OnВ July 28-29В (Saturday and Sunday) the picturesque Trigrad Village in the Western Rhodope Moundains in Bulgaria shall host the fifth annual Orphic Mysteries. The visitors shall witness some elements of the local traditional ancient folklore, like firedancing and stuff alike, combined with a rock show in front of the Devil’s Throat Cave at midnight,В featuring sets by […]

Just a few months before the release of its new album, “Cannibalised”, Briatin’s progressive metal quintet Biomechanical has become a duo… Guitarists Jamie Hunt and Chris Webb and bass player Jon Collins have all quit due to misunderstandings with vocalist Yiannis Koutselinis a.k.a. John K. (on the photo). This leaves the singer alone with drummer […]

After last week’s “news” that Mike Patton’s project Peeping Tom shall play live in Europe in August and September, today it got clear that this tour will not happen. Too bad…

Rolling Stone MagazineВ has published a poll revealing the bands doing the wildest live shows these days. Of course, the word does not go about an all-time chart, but just about recent councerts and tours that have impressed the readers of the media the most. And so, the wildest bands’ top 20 looks like this: 01. […]

London-born keyboard player, composer and former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder returns with “subHuman” – the sixth album by his current main project Recoil, released less than two weeks ago via Mute Records. This, we think, was a reason more than enough to ask the musician to reveal his soul for Tangra Mega Rock… HERE.

Egyptian artist Nader Sadek has invited Steve Tucker (ex-Morbid Angel), Trym (Emperor, Zyklon), Alex Skolnick (Testament), Ralph Santolla (Obituary, ex-Death), Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Miles Jay (ex-Fathy Salama’s Orchestra), Liron Peled (Raquy & The Cavement) and Raquy Danziger to contribute to his multimedia installation “The Faceless” that opens on September 6 at Michael Steinberg Fine Art […]

Former Black Sabbath, Electric Light Orchestra and Small Faces manager, Don Arden, has died last Saturday, July 21, at the age of 81. Arden (born Harry Levy) was also famous for being the father of Ozzy Osbourne’s notorious wife, Sharon. Rest in piece.

Korn‘s entire new, eighth full-length studio album (view cover in the left) is available for streaming on the band’s official MySpace profile. The CD, which is going to appear without a title, shall be available next week, July 31, preceded by the single “Evolution”, which you can already vote for in our Tuborg Top 40 […]

Life of Agony frontman Keith Caputo has just finished recording his new solo album. Entitled “Fondness for Hometown Scars”, the effort was produced by former bass player for Porno for Pyros, The Cult, Jane’s Addiction, etc. – Martyn Lenoble.

The country project Bourbon Crow, featuring vocalist Wednesday 13 a.k.a. Buck Bourbon (best known for his work with Murderdolls) and bassist Rayen Belchere a.k.a. Jessie Crow, are to start workinf on their second album. The follow-up to the debut “Highway to Hangovers” (2006) should appear in the beginning of 2008. To check out some of […]