More than 30 hard rock and heavy metal musicians from Long Island, New York have recorded a cover version of "Stars", the 1985 charity single for famine relief released under the HEAR 'N AID banner. "We're Stars" is a tribute to Long Island's COVID-19 front-line workers, with the song's accompanying video featuring images from Northwell Health's North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and Stony Brook University Hospital. Executive producer and drummer Corrado Mazzuca fro

After lending his distinctive voice to bands like Candlemass, Therion, Krux, Yngwie Malmsteen and At Vance for decades, Swedish heavy metal icon Mats Leven will release his first solo-album ever! Under the name of Skyblood, the self-titled debut album will be seeing the light of day on November 22nd via Napalm Records. Skyblood just recently debuted a first single and lyric video for The Voice, and today, Leven is sharing another epic track from Skyblood's debut, which he cal

Jimmy Kay from Canada's The Metal Voice (https://www.facebook.com/themetalvoice) recently spoke to former Judas Priest, Iced Earth singer Tim 'Ripper' Owens. Owens spoke about the November 3 2019 K.K. Downing Steel Mill show in Wolverhampton U.K. along with former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks and Megadeth Bassist David Ellefson. He also spoke about his upcoming new solo album package and the new Three Tremors (Tim 'Ripper' Owens, Sean 'The Hell Destroyer' Peck, Harry 'The

SONS OF APOLLO featuring former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force) — are pleased to announce the release of ‘Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony’ on August 30. ‘Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony’ documents the band’s remarkable one-off performance at the Ancient Roman Theatre in

SONS OF APOLLO – former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force) — are pleased to announce the release of ‘Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony’ on the 30th August 2019. ‘Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony’ documents the band’s remarkable one-off performance at the Ancient Roman Theatre

Swedish guitar maverick, Yngwie Malmsteen, has premiered his cover of the George Harrison penned Beatles classic ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. The track is lifted from Malmsteen’s upcoming new studio album ‘Blue Lightning’, which is released via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group on Friday 29th March. Listen to the unique version of ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ here: Alongside four original songs written and recorded by Malmsteen, the album features covers of some of his f

Yngwie Malmsteen will release "Blue Lightning" globally on March 29 via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group. To call Malmsteen a "maestro" or "virtuoso" is to state the obvious. But such terms don't do sufficient justice to either his talent or impact. There are innumerable guitarists who have copied a small part of the vast musical spectrum that defines him, but nobody comes close to achieving what he has over a period of nearly four decades. This man is an undoubted pioneer,

The second single from the AMORIELLO release from H42 Records features former members Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force, Dokken, Impellitteri, and Cacophony. Holy Man, The Devil’s Hand (featuring Mark Boals) spotlights the singer from Trilogy, the classic Yngwie release. Mark Boals lays down an epic 24 track vocal choir delivered with conviction while Cacophony (Becker/Friedman) live drummer Kenny Stavropoulos brings the power to this up-tempo modern neoclassical rocker. Impe