner) have been confirmed for this year's Magic Circle Festival, set to take place July 9-12 in Bad Arolsen, Germany.

Showbiz Spy reports that Gene Simmons' lawyers have started sending out cease-and-desist letters to those that have posted the now infamous "Gene Simmons sex tape" — and have pretty much confirmed it's him in the video.

Swedish folk metallers SKALD have issued the following update:"We are proud to say that SKALD has signed a new record deal with Unexploded Records for two full-length albums.

Veteran German hard rockers SCORPIONS have scheduled the following dates:Mar.

According to GnrDaily.com, GUNS N' ROSES drummer Frank Ferrer will perform with his band PISSER at Snitch in New York City on February 28.

Jonathan Cohen of Billboard.com reports that LINKIN PARK rocked a crowd of contest winners and industry personnel just after midnight Thursday (Feb.

Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER have been confirmed to hit the road in May/June with Century Media labelmates and godfathers of grind, NAPALM DEATH, as well as brutal death legends SUFFOCATION.

A TV commercial for for this year's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals — which are scheduled to take place June 6-7 in the German towns of Nürburgring and Nürnberg, respectively — can be viewed below.

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THE QUIREBOYS have issued the following update:The band are currently in London mixing the [new QUIREBOYS] album ['Homewreckers & Heartbreakers'] at Good Luck studios in London with Mark Wallis, who has worked with TRAVIS and U2 and also worked on

A video clip of "Metal" Mike Chlasciak (HALFORD, PAINMUSEUM, SEBASTIAN BACH), Byron Davis (GOD FORBID), Richard Christy (ex-ICED EARTH, DEATH), Mark Strigl, and John Ostronomy performing SLAYER's "South of Heaven" on "Talking Metal on Fuse" can be viewed below.

Sleaze Roxx recently conducted an interview with WARRANT singer Jani Lane.

DEF LEPPARD will make an appearance on ABC-TV's "Dancing With The Stars" on April 29.

BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward has issued the following update on this weekend's (February 23) edition of his "Rock 50" monthly radio show, which airs between 11:00 a.m.

After much anticipation, the stunning, inaugural solo effort from NEVERMORE vocalist Warrel Dane, entitled "Praises to the War Machine", will finally see a North American release on May 13 (April in Europe) via Century Media Records.