Josh Elliott (22), guitarist from screamo/metal outfit April Dead has been creating powerful interludes for the bands live set and EP releases. A number of people recommended him to upload his 'bedroom music' to the Internet. Since then he has been asked to work in many projects such as sample and synth work for bands and remix work. Creating a powerful, dramatic and an emotional blend of sweeping pianos, Glitch loops and mixing a classical style with technical progressive music. EP release 'IN LIGHT PASSING' demonstrates the Emotional outburst, with the album in the making and live show being planned, We are sure something great is coming from Josh Elliott.

Video footage of SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser's November 4, 2008 workshop in Santarém, Pará, Brazil can be viewed below.

DRYLL (formerly DRILL), the U.K.-based band featuring former guitarist VENOM and founding member Jeff Mantas Dunn, has announced the addition of singer Scott Michael Cavagan to the group's ranks.

HEAVEN AND HELL guitarist, founding member of BLACK SABBATH, Grammy Award winner and king of heavy metal Tony Iommi will be honored on Birmingham, England's Broad Street Walk of Stars tomorrow (Sunday, November 23).

UK thrashers EVILE were forced to pull out of the European tour with Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON after the group's lead guitarist Ol Drake fractured his jaw on November 19 following the band's show in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Acclaimed guitarist/producer Roy Z (HALFORD, JUDAS PRIEST, BRUCE DICKINSON, SEBASTIAN BACH, HELLOWEEN, ROB ROCK) was IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guest earlier tonight (Friday, November 21) during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio program, dubbed The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show.

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SEVENTH VOID, the new band formed by TYPE O NEGATIVE guitarist Kenny Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly, will release its debut album in March/April 2009 through Big Vin Records, the label formed by HELLYEAH/ex-PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott.

DOWNSPIRIT, the new blues/metal-oriented band formed by SYMPHORCE/ex-FREEDOM CALL guitarist Cedric Cede Dupont, has posted a demo track called Backstabber on the group's MySpace page.

In the latest episode of Talking Metal, hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy complete their final countdown to the world's most-anticipated album, GUNS N' ROSES' Chinese Democracy.

Brazil's SEPULTURA is a prime example of an intelligent thrash metal act whose powerful compositions continue to tackle exciting and ingenious subjects.

Guitarist/vocalist Tony Portaro and drummer Joe Cangelosi of ractivated New Jersey metallers WHIPLASH will be interviewed on the Heavy Metal Mayhem show on Blogtalkradio.com on Sunday, November 23 at 6:00 p.m.

Austrian black metal mongrels HELLSAW have once again tapped DARK FORTRESS guitarist V.

Former PANTERA and current HELLYEAH drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott took part in a signing session for He Came To Rock — the new paperback photo book/DVD on his late brother, PANTERA guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott — on Wednesday (November 19) at Best Buy in Los Angeles, California.

As BLABBERMOUTH.NET first reported on November 14, VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash has now confirmed that the band has parted ways with RCA Records (a Sony BMG label), the record company that released the group's first two full-length albums.