Amorphis and Edguy – the co-headliners of the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Fest onВ November 3В at the Winter Sports Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria – shall perform for more than 3 hours in total. BenedictionВ and Agathodaimon, who’ll invade the stage a bit earlier, shall play respectively more than an hour and 40-45 minutes. The entire event starts […]

The new, 40th issue of Bulgaria’sВ Pro-Rock MagazineВ shall be published on Saturday. The cover story this time is dedicated to the women in metal, represented by bands like Nightwish, Warlock, Arch Enemy, Lacuna Coil, Epica, The Gathering,В Holy Moses, Evanescence, Leave’s Eyes, Theatre of Tragedy, Lita Ford, etc. The issue features also articles about Obituary, At Vance, […]

King’s X guitarist Ty Tabor and former Galactic Cowboys six-stringer Wally Farkas have released the second album by their instrumental side-project, Xenuphobe. Entitled “2.0: Electrolux”, the follow-up to last year’s debut “1.0” contains a solid dose of “psychoactive and ambient music”…

OnВ September 29-30В Bulgaria’s capital Sofia shall host the third Paintball Mania National Tournament. The music background for the event shall be played byВ DJ M.O.S. Krindo (Alien Industry), who promises a setlist consisting of tracks by Ministry, Rammstein, Slipknot, Static-X, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, The Prodigy, Coal Chamber, Ill Nino, Nine Inch Nails, Pain, Rob Zombie, Sistem […]

Finland’s rockers The Rasmus have entered their own Dynasty Studio to work on their seventh full-length album with producer Desmond Child (a.o. Kiss, Scorpions, Alice Cooper). The follow-up to 2005’s “Hide from the Sun” (2005) shall most likely bear the title “Black Roses” and is due out in March 2008 via Universal Music Group.

New York’s hardcore beasts H20 are working on their first studio album in six years. The follow-up to 2001’s “Go” should become reality sometime in 2008, but so far no details of its substance are known, neither who’s going to release it.

Members of Soulfly, Killswitch Engage, Madball and Bad Brains have and will record guest appearances on Brooklyn’s hardcore rapper Ill Bill‘s second full-length studio album, due out in early 2008. The follow-up to “What’s Wrong with Bill?” (2004) is gonna be entitled “The Hour of Reprisal” and is also going to feature help by Cypress […]

Guitarist Glen Telford has rejoined the revived San Francisco crossover masters Skinlab. Together with Steev Esquivel (vocals and bass), Snake (guitar) and Paul Hopkins (drums) he’ll complete the work on the band’s upcoming EP, “Digi-Kill”, as well as on the quartet’s comeback studio album. The follow-up to the band’s latest studio effort, “ReVolting Room” (2002), […]

NWOBHM veterans Saxon shall issue a new DVD, entitled “To Hell and Back Again”, on November 12. The same day Biff Byford and his lads will be re-releasing their 1997 album “Unleash the Beast”, backed up with some bonus tracks.

Robin Gibb – one of the brothers who founded the legendary Bee Gees almost half a century ago – shall visit Sofia, Bulgaria to do a concert at the National Palace of Culture‘s Hall 1 on October 25. Tickets for the show cost from 30В to 80В leva and go on sale tomorrow.