NEWS

22 March 2012

JJ BURNEL, bass player and vocalist of THE STRANGLERS will be featured on TANGRA MEGA ROCK’s late night show on Thursday. He will be talking exclusively to NASSO RUSKOV about the brand new studio album ‘Giants’, the British PUNK history and Arsenal. Nasso’s show HENTAI MOTEL kicks off at 10 pm BG time (9pm CET).   

22 March 2012

BECK has remained largely out of the spotlight since 2008’s magnificent Modern Guilt. Aside from a few production credits, and some sparse contributions to various film soundtracks, the songwriting virtuoso has been in the midst of his career’s longest gap in between albums. Thankfully, with whispers of a new record as well as an upcoming […]

22 March 2012

THEM FREQUENCIES is the name of a new band, formed DIDO PESHEV (guitars) and STOIMEN STOYANOV (vocals) formerly of BREAKPOINT. The latest decided to call it a day and the new outfit plays quite a different kind of music – Post / Math / Prog / Core / Metal. The line up is completed by SVETLOZAR ZAHARIEV (bass) and MARTIN KOLEV (drums). THEM FREQUENCIES are about […]

22 March 2012

DISTURBED be on indefinite hiatus, but fans of vocalist David Draiman will be happy to hear that the singer announced via Twitter he is working on a new “musical project” in the vein of Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. DISTURBED fans were surprised when the band announced that they planned to “go away for…an indefinite […]

22 March 2012

GUNS N’ ROSES sold 85,000 copies of their Greatest Hits album last week digitally – and all because of a massively cheap promotion. For one week only, both Amazon and rivals Google Play had the album available for just 25 cents, which is less than 20p for the 12 tracks! The album, which was originally […]

22 March 2012

JOHNNY DEPP has teamed up with his rocker pal MARILYN MANSON to record a cover version of Carly Simon’s classic You’re So Vain – and they even roped in the actor’s nine-year-old son to help. Pirates of the Caribbean star DEPP offered his services for the collaboration, playing drums and lead guitar while MANSON provided […]

22 March 2012

The following announcement has been issued by photographer/journalist Kristina Sisti via SingForLayne.com: “He sang for us, now we will sing for him.” It will be ten years since the passing of singer Layne Staley and to mark this anniversary and honor his life, we’re calling for all fans, new and old, to join us on […]

21 March 2012

It may have felt like 10,000 Days since TOOL has released a new album (it’s only been 6 years), but fans won’t have to wait much longer for a new release from the band. Drummer Danny Carey (pictured) tells Vic Firth in a video interview: “I’m hoping we’ll get in the studio by June or […]

21 March 2012

 TRISTANIA is confirmed to play the LOUD FESTIVAL 2012! The big metal event will happen in the Park of Terminal 2 of Sofia airport and TRISTANIA are set to open the show on the first day – 2 June, with LAUNA COIL, BEHEMOTH, SYMPHONY X, and legendary W.A.S.P. also scheduled for that day. ASPHYX, MESHUGGAH, SOULFLY, ANNIHILATOR and SLAYER are […]

21 March 2012

KING’S X drummer JERRY GASKILL will be released from the hospital today (Wednesday, March 21) after suffering a serious heart attack in the early morning hours on Sunday, February 26th. A new photo of Gaskill taken on Monday, March 19, during KING’S X frontman Doug Pinnick‘s hospital visit can be seen above.