IRON MAIDEN’S “BOOK OF SOULS” DEBUTS AT NUMBER FOUR ON THE BILLBOARD 200
Iron Maiden scored the best Billboard 200 performance of their career, and their best sales week since Nielsen Music began measuring in 1991, as the heavy metal group’s 16th studio album The Book of Souls debuted at Number Four with 75,000 total copies sold. Iron Maiden’s 2010 LP The Final Frontier also bowed in at […]
ALICE COOPER AND JOE PERRY DISCUSS HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES
Rob Tannenbaum of Billbaord spoke with singer Alice Cooper and guitarist Joe Perry about their Hollywood Vampires project. The interview appear in its entirety below. Billboard: Who coined the nickname Hollywood Vampires? Alice Cooper: The Hollywood Vampires was a drinking club at the Rainbow [Bar & Grill] in Los Angeles, and it was the guys […]
MANOWAR ANNOUNCE 2016 TOUR NAME AND CONFIRM NEW DATES
Manowar have confirmed two additional dates for their Gods And Kings World Tour 2016: Friday, February 19, 2016 @ Sala Polivalentă – Cluj-Napoca, Romania Sunday, February 21, 2016 @ Romexpo – Bucharest, Romania These dates not only mark Manowar’s triumphant return to Romania, but also their first ever performance in Cluj-Napoca (commonly known as Cluj), […]
SLASH’S BROTHER SLAMS GUNS N’ ROSES REUNION RUMORS AND AXL, THEN RETRACTS HIS STATEMENTS
The recent news that former Guns N’ Roses bandmates Slash and Axl Rose have mended fences has sparked a new round of reunion rumors — and Slash’s brother, artist and photographer Ash Hudson, is tired of hearing about them. Hudson vented his frustrations in a Facebook post captured by Ultimate Guitar, writing, “You obsessed fans […]
MOTÖRHEAD CLAIMS TOP SPOT WITH NEW ALBUM, “BAD MAGIC,” HIGHEST CHARTING RECORD IN THE U.S.
Motörhead’s new album, Bad Magic, enjoyed it’s third number one chart entry in Austria, following Germany and Finland, as well as number one at U.S. Metal Radio. Worldwide the response to Motörhead’s 22nd studio album has been immense, with UDR/Motörhead Music and Motörhead subsequently delighted to announce the new chart positions for Bad Magic: Germany […]
SLAYER RELEASE “REPENTLESS” VIDEO
Slayer have released a video for the title track of their new album, Repentless, which is out today (September 11th) through Nuclear Blast records. Watch it below. The song is an tribute to Slayer’s late guitarist, Jeff Hanneman, who passed away in 2013. “I call it the Hannemanthem!” King said of the song. “I wrote […]
