Iron Maiden to headline Rock Werchter

It has just been announced that Iron Maiden are to headline Rock Werchter festival in Belgium. Maiden are set to play there on Sunday 3rd July 2011 in the middle of their Final Frontier world tour! Tickets go on sale 4th December 2010! For more info on this date go to www.rockwerchter.be and for information about the whole tour go to www.ironmaiden.com then click on the tour tab along the top.

Murderdolls Cancel US tour!

Gory rockers the Murderdolls have been forced to pull out of their upcoming American tour. The Violent Night, Deadly Night tour has been cancelled but in a press release the band stated that they will be back soon. The reason for the cancellation is an "unforeseeable family emergency". We hope this sorts itself out soon so they can get back on the road as soon as possible. Full press release below from www.roadrunnerrecords.com

“Due to an unforeseeable family emergency Murderdolls have been forced to cancel the upcoming Violent Night, Deadly Night tour. These decisions are never easy to make and we did everything we could to keep from having to cancel, but this was unavoidable. We’ll do our best to make up the dates in 2011. For those who bought tickets, refunds are available from point of purchase. Sorry ghoulscouts but we’ll see you all soon!”

Download 2011

Today we got our first snippet of what is to come at Download festival 2011. As rumours started to circulate earlier in the year it turns out that they were true and only fuelled the festival hype. Shortly before 9am this morning it was confirmed that System Of A Down are to reform and are to headline at Download festival in 2011. Also after a colossal tour with Stone Sour earlier in the year, Avenged Sevenfold are also to return to these shores for the Download festival. Although not headlining they will be a band not to be missed! These are the only bands announced so far and makes you wonder what else Andy Copping has up his sleeve.

COB New album details!

Children Of Bodom have shed some new light on their upcomming release. The new album is to be called "Relentless Reckless Forever" and will be released on 08/03/2011. According to Blabbermouth.net a music video has already been shot for one of the songs of the new album. The song is called "Was It Worth It" is will probably be the first single from the album!

source www.blabbermouth.net

Chimaira Bassist Retires!

Chimaira have announced today that bassist Jim LaMarca is to retire. In a statement released by the band his reasons for retiring are that he wishes to settle down and start a family. The statement also says that they wish him all the best for the future! A permanent replacement has not been found but for the remainder of 2010 Emil Werstler of DAATH will be playing bass for the band so no shows will be cancelled! This is very handy as DAATH will be supporting Chimaira on an up comming headliner tour!

Funeral For A Friend + Rise To Remain UK tour

Funeral for a friend have announced that they are to embark on a huge UK tour! The tour is 15 dates long so you can be sure that they will be hitting a town/city near you! Full tour dates bellow!

March 16th – Aberystwyth Arts Centre
March 19th – Penrith Eden Arts Centre
March 20th – Glasgow King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
March 22nd – Bury St. Edmonds The Apex
March 23rd – Birmingham O2 Academy 2
March 24th – Manchester Academy 3
March 25th – London Relentless Garage
March 27th – Liverpool O2 Academy
March 28th – Stoke The Sugarmill
March 29th – Wakefield Black Flag
March 30th – Durham Live Lounge
April 1st – Poole Chords
April 2nd – Saltash Livewire
April 3rd – Wycombe Academy Of Music & Art
April 4th – Wrexham Central Station

Source www.metalhammer.co.uk

Iron Maiden European dates

Yes more Iron Maiden tour dates for 2011! The Final Frontier world tour has some more mainland Europe dates. Maiden are to undertake a full arena tour of Germany and select dates in France and the Netherlands! In the press release it states that there are still more dates to come for Europe so if your country hasn't been announced yet DON'T PANIC! Dates are as follows!

MAY
Sat 28 - Frankfurt, GERMANY Festhalle
Sun 29 - Oberhausen, GERMANY Kopi Arena
Tue 31 - Munich, GERMANY Olympiahalle

JUNE
Thur 2 - Hamburg, GERMANY o2 World
Fri 3 - Berlin, GERMANY o2 World
Tue 7 - Stuttgart, GERMANY Schleyerhalle
Wed 8 - Arnhem, THE NETHERLANDS Gerledome
Mon 27 - Paris, FRANCE Bercy