June 2 is celebrated in BulgariaВ as the Day of the Fallen heroes. Your favorite rock radio will hounour them with a long silence this morning playing no sound at all. This one goes for theВ currently lost rock heroes – Ronnie Dio, Paul Grey, Peter Steele…! We’ll be back with SLAYER at 2 pm!

In a relaxed phone conversation with Jonsu – lead singer of Finnish all-girl sesnationВ INDICA about the band forthcoming studio album ‘A Way Away’ (26 June), produced by Tuomas Holopainen of NIGHTWISH, Jonsu faced the following question on Tangra Mega Rock:В  SINCE YOU ARE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS AND COLLEGUES WITH TUOMAS, WHY DIDN’T HE THINK OF […]

Paul McCartney had to be rescued by cops after a mob attacked his tour bus in a dodgy no-go part of Mexico City. Youths forced his driver to stop then started jumping up and down on the roof as the Beatles legend, 67, cowered inside. A source said: “At first his security team thought it […]

Though Bad Religion has posted a myriad of status updates through Twitter and Facebook, the band officially announced the onset of recording today. Guitarist Brett Gurewitz commented on the new album: While we’re celebrating our 30th anniversary as a band this year it’s also a time when Greg and I have embarked on new creative […]

Professionally filmed video footage of MEGADETH’s May 30, 2010 performance at the Rock In Rio festival in Lisbon, Portugal is now available below (the footage originally aired on the Portuguese cable television channel SIC Radical). The band kicked off its 30-date European summer tour at the festival on Sunday night. Megadeth’s set consisted of the […]

Metal heavyweights MANOWAR will honor the legacy of Ronnie James Dio with ‘Magic – A Tribute To Ronnie James Dio’. MANOWAR bassist Joey DeMaio said “Heavy Metal has lost a great artist and a true gentleman. I had the privilege of being his friend and I, along with other friends and admirers, wish to honor […]

Steven Tyler is to have his eagerly anticipated autobiography published by Ecco in November. To be titled Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?, Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins) reportedly paid the Aerosmith frontman $2 million for the rights. Says the frontman of people can expect from the book: “This is not just my […]

KORN’s video for the band’s brand new single, ‘Oildale (Leave Me Alone)’, premiered earlier today exclusively on MTV2. The band’s new album, ‘Korn III – Remember Who You Are’, is due out July 13. It is the band’s first release for Roadrunner Records and is their ninth studio release.В  As its title suggests, ‘Korn III […]

Slipknot has posted a 10-minute tribute video to the band’s late bassist Paul Gray, featuring previously unseen footage. Check it out below. Private funeral services for Gray were held on Friday (May 28) in Des Moines, Iowa. Paul was found dead in a hotel room in a Des Moines suburb on Monday (May 24). The […]

Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh has filed for a restraining order against an elderly man who allegedly threatened to kill him. The rocker has asked a judge to ban his neighbour Nassar Adhoot, who is in his 70s, from coming near him after the man allegedly trespassed on his property earlier in May and attacked his […]