The third album from BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION is due October 30, according to bassist GLENN HUGHES. HUGHES tweeted about the project, which once again sees him team up with bandmates Joe Bonamassa on guitar, drummer Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin, Foreigner) and keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Dream Theatre, Billy Idol, Alice Cooper). Kevin Shirley is handling production […]

Savannah Georgia based BARONESS have issued an update on their post bus crash condition. As we reported last week, the group’s bus fell 30 feet over a viaduct in the United Kingdom. Vocalist and guitarist John Baizley suffered a broken arm and a broken leg. Drummer Allen Bickle and bassist Matt Maggioni each suffered fractured […]

English band AS ABLE AS KANE will support the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS at their Arena Armeec gig in Sofia on 1 September.   The Manchester outfit know under the abreviation А.А.А.К. will go with the PEPPERS for their  shows in Prague, Zagreb, Bucharest and Athens as well.   Tickets for the Sofia concert are still available via www.TicketPro.bg.  

Recordings for the 11th AMORPHIS album will start in September at Petrax Studios in Hollola and 5K Studios in Helsinki. Lyrics will again be crafted by Pekka Kainulainen, who already collaborated with AMORPHIS on the previous three albums. The new album will be produced and recorded by Peter Tagtgren (Abyss Studio, HYPOCRISY, PAIN) and released […]

CRADLE OF FILTH have announced an October 30th North American release date for the band’s 10th studio album, The Manticore & Other Horrors, out just in time for Halloween courtesy of Nuclear Blast USA. European release date TBA shortly.   Commented the band’s infamous front man, Dani Filth: “This is our 10th commandment in metal. […]

GARBAGE has launched the official music video for ‘Big Bright World’. “It is directed by the amazing Julie Orser and featuring some of our wonderful fans in the under water scenes.” – the band says in a statement. GARBAGE has returned with ‘Not Your Kind Of People’ on 15 May thorugh the band’s own Stunvolume label. This is GARBAGE’s […]

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will play some fantastic sounds of the likes of: ONDATROPICA (Pictured); TOUMANI DIABATE; BEN ZABO; DANIEL MELINGO and ANDRE WILLIAMS together with THE SADIES. The ‘ZOO SHOW’ kicks off on Monday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. It has several reruns during the week – for […]

You can now download the official Serj Tankian app for free. I Am Serj gives fans the ability to rework, remix and create their own music utilizing the songs that appear on Tankian’s latest release Harakiri. The System of a Down vocalist teamed with the creators of the IAmBeatBox app after using that program to […]

This week, we will be joining the World’s celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of THE ROLLING STONES !!! Every day, from Monday to Friday, MONY PANCHEV will be playing nothing BUT the STONES. And will tell us their amazing story… But we like it…  

Legendary JOE COCKER is set to make an impressive return. Following on from the resounding success of his 2010 platinum-selling, number-one album ‘Hard Knocks’, the Grammy-Award winner delivers the outstanding follow up album; ‘Fire It Up’. For his 23rd album Cocker returned to Matt Serletic’s (Matchbox Twenty, Santana, Rob Thomas, Collective Soul) Californian Emblem Studios, […]