Long-running German metallers HELLOWEEN have released the official video for the first single from their new album, Straight Out Of Hell. The six-minute opus for ‘Nabataea’ develops on several levels, including 3-D animation at motion picture level. The legendary kingdom Nabataea provides the atmospherically dense reference for the strong first release from HELLOWEEN’s new album. […]

MARILYN MANSON has shared a picture of his reattached ear after he was involved in a fight in Switzerland. The goth rocker Tweeted the image, which you can see to the right of the page, after telling fans that he’d needed 24 stitches to save the ear after a grisly brawl in which he was […]

In cooperation with Bushido Brazil and Bamberg, BraziliaN metal veterans SEPULTURA have released an official Weizen beer to celebrate their 25th Anniversary. The beer is brewed as a traditional German Weizen beer featuring “aroma and flavors of banana and clove from a special strain of yeast that produces the chemicals that lead to these perceptions.” […]

TARJA TURUNEN will present the magnifiscent ‘BEAUTY AND THE BEAT’ show at the naional Palace of Culture in Sofia on 30 March 2013. It will feature drummer MIKE TERRANA and an Orchestra and Choir. You can now see the first poster of a whole series with more to come soon. Tickets are available via www.tixgate.com.

On today’s edition of his radio show NECRONOMICON, mighty Dr STIFFENSTEIN will dig deep into the heart of the Earth in search of civilizations. With the music of NEUROSIS, YOB, TRIBES OF NEUROT, BORIS, JESU and HARVESTMAN. ‘NECRONOMICON’ kicks off on Friday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. It has several reruns during the week – […]

GALLOWS new video for ‘Cross of Lorraine’ has made its online debut via Noisey:  

DEEP PURPLE will release their 19th studio album on April 26, 2013 but the title is still unknown, even to the group. After various songwriting sessions in Europe, the band recorded and mixed the project in Nashville with producer Bob Ezrin. The group’s first album since 2005’s ‘Rapture Of The Deep’ is rumored to be […]

A former bassist for both Nile and Divine Heresy has reportedly been arrested in North Carolina for his involvement in a marijuana distribution network. According to WSOCTV in Charlotte, Joseph Payne, 28, and an accomplice were arrested over the weekend in connection with an investigation into “marijuana being transported from the Charlotte area and distributed […]

With diehard BLINK-182 fans counting the days until the Dec. 18 release of their new Dogs Eating Dogs EP, the band has delivered an early holiday present by unveiling the first song from the record, ‘Boxing Day.’ Backing up earlier claims that the EP would feature a folksier side of the band, the Christmas-themed ‘Boxing […]

Well, hell yeah. Thanks for all the good wishes, Stay cool, cheers and Beat the Bastards….