Finland’s rockers The Rasmus have entered their own Dynasty Studio to work on their seventh full-length album with producer Desmond Child (a.o. Kiss, Scorpions, Alice Cooper). The follow-up to 2005’s “Hide from the Sun” (2005) shall most likely bear the title “Black Roses” and is due out in March 2008 via Universal Music Group.

New York’s hardcore beasts H20 are working on their first studio album in six years. The follow-up to 2001’s “Go” should become reality sometime in 2008, but so far no details of its substance are known, neither who’s going to release it.

Members of Soulfly, Killswitch Engage, Madball and Bad Brains have and will record guest appearances on Brooklyn’s hardcore rapper Ill Bill‘s second full-length studio album, due out in early 2008. The follow-up to “What’s Wrong with Bill?” (2004) is gonna be entitled “The Hour of Reprisal” and is also going to feature help by Cypress […]

Guitarist Glen Telford has rejoined the revived San Francisco crossover masters Skinlab. Together with Steev Esquivel (vocals and bass), Snake (guitar) and Paul Hopkins (drums) he’ll complete the work on the band’s upcoming EP, “Digi-Kill”, as well as on the quartet’s comeback studio album. The follow-up to the band’s latest studio effort, “ReVolting Room” (2002), […]

NWOBHM veterans Saxon shall issue a new DVD, entitled “To Hell and Back Again”, on November 12. The same day Biff Byford and his lads will be re-releasing their 1997 album “Unleash the Beast”, backed up with some bonus tracks.

Amorphis and Edguy – the co-headliners of the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Fest onВ November 3В at the Winter Sports Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria – shall perform for more than 3 hours in total. BenedictionВ and Agathodaimon, who’ll invade the stage a bit earlier, shall play respectively more than an hour and 40-45 minutes. The entire event starts […]

Britain’s progressive metal heroes Threshold have announced they will release their first ever “best of” collection on November 19 via their former label, InsideOut Music. Entitled “The Ravages of Time (The Best of Threshold)”, the two-disc set will feature over 140 minutes of music, namely 20 tracks from all Threshold studio albums plus some previously […]

Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha has completed work on his first solo album, on which he has been working on and off since leaving the band in 2000. The project features Zack on the mike and keybords and drummer Jon Theodore (ex-The Mars Volta), and theВ music is said to sound as […]

Robin Gibb – one of the brothers who founded the legendary Bee Gees almost half a century ago – shall visit Sofia, Bulgaria to do a concert at the National Palace of Culture‘s Hall 1 on October 25. Tickets for the show cost from 30В to 80В leva and go on sale tomorrow.

Deep Purple bass player Roger Glover has revealed he’s been busy working on his next full-length solo album. The CD, due out in the spring of 2008, is going to be entitled “Close Up”.