Legendary Sweden’s music magazine Close-Up has published a list of the top 100 albums in metal, hard rock, hardcore andВ punk released during the past 17 years. Compiled from 23 individual writers’ selections, Close-Up‘s extensive list sees AT THE GATES classic cult album “Slaughter Of The Soul”. Close-Up‘s Top 20 albums 1991-2008: 01. AT THE GATES […]

From today (April 29), the song “Violet Hill” will be available for free dowloadВ for a week at theВ  band’sВ website. The new album “Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends” is due no to June 17 as was previously announced, but to June 12 with global release dates.

Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet RevolverВ frontman Scott Weiland is goingВ to serve 192 hours in jail, after being found guilty of Driving Under the Influence. This follows his arrest last November. He must serveВ the sentence by May 28.

The Wildhearts have released a cover versionВ of Helmet’s ‘Unsung’ . TheВ track will be includedВ in aВ covers album entitled ‘Stop us If you’ve Heard This One Before Vol. 1 planned to be released onВ May 19th. Meanwhile rumors insist that The Wildhearts will take part in this year Dowload festival.

Izzy Stradlin is currently working on a new solo album. What’s known so far is that some of the songs shall feature a guest appearance the guitarist’s former Guns N’ Roses bandmate Duff McKagan, who’s currently active with Velvet Revolver. Izzy Stradlin – “Hammerhead“

Current Stone Temple Pilots and former Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland is currently working on a new solo album with producer Steve Albini. The as yet untitled CD is due out in November. We’ll learn more about it on May 12 from Mr. Albini himself, as that’s when he’ll play live in Sofia, Bulgaria with […]

The German metal bulldozers The Ocean shall play live inВ Sofia, BulgariaВ onВ May 2. The venue is The Club, the starting hour -В 10 p.m., and tickets shall cost 12 leva / 6 Euro. More info soon… The Ocean – “One with the Ocean“

The Goo Goo Dolls are hard at work on their next full-length studio album. According to the band, the follow-up to 2006’s “Let Love In” should be out “in the fourth quarter of this year”. Meanwhile, fans will be sated with the group’s “Greatest Hits, Volume Two” – a rarities-filled CD and DVD set due […]

Swedish metal masters Tiamat are streaming their entire new album “Amanethes“В at myspace.com/tiamat. TheВ CD (view cover in the left) is going to surface in Europe onВ May 5В via Nuclear Blast. Tiamat – “In a Dream” (live)

As we informed you a while ago, veteran British rockers Uriah Heep shall release a brand-new studio album in almost ten years, entitled “Wake the Sleeper” (view cover in the left), in June via Universal Music. The CD is going to contain 11 songs recorded in a line-up featuring Mick Box (guitar), Trevor Bolder (bass), […]