Live footage of Bulgaria’s hardcore leaders Last Hope performing at the Stufstock 5 Greenfest, which took place on August 16-19 in Vama Veche, Romania,В can be watchedВ HERE. The event featured also sets by a.o. Cradle of Filth, Bloodhound Gang, Klimt 1918, The Dandy Warhols, Neurotica, Alternosfera, ExNN, Grimus, Niste Baieti, Deka Dens, Tuba Project and many […]

Canadian rock lady Melissa auf der Maur (ex-Hole, Smashing Pumpkins) has just finished recording her second solo album. Entitled “Out of Our Minds”, the CD shall be accompanied by a comic and short film. There’s still no information who and when is going to release the follow-up to Melissa’s 2004 solo debut “Auf der Maur”.

The Goo Goo Dolls are to release a compilation CD, clearly entitled “Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 – The Singles”, in mid-November. The rockers’ best-of-effort shall be followed by a second volume in the beginning of 2008, featuring rarities, cover version, remixes and B-sides, as well as a couple of new songs.

A brand-new composition by Norway’s sound magicians Ulver, entitled “Vigil”, has been made available for streaming on the band’s official MySpace profile atВ myspace.com/ulver1. The song is the fourth out of the nine ones to be included on Ulver’s seventh full-length studio album, “Shadows of the Sun”, due in Europe on October 1 via Jester Records. […]

Black Label Society guitarist Nick Catanese (on the photo), Queensryche six-stringer Mike Stone (now playing bass and singing) and drummer Mike Froedge (ex-Doubledrive) have joined forces in a new side-project. According to Nick, “we’re just writing away… There’s heavier stuff, but there’s stuff like, we wrote a song that sounds like if you put The […]

Britain’s hard rock dinosaurs Uriah Heep have postponed the release of their album, entitled “Wake the Sleeper”, until January 2008. The reason pointed out is that the band is currently sorting out exactly which label to issue the CD…

While “Into the Light” was the first present to the 20th birthday of the mighty German label Nuclear Blast, September 21 shall see the birth of the second chapter of the Nuclear Blast Allstars releases, entitled “Out of the Dark” (view cover in the left) and described as “the evil twin of its predecessor”. This […]

Buffalo-based metalcore maniacs Every Time I Die have posted the video for the track “We’rewolf” on the Internet. You can watch it below. “We’rewolf” is the fourth out of the 12 tracks on the group’s new album, “The Big Dirty”, produced by Steve Evetts and due out on September 4 via Ferret Music. The song […]

California’s metal(core) rising stars Avenged Sevenfold have announced they’ve pushed back the release of their new, self-titled and self-produced studio album from the previously announced October 16 to October 30. A bit of the quintet’s fresh sound can be checked out at myspace.com/avengedsevenfold. The follow-up Avenged Sevenfold breakthrough effort, “City of Evil” (2005), is going […]

Bulgaria’s metalcore quartet New Disease shot its first video under the guidance of Kuln’s frontman Boyan Karamfilov. The word goes about the song “My Ways” off the band’s upcoming debut album. You may check out a bit ofВ the musicВ at myspace.com/newdiseasebg. Meanwhile, New Disease announced three shows in Bulgaria next month. On September 1 the band […]