On April 26, Geoff Tate's QUEENSRŸCHE took part in an acoustic performance of two songs — "Eyes Of A Stranger" and "Silent Lucidity" — inside "Bjorn's Audio Video Live Music Lounge" on WOAI (1200 AM), a San Antonio, Texas, news/talk formatted radio station.

KING DIAMOND kicked off its European tour this past Sunday, May 19 at the Rock Hard Festival at Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

RED FANG return this fall with their as-yet-untitled third studio album on Relapse Records.

Swedish female-fronted heavy rockers SISTER SIN will have a newly remastered version of their first studio album, "Dance Of The Wicked", released as a CD+DVD package on June 25 via Victory Records.

METALLICA's James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo joined "SFG Live" on May 3 at AT&T Park in San Francisco, home of baseball's San Francisco Giants, to discuss Giants starting pitcher Barry Zito jamming with them at the band's headquarters in San Rafael, California and their connection to baseball and the Bay Area.

ANTHRAX's Frank Bello took part in a bass clinic on May 13 in San Isidro, a residential suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fuse conducted an interview with KORN vocalist Jonathan Davis and guitarist Brian "Head" Welch at this year's Rock On The Range festival, which took place May 17-19 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

Longtime URIAH HEEP bassist Trevor Bolder has died of cancer at the age of 62.

"Strike The Iron", a brand new song from Los Angeles metallers WHITE WIZZARD, can be streamed below.

In the lead-up to RUSH's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction last month, the Toronto Star published an e-dispatch story on RUSH titled "Rush: An Oral History".