Mark “E” Everett’s ever-changing project Eels shall release two massive compilations on January 21, 2008. The first one, “Meet the Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1, 1996-2006”, features 24 of the American alternative formation’s most famous tracks, as well as a DVD with 12 of the band’s promo videos. Meanwhile, “Eels Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities […]

Motley Crue intend to start recording a brand-new studio early next year. The effort, tentatively due in the summer of 2008, has the working title of “The Dirt” and, at least according to vocalist Vince Neil, the drummer will be… the recently departed for the N-th time Tommy Lee…

Ministry have revealed the details about their upcoming last ever tour, set to kick off in spring 2008 under the name C U LaTouR. For the world treck the American industrial metal godfathers shall be joined by Swedish extreme experimentalists Meshuggah and U.S.-based Hemlock. The tour starts in Canada on March 28, stopping in 33 […]

November 19, 2007 shall witness the European release of the ninth full-length studio album by Germany’s heavy metal masters Gamma Ray, “Land of the Free II” (view cover in the left). A day earlier Kai Hansen and his current band, together with his former colleagues Helloween, shall play live together in Sofia, Bulgaria as part […]

Canada’s experimental punk rock veterans NOmeansno shall play live in Bulgaria for the first time ever next Wednesday, November 21. The venue is the Swingin’ Hall in Sofia, and support comes from Vancouver’s Invasives (former Married to Music) and Bulgaria’s Crowfish. Additional info about the show can be found in our GIG GUIDE, while music […]

Virginia metal assassins Lamb of God are working hard and nearing completion of their next full-length studio album. There’s still no release date announced for the follow-up to “Sacrament” (2006), but another good news popped up, namely that the quintet is planning to issue a band-new DVD in the spring of 2008.

Hatebreed have announced they’ll be filming every single show on their upcoming Stillborn Fest Tour in late December in the USA. The footage shall be used to compile a DVD, set for release sometime in 2008.

On Sunday, November 18, theВ Fracture weekly metal show on Bulgaria’sВ MM TVВ shall broadcast an interview with Benediction taken right before their set at the 20 Years Nuclear Blast FestivalВ in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 3. Fracture shall also feature a movie about Linkin Park and videos by Sanctity, The Destiny’s Program, Machine Head, Judas Priest, Lion’s Share, […]

The legendary Irish alternative post-punk noise pop pioneers My Bloody Valentine have confirmed they are to release a new album later this year. Mastermind Kevin Shields (also in Primal Scream) has revealed the band is revisiting unreleased material recorded around the time MBV broke up in 1995, as well some tracks from 1993-94, “and a […]

The already quite long list of temporary (?) replacements for Korn‘s original drummer David Silveria grows on… After recruiting Terry Bozzio (ex-Frank Zappa), Brooks Wakerman (Bad Religion) and Joey Jordison (Slipknot, ex-Murderdolls), the Bakersfiled metal superstars have now tapped Ray Luzier (Army of Anyone, David Lee Roth) to handle the drum duties during the band’s […]