Kansas’ Founding guitarist Kerry Livgren and former lead guitarist and current Deep PurpleВ axe-manВ Steve Morse will be rejoining Kansas for a very special 35th Anniversary show.Kansas celebrate their 35th anniversary this year and will be commemorating thisВ with a performance at White Concert Hall in Topeka, Kansas, with Livgren and Morse both being part of the line-up […]

Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY), Tony Franklin (THE FIRM, WHITESNAKE), Brian Tichy (BILLY IDOL, OZZY OSBOURNE), Virgil Donati and Rusty Cooley (OUTWORLD) are among the guest musicians who appear on the new solo album keyboardist Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), entitled ‘Molecular Heinosity’. Audio samples of five songs from ‘Molecular Heinosity’ are available on […]

AC/DC is the only hard rock band to make the ‘Los Angeles Times’ 2008 ‘Ultimate Top 10’ the newspaper’s annual survey combining sales of concert tickets, albums and digital downloads to measure which acts were most popular with the broadest swath of music lovers. METALLICA came in at No. 14, an impressive feat considering that […]

Austria’s newest and hottest property THE SORROW and Bulgarian outfit URBAN GREYВ will complete the impressive line-up for radio Tangra Mega Rock‘s 3rd birthday bash on February 6! The main attraction of the night will of course be the mighty Sepultura! They kick off their 20-date European tour in Sofia, Bulgaria with support on this and […]

Polish death/black metallers BEHEMOTH just posted the first of a series of episodes documenting the band’s new album!   The bands yet untitled new album is set to be released in fall 2009 via Nuclear Blast (in Europe)! see Behemoth live in sofia in 2007 here

The band comment on their upcoming release: ‘We’re really excited about getting these tracks heard and can’t wait to play them live. We’ve spent enough time away now – it’s time to get involved.’ ‘There’s always the risk of getting lazy and simply churning out what’s ‘expected’ or a ‘safe bet’ but that was never […]

This is not a competition – this is a gift! The first 100 people who buy tickets for the upcoming Grave Digger & SodomВ show in Sofia at theВ 043 metal shop will receive the original poster for the concert (see below). The German metallers will storm the ‘Hristo Botev’В hall in Sofia on February 7. The local […]

Twelve Radiohead singles are reportedly set to be reissued on limited-edition vinyl. After reissuing several of Radiohead’s albums on vinyl last year, Capitol Records intends to release a handful of the band’s singles on 180-gram vinyl. The vinyl covers will feature the original 5″ CD artwork printed as a sticker on the record jackets. They […]

The Who’s frontman Roger Daltrey performed a one-off joint gig with Babyshambles last night (January 12), at Bristol’s O2 Academy. The gig, performed to raise awareness of Teenage Cancer Trust and raise money for Moonfest, saw Daltrey share vocal duties with Pete Doherty on a number of Who classics including ‘Substitute’ and ‘Magic Bus’. The […]

The show is scheduled for March 22 at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia. The original line up of ASIA got back together again in 2006: John Wetton (King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Roxy Music), Steve Howe (Yes), Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and Geoff Downes (Yes, Buggles). A reunion album ‘Phoenix’ was released […]