Except for playing some summer festivals, Swedish experimental regressive thrashers Meshuggah are going on with the work on their next full-length studio effort. The CD should be released in the end of the year via Nuclear Blast. At the same time, in mid-Novermber, Meshuggah will hit the road across Europe together with The Dillinger Escape […]

On June 28 the heavy rock masters Heaven & Hell performed during the first night of this year’s Kaliakra Rock Fest in Kavarna, Bulgaria. AВ report of the show by Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice (with local supporting acts B.T.R.В and Solaris) is available HERE.

Former Benediction and Bolt Thrower vocalist and current Downlord throat Dave Ingram has joined Danish zombie-shaggers Strangler. The band currently only has a MySpace page available, where its four-track demo is available for download. The plans are the 4 songs to be re-recorded with Dave’s vocals and re-release them for free.

US “celtic punk rockers” Dropkick Murphys are completing work on their sixth full-length studio album. Entitled “The Meanest of Times”, the CD shall appear in September via Hellcat Records. Dropkick Murphys’ current line-up features vocalist Al Barr, Marc Orrell (guitar and accordion), James Lynch (guitar), Ken Casey (bass), Matt Kelly (drums and bodhran), James Wallace […]

Norway’s old-school black metal’s finest, Darkthrone, shall release an EP, entitled “NWOBHM” (New Wave of Black Heavy Metal), on July 23 via Peaceville. The effort shall be built up of 4 songs – the exclusive brand-new cut “Hedninger fra Helvete” (Heathens from Hell), The Testors’ cover song “Bad Attitude”, and non-album versions of “Wisdom of […]

San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans Testament have signed a worldwide deal with the German label Nuclear Blast. The first result of this cooperation shall be the quintet’s next full-length studio album, due to appear in March 2008. Testament’s current line-up features original members Chuck Billy (vocals; on the photo), Alex Skolnick (guitar), Greg […]

TodayВ at noon, during theВ Jitball weelly radio show, we called the 27-year-old American singer Alecia Moore a.k.a. Pink for a conversation on Tangra Mega Rock. The young pop-rock performer revealed some details about her upcoming show in Bulgaria live on air, set to take place at Sofia’s Academic StadiumВ this Sunday, July 1.

Machine Head have replaced Bullet for My Valentine as one of the opening acts for Metallica on July 8 at the Wembley Stadium in London, England. Also scheduled to appear are H.I.M. and Mastodon. Bullet for My Valentine cancelled their appearance at Wembley and several other European dates in order to allow frontman Matt Tuck […]

The legendary founding member, drummer and vocalist of the iconic rock group Kiss, Peter Criss, shall release his new solo album, “One for All”, on July 24 via Silvercat Records. Next to a bunch of the musician’s own songs, the CD contains several cover versions as well, arranged and fully self-produced by Criss himself.

At a press conference for the upcoming Rockwave Festival, scheduled to start tomorrow in Athens, Greece, Robert Plant has shot down this week’s reports that Led Zeppelin will reunite. Plant insisted that he hadn’t heard anything about this news and jokingly added, “If there was a reunion, then there wouldn’t be enough doctors to support […]