San Diego, California metallers AS I LAY DYING have uploaded another audio sample. It’s for the track ‘Whispering Silence’ from the upcoming Awakened album. The album will be released on September 25th. As I Lay Dying are also streaming a sample of the new track, ‘A Greater Foundation’, the first single from Awakened. Listen to […]

The second edition of the POWER OF ROCK contest will be held at Sofia’s ROCK IT club on September 26, 27 and 28. It is dedicated to YOUNG ROCK TALENTS and will receive a huge TV coverage via ‘Rock With Milena’ show on Bulgarian National TV – 2.     

Finnish forerunners of melancholic dark metal, AMORPHIS, have entered the studio to record their as yet untitled 11th album. The follow-up to 2011’s highly successful The Beginning Of Times, will be produced and mixed by no less than HYPOCRISY and PAIN mastermind Peter Tagtgren (pictured).   Check out the first of several video reports that […]

Rick Wakeman, Genesis, Steven Wilson, Rush and Anathema (pictured above) were among the winners at the first Progressive Music Awards, held last week in Kew Gardens, London. Some of the biggest names in prog turned up for the event, including Genesis, Asia, ELP, The Moody Blues, Roxy Music, Marillion, Steve Hackett, Fish, It Bites and Anathema. The […]

THE DROPKICK MURPHYS have announced the title of their upcoming album, Signed and Sealed in Blood. The album will be released in 2013 and is their second with producer Ted Hutt (Gaslight Anthem, Old Crow Medicine Show), which was recorded at Boston’s Q Division studios and mixed by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes). “We had […]

The doctor of tragic Slipknot bassist Paul Gray has been charged with his manslaughter, and involved in seven other deaths. Gray died of an accidental overdose in 2010, shocking fans and throwing his band into turmoil from which they’re yet to recover. Now his physician, Dr Daniel Baldi, is to face justice for eight counts […]

There are unconfirmed reports that the Led Zeppelin reunion gig at the O2 Arena in London in 2007 is to be released as a DVD in November. This is allegedly to be a double disc, with two CDs.  

Joe South, who wrote Deep Purple track Hush and played on Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde album, has died at the age of 72. South penned a number of well-known tracks in the 1960s including Down in the Boondocks and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. He won a Grammy for his own performance […]

MONY PANCHEV’s very special ROCKENROLL radio show is today and MONY had a BIRTHDAY last night. ROCKENROLL kicks off at  6:00 pm BG time (5 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. For the several reruns of the show – CHECK in our SCHEDULES. 

RollingStone.com reports that late QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury has been honored with an animated video in which the singer is portrayed as an Angry Bird. To honor Mercury’s birthday (September 5th), the creators of the Angry Birds franchise posted the following video set to Queen’s ‘Bicycle Race’.