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The long- awaited concert DVD “20 godini po-kusno” (20 Years Later) is coming out on December 20 (Wednesday). The disc, containing the concert ofВ ERA, KONKURENT and AHAT on June 26 this year is a special collector’s edition. The concert marked the 20-th anniversary of the creation of the three most influential heavy rock bands […]

A video interview with legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and hisВ wife Candice Night has been posted online at Google Video. In other news, Blackmore’s NightВ holiday album, “Winter Carols”, has entered the Top 100 New Age/Ambient/World Radio/Internet Airwaves Chart at position No. 4. As previously reported, an audio interview with Ritchie Blackmore, conducted on December 2, 2006 […]

ZAKK WYLDE of Black Label Society and guitarist in Ozzy Osbourne’s band, won three awards from the “Guitar World” magazine’s readers poll. Zakk Wylde won the awards for “Most Valuable Player”, “Snappiest Dresser” and shares the “Best Cover” award for gracing the September 2006 issue alongside SLAYER’s Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Herman Li and […]

The most influential metal label, Roadrunner Records, has launched a site in Bulgarian. On the address http://www.roadrunnerbulgaria.com/ the fans can read all latest news, album reviews, interviews, to look at photos and videos and to listen to audio streams. In Bulgaria Roadrunner Records is represented by Virginia Records and releases bands like Soulfly, Stone Sour, […]

GARBAGE will make their first live appearance for 18 months with an intimate acoustic gig in California next month. The band – who have recently been the focus of reports they are set to split – will play the Alex Theatre in Glendale in a benefit for fellow musician Wally Ingram, who is recovering from […]

The legendary British radio jockey John Peel, who passed away in 2004, was chosen as the most influential person in the British music industry in the past 20 years. An online survey of eMusic chose Peel as the person who had the most positive influence on the music in Britain, while the Sony head Simon […]

The co-founder of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun has died, aged 83. Ertegun helped make Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin stars and signed the Rolling Stones in the early 70s. Over the time, Atlantic Records helped popularise the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young. Ertegun suffered a head injury when he […]

Korn recently recorded a performance for MTV Unplugged at the US music channel’s studios in Times Square, New York City. The Cure and Evanescence’s singer Amy Lee joined the band for a few numbers. Previously, Korn had only recorded five songs acoustically, but last weekend played several of their hits unplugged on MTV for an […]

The new album of SAXON, “The Inner Sanctum”, comes out in March. SPV/Steamhammer has set a March 5, 2007 European release date for the new album from SAXON, entitled “The Inner Sanctum”. The label will also release SAXON’s new double live DVD, entitled “To Hell and Back Again”. No further details are currently available. In […]

Pink Floyd are set to auction the giant eyeball featured on the cover of their DVD ‘Pulse’. All profits from the sale of the signed, six foot tall eyeball will go towards homeless charity Crisis. The auction will take place on eBay between December 14 – 20. In a statement, guitarist Dave Gilmour said: “The […]