Franz Ferdinand have revealed that their upcoming third full-length studio album shall be quite “synth-led”. Guitarist Paul Thomson has added that “we’ve gone crazy buying old synths…” The follow-up to 2005’s “You Could Have It So Much Better” is slated for a spring 2008 release.

As we informed you in the end of April, the second edition of the punk/hardcore festival East Noise Attack FestВ shall take place onВ August 18-19В (Saturday and Sunday) on anВ open air stageВ in Varna, Bulgaria. Tickets shall costВ 7 EuroВ (1 day) andВ 10 EuroВ (the entire event), and the final schedule for the East Noise Attack II looks like this: August […]

Ozz Music offers you the possibility to win teo tickets for the Thrash ’til Death 2007 Festival, set to take place at the Kaliakra Stadium in Kavarna, Bulgaria onВ August 15 (Wednesday) and headlined by Brazil’s Sepultura and Sweden’s Dark Funeral. Find out how toВ participate in the gameВ here.

The Jam‘s leader Paul Weller is to be the subject of a biography, entitled “Paul Weller: The Changing Man” and due to be released in September. The author of the book, music journalist Paolo Hewitt, has been a friend of the singer and guitar player since they were teenagers in Woking, Surrey, UK. According to […]

While touring the world in support of their latest album, “In Sorte Diaboli”,В Metal Videos has uploaded professionally filmed video footage of an entire live performance by Norway’s black metal stars Dimmu Borgir for free watching. The 88-minute-long concert was shot in Amsterdam, Holland during the band’s Death Cult Armageddon Tour in 2003. So relax, sit […]

Sofia-based punk bands C4 (on the photo)В and Empty Face shall play live at the opening of Atomic Wave Cool Shop at the Sky City Trade Center in Bulgaria’s capital onВ July 18В (Wednesday). Both gagns shall perform for free at 7 p.m. on a stage at the parking in front of Sky City, situated on 52 Kosta […]

Germany’s progressive thrash metal veterans Mekong Delta have revealed the substance of their comback album, “Lurking Fear” (view final cover in the left), due on August 24 via AFM Records. The effort will be available as a standard jewelcase CD, as well as in the form of a limited edition digipack with bonus DVD, containing […]

Marilyn Manson‘s long-awaited horror movie, “Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll”, is finally set to begin shooting in November or December. The postponement had to made due to the shock rock star’s current Rape the World Tour. Manson, who is to direct the film, shall also act in it as Lewis Carroll, along with girlfriend […]

Guitarist Kirk Hammett has revealed a bunch of quite interesting facts regarding the highly anticipated new Metallica album: “We wrote 22 songs with the intention of recording 12 or 14, with the intention of putting maybe 9 or 10 tracksВ on the new album, depending on how they all turn out once they’re all finally recorded […]

After starting a glorious comeback tour and taking part at the mega-festival Live Earth on July 7 in front of millions of viewers all over the globe, Britain’s (ex-prog) pop rock veterans Genesis have obviously got highly inspired and are planning a to release a bunch of retrospetive stuff to coincide with their 40th anniversary. […]