Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Long-running German metallers GRAVE DIGGER will enter the studio in June to begin recording their new album for an early 2017 release. The band will support fellow Germans BLIND GUARDIAN on a North American tour this fall. GRAVE DIGGER's last CD wa... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN are returning to North America this fall for the second leg of the "Beyond The Red Mirror" tour. After making a stop at the ProgPower USA festival on Thursday, September 9, the band will kick off the 19-date trek... more info

Metal Injection — Blind Guardian frontman Hansi Kursch broke his silence about the band's progress on their next album, posting an update on the band's website titled, "A Sign of Hope." Indeed let's hope the nearly two years without Blind Guardian will ... more info

411 Mania — From Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and Blind Guardian's "Valhalla" to The Eagles' "Hotel California," Guns N' Roses "Paradise City" and more, the 411 staff counts down the top 5 songs named after fictional places! more info

Metalsucks — Holy Grail’s 2010 album Crisis in Utopia was one of the year’s best, although it was received rather cooly upon release. Two years of relentless touring later (including stints with Valient Thorr, Royal Thunder, Dragonforce, Amon Amarth, Blind... more info

Metalsucks — If you consider yourself a geek (as I do) and you’re not reading Topless Robot, you’re really missing out. Proprietor Rob Bricken covers all things nerd on a daily basis, ranging from comics to movies and television to video games to toys, and he... more info

Metal Injection — By Ben Apatoff Like most fanatical music dorks, I spend the holiday season listening to my favorite records of the year, in vain hopes of creating the impeccable top ten list. High in rotation right now is BLIND GUARDIAN's At the Edge of Time, w... more info

Altsounds — Vancouver BC / Miami FL / Hanover, Germany – October 25, 2010 We received big news from two of our scouting parties: Our North American scouts wanted to enter Canada and were taken into custody by a BLACKGUARD. Meanwhile one of our Germa... more info

Metal Injection — Heathen - Dying Season Pro-Pain - Hate Coalition Havok - Root Of All Evil Blind Guardian - Tanelorn (Into The Void) Spritual Beggars - Lost In Yesterday Plutonian Shore - Invoking Erishigal Axis In Collapse - Interview Axis In Collapse - Feasting Wit... more info

Popdose — Christian Mistress, Agony and Opium (20 Buck Spin) I really want to call bullshit on this one. There is just no way that the debut EP from Christian Mistress isn’t a long lost demo from 1981. Everyone is telling me it isn’t, but if that’s the c... more info