Remember the exclusive IMOC competition that launched in the end of May, where the winner was going to get to hear some of the new Maiden album and then interview Janick Gers and Nicko McBrain for the Fan Club magazine and the website?

ex-FEAR FACTORY/BRUJERIA guitarist Dino Cazares will be appearing on this weekend's edition of MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" as part of a discussion panel on heavy metal "hot topics"...

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson and founding bassist Steve Harris spoke to BW&BK recently about their forthcoming album A Matter Of Life And Death, due out in early September. Some excerpts from BW&BK's forthcoming major feature are as follows:

According to Reuters, Sanctuary, the world's biggest independent music company, said trading in its recorded product division will be below previous expectations and it saw a loss in the current financial year to end-September.