Drummer Michael Lee, who played with Page & Plant, The Cult, Echo & The Bunnymen, Thin Lizzy and Little Angels, among others, has died on November 24 at the age of 39. Rest in peace.

Tickets for the upcoming HammerFallВ and Sabaton show at Sofia, Bulgaria‘s Universiada Hall on April 10, 2009 are on sale now via Eventim.bg. get them at following prices: 35 leva / 18 Euro – the first 333В tix 40 leva / 20 Euro -В presale 45 leva / 23 Euro – at the door

Bulgaria’s Pop Idol 2008 winner Toma Zdravkov shall present his debut video (“Hero”) this week.

The Portuguese fado singer Misia shall perform live at the Bulgaria Hall inВ Sofia, BulgariaВ this Friday, November 28. Misia – “Duas luas“

Max Cavalera announced the second leg of Soulfly’s European Conquer Tour with Incite. The first show will take place on January 28, 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany, and the last one confirmed so far – Poland’s Metalmania Festival. Soulfly’s tour shall finish in Eastern Europe in late March…

Greek melodic metallers Firewind will be joined by female singer Tara Teresa on the band’s three final shows of 2008. Tara was last seen performing with Firewind at various festivals in 2006 and collaborated on the single “Breaking the Silence” (see video below), which broke the Top 20 in Greece and remained on the chart […]

TheВ Antenna webzine did an interesting research among 30 musicians about their top 5 live albums. The complete list can be seen HERE, and here are some excerpts: Paul Mazurkiewicz (Cannibal Corpse):Judas Priest: Unleashed in the East Kiss: Alive II Rush: All the World’s a Stage Iron Maiden: Maiden Japan Cheap Trick: Live at Budokan Paul […]

Answering questions from fans on the Muse forum, bassist Chris Wolstenholme confirmed that work had started on the follow-up to the band’s 2006 album “Black Holes and Revelations”. Chris wrote: “It would be nice to have the album out in the second half of 2009, but we have not set ourselves any targets. It is […]

Former members of Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Spiritualized, Echo & The Bunnymen and Goldfrapp are set to perform their first gig under the name The Hookham Boys tonight in London. To be more precise, the new “supergroup” features Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), Damon Reece (Massive Attack, Echo & The Bunnymen, Spiritualized), Alex Lee (Placebo, Suede, […]

Members of Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Dimmu Borgir, Testament and Exhorder will unite under the name Death Metal Allstars. Unfortunately, the project will be active for five live shows in Japan olny…Below you can see the dates and venues, as well as the poster for the mini-tour, and here’s the Death Metal Allstars’ line-up: Kyle Thomas […]