Plans to break Rock record goes up in smoke

Rock guitarists fans missed an opportunity to break a rock record;performing Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" with 2,000 guitar players.

Event organisers Harrods says,"...We regret to inform you, that due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to take the unavoidable decision to cancel the World Record Breaking Attempt on Sunday 18th February." So sad.

The record is currently held by 1,322 people who got together in 1994 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to rock out on Ritchie Blackmore's classic riff.

Watch my Deep Purple favourites, Perfect Strangers and

Scrap Metal super group to revive 80s magic

According to glam-metal.com "...80's music fans have long been looking for a new super group to bring back the magic to rock music again. Lately, their has been some buzz with the new super group -Scrap Metal, which features Gunnar and Matthew Nelson of Nelson, Kelly Keagy, Mark Slaughter, and special guests Eric Martin of Mr. Big. Read more.

Check out Nelson, solo artist and drummer/singer for Night Ranger Kelly Keagy , Mark Slaughter of Slaughter .

Diamond Head gives finishing touches to new album

British heavy metallers and pioneers of New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) Diamond Head 'has completed their forthcoming album 'What's in your head', writes lead guitarist and founder-member Brian Tatler on the site blog. "It is still a work in progress and as soon as we are sure that every other aspect of the project is up to the standard of the songs we will release it on you lot!."

The band debuted with the album 'Lightning To The Nations'(The White Album) in 1980

Dizzy Dean rocks with new album
Dizzy Dean Davidson, former vocalist of Philadelphia hair-metal rockers Britny Fox, has released a new album called 'Drive my Karma'.

Check out this fan page at MySpace.

Kamelot's 'Nights of Arabia'

I simply like this song from Kamelot, a prog metal band hailing from Tampa, Florida. This is a live video, but I did not like the live version. But their songs are good.

Kamelot is Roy Khan - vocals, Thomas Youngblood - guitar, Glenn Barry - bass, Casey Grillo - drums and Oliver Palotai - keyboards.

Saxon releases new album
Saxon has relased their new album titled 'The Inner Sanctum'.

I've written about Saxon. I was thrilled to watch Saxon's new DVD 'Live Innocence', a collection of their live shows and some exquisite music videos that includes hits like 'Broken Heroes', 'Northern Lady' and 'Ride Like The Wind'.

Saxon is Biff Byford, Paul Quinn, Doug Scarratt, Nibbs Carter and Nigel Glockler.

Previous members included Jörg Michael (Drums), Fritz Randow (Drums), Graham Oliver (Guitar), Paul Johnson (Bass), Steve Dawson (Bass), Nigel Durham (Drums), Pete Gill (Drums).

Mastodon makes metal loud enough

Mastodon's metal is described as progressive rock with wall-punching rhythms, blasting riffs and shrieking guitar leads. They belong to the pre-Hair Metal era of fantasy-ridden lyrics and cult themes. Mastodon hail from Atlanta.

The Grammy-nominated "Blood Mountain" 'Blood Mountain' is about a quest to climb a mountain made of blood to capture a crystal skull (The nomination was for the single "Colony Of Birchmen" in the "Best Metal Performance" category).



The previous 'Leviathan' album was inspired by Herman Melville's classic 'Moby Dick'.

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Note: Mastodons are elephant-like animals with large teeth and tusks. They became extinct more than 13,000 years ago.

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