After the comeback single “Violet Hill” was made available as a free download for one week only, and figues have exceeded two million, Coldplay have decided to give away another song via coldplay.com. The track is called “A Spell A Rebel Yell” and will not be featured on the band’s upcoming album, “Viva La Vida […]

The fifth concert of the Credit to the Nation Live series shall take place at theВ Stroeja ClubВ in Sofia, Bulgaria next Monday, May 12. The event shall start at 8:30 p.m., and is going to feature sets by P.I.F., Sepuko 6, Saint Electrics, Mental ArchitectsВ and My Preserver.

Tomorrow, May 8, the long-awaited 3-CD alternative rock compilation “Credit to the Nation” shall be finnally released. The event shall be celebrated with a release party at the Stroeja Club in Sofia, starting at 8:30 p.m. Here’s the complete tracklist of the effort:

Bulgaria’s modern metal masters Fyeld shall tour the country in June in support of their upcoming studio album “Not Blond Enough to Survive the Holocaust”. The band shall do two warm-up shows before that, namely: May 9В – Puzzle Club inВ Plovdiv May 17В – Jam Club in Stara Zagora

The Polish label Metal Mind Productions will release a live DVD by Flotsam and Jetsam, entitled “Once in a Deathtime” (view cover in the left), in Europe on June 16. The disc will contain footage of the band’s March 8, 2008 performance at the Metalmania Festival in Katowice, Poland.

The visitors of cokemusic.bg have voted for the ten best school rock bands in Bulgaria. These are New Voice, Balance, Nismo, Afterlive, The Strunes, Metal Touch, Soul Stage, Hype, Vice VersaВ andВ Tarnokop. The big winner among them shall be announced on May 22. Keep checking the above-mentioned website for details.

WTF?, the bastard brainchild of Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, Toronto-based dance phenom Deadmau5, DJ Aero and Steve Duda (a.o. producer of Nine Inch Nails), has released its debut EP, “You Can’t Afford This Chicken“, via Xfer Records. The effort features two tracks – “You Can’t Afford This” and “Chicken”. Check out the latter one […]

Local support for next week’s show by Japan’s industrial psychos Gothika in Sofia, Bulgaria shall come from Animassacre (on the photo). Check them out below, as well as at animassacre.com. The event is scheduled for May 15 at theВ Fans Rock Bar, with tickets costing 5 Euro. Animassacre – “Destruktion” (live)

The Offspring have made their new single,В “Hammerhead“, available for free download from myspace.com/offspring. The song precedes the Californians’ new full-length studio album, “Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace“, scheduled for release on June 17.

German thrash metal veterans Destruction have finished the songwriting process for their next album. Schmier, Mike and Marc will enter the Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denmark with producer Jacob Hansen to record the effort, which is going to be called “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.” and is scheduled to surface via AFM Records on August 29 in Germany and […]