Blind Guardian’s show in Sofia on May 17 won’t be at the previously announced Hristo Botev Hall, but at the quite bigger Festivalna Hall. A poster of the event can be viewed on the homepage of the concert promoters Most of Evil Music.

Fear Factory are currently working on their second remix album (after “Remanufacture” a decade ago), tentatively due by the end of the year. The first song off it – a remixed version of the song “Supernova” from the quartet’s latest CD “Transgression” (2005) – can be heard on the band’s official MySpace profile, www.myspace.com/fearfactoryofficial.

Iced Earth have finished mixing and mastering their new 4-song single, “Overture of the Wicked”, due to be released in late May or early June. Besides, the band is finishing the production for the 18 new songs for their upcoming full-length release. It shall be entitled “Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked, Part 1)” and should be […]

Italian power metallers Vision Divine, the current band of former Labyrinth mastermind Olaf Thorsen, will release their new album on June 4 via Scarlet Records. Entitled “The 25th Hour”, the CD was produced by Timo Tolkki of Stratovarius and Luigi Stefanini, who both handled the sound on the group’s 2005 effort “The Perfect Machine” as […]

The name hinted by us two weeks ago has already been confirmed: Yes, Motorhead shall headline the second day (June 29) of the Kaliakra Rock Fest at the Kaliakra Stadium in Kavarna, Bulgaria! Tickets for Lemmy’s show – just like the ones for the Heaven and Hell concert on June 28 – shall cost 30 […]

Swiss industrial gods The Young Gods shall release a new album entitled “Super Ready/Fragmente” through the label Play It Again Sam on May 7. The 12 tracks on the CD present the first new recordings by the avantgarde trio since their 2004 album “Music for Artificial Clouds”. The group fronted by vocalist Franz Treichler is […]

Six weeks prior to the European release date of the upcoming Dimmu Borgir album “In Sorte Diaboli” on April 27, the album appeared on a website featuring free downloads for everybody. Since press worldwide was supplied with individual download accounts for the music on the Nuclear Blast website instead of regular promotional CDs, the source […]

The Associated Press reported that Brad Delp, the lead singer of Boston who was found dead in his home on March 9, left behind a note stating: “I’m a lonely soul.” According to police reports, Delp has committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning after he sealed himself inside a bathroom with two charcoal grills. In […]

Manic Street Preachers have confirmed the details for their long awaited new album. Entitled “Send Away the Tigers”, the CD shall be built up of 10 songs, and is due to be released on May 7. The full-length effort by the Welsh trio will be preceded by the single “Your Love Alone Is Not Enough” […]

Sum 41 have announced they have completed the follow-up to 2004 album “Chuck”. The self-produced effort was recorded in Los Angeles and follows the first new material by the band since the departure of guitarist Dave Baksh. The CD should come out this summer. The Canadian quartet has already started auditions to find a replacement […]