A week after the kick off ofВ THE Bulgarian Summer festival, the biggest Bulgarian rock photographer – Elena Nenkova gave us the rights on more then 60 AMAZING pictures from the Spirit of Burgas 2009 festivalВ which you can seeВ in the GALLERY. NENKOVA is the BIGGEST and THE BEST. NENKOVA RULES! GET IN THE GALLERY

As previously reported, SLIPKNOT have announced a special edition release on Roadrunner Records of their seminal self-titled debut album. This special CD/DVD piece will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Slipknot’s first album’s release in 1999. Release is set for September 9th. The CD will feature 25 tracks, including the original album as well as rare […]

British black metallers Cradle Of Filth were forced to cut their performance at this weekend’s Bloodstock festival short after guitarist Paul Allender was injured by a projectile thrown by a member of the audience. The band were playing the main stage on Saturday (August 15) when the incident occurred. Allender was treated in hospital later […]

Rockers Pearl Jam infuriated bosses at a London concert venue after their Tuesday night gig overran – with frontman Eddie Vedder staging a sit-down protest as organizers attempted to force the band offstage. The Alive hitmakers began their gig at the British capital’s O2 Arena 15 minutes late and played right up until the venue’s […]

According to HMV and Amazon.com, Sony Japan/Zoom has announced a new HALFORD CD for October 28th called ‘III Holidays’. Halford – led by JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford – released its last studio album ‘Crucible’ in 2002, although in 2007 Metal God Essentials, Vol. 1, had new songs called ‘Forgotten Generation’ and ‘Drop Out’.

As we reported back in June, R.E.M. are planning the release of a double live album entitled Live at the Olympia. The band have now set the release date for October 26 via Warner Bros. and announced a 39-song tracklist for the double CD set. The release is being produced by Jacknife Lee and captures […]

Chester Bennington, lead singer for Linkin Park, has a new band called Dead By Sunrise. Their debut album, ‘Out Of Ashes’, hits stores on Oct. 13th but the first single ‘Crawl Back In’ is out now and we have it for you to check out!В  The band, which is Bennington on vocals, guitarists Ryan Shuck […]

Two days after stunning the Bulgarian fans at the Spirit of Burgas 2009 – FAITH NO MORE did the same with thousands of Hungarians at one of the biggest festivals in Europe – Sziget 2009 in Budapest. The band performed a slightly different setlist closing the encores with ‘Diggin The Grave’ instead of the much […]

Dilyana DelchevaВ from Sofia, Bulgaria is the 2nd winner in the artwork contestВ of the Finnish band. The WINNING piece will be the new artwork for the SONATA ARCTICA promotion single to ‘Flag In The Ground’ and was done by SIMO HEIKKINEN (Finland)! See his work at the bottom of this page! The third winner isВ Rodrigo LarreteguyВ  […]

Radiohead offered a new song for free download Monday, ‘These Are My Twisted Words,’ which is available from the band’s official Web site. “We’ve been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished. We’re pretty proud of it,” multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood writes on the site. “There’s other stuff in various […]