The 62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi – a former Capuchin missionary in Ivory Coast – is gaining fame around the globe not as a monch, but as a… metal singer! The long-white-bearded has no qualms bobbing his head and shouting lyrics about alcohol, sex, tobacco and life in general into his microphone. Describing himself as […]

The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti is working on a new album with his side-project Little Joy. The band is a collaboration with his girlfriend Binki Shapiro and Brazilian singer and guitarist Rodrigo Amarante (ex-Los Hermanos), and their debut CD is slated for an autumn release.

All the 11 songs on Alice Cooper‘s new concept studio album, “Along Came a Spider“, are available for streaming on myspace.com/officialalicecooper. The effort is officially due out in Europe on July 28 via SPV.

Metallica have revealed the front cover artwork for their new album, “Death Magnetic“. You can view it below. The CD was produced by Rick Rubin and is due out in Europe on September 22.

This year’s edition of the annualВ International Jass FestivalВ inВ Bansko, BulgariaВ shall take place on August 8-13, 2008. Sever open-air stages shall host performances by Bulgarian artist like a.o. Vassil Petrov, Nona Yotova, Camelia Todorova, Theodossiy Spassov, Milcho Leviev, Stefka Onikian, Ya-Ya, Mind Trips, Dirty PurchaseВ and Hilda Kazassian,В as well asВ Palyrria (Greece), Giovanca (Holland), Eftekasat (Egypt), The Belgrade Dixieland […]

Fan-filmed video footage of Manowar performing the band’s new single, “Die with Honor“, with a 20-person men’s choir at this year’s Magic Circle Festival on July 12 in Bad Arolsen, Germany in front of 35,000 metal warriors can be viewed below. The anthem precedes the self-proclaimed metal kings’ next studio album, due out next summer. […]

Additional tickets at a price of 50 leva / 25 Euro for Lenny Kravitz’s first-ever concert in Sofia Bulgaria (July 27, 2008) shall go on sale on Monday via Ticketstream.bg.

Destruction mastermind Schmier has revealed that “Gary Holt of Exodus and Jeff Waters of Annihilator play as guest musicians on the song “Urge (The Greed of Gain),” which will be part of the German thrash metal veterans’ new album, “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“, due out on August 29. “The first solo is Gary’s, the second is Mike Sifringer’s […]

Former Manowar guitarist Ross The Boss releases an album on August 22 via AFM Records. Entitled “New Metal Leader” (view cover in the left), the music on the CD will be… true metal, of course… or, if we quote the official press release: “first-class, stomping, ground shaking epic heavy metal in the style of “Battle […]

A spokesperson for The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood has confirmed that the guitarist has entered rehab. He told the BBC NewsВ that Wood was “seeking help” in a rehab centre for alcohol-related issues. Ronnie previously entered rehab in 2002…