Metallica have have announced the support acts for their upcoming 2009 European tour dates. The first shows announced are for Sweden in March with support coming from Machine Head and The Sword. Other dates are in June and July in countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark and Spain, with support coming from Mastodon and Lamb of […]

Former Judas Priest and Iced Earth and current Yngwie Malmsteen singer Tim “Ripper” Owens is working on his first solo album. The CD, due out next year, will include various guest appearances from a.o. guitarists Bob Kulick and Chris Caffrey and bass players Dave Ellefson, Billy Sheehan and Rudy Sarzo.

Linkin Park will release a live album and DVD next month. “Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes” is out on November 24 and was recorded at the city’s Bowl on June 29 – the band’s only outdoor gig of 2008. The show saw the US metallers joined onstage by Jay-Z to perform material from […]

Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan and his side-project Dirty Little Rabbits has inked a deal with The End Records.The band is tentatively planning on releasing a new EP in January and a full-length in April 2009. Meanwhile, check out myspace.com/dirtylittlerabbits. Dirty Little Rabbits live

“Push It”, the new video from the Los Angeles-based metal quartet Static-X, can be viewed below. The clip comes off group’s new DVD and CD, “Cannibal Killers Live” (view cover in the left), which was released yesterday, October 14, via Reprise Records. Static-X – “Push It” (live)

AC/DC‘s new album, “Black Ice“, is available for streaming in its entirety HERE. The CD (view cover in the left) will be available for purchase starting Monday, October 20. A week later, on October 28, AC/DC’s Black Ice World Tour opens at the Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania…

Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen was inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk yesterday, October 13 – just a day before today’s official premiere of “Perpetual Flame“. The new album from the six-string virtuoso comes out via Rising Force Records and marks the debut of Malmsteen’s new singer – former Judas Priest and Iced Earth vocalist Tim “Ripper” […]

“Spirit of Burgas is among the 15 finalists competing for the Yourope Award for Best European Festival 2008. You can still vote for it here.

Tarja Turunen’s show in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 28, 2008 has been moved from the previously announced Universiada Hall to the quite bigger Festivalna Hall. Get tickest via ticketpro.bg.

More than 10,000 tickets for Depeche Mode‘s show at the 50,000-capacity Vassil Levski Stadium inВ Sofia, BulgariaВ on May 18, 2009 sold out in less than 24 hours. To get one of the remaining tix, go to ticketpro.bg. Now.