Original Saigon Kick frontman Matt Kramer, who sang on the American band’s first two monumental releases – “Saigon Kick” (1991) and “The Lizard” (1992) – will release a book of poetry, entitled “An American Profit” (view cover in the left), on October 31. The issue will be available for sale exclusively through mattkramer.net for $10. […]

Vocalist and band co-founder BjГ¶rn “Speed” Strid presented “Sworn to a Great Divide” – the seventh full-length studio album by Sweden’s melodic death metal leaders Soilwork (view cover in the left), due out on October 19 via Nuclear Blast – in a friendly conversation with Tangra Mega Rock. The entire interview, featuring thoughts about the […]

Agnostic Front members Joseph James and Steve Gallo and their Brooklyn-based hardcore project Inhuman have announced they’ll release their new album, entitled “Last Rites” (view cover in the left), to October 23 via I Scream record. Two of the 11 tracks on the CD – “What You Wanted” and “Fashist” – are available for streaming […]

Drummer Steve Hewitt has surprisingly left Placebo after 11 years. In a statement singer Brian Molko said: “Being in a band is very much like being in a marriage and in couples – in this case a triple. People can grow apart over the years… There simply comes a point when you realise that you […]

On October 26 (Friday) the Military Club inВ Shumen, BulgariaВ shall host a multinational metal show. To be more precise, the local extremists Overdawn (on the photo), EnvyВ and Color of Hate shall share the stage with the Romanian assassins Aron and the psychos Home hailing from China. The start of the concert shall be given at 7 […]

The Police have received a high honour from France yesterday “for their contribution to the arts”. Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, who played two sold-out reunion shows in Paris last weekend, were greeted by the French Culture Minister Christine Albanel herself, and were honoured as chevaliers of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Nightwish, Dream Theater, Blind Guardian and Threshold are among the bands contributing songs to the movie “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale”. The film itself, scheduled to hit theatres across the USA on January 18, 2008, stars Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds, a.o.

The names of the five bands who’ll fight for this year’s Alarmprisen (Alarm Awards – due on October 27 in Oslo) in the “Metal” category have been revealed. The honour has been given to the sympho black metal stars Dimmu Borgir, their rawer colleagues Satyricon (on the photo) and Mayhem, the Trondheim-based old-schoolers Keep of […]

Queens of the Stone Age uploaded the uncensored version of the video for their song “3’s & 7’s” on the Internet. You may enjoy it just a couple of lines below. The tune comes off the band’s current album, “Era Vulgaris”.

Tickets for the show by Mizar, Daemonia Nymphe, Rose Rovine e Amanti, Irfan, Kayno Yesno SlonceВ and VoyvodaВ onВ October 14В (Sunday) at the National Palace of Culture’s Hall 11 in Sofia, Bulgaria are on sale on. The tickets cost 25 leva / 13 Euro and can be obtained at the venue or via Eventim.bg. The show starts at […]