Here’s working link to Bruce Dickinson inteviewing each memeber of Metallica in depth. Audio only.

All four band members spoke to Bruce about everything from their beginnings to the state of the play for Metallica in 2008.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/bruce_dickinson/metallica.shtml

Metal Masters tour kicked off last night at Suseqehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ. Here’s the official set list for Judas Priest and Heaven and Hell.

Heaven and Hell
‘E5150′
‘The Mob Rules’
‘Children Of The Sea’
‘I’
‘Sign Of The Southern Cross’
‘Ear In The Wall’
‘Time Machine’
‘Falling Off The Edge Of The World’
‘Die Young’
‘Heaven And Hell’.

Judas Priest
‘Dawn Of Creation’
‘Prophecy’
‘Metal Gods’
‘Eat Me Alive’
‘Between The Hammer And The Anvil’
‘Devil’s Child’
‘Breaking The Law’
‘Hell Patrol’
‘Dissident Aggressor’
‘Angel’
‘The Hellion’ / ‘Electric Eye’
‘Rock Hard, Ride Free’
‘Painkiller’
‘Hell Bent For Leather’
‘The Green Manalishi’
‘You’ve Got Another Thing Coming’

Click here to check out some of the photos from the show.

On June 27th 2008, Hammerfall will release new DVD “Rebels With The Cause”, along with the CD called “Masterpieces” which will be collection of all their covers plus three previously unreleased tracks.

Here’s the list of covers from the CD.

01. Child of the Damned (WARLORD)
02. Ravenlord (STORMWITCH)
03. Eternal Dark (PICTURE)
04. Back to Back (PRETTY MAIDS)
05. I Want Out (HELLOWEEN)
06. Man on the Silver Mountain (RAINBOW)
07. Head Over Heels (ACCEPT)
08. Run With the Devil (HEAVY LOAD)
09. We’re Gonna Make It (TWISTED SISTER)
10. Breaking the Law (JUDAS PRIEST)
11. Angel of Mercy (CHASTAIN)
12. Rising Force (YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN’S RISING FORCE)
13. Detroit Rock City (KISS)
14. Crazy Nights (LOUDNESS)
15. När Vindarna Viskar Mitt Namn (ROGER PONTARE)
16. Flight of the Warrior (RIOT) *
17. Youth Gone Wild (SKID ROW) *
18. Aphasia (EUROPE) *

* previously unreleased

Check out Joacim Can’s track by track breakdown of each track here.

Here’s trailer for the new DVD “Rebels With The Cause”, also coming out on June 27th 2008

I thought this story was pretty intersting. We might hear Halfie and co. on the radios pretty soon.

According to Hits Daily Double (the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS), JUDAS PRIEST’s new double-disc concept album, “Nostradamus”, is poised to sell around 50,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release for a likely Top 10 debut on The Billboard 200 chart. If “Nostradamus” does in fact crack the Top 10, it will give the band its highest-ever career chart position in the U.S.

 Full story here

Wanna hear Nostradamous album in its entirity ? You can listen fuill alum streamed from here:

 Nostradamus – Full Album

Full review of Nostradamus coming soon…

Samples from every song off of Judas Priest’s upcoming Nostradamus album. Sounds very epic and promising. Halford voice never sounded this melodic.

Click here to listen.

Sneak peak at the possible set-list. They’ve played following set-list in Finland last night, and it’s very possible they will be sticking with it throughout the year.Thank God “Living After Midnight” is gone from the set. If we could only get rid of “You Got Another Thing Coming”…

Intro – Dawn of Creation
Prophecy
Metal Gods
Eat Me Alive
Between the Hammer and the Anvil
Devil’s Child
Breaking the Law
Hell Patrol
Death
Dissident Aggressor
Angel
The Hellion / Electric Eye
Rock Hard, Ride Free
Sinner
Painkiller
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Hell Bent for Leather
The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)
You’ve Got Another Thing Coming

Just got my tickets in the mail for Metal Masters Tour. Judas priest, Heaven and Hell, Motorhead and Testament on one stage. Most of those guys are in their mid to late fifties (Dio is in mid 60’s actually), but their attitude is still metal out the ass. God damn!

Four of us will embark on the historic metal journey to see these giants on August 19th, 2008 at Tinley Park, Chicago. I will post a review for the whole show once I’m back, but in the meantime here’s two new songs from upcoming Nostradamus. Just listen to that vicious scream Halford makes in the first part of Nostradamus songs.

Vocal God Jorn Lande releases new album in June. New single can be heard here…
Song is “Lonely Are The Brave”

Lineup:

Jorn “JORN” Lande – vocals

Jorn Viggo Lofstad – guitars

Tore Moren – guitars

Sid Ringsby – bass

Willy Bendiksen – drums

This should be really interesting to see and hear. Hopefully Yngwie will change direction from his stale caffeine induced Bach-ish song composing and come up with some really bombastic metal crunchers we haven’t heard since 1985 “Marching Out”. I really do think Yngwie is more talented than people are giving him credit for. He just needs to tap into gothic side of his mind little bit more and leave enough room for vocals and actual melody, instead of trying to fill every little hole in the song with blazing classical runs. Let the song breath little bit. Nonetheless this should be good. Watch out for the new album this July.

Here is the link for the story.

I am going to attempt to state some basic differences between Heavy Metal from two different continents. US and Europe. This will be strictly observation and not competition so if you get offended BITE ME! I am the one spending my precious hours writing and thinking about this shit so cut me some slack.

You might ask what qualifies me to even attempt this. Well, I lived in Europe for 20 years and I have been exposed to lot of metal bands there. Plus I have had (and still do) many friends over there that keep me in check with happenings and Euro-metal scene. I also dmage my wallet with those hard to find Euro metal imports.

I currently live in US (since 1995) and I’ve got exposed to many bands here as well. I have also witnessed pretty diverse reactions of my American metal friends while listening Scorpions riff vs. Pantera or Korn riffs. Face tells it all. You can see cumbersomeness of someone not liking that riff for the first time immediately.

Despite the fact of me being an American citizen, I still have very strong European tendencies in great aspect of my life so I will try not to be biased.

Let’s dive into it then. Read the rest of this entry »