Bulgaria’s hardcore beasts Last Hope, their Dutch colleagues Born from Pain and Portugal’s metal leaders Moonspell shall headline the first night of the Summer Rocks Festival, set to take place onВ August 17-19В in Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul. Except for the three bands mentioned, the visitors of the open air event shall also witness performances by Madball, […]

Last night, July 4, a few minutes before the start of the show by Marilyn Manson, Type O NegativeВ and Alien Industry in Sofia, Bulgaria,В Peter Steele revealed in an interview for the Bulgarian Krechetalo TV Show: “I respect Marilyn Manson very much as a person and an artist. However, while Type O Negative is and shall […]

Almost 10 thousand Bulgarian fans witnessed the show by America’s shock rock stars Marilyn Manson and Brooklyn’s princes of darkness Type O Negative at the Academic Stadium in Sofia. The concert began a bit after 7 p.m. with a short set by the local industrial metal leaders Alien Industry. Afterwards the stage was invaded for […]

Duran Duran have decided to call their next studio album “Red Carpet Massacre”. The Brits are putting the final touches to the record with producer Nate Hills. No release date has been announced yet, but it’s known that the effort is going to contain tracks like “Last Man Standing”, “Box Full O’Honey”, “The Valley”, “Falling […]

Seattle-based prog metallers Queensryche shall release a compilation album in August via Capitol Records/EMI. The best-of-effort shall be entitled “Sign of the Times” and is going to feature the quintet’s greatest hits, as well as an unreleasedВ song, “Justified”, co-written by frontman Geoff Tate and former guitarist Chris DeGarmo.

Motorhead have revealed the front cover artwork of their brand-new live CD, “Better Motorhead Than Dead – Live at Hammersmith”, due to be released on July 16 via SPV. You can view it in the left, while the complete tracklist for the effort is available here. While waiting for the disc to surface, check out […]

Metallica’s drummer Lars Ulrich has confirmed that the band have completed the backing tracks for their ninth studio album. The band is aiming to release the follow-up to 2003’s “St. Anger” in February 2008. Regarding the music on the effort, Lars has stated: “It doesn’t sound like “St. Anger” to me. It’s probably a little […]

Keyboard player Derek Sherinian (on the photo), known for hiw work for Dream Theater, Billy Idol, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Yngwie Malmsteen and many more, has joined forces with guitarist Paul Crook (Meat Loaf, ex-Sebastian Bach), bassist Scott Metaxas (ex-Nuclear Asault), and drummer Brian Tichy (ex-Pride & Glory, Ozzy Osbourne, Slash’s Snakepit) in a new project. […]

It’s been confirmed now – Puscifer, the side-project by Tool’s vocalist Maynard James Keenan, shall release its still untitled debut album in October. What’s also known at the moment is that the songs on the CD shall feature guest contributions by Lustmord, Danny Lohner (a.o. Nine Inch Nails, Tapeworm, Killing Joke, Skrew), Tim Commerford and […]

Eddie Vedder has reportedly several original songs for the movie “Into the Wild”. Pearl Jam’s frontman will also have a small role in the film, which stars actor Emile Hirsch. This will be Vedder’s first acting role since 1992’s “Singles”. “Into the Wild” is directed by Sean Penn and features contributions from Academy Award-winning composer […]