Sal Italiano (pictured below), a member of the IRON MAIDEN tribute band LIVE AFTER DEATH, has joined veteran Canadian metallers ANVIL, replacing recently departed bassist Glenn Gyorffy (aka Glenn Five). Anvil’s Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow comments on the situation: “We hired an old friend to do the tour and are currently working with a new improved […]

MEGADETH are confirmed to co-headline this summer’s Ost Fest festival with MOTГ–RHEAD in Bucharest, Romania on Sunday, June 17th. MГ–TLEY CRГњE and DIMMU BORGIR are also on the festival bill

While on a one-week tour of Europe to perform and promote ‘Chickenfoot III,‘ singer Sammy Hagar speaks out on his former band, Van Halen, including his thoughts on their new single, ‘Tattoo.’ “I personally don’t think that what they have just released, what I have seen and heard, is great at all,” Sammy tells Cack […]

Portuguese gothic metallers MOONSPELL have set ‘Alpha Noir’ as the title of their new album, due on April 27 via the band’s new label home, Napalm Records. Commented MOONSPELL frontman Fernando Ribeiro: “A true band has to have to a glorious past, a solid present and a bright future. More than that, a true band […]

PRIMAL FEARВ and BRAINSTORM will at Sofia’s Hristo Botev hall on 7 April. The show is promoted by R.B.F. Agency with tickets going on sale through www.Eventim.bgВ on Thursday, 19 January. First 100В tickets will be priced 35 BGN, then will go up to the regular price of 40 BGN, to be sold at the door atВ 45 BGN. […]

You can see thisВ almost everywhere in downtown Sofia. A litlle cheap flyerВ distributed anonymously in the streets of the city (check below). You can read on this: “WE WANTВ BLACK SABBATH LIVE IN BULGARIA! Join the Facebook group“! Well, this comes when the live plans of the band look a bit uncertain with guitarist TONY IOMMI been […]

Anneke van Giersbergen’s long-awaited album ‘Everything Is Changing’ will be released officially this Friday (January 20th) on PIAS Recordings. The first single ‘Feel Alive’ preceded the full-length disc in September 2011 and is still in TMR’sВ TUBORG TOP 40.В  The album in full is now available for streaming HERE! ‘Everything is Changing’ was recorded mainly at […]

While Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar RodrГ­guez-LГіpez are reuniting with their At The Drive-In bandmates, the pair still found time to write and record a new Mars Volta album. The end result, entitled Noctourniquet, will hit stores on March 27th via Warner Bros. The band’s sixth LP, the 13-track effort was written by Bixler-Zavala and RodrГ­guez-LГіpez […]

Eddie Vedder, the lead singer of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam, wants the web address eddievedder.com. A complaint (WIPO Case Number: D2012-0035) was filed this week with the World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name. What’s interesting about this case is that according to WHOIS records, Pearl Jam owned the domain name back […]

Legendary US prog metalВ outfit FATES WARNINGВ has joined the list of bands to play at the special TANGRA MEGA ROCK SIXTH Anniversary bash concert series. FATES WARNING’s gig is on March 22 at Sofia’sВ *MIXTAPE 5* club.В  Tickets priced 35 BGN are already on sale viaВ TicketsTream.bgВ and Eventim.bg.В Go and grab you ticket as the price will go up […]