The second issue of  ‘Metal Hammer Bulgaria’ will be out on 27 July. KORN are the cover story as they will close this year’s Spirit Of Burgas 2012 festival on 5 August. Inside you will find 80 pages of news, interviews, album reviews, live reports and more. The price is 4,95 BGN.

TRAVIS BARKER was forced to give up drugs after doctors found six ulcers in his stomach. The Blink 182 drummer reveals the news ended his enjoyment of smoking weed – something he’d hoped he could carry on doing for the rest of his life. He’d been using cannabis to help with anxiety issues, which he’s been […]

IRON MAIDEN frontman BRUCE DICKINSON called a fan that he spotted texting in the crowd during one of the band’s recent gigs a ‘wanker’. The incident happened during an Iron Maiden show last week (July 19) in Indiana, Indianapolis. The Quietus reports that as the band started playing ‘Wasted Years’, DICKINSON shouted: “Ah, for fucks sake, […]

PEARL JAM guitarist Mike McCready recently revealed that there is roughly an album’s worth of songs that the mid-90′s side project, MAD SEASON, never got to record with vocalist Layne Staley before his return to Alice in Chains and eventual death. Now it appears that SCREAMING TREES singer Mark Lanegan will lend his voice to […]

Author Joel McIver will release the first biography of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD, entitled Inside The Machine, on October 15th via Omnibus Press. A book description states: Over 17 years and eight albums, heavy metal band Machine Head have sold millions of units, earned a Grammy nomination and won personal awards from […]

ELTON JOHN has scored his first number one album in 22 years, an electronic reworking of his hit songs, while Florence and the Machine clung to top spot in the singles chart for a second week running, the Official UK Charts Company said on Sunday. JOHN teamed up with Australian electronic duo PNAU for ‘Good […]

Phil Anselmo and Warbeast are to release a split single in September. Anselmo’s two songs have yet to be confirmed, but the Warbeast pair will be ‘IT’ and ‘Birth Of A Psycho’. Anselmo is to release a solo album called ‘Walk Through Exits Only’ early next year.

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will play some of the best indie sounds of the year 2012 so far. THE FLAMING LIPS, JOHNNY DOWD, HUMAN DON’T BE ANGRY (pictured), POND, PINKONOIZU, DJANGO DJANGO, YETI LANE, WOUNDED LION, GROANBOX… The ‘ZOO SHOW’ kicks off on Monday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio […]

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM have released their video for ‘Handwritten’ the title track off their upcoming fourth album. ‘Handwritten’ will be released on July 24.    

MOONSPELL are set to play in Sofia’s Blue Box club on 1 October.   The gig is promoted by Loud Concerts with tickets priced 40 BGN already on sale through Ticketstream.bg.  They will go up to 45 BGN on the day. Support bands will be unveiled soon.