Spinefarm Records have set an April 7, 2008 European release date for the new Children of Bodom full-length album. The follow-up to 2005’s “Are You Dead Yet?” shall be preceded by a single a month earlier. The Finns are currently recording the CD at the local Petrax Studio with producer Mikko Karmila. What’s been confirmed […]

Swedish metal masters Soilwork have posted their entire new album, “Sworn to a Great Divide” (view cover in the left), for free streaming on their official MySpace page. Due in Europe on October 19 via Nuclear Blast, the CD is going to contain 11 tracks. The second one, “Exile”, is available for watching below, and […]

Ex-The Gathering singer Anneke van Giersbergen and her newly formed band Agua de Annique have posted the video for the song “Day After Yesterday” on the Internet. You may check it out below. The tune is the fourth out of the 13 ones on the quartet’s debut album, entitled “Air” and set for release on […]

System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian is mercilessly keeping his prmise to visualize all 12 tracks off his upcoming solo album, “Elect the Dead”, due on October 23. The third video off the CD – this time for the song “Saving Us” – is already available for watching below. It was directed by acclaimed […]

Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali has recorded a CD entitled “24/7/365 – The Tribute to Led Zeppelin” (view cover in the left). Released under the Frankie Banali & Friends banner, the effort features Frankie himself on drums, backed by an impressive list of guests, namely bassist Tony Franklin (The Firm, Blue Murder), keyboard players Neil […]

Less than a month before devastating the Winter Sports Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria together with Amorphis, Edguy, Agathodaimon, The Revenge ProjectВ and Overdawn, Britain’s death metal machines Benediction forced their bass playerВ Frank HealyВ to confess to Tangra Mega Rock everything about the band’s upcoming studio album “Killing Music”, the preparations for the 20 Years Nuclear Blast FestВ in […]

After releasing the debut single “I’m Not Jesus” off their new album “World Collide”, Finnish metal cellists Apocapyptica have created a second video for the song off the CD. The word goes about “S.O.S. (Anything But Love)”, featuring a guest appearance by Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia and shot in Vilnius, Lithuania. Regarding the album […]

Mike Patton‘s live performance with the NorwegianВ composer John Erik Kaada at the Roskilde Festival in 2005 is going to surface on DVD in November. It’s going to be called… “Live”, of course.

Guitar virtuoso Gary Moore will join drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox – the same Jimi Hendrix Experience rhythm section that played Woodstock – to perform a selection of Jimi Hendrix songs on October 25 at the Hippodrome in London. The gig will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the late guitarist’s show at the […]

California-based atmospheric sludge avantgardists Isis are to release a new EP, entitled “Holy Tears”, through Mike Patton’s label Ipecac Recordings. Due in early December, the effort is going to feature a studio, a live and a video version of the title track, plus a remix of the song “Not in Rivers, But in Drops” done […]