The Michael Bay-directed 13 Hours opened this weekend, and SOUNDGARDEN frontman CHRIS CORNELL has just released the song that’s featured on the movie’s soundtrack. ‘‘Til the Sun Comes Back Around’ is a haunting, mostly acoustic number that puts the Higher Truth singer’s masterful, wind-weathered voice front-and-center. “Maybe I’m walking on a wire / That can […]

MONY PANCHEV’s very special ROCKENROLL radio show today is dedicated to the life and music of JEAN-MICHEL JARRE. ROCKENROLL kicks off on Wednesdays at 6 pm BG time (5 pm CET). For the several reruns of the show – CHECK in our SCHEDULES.   

FILTER are on their way back with Crazy Eyes, their seventh studio album, and they’ve just unveiled the first single from the disc. The song, called ‘Take Me to Heaven,’ just debuted at Billboard and can be heard in the player below. Frontman Richard Patrick, who also produced the album, tells Billboard he penned the […]

For 14 seasons, That Metal Show has carried the metal torch on VH1 Classic, but the sad news has been revealed that VH1 has decided not to bring the show back for another year. In a posting on co-host Eddie Trunk‘s website that is also credited to co-hosts Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson, it’s revealed […]

YouTube star Rob Scallon has recorded a metal interpretation of Bach’s Badinerie.   The man behind the banjo cover of Slayer’s Raining Blood and the backwards version of Metallica’s Enter Sandman is at it again – this time taking on the classical masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach in a piece he calls Bach Metal.   […]

A Syrian orchestra, whose members have fled around the world due to the conflict in the country, are reuniting for a London concert featuring BLUR and GORILLAZ singer Damon Albarn. The musician first worked with the 90-strong Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music (SNOAM) eight years ago.   Albarn said: “It’s a truly miraculous sound […]

Bulgarian hardcore leaders LAST HOPE have signed with Dutch label GSR Music. The band’s sixth studio effort ‘Chain Reaction’ will be released through it in the Spring. You can now see the cover artwork. LAST HOPE will be the special guest on the new MADBALL tour in March with RYKER’S, KNUCKLEDUST, CROWN OF THORNZ and TAUSEND LOWEN UNTER FEINDEN.  

Dale Griffin, drummer for rock group MOTT THE HOOPLE, has died aged 67 reports the BBC.   He was a founder member of the group, best known for classic tracks Roll Away The Stone and All The Young Dudes. The latter was written and produced by David Bowie, who sang backing vocals on the track. The […]

GUNS N’ ROSES will reportedly receive $14 million for their performance at Coachella Festival in April 2016, according to ByZegut. The band will perform two concerts at the festival, on April 16 and April 23. Based on Coachella’s previous set times and general festival set times, the band will grace the stage for 1.5 hours […]

Sting and Peter Gabriel will embark on a 19-date co-headlining North American concert tour this summer, Billboard has learned.   The Rock Paper Scissors tour will play a mix of arenas and amphitheaters, beginning June 21 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.   The tour will be produced by Arthur Fogel, chairman of Live Nation’s […]