This week, VASSIL VARBANOV’s TANGRA METAL SHOCK is dedicated to AVANTASIA…   The show kicks of on Sunday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET).

 Bulgarian hardcore leaders LAST HOPE have signed with Dutch label GSR Music. The band’s sixth studio effort ‘Chain Reaction’ will be released through it in on 4 March. You can now see the cover artwork. LAST HOPE will be the special guest on the new MADBALL tour in March with RYKER’S, KNUCKLEDUST, CROWN OF THORNZ and TAUSEND LOWEN UNTER FEINDEN. The day before the tour kicks off, LAST HOPE […]

SKINDRED frontman Benji Webbe has his face slashed in a knife attack in his hometown of Newport, Wales.   The singer posted a picture of his injuries on his Facebook page, along with the caption: “Went to Iffy’s party and ended getting slashed in the face and throat on the way home.”   The photo […]

Dream Theater‘s new album, The Astonishing,  a character-based two-act double album that tells the story of dystopian future in which only machines can create music, was released on January 29th. The band has made the entire 34-track album available for streaming; check it out below.

Rock star DAVID BOWIE left an estate valued at about $100m (£70m), according to his will which has been filed in New York.  Half will go to his widow, Iman, along with the home they shared in New York. The rest is shared between his son and daughter. It was also revealed that BOWIE had […]

MASSIVE ATTACK released their new EP Ritual Spirit today. It may only be four tracks, and only one features 3D (though it also features Tricky, back for the first time since 1994), but Robert Del Naja, Euan Dickinson, and the collection of collaborators they assembled have managed to revitalize the massively influential trip-hop pioneers’ classic sound […]

Iggy Pop has announced he will be touring with Josh Homme in support of his latest album Post Pop Depression.   He’s announced a run of shows worldwide that will see the duo play alongside Homme’s Queens Of The Stone Age bandmates, guitarist Dean Fertita and multi-instrumentalist Troy Van Leeuwen, as well as Arctic Monkeys […]

On April 16th THE TIGER LILLIES will present ‘The Very Worst Of…’ having to choose songs from more than 35 albums in their unique Brechtian Punk Cabaret style. The band performs in venues ranging from rock clubs to theatres and opera hauses, have won double Oliver prize and been nominated for a Grammy award.  THE […]

Paul Kantner, a founding member of JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, died Thursday of multiple organ failure, his publicist told the San Francisco Chronicle. He was 74.   Kantner had suffered a heart attack earlier in the week. He had also suffered a heart attack in March 2015.   Kantner, a native of San Francisco, broke into the business […]

American vocalist/guitarist LITA FORD is set to release her latest album Time Capsule on Steamhammer/SPV on 15 April 2016. The very special and unusual recording turns back the clock to a time when honest, down-to-earth rock music was still handmade and recorded without digital tricks and contraptions. Time Capsule is a ”throwback” record that boasts identifiable voices and brilliant players jamming without any […]