Last night (April 10) in Los Angeles, Black Sabbath threw a party for a hand-picked group of media members and VIPs to get the first listen to their upcoming album, '13.' Although Ultimate Classic Rock received an invitation, we were unable to attend. However, our sister site Loudwire and fan site black-sabbath.com were there. A recap of their impressions follows.
For all the well-deserved success and glory enjoyed by Iron Maiden’s new millennium comeback, it’s been a long time since the British metal giants put out an album virtually all their fans could agree was stellar. That album was their semi-conceptual triumph, ‘Seventh Son of a Seventh Son,’ which was released on April 11, 1988.
Hoping to hear some of the new Black Sabbath album before '13' drops on June 11? Good news: You can -- but you'll have to watch the season finale of 'CSI' to do it.
Pinball may never rock as hard as it will with Metallica's greatest hits coming from the machine's speakers. There's no timetable, but a new video from Stern Pinball revealed the Metallica pinball machine today. James Hetfield introduces a fast-paced montage of images that give fans a quick glimpse of what the machine will look like.
Ozzy Osbourne is hailing the forthcoming Black Sabbath reunion project as a return to form for the band, which hadn't produced a studio effort with him since 1978.
Last month, Black Sabbath announced that their long-awaited album '13' would be released on June 11. Today (April 4) they revealed the cover art, as well as a 27-second clip of the music within (embedded below).
Just in case metal fans needed a reminder of precisely how long Judas Priest have been slaying the masses, the band is gearing up to release ‘Epitaph,’ a live retrospective of the past four decades of their massive recording career.
Billy Sherwood won't be beaming onto the starship Queensryche. Instead, he has decided to work on the new William Shatner record, rather than remix a new offering from Geoff Tate and Co.
Slash surprised fans of Anthrax at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (March 27) by taking the stage to play guitar on 'T.N.T.,' the AC/DC song Anthrax chose for their new album of covers called 'Anthems.' The band turned in a pretty convincing rendition, captured on the fan video below.
Few schools can land this type of lineup for a benefit show: Robby Krieger from the Doors, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer from Kiss, Sebastian Bach, and Warrant guitarist Joey Allen. Alice Cooper will headline the Thursday night concert to celebrate the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy in Sioux Falls, S.D. It's just one day of an almost week's worth of headliners.
