NEWS

24 August 2007

California’s metalheads Hear ATREYU’s New Albumhave posted all the 11 songs off their new studio full-length album, “Lead Sails Paper Anchor” (view cover in the left), for free listening at myspace.com/atreyurock. The CD itself is going to hit the stores on Tuesday, August 28.

24 August 2007

Yesterday in New York major record labels and SoundExchange have inked a deal with big webcasters like AOL, Live365, MTV, RealNetworks, Pandora and Yahoo! that the latter will not have to pay more than $50,000 per service as a per-station or per-channel minimum royalty to webcast sound recordings. So far there was no limit to […]

24 August 2007

Joy Division‘s classic final single “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is to be-released September 24. This way the song will get a third chance to become a chartbreaker, after getting into the Top 20 twice – in June 1980 and in June 1995. Two weeks later, on October 5, the movie biopic about the life […]

23 August 2007

Long-time running U.K. rockers The Wildhearts have posted the video for the song “The New Flesh” on the Internet. You could could check it out below. The song is going to be the second single (after “The Sweetest Song”) off the band’s self-titled new album, which was released on April 23 via Round Records and […]

23 August 2007

“We’re ready with the recordings for half of the new songs, but we won’t be able to finish work on our next album until the beginning of 2008 due to our tight live schedule,”В revealedВ Ian AndersonВ in an interview for Bulgaria’s printed cultural guide “Programata” about the upcoming first Jethro Tull full-length studio album in eight years…

23 August 2007

R.E.M. are to release their first official live album on October 18. Simply entitled “R.E.M. Live”, the effort shall contain an entire show by the band recorded on February 27, 2005 in Ireland’s capital Dublin. “R.E.M. Live” is going to appear in the form of a two CD and one DVD set, featuring following tracklist: […]

23 August 2007

Poland’s death metal veterans Vader have announced they’ll be releasing a DVD via their native label Metal Mind Productions in October. As obvious from its title, “…and Blood Was Shed in Warsaw”, the effort features footage recorded live during one of the band’s shows in Poland’s capital.

23 August 2007

The doom metal machine The Hidden Hand, fronted by former Saint Vitus and Obsessed man Scott “Wino” Weinrich, has officially split up. Wino is now to concentrate on his new project Shrinebuilder, formed together with Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Chris Hakius and Al Cisneros of OM.

23 August 2007

Bulgaria’s extreme metal gang Overdawn has uploaded a brand-new song on Tangra Mega Rock’s homepage. The track, entitled “Wasted Times”, comes off the band’s upcoming second full-length studio album and is available for free download HERE. The follow-up to Overdawn’s 2007 debut “Bleeding Wounds” is going to be recorded this fall.

23 August 2007

Sofia-based death metal assassins Hyperborea have completed the work on their second full-length album. The follow-up to the debut “Architecture of Mind” (2004) shall be entitled “Cryogenic Insomnia”.