Last Saturday, January 27, just a few hours after their smashing live show in Sofia, 1/2 of Britain’s death/grind godfathers Napalm Death – vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway and screaming guitarist Mitch Harris – entered the local Stain Studio to record backing vocals for the song “Overcome” off the forthcoming album of Bulgaria’s hardcore leaders Last […]

Asesino’s second album, “Cristo Satanico” (“Satanic Christ”), has just been issued via Dino Cazares’ own label Odio Records. The follow-up to 2002’s “Coridos de Muerte” was recorded at Undercity Studios in Los Angeles and contains “15 songs of filthy perversion, satanism, molestation, rape, sodomy, murder, death… oh, and of course, love,” according to a press […]

Down have been writing material for their third full-length album, “Down III”. Рўhe follow-up effort to their 2002 release “Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow” is going to be produced by Warren Riker (Crowbar, Sublime), and shall consist of 18 tracks treating topics like the devastations caused by hurricane Katrina, the death of former […]

The video for the song “Forgotten Generation” by Rob Halford‘s solo band can be watched online at this location. The song comes off Halford’s retrospective double album “Metal God Essentials, Vol. 1”. Meanwhile, Rob is working on Judas Priest‘s next studio album. The successor of “Angel of Retribution” (2005) shall be entitled “Nostradamus” and shall […]

Yesterday morning, Canada’s Rock 101 FM Radio reported that the 70’s/80’s rockers The Police were rehearsing at North Vancouver’s Lions Gate Studios, preparing for a highly-anticipated 30-year reunion tour. No one has officially confirmed this news so far. Nobody has denied it as well…

Singer Lauren Harris, daughter of Iron Maiden’s bassist Steve Harris, will support her dad’s legendary band on 3 dates in March – at the Desert Rock Festival in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (March 9), at Faliro Pavillion in Athens, Greece (March 11), and at the Fair Indoor Arena in Belgrade, Serbia (March 14). Lauren Harris’ […]

Sofia’s well-known hardcore/metal beasts Vendetta come out of the dark again… although under a different name. The crew, which should be known from now on as ADIM (after the title of Vendetta’s 2005 release “Amici Dei, Inemici Mundi”), entered Stain Studio today to record 5 brand-new songs destined to be released in a forthcoming EP. […]

OZZY OSBOURNE has announced he will play at the new Wembley Stadium later this year as part of his forthcoming European tour. Ozzy will play at the venue on June 19 and it will be the only UK date of the tour. The rock legend is currently working on his new album, which is set […]

The first part of ROTTING CHRIST’s European tour promoting their new album “Theogonia” will be finished in the Balkans. The band – supported by two other Greek acts, Mass Infection and Suicidal Angels – kicks off the Balkan mini-tour from April 5 to April 15. The following dates have been confirmed so far: 05.04. – […]

SourcesВ informed Billboard.com a contract could be signed as soon as today for Live Nation to produce a 40-date amphitheatre tour by Van Halen this summer, with original frontman David Lee Roth back in the fold for the first time in more than 20 years. As previously reported, guitarist Eddie Van Halen’s 15-year-old son Wolfgang has […]