Germany’s progressive thrash metal veterans Mekong Delta have revealed the substance of their comback album, “Lurking Fear” (view final cover in the left), due on August 24 via AFM Records. The effort will be available as a standard jewelcase CD, as well as in the form of a limited edition digipack with bonus DVD, containing […]

Marilyn Manson‘s long-awaited horror movie, “Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll”, is finally set to begin shooting in November or December. The postponement had to made due to the shock rock star’s current Rape the World Tour. Manson, who is to direct the film, shall also act in it as Lewis Carroll, along with girlfriend […]

Guitarist Kirk Hammett has revealed a bunch of quite interesting facts regarding the highly anticipated new Metallica album: “We wrote 22 songs with the intention of recording 12 or 14, with the intention of putting maybe 9 or 10 tracksВ on the new album, depending on how they all turn out once they’re all finally recorded […]

After starting a glorious comeback tour and taking part at the mega-festival Live Earth on July 7 in front of millions of viewers all over the globe, Britain’s (ex-prog) pop rock veterans Genesis have obviously got highly inspired and are planning a to release a bunch of retrospetive stuff to coincide with their 40th anniversary. […]

Irish rockers The Answer (on the photo) were chosen to support The Rolling Stones in front of 80,000 people in Belgrade, Serbia today, July 14. So far the youngsters have played together with bands like The Who and Aerosmith, but never in front of so many people…

Emblematic singer Brian Johnson has revealed that AC/DC are finally working on a new album! What’s known so far is that brothers, founders and guitarists Malcolm and Angus Young are in the studio composing the songs for the follow-up to “Stiff Upper Lip” (2000). According to Brian, “The boys are working on something special. They […]

Clawfinger have finished work on the video for the song “The Price We Pay” and posted it on YouTube. For your convenience, here it is – just a couple of lines below. “The Price We Pay” comes off the Swedish rap metal godfathers’ new album, “Life Will Kill You”, due in Europe on July 27 […]

On Thursday, July 12,В the American bandsВ La PlebeВ and Strike Anywhere and their Bulgarian colleaguesВ Empty Face did one of the best punk/ska/hardcore concerts in Sofia lately. A report of the show written by Mr. Stefan Topuzov is available HERE, and photos of the concert (courtesy ofВ Rostislav BakalovВ / Hardcore Spirit) can be viewed in our GALLERY.

Philip Chevron – the lead guitar player for the English-Irish folk/punk rock masters The Pogues – has been diagnosed with locally advanced throat cancer. The musician will not be present for the band’s European summer shows and the US tour in October and November and, according to The Pogues’ official homepage, “Though it is not […]

Punk legend and The Stooges frontman Iggy Pop will voice a role in an upcoming animated drama, entitled “Persepolis” and revealing the story of a young girl struggling with life in Iran after the fall of the the shah in 1979. Iggy will be joined by actors Sean Penn, Catherine Deneuve and Gena Rowlands. The […]