STONE SOUR have announced Johny Chow (pictured) as their new bassist following the departure of Shawn Economaki. Guitarist Josh Rand says: “Johny is a fantastic player and a long-time friend. We are all excited to have him part of what will be our most exciting and ambitious album cycle yet.” Part one of their double-sections House of […]

Leander Games has released the brand new MEGADETH-branded slot game on Facebook. MEGADETH SLOT game presents the brand slot of the band featuring Dave Mustaine, Dave Ellefson, Shawn Drover and Chris Broderick as the game’s main symbols all along with the instruments and completed with the group’s mascot, Vic Rattlehead, as the Bonus Symbol. Some of […]

BJORK is set to release ‘bastards’, an album featuring remixed versions of songs from her most recent LP, ‘Biophilia’. ‘bastards’ will come out on November 19 on her label One Little Indian and includes reworkings of ‘Biophilia’ tracks by Death Grips, Hudson Mohawke, These New Puritans, Omar Souleyman and more. The remixes were previously released […]

Alterna-metal insitution TOMAHAWK is returning early next year with Oddfellows, their long-awaited fourth album and first in six years. The supergroup (that’s Faith No More barkjaculator Mike Patton, Jesus Lizard aggy-twanger Duane Denison, and Battles drummer John Stainer) have replaced bassist Kevin Rutmanis with the mighty Fantômas/Bungle/Madlove bassist Trevor Dunn, who has been dutifully blogging […]

Three concerts dedicated to the late DIMITER VOEV are set to happen in Sofia this month. The great underground peot and musician passed away 20 years ago. The first gig is on 26 October at Three ushi club in Sofia with more than 20 musicians hitting the stage – Csetka fon tape, La text, With 300 Zora, […]

Bulgarian prog band YUVIGI has just made available online a brand new video. The song is called ‘Evil Tongues’ and is part of the forthcoming somophore studio album ‘Ot purvo Litse’ set to be released on 10 November.. The animated parts in the video were created by Daniel Kombakov.   Check the video below:    

The IRON MAIDEN WEEK on radio TANGRA MEGA ROCK starts today… And we already have the review for STEVE HARRIS’ debut solo effort – ‘British Lion’. “Compared to Adrian Smith’s melodic rock effort “Silver And Gold” in 1989, “British Lion” is somewhat tamed lion. Shame really!” These are just the final words in STIFF’s album review. READ […]

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will play some fantastic sounds of the likes of: – TOURE-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE (pictured),  – SAMUEL YIRGA, – SYD ARTHUR, – STAFF BENDA BILILI и  – JANKA NABAY. The ‘ZOO SHOW’ kicks off on Monday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. It has several […]

Skunk Anansie have released a video for their single I Hope You Get to Meet Your Hero, taken from recent album Black Traffic. View it below. The band, who reunited in 2009 and delivered comeback record Wonderlustre the following year, say the latest song is one of their favourites from their sixth full-length release. “It’s […]

MANOWAR’s new studio album, The Lord Of Steel, will be released into worldwide retail on October 19th, delayed from the previously announced date of September 28th (dates may vary from territory to territory), following a limited-edition pre-release as the Hammer Edition in collaboration with Metal Hammer (UK). The Lord Of Steel tracklisting: ‘The Lord Of […]