Hammerfall are presently in Germany recording three songs for various
compilations
The songs are covers of RAINBOW, HELLOWEEN and ACCEPT
The Rainbow song is Man On The Silver Mountain
 

Watch for the following chunks of vital Metal catalogue released in Japan,
digitally remastered and packaged in a miniaturized LP sleeve
limited to one pressing only:

DEEP PURPLES's House Of Blue Light, Nobody's Perfect and Perfect Strangers
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN's Eclipse, Marching Out, Odyssey,
Rising Force, Trial By Fire and Trilogy
RAINBOW's Bent Out Of Shape, Difficult To Cure,
Down To Earth, Final Vinyl, Long Live Rock And Roll, On Stage, Rising,
Straight Between The Eyes and Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
COZY POWELL's Octupuss, Over The Top and Tilt
 

World Wrestling Federation wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin's new compilation CD
is out and featuresthe following tracks:

Rock You Like a Hurricane - SCORPIONS
God Of Thunder - KISS
Balls to the Walls - ACCEPT
Perfect Strangers - DEEP PURPLE
Breaking The Chains - DOKKEN
Dreams I'll Never See - MOLLY HATCHET
Stranglehold - TED NUGENT
Detroit Rock City - KISS
Rainbow In The Dark - DIO
No One Like You - SCORPIONS
Slow Ride - FOGHAT
On Through The Night - DEF LEPPARD
Rain - THE CULT
Stone Cold - RAINBOW
 

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's
second album has been recorded and should be out next year Blackmore is
currently on tour in Germany and he says about the
RAINBOW reformation rumours that that "30 years of playing Rock And Roll
is enough for him at the moment"
 

Japanese veteran rockers REST IN PEACE have covered 11 legendary rock numbers
from Cozy Powell on a record dubbed Thanks To Cozy
It feature's some of Cozy's solo material and gems from
RAINBOW, SCORPIONS, WHITRSNAKE, BLACK SABBATH,
JEFF BECK GROUP, MICHAEL SCHENKER
and GARY MOORE
 

Craig Goldy ex DIO-member was born on October 6 1961
 

NIJI DENSETSU is the Japanese act behind the RAINBOW Tribute
which also features former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner
and keyboardist David Rosenthal