Kerrang! cover stars The Answer are among the latest wave of artists who have been added to the ever-expanding Download 2009 bill.Currently touring around the UK with legends AC/DC, the Irish crew are excited to rock out for the summer festival audience."We're really looking forward to playing at Download again this year," says frontman Cormac N...

Dream Theater will be bringing their 'Progressive Nation' tour to the UK and Europe and they're bringing some huge special guests with them.Dream Theater, Opeth, Bigelf and Unexpect are to team up for the 'Progressive Nation' tour in October.Dates are yet to be announced but Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy (who ...

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OPETH, CANDLEMASS, APOCALYPTICA and PRETTY MAIDS have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Metalway Festival, set to take place over two weekends — June 20-21 and June 26-27 — in Zaragoza, Spain.The festival billing is shaping up...

-- Rap biopic alert! The former music writer Cheo Hodari Coker, who adapted the script for the Biggie biopic Notorious from his own surprisingly great Biggie book of the same title, has signed on to write a Run-DMC biopic. According to the Hollywood Reporter, he'll adapt Bill Adler's book Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC for the horri...