Bulgaria’s electro pop-rock stars Gravity Co. have parted ways with long0time vocalistВ Yavor ZaharievВ (on the photo) due to serious health problems of the singer. The band is currently looking for a new frontman. AllВ applicants should send demo stuff and a photo to instinct@gravityco.com.

OnВ November 14В Bulgaria’s capital shall be visited by progressive rock veterans Yes‘ vocalist, Mr. Jon Anderson. His concert will take place at theВ Universiada HallВ in Sofia as part of the Sofia Music Jam 2007. Tickets for the event cost from 13 to 25 Euro and shall go on sale tomorrow via TicketPro.bg.

The 14-year-old student Asa H. Coon, who was suspended for fighting three days ago, opened fire yesterday in his downtown high school SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland, Ohio. The idiot has wounded two teachers and two students and shot himself aferwards. Officials said the kid was armed with two 38 caliber revolvers, and was wearing black […]

Spinefarm Records have set an April 7, 2008 European release date for the new Children of Bodom full-length album. The follow-up to 2005’s “Are You Dead Yet?” shall be preceded by a single a month earlier. The Finns are currently recording the CD at the local Petrax Studio with producer Mikko Karmila. What’s been confirmed […]

Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali has recorded a CD entitled “24/7/365 – The Tribute to Led Zeppelin” (view cover in the left). Released under the Frankie Banali & Friends banner, the effort features Frankie himself on drums, backed by an impressive list of guests, namely bassist Tony Franklin (The Firm, Blue Murder), keyboard players Neil […]

Less than a month before devastating the Winter Sports Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria together with Amorphis, Edguy, Agathodaimon, The Revenge ProjectВ and Overdawn, Britain’s death metal machines Benediction forced their bass playerВ Frank HealyВ to confess to Tangra Mega Rock everything about the band’s upcoming studio album “Killing Music”, the preparations for the 20 Years Nuclear Blast FestВ in […]

After releasing the debut single “I’m Not Jesus” off their new album “World Collide”, Finnish metal cellists Apocapyptica have created a second video for the song off the CD. The word goes about “S.O.S. (Anything But Love)”, featuring a guest appearance by Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia and shot in Vilnius, Lithuania. Regarding the album […]

Mike Patton‘s live performance with the NorwegianВ composer John Erik Kaada at the Roskilde Festival in 2005 is going to surface on DVD in November. It’s going to be called… “Live”, of course.

Guitar virtuoso Gary Moore will join drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox – the same Jimi Hendrix Experience rhythm section that played Woodstock – to perform a selection of Jimi Hendrix songs on October 25 at the Hippodrome in London. The gig will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the late guitarist’s show at the […]

California-based atmospheric sludge avantgardists Isis are to release a new EP, entitled “Holy Tears”, through Mike Patton’s label Ipecac Recordings. Due in early December, the effort is going to feature a studio, a live and a video version of the title track, plus a remix of the song “Not in Rivers, But in Drops” done […]