Reunited Dutch death metallers CENTURIAN will enter the We Are (Music) Junkies studio in Eindhoven on April 27 with producer/sound engineer Jo Peeters (ABORTED, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, SEVERE TORTURE) and Ralph Timmermans (MINDPARK) to begin recording their third full-length album, "Contra Rationem".

A 90-second sample of "China Town", a brand new song from VAN HALEN, can be streamed in the YouTube clip below.

Brendan "Brush" Shiels, founding member of the late 1960s/early 1970s Irish blues-rock act SKID ROW — which is best known as legendary guitarist Gary Moore's first professional band — has posted a YouTube video in which he invites Sebastian Bach, the former frontman of the American rock group SKID ROW, to sing on his upcoming album, which will be released under the SKID ROW name.

Tammy Vega of The Rock Stage recenty conducted an interview with drummer Dave McClain of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD.

According to TMZ.com, JOURNEY drummer Deen Castronovo was arrested this past Saturday, January 21 in Oregon for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.

Italian rock/metal band LACUNA COIL took part in a special acoustic performance and question-and-answer session on Tuesday, January 24 at the acclaimed record store Vintage Vinyl in Fords, New Jersey.

Vocalist Mike DiMeo, who recorded six studio albums and one live album with RIOT between 1994 and 2006, has issued the following statement regarding the passing of the band's founding guitarist Mark Reale: "I'm deeply saddened by the death of Mark Reale.

Swedish hard rockers EUROPE have set "Bag Of Bones" as the title of their ninth studio album, tentatively due in April.

The first three in a series of webisodes featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "Ex Lives", the new album from Buffalo's magnificently brutal metallic punk ensemble EVERY TIME I DIE, can be seen below.

Dutch folk metal six-piece HEIDEVOLK will release its fourth album, "Batavi", on March 2 through Napalm Records.