America’s reigning kings of brutality, Cannibal Corpse, will unleash their twelfth studio offering on March 13th via Metal Blade Records. Aptly titled Torture, the follow-up to 2009’s Evisceration Plague offers up 12 tracks of maniacally precise, soul-searing death metal. Torture was again produced by Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan at his own Mana Recording Studios in […]

SOULFLY has reveiledВ the artowrk forВ ‘Enslaved’.В This is the band’sВ eighth album, due on March 13, 2012 via Roadrunner Records. The CD was recorded at Tallcat Studios in Phoenix, Arizona and was produced by Chris “Zeuss” Harris, the seasoned knob twiddler behind some of the most notable bands in metal today, such as SHADOWS FALL, HATEBREED, THE RED […]

Sweden’s extreme, technical metal band MESHUGGAH have chosen ‘Koloss’ as the title to their eighth studio album, set for European release on March 23rd through Nuclear Blast. Drummer Tomas Haake has issued the following warning: “As always, we try to take our music in a slightly different direction with each album and with KOLOSS we […]

Bassist Mark Evans, author of the new book Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside Of AC/DC (Bazillion Points Books), joined AC/DC in 1975 and remained with them through their barroom days, their first international tours, and the majority of the Bon Scott-era albums: High Voltage, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, T.N.T., Let There Be Rock, and […]

Deeder Zaman (pictured left)В and Dr. Das (below)В are set to playВ in SofiaВ on 25В February atВ the *MIXTAPE 5* club. DJ Soundar from Paris is also on the bill. Deeder ZamanВ will perform with the Rebel Uprising Sound System,В featuringВ MC Deeder, MC PassionВ and GuruGee Selector. Dr. Das will presentВ his new live bandВ Dr Das Dubnoiz Quintet.В  TICKETSВ priced 20В BGNВ are available throughВ www.Ticketsream.bgВ and will go […]

Legendary US prog metalВ outfit FATES WARNINGВ has joined the list of bands to play at the special TANGRA MEGA ROCK SIXTH Anniversary bash concert series. FATES WARNING’s gig is on March 22 at Sofia’sВ *MIXTAPE 5* club.В  Tickets priced 35 BGN are already on sale viaВ TicketsTream.bgВ and Eventim.bg.В Go and grab you ticket as the price will go up […]

Fourteen more acts are confirmed for the 10th edition of the Download Festival, scheduled for June 8th – 10th at Donington Park (UK). Acts confirmed for the festival now include: METALLICA (headliners), BLACK SABBATH (headliners), THE PRODIGY (headliners), ANTHRAX, AUGUST BURNS RED, BIFFY CLYRO, CHASE AND STATUS, DEVILDRIVER, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, LAMB OF GOD, LITTLE […]

Riot’s Mark Reale has been hospitalized with complications brought on by Crohn’s disease. The guitarist has suffered from this condition for most of his life, but is said now to be in a critical state. As a result he might well miss the US band’s upcoming gigs.

It seems that after 24 years Lookout Records has officially called it quits. The news of Lookout’s demise come from a blog post that Ted Leo posted in regards to his back catalog longer being available online digitally. Lookout Records was known for putting out Green Day’s early releases as well as releases by Screeching […]

Is there anything as infinitely cool as a presidential “candidate” who skateboards? Sure, it was hip when Bill Clinton was running for the highest elected office in the country and played the sax on late night TV shows, letting the country see his lighter, more human side. But Generation Y has its own vocal anti-hero […]