Thrash Hits — Saxon @ Sonisphere Festival 2009 photos courtesy of Gary Wolstenholme more info

Altsounds — Metal titans *Saxon *confirmed at last weekends Sonisphere Festival that they will be headlining the Saturday of Hellfire Festival on November 7th at NEC Birmingham. Expect lashings of Heavy Metal Thunder from the original masters of Metal who cont... more info

Thrash Hits — While we were wandering around the Sonisphere Festival arena in a drunken, slightly damp haze, we spotted several posters for Hellfire Festival which had some very interesting names on it. (Saxon and Anvil, just in case you can’t read the title.) S... more info

Bones from a mass burial pit (above) in Weymouth have been dated to the late Saxon period after initial scientific testing. Picture courtesy Oxford Archaeology Scientists analysing the bones of executed bodies from a mass grave uncovered at an ancien... more info

Rolling Stone — Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face 2 Face tour has been slightly derailed. The pair were forced to cancel dates in Buffalo and Albany, New York, because Joel is suffering from flu-like symptoms, the AP reports. Billy Corgan debuted a new song tentati... more info

Stereogum — Last night a one-time supergroup dubbed Spirits In The Sky paid tribute to psych-rock pioneer Sky "Sunlight" Saxon at LA's Echoplex. Bringing together Billy Corgan's pickup group, Electric Prune bassist Mark Tulin, and Strawberry Alarm Clock keybo... more info

Rolling Stone — Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi—who’s currently in a legal battle with Ozzy Osbourne over the rights to the band’s name—has signed a deal to allow Next Films to use Black Sabbath as the name of a horror movie franchise, The Hollywood R... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Hey Los Angeles, heads up: this Friday, July 24th, there is a Sky Saxon Tribute being held at the at the Echoplex in Echo Park.  The Seeds leader died Thursday, June 25th, in an Austin, TX hospital at the age of 71 — the cause of death is at pre... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Following the unexpected death last month of The Seeds' Sky Saxon, the previously planned California '66 Revue tour has been revamped to feature Jerry Miller from Moby Grape [ tickets ] alongside The Electric Prunes [ tickets ] and Lo... more info

NME — Linkin Park and Metallica headline the Knebworth gathering more info