“Deeply honored yesterday to train with the US Army’s best – the Green Berets,” says DAVE MUSTAINE. “These badass warriors dig MEGADETH too!” In concert news, MEGADETH is wrapping up the North American leg of their Super Collider tour with FEAR FACTORY and NONPOINT. Remaining shows are as follows: December 11 – Austin, TX – The […]

PIXIES have named Paz Lenchantin as their replacement for Kim Shattuck, who departed just four months after replacing co-founder Kim Deal. Deal left after 27 years in the band in June, with management saying she’d “just had enough” of the trials and tribulations of life in the band. Muffs member Shattuck last week reported: “Super […]

The remaining four shows on MONSTER MAGNET’s North American tour, in support of their new album Last Patrol, have been scrapped due to illness. Guitarist Phil Caivano commented, “We are all totally bummed the rest of the tour is cancelled. Dave (Wyndorf) is really sick. We were trying to go day to day, only for […]

WHITESNAKE frontman DAVID COVERDALE has commemorated his first live show with DEEP PURPLE by posting a special tribute on the homepage of his website. COVERDALE – the so-called “singing salesman from Redcar” who was plucked from obscurity to replace IAN GILLAN – made his stage debut with Mk III line-up of PURPLE 40 years ago […]

Norwegian Doomsday Roll’n’Rollers CHROME DIVISION now release the official video for the track ‘Endless Nights’. The clip is available below.   Commented Patric Ullaeus of the Revolver Film Company on the video: “Shagrath called me so I packed my car and went to Norway. As always shooting a CHROME DIVISION video is a blast. The guys […]

Former SLADE members Noddy Holder and Jim Lea are in line to be paid £800,000 this year for iconic track Merry Xmas Everybody – 40 years after it was first released. The songwriters continue to rake it in from royalties, with over £500,000 already earned during 2013. THE POGUES’ Fairytale Of New York is the second-biggest […]

The estate of late DEEP PURPLE icon JON LORD have released a previously unheard track from the JON LORD BLUES PROJECT’s 2011 live album – hear As Tears Go Passing By below. It was recorded at Rottweill, Germany in May 2011 during their brief tour of the country, on which he was accompanied by Maggie […]

Legendary MADBALL are set to destroy Sofia tomorrow – 11 December. The show at *MIXTAPE 5* is promoted by radio TANGRA MEGA ROCK and will feature three more great bands – DEEZ NUTS, YOUR DEMISE and NASTY. Here are the running orders: 18:30 – doors  19:20 – 19.50 Nasty 20:05 – 20:45 Your Demise 21:00 – 21.40 Deez Nutz 22:00 – 23:10 MADBALL БИЛЕТИ […]

SCORPIONS was formed in 1965. The band is one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, with claims of sales of 75 million records worldwide. SCORPIONS is set to play in Sofia on Monday, 16 December. And SCORPIONS is now TANGRA MEGA ROCK’s band of the week! MORE DETAILS  

METALLICA just completed their “most unique” show to date performing near the heliport of the Argentine Antarctic Base Carlini in Antarctica! The band have issued the following statement: “This was the most unique show Metallica has ever done. The band, contest winners, research station scientists (from Russia, South Korea, China, Poland, Chile, Brazil and Germany), […]