Sofia-based punk bands C4 (on the photo)В and Empty Face shall play live at the opening of Atomic Wave Cool Shop at the Sky City Trade Center in Bulgaria’s capital onВ July 18В (Wednesday). Both gagns shall perform for free at 7 p.m. on a stage at the parking in front of Sky City, situated on 52 Kosta […]

Germany’s progressive thrash metal veterans Mekong Delta have revealed the substance of their comback album, “Lurking Fear” (view final cover in the left), due on August 24 via AFM Records. The effort will be available as a standard jewelcase CD, as well as in the form of a limited edition digipack with bonus DVD, containing […]

Marilyn Manson‘s long-awaited horror movie, “Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll”, is finally set to begin shooting in November or December. The postponement had to made due to the shock rock star’s current Rape the World Tour. Manson, who is to direct the film, shall also act in it as Lewis Carroll, along with girlfriend […]

Guitarist Kirk Hammett has revealed a bunch of quite interesting facts regarding the highly anticipated new Metallica album: “We wrote 22 songs with the intention of recording 12 or 14, with the intention of putting maybe 9 or 10 tracksВ on the new album, depending on how they all turn out once they’re all finally recorded […]

After starting a glorious comeback tour and taking part at the mega-festival Live Earth on July 7 in front of millions of viewers all over the globe, Britain’s (ex-prog) pop rock veterans Genesis have obviously got highly inspired and are planning a to release a bunch of retrospetive stuff to coincide with their 40th anniversary. […]

Irish rockers The Answer (on the photo) were chosen to support The Rolling Stones in front of 80,000 people in Belgrade, Serbia today, July 14. So far the youngsters have played together with bands like The Who and Aerosmith, but never in front of so many people…

Punk legend and The Stooges frontman Iggy Pop will voice a role in an upcoming animated drama, entitled “Persepolis” and revealing the story of a young girl struggling with life in Iran after the fall of the the shah in 1979. Iggy will be joined by actors Sean Penn, Catherine Deneuve and Gena Rowlands. The […]

The cover artwork for the upcoming Heaven & Hell official CD and DVD release, entitled “Live from Radio City Music Hall”, has been revealed on Black Sabbath’s official homepage, Black-Sabbath.com. For your faciliation, you can view it below as well. “Live from Radio City Music Hall” contains 15 live cuts by Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, […]

Metal Mind Productions have set an August 6 European release date for former Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane singer Blaze Bayley‘s live DVD. Entitled “Alive in Poland” (view cover in the left), the digital video disc was recorded on March 24 at this year’s edition of the Metalmania Festival in Katowice, Poland, and contains Blaze’s 90-minute […]

Ulver mastermind Kristoffer Rygg (ex-Arcturus) has revealed that his gang of Norwegian avantgardists has nearly completed work on its new studio album. Entitled “Shadows of the Sun”, the follow-up to “Blood Inside” (2005) shall appear on October 1 via Jester Records.