Thrash legends OVERKILL will release their 16th full-length studio album, entitled The Electric Age, on March 30th via Nuclear Blast Records. The band has released the first single, ‘Electric Rattlesnake and it is now available via iTunes. Check out ‘Electric Rattlesnake’, streaming below. OVERKILL traveled to Asbury Park, NJ this weekend to shoot a brand new music […]

Punk rock band THE SEX PISTOLS have signed a record deal with Universal, it has been announced. An “expanded and repackaged edition” of the band’s Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols album will be released later this year. Universal said the release will tie in with the record’s 35th anniversary. “To be given […]

ARCTIC MONKEYS have debuted their brand new single ‘R U Mine?’ online, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to hear the track. The track, which does not feature on the band’s 2011 fourth album ‘Suck It And See’, was posted online in the early hours of this morning (February 27), with […]

MOTLEY CRUE have recorded a brand new track. It’s been done at Tommy Lee’s home studio in Calabasis, California, and will be released in time for the band’s summer touring schedule. Says Nikki Sixx: “Haven’t been in the studio in a few years with the guys and it feels like magic. Hard to explain what […]

The Houston Press reports that KING’S X drummer Jerry Gaskill suffered a heart attack last night and underwent emergency surgery. Gaskill is in stable condition at the hospital. Vocalist/bassist dUg Pinnick reported the event on twitter with the following message: Jerry had a heart attack last night. He was operated on and is in stable […]

MARIJUANA DEATHSQUADS sound almost exactly like their name suggests: Brash, chaotic, and drugged out as hell. The “noise collective” can be traced back to Ryan Olson, who also founded the Gayngs collective (which also includes Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Mike Noyce). ‘Crazy Master’ is the title track of the group’s four-song debut (hear the […]

Music fans were in for a rare treat Friday night at New York’s Apollo Theater. Eric Clapton was joined by Keith Richards at Howlin For Hubert: A Concert to Benefit the Jazz Foundation of America. The event was a tribute to guitarist Hubert Sumlin, who played in Howlin’ Wolf’s band for decades and passed away […]

Swedish prog kings OPETH will play for the first time in Sofia on Thurdsay, 1 March. After finishing a string of dates in Asia, the band played one gig in Russia and are now back to Europe. The setilst from last night’s first European concert in Stodola club in Warsaw, Poland is available beow.. 120 MINUTES (!!!) is the time announced […]

DAVE MUSTAINE has courted controversy by claiming that African women should stop having kids if they can’t feed them! Talking to the LA Weekly, the MEGADETH mainman – who is a born again Christian – addressed the subject of responsible parenting. This is what he said: “There’s so many houses without a dad that it’s […]

German metallers PALACE (pictured above) will be joining the PRIMAL FEAR and BRAINSTORM tour called ‘METAL NATION TOUR 2012’. The Sofia date is 7 April and the gig is set to happen at the Hristo Botev hall.  Tickets priced 40 BGN are on sale via www.Eventim.bg and will go up to 45 BGN at the door.