Crazy Australian hardcore band DEEZ NUTS will play for the first time in Bulgaria on 22 March. The gig is set to play at Sofia’s *MIXTAPE 5* – the small venue and at the same time, US prog metal legends FATES WARNING will play in the big venue of the club on the occasion of Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH Annivesrary. […]

Sofia’s LOUD FESTIVAL 2012 is already online and working! You can reach it through the following links – www.loudfestival.com and www.loudfestival.bg. LOUD FESTIVAL 2012 will take place on June 2 and 3 in the Park next to Terminal 2 of Sofia airport. Already confirmed to play are SLAYER, MESHUGGAH, ANNIHILATOR, SYMPOHNY X, BEHEMOTH, LACUNA COIL with more bands to […]

The first issue of PRO-ROCK magazine for 2012 will be out on Wednesday, 22 February. MESHUGGAH are the cover story, so you will find an interview with the band and the album review for ‘Koloss’. More on the mag: GERMAN POWER BLIND GUARDIAN, RAGE, PRIMAL FEAR BRIT TO THE BONE ENTER SHIKARI, YOUR DEMISE And more about: VAN HALEN, NAPALM […]

It appears that rumours of BLUE CHEER’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Because the band are planning a return to action with several releases in the pipeline. The hugely influential proto-metallers were thought to be over following the death in 2009 of bassist/vocalist and driving force Dickie Peterson. But now guitarist Tony Ranier, who was […]

The family of the late singer Whitney Houston have agreed to let her funeral be broadcast online this weekend. A single video camera will be placed inside the church on Saturday to record the service at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Footage will be made available to media outlets via the […]

Vinnie Paul has rejected a lucrative offer to take part in a one-time Pantera reunion to pay tribute to his brother Dimebag Darrell Abbott who was murdered in 2004. Vinnie Paul had previously discounted an online campaign for the tribute show reunion by telling www.darkside.ru, “Dime was such a huge part of it that it […]

COHEED AND CAMBRIA are hard at work on their next album and frontman Claudio Sanchez is offering up a free download of an acoustic take on the new track ‘Sentry The Defiant’ — check it out here. Despite having dropped two members in the past year, COHEED AND CAMBRIA’s new album seems to be coming […]

DIMITER VASSILEV, aka NUFRI, leader of seminal Bulgarian alternative band PANICAN WHYASKER, but also member PYROMANIA, R.O.B.T.F., BASTARDOLOMEY and more, has started a brand new band called SKITNICKS. A brand new song called ‘SHIZO DOLL’ is entering our TUBORG TOP 40 Mega Rock chart his week. SKITNICKS consists of NUFRI (vocals and guiar), drummer MILEN IVANCHEV (Bastardolomey), guitarist IVO PESHEV (Pistamashina) and bass player RADO YOVHEV (Тremor). You can listen to some more songs […]

IRON MAIDEN are going back on the road this summer, and they’re turning the clock back to 1988. The band will launch their Maiden England world tour in North America on June 21, in Charlotte, North Carolina. And the set list and stage production will closely mirror the Maiden England video, which was filmed on […]

Liverpool, UK-based atmospheric rockers ANATHEMA will release their new album Weather Systems on April 24th. The track ‘The Beginning And The End’ off the new album can be downloaded for free at this location. And here’s the Weather Systems tracklist: 01. ‘Untouchable, Part 1 02. Untouchable, Part 2 03. The Gathering Of The Clouds 04. […]