OnВ August 16В Bulgaria’s village of KavarnaВ shall host a so-calledВ Russian Metal Fest, promoted by Joker Media. The event shall feature three veteran Russian rock bands, namely Ariya,В Black ObeliskВ and Master,В as well as their younger countrymatesВ AnJ. The start of the festival shall be given at 8 p.m., and the poster can be seen in our GIG GUIDE.

Britain’s indie rock quartet Kasabian shall release a brand-new EP, entitled “Fast Fuse”, on September 3. Although the guys don’t plan to start working on their third full-length album until the winter, they’ve decided to issue some new songs as they were “desperate to get something out to the fans who have been supporting them […]

The electro-metal side-project of Rammstein’s guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe-Bernstein, Emigrate, has revealed how the front cover of its upcoming self-titled debut album shall look like. You can view it below. “Emigrate” is going to be released on August 31 via Motor Music.

Former Manowar guitarist Ross The Boss has posted samples of two brand-new songs by his Germany-based heavy metal band The RTB Band. Entitled “I Got the Right” and “We Will Kill”, the samples can be downloaded HERE. Besides Ross, The RTB Band features members of the German Manowar cover band Men of War.

The new issue of Bulgaria’sВ Pro-Rock MagazineВ shall be available this Friday, July 20. This time the cover story has been dedicated to the mighty death metal egyptologists Nile and their new album “Ithyphallic”. TheВ edition features also interviews and features about Symphony X, Dublin Death Patrol, DevilDriver, Nostradameus, Megadeth, Izzizzari, Queens of the Stone Age, Pantheon I, […]

The final schedule for this year’sВ Berkrock Festival, set to take place in Berkovitza, Bulgaria on July 26-28 has been revealed. The event shall feature 11 Bulgarian rock bands, plus Serbia’s Priruchnik Janga Trovacha and the headliners Brazen Abbot, fronted by guitar virtuoso Nikolo Kotzev and vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (ex-Deep PurpleВ and Rainbow). Here’s the complete […]

Radiohead are currently mastering their seventh full-length studio album in New York. The work is processing under the supervision of bass player and synth wizard Colin Greenwood, guitarist Ed O’Brien and producer Nigel Godrich. A title and release date for the CD have yet to be announced, but it is believed that the follow-up to […]

As we informedВ you in the beginning of July, former Dream Theater keyboarderВ Derek SherinianВ is working on the debut album with a new metal project featuringВ guitaristВ Paul CrookВ (Meat Loaf, ex-Sebastian Bach),В bass playerВ Scott MetaxasВ (ex-Nuclear Asault), drummer Brian Tichy (ex-Pride & Glory, Ozzy Osbourne, Slash’s Snakepit)В and “a fab singer fom Eastern Europe”. Well, her identity has been revealed. The lady […]

Finland’s goth metallers H.I.M. have revealed the main motive of the cover artwork for their sixth studio album, “Venus Doom”, due in Europe on September 17. You can check it out below. “Venus Doom” was produced and mixed by Tim Palmer, known for his work with bands like The Cure, Tin Machine and Ned’s Atomic […]

The Jam‘s leader Paul Weller is to be the subject of a biography, entitled “Paul Weller: The Changing Man” and due to be released in September. The author of the book, music journalist Paolo Hewitt, has been a friend of the singer and guitar player since they were teenagers in Woking, Surrey, UK. According to […]