At a press conference for the upcoming Rockwave Festival, scheduled to start tomorrow in Athens, Greece, Robert Plant has shot down this week’s reports that Led Zeppelin will reunite. Plant insisted that he hadn’t heard anything about this news and jokingly added, “If there was a reunion, then there wouldn’t be enough doctors to support […]

Sofia Music Enterprises announced some additional info about Marilyn Manson‘s first ever show in Sofia, Bulgaria, set to take place next Wednesday, July 4, at the Academic Stadium. The concert shall start at 7 p.m. with a set by the local industrial metal beasts Alien Industry. An hour later the stage shall be darkened by […]

Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan is set to release his second solo album in October. The follow-up to 2003’s “Paper Monsters” shall be entitled “Hourglass”. It was recorded in New York and shall be mixed in July by Beck and The Kooks producer Tony Hoffer. Tracks slated to feature on the CD are “Saw Something”, […]

Prong have set the tentative tracklist for their new album, due out in October via Ministry mainman Al Jourgensen’s label 13th Planet Records. The release shall be followed by a five-week U.S. tour and a series of concerts in Europe starting in January 2008. The upcoming CD by Tommy Victor (vocals and guitar), Monte Pittman […]

Swedish extreme metallers Arch Enemy have set “Rise of the Tyrant” as the title of their upcoming full-length studio album, due this fall via Century Media. The follow-up to 2005’s “Doomsday Machine” shall contain 11 tracks produced by Fredrik NordstrГ¶m at Studio Fredman in Hyssna, Sweden.

Machine Head have replaced Bullet for My Valentine as one of the opening acts for Metallica on July 8 at the Wembley Stadium in London, England. Also scheduled to appear are H.I.M. and Mastodon. Bullet for My Valentine cancelled their appearance at Wembley and several other European dates in order to allow frontman Matt Tuck […]

Velvet Revolver‘s upcoming new, second full-length studio album, “Libertad” (view cover in the left), is available for streaming in its entirety HERE. Right there you can also watch the video for the CD’s debut single, “She Builds Quick Machines”. “Libertad” shall be officially released in Europe next Monday, July 2.

Nevermore frontman Warrel Dane has revealed he’s written eight songs for his upcoming debut solo album, tentatively due in early 2008. According to the singer, “the recording will start pretty soon”. As Warrel himself stated less than a year ago in an interview for Tangra Mega Rock, his solo effort is being created together with […]

British sludge/metal/hardcore maniacs Raging Speedhorn shall release their fourth studio album, “Before the Sea Was Built”, on September 10. The follow-up to “How the Great Have Fallen” (2005) was recorded in Wales with producer Larry Hibbitt and is the band’s first effort featuring new vocalist Bloody Kev and bass player Dave Thompson.

According to Brazil’s Bizz Magazine, the as-yet-unnamed new project featuring Sepultura founding members and brothers Max and Igor Cavalera will enter a Los Angeles studio in July to begin recording its debut album for a late 2007/early 2008 release via Roadrunner Records. Although it has not yet been confirmed, it is rumored that production duties […]