Sofia’s LOUD FESTIVAL 2012 is already online and working! You can reach it through the following links – www.loudfestival.com and www.loudfestival.bg. LOUD FESTIVAL 2012 will take place on June 2 and 3 in the Park next to Terminal 2 of Sofia airport. Already confirmed to play are SLAYER, MESHUGGAH, ANNIHILATOR, SYMPOHNY X, BEHEMOTH, LACUNA COIL with more bands to […]

The first issue of PRO-ROCK magazine for 2012 will be out on Wednesday, 22 February. MESHUGGAH are the cover story, so you will find an interview with the band and the album review for ‘Koloss’. More on the mag: GERMAN POWER BLIND GUARDIAN, RAGE, PRIMAL FEAR BRIT TO THE BONE ENTER SHIKARI, YOUR DEMISE And more about: VAN HALEN, NAPALM […]

DIMITER VASSILEV, aka NUFRI, leader of seminal Bulgarian alternative band PANICAN WHYASKER, but also member PYROMANIA, R.O.B.T.F., BASTARDOLOMEY and more, has started a brand new band called SKITNICKS. A brand new song called ‘SHIZO DOLL’ is entering our TUBORG TOP 40 Mega Rock chart his week. SKITNICKS consists of NUFRI (vocals and guiar), drummer MILEN IVANCHEV (Bastardolomey), guitarist IVO PESHEV (Pistamashina) and bass player RADO YOVHEV (Тremor). You can listen to some more songs […]

IRON MAIDEN are going back on the road this summer, and they’re turning the clock back to 1988. The band will launch their Maiden England world tour in North America on June 21, in Charlotte, North Carolina. And the set list and stage production will closely mirror the Maiden England video, which was filmed on […]

Liverpool, UK-based atmospheric rockers ANATHEMA will release their new album Weather Systems on April 24th. The track ‘The Beginning And The End’ off the new album can be downloaded for free at this location. And here’s the Weather Systems tracklist: 01. ‘Untouchable, Part 1 02. Untouchable, Part 2 03. The Gathering Of The Clouds 04. […]

A full length sample of EPICA’s new song ‘Storm The Sorrow’, the first single from their new album Requiem For The Indifferent, is available below. Click the Amazon.com widget at the bottom of the page to order. EPICA will release their new album, Requiem For The Indifferent, in Europe on March 9th via Nuclear Blast. The North […]

April 6th 2012 is the day! The new ACCEPT album ‘STALINGRAD’ will be released worldwide. The previous record ‘Blood Of The Nations’, which was released in August 2010 was a huge success and nominated over 50 times worldwide for the “Hardrock and Metal Album Of The Year” being the most successful album of ACCEPT history.  […]

JACK WHITE has released the video for ‘Love Interruption’, the lead single from his upcoming solo debut, Blunderbuss.   Directed by White himself, the clip also features back-up vocalist Ruby Amanfu, clarinet/bass clarinet player Emily Bowland, and Brooke Waggoner on wurlitzer electric piano. Watch it below. Blunderbuss is out April 24th via Third Man/Columbia.  

HELLYEAH, the southern-fried metal band featuring drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott (ex-PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN), singer Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett (MUDVAYNE), guitarist Tom Maxwell (NOTHINGFACE) and bassist Bob “Zilla” Kakaha (ex-Damageplan), will release their third album, Band Of Brothers, worldwide via their new label home, Eleven Seven Music, in early June. The album was recorded at […]

OPETH will be playing for teh first time in Sofia on 1 March for radio Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH Anniversary bash. According to Swedenabroad.com, in celebration of OPETH’s nomination to the Swedish Music Export Prize and the Swedish Grammy Award, the Ambassador of Sweden hosted a reception at the Swedish residence where the band members had the opportunity to […]