German power metallers Primal Fear have set “New Religion” as the title of their new album, due on August 31 via Frontiers Records. The CD shall contain 11 songs, some of them recorded with special guest appearances by Magnus Karlsson of Starbreaker, Kai Hansen of Gamma Ray and Simone Simons of Epica.

A previously unreleased song by Adler’s Appetite, featuring original Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler (on the photo), has been posted online at www.myspace.com/stevenadlersite. The track, entitled “Sadder Days”, was recorded in April 2005 and composed by the quartet’s guitarist and producer Keri Kelli (also in Alice Cooper’s band). The line-up of Adler’s Appetite is […]

(hed) P.E. are currently in a Los Angeles studio putting the finishing touches on their new album, “Insomnia”. The follow-up to the Californian rapcore band’s lastest effort, “Back 2 Base X” (2006), is due for release on Suburban Noize Records on June 26.

Finland’s cello metal masters Apocalyptica will perform in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest Final. Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lotjonen, Perttu Kivilaakso and drummer Mikko Siren shall play a set of old and previously unheard material. Last year’s Eurovision winners, Lordi, will naturally participate in the event, too, and will open the final, which will take place […]

The Pixies frontman Frank Black has two new albums on the way. The first one, entitled “Bluefinger”, is inspired by the paintings of the Dutch artist Herman Brood. It shall appear in September via the label Cooking Vinyl under the name Black Francis – a moniker the singer used during his early days with The […]

Ozzy Osbourne‘s first new studio album in 6 years, “Black Rain”, will arrive on May 21 via Epic Records. Songs off the CD can already be heard on the singer’s website, as we informed youВ a week ago. All the material has been recorded at Ozzy’s home studio in Los Angeles and, what’s more important, it’s […]

Dimmu Borgir are to release their eighth full-length studio album, entitled “In Sorte Diaboli”, via Nuclear Blast on April 27, 2007. Some three weeks before this date we got the Norwegian black metal leaders’ vocalist Shagrath on the phone for a quite intriguing conversation full of shocking confessions, as some would say… Like, for example, […]

Next Wednesday,В April 18, Sofia’sВ Dauhaus ClubВ shall host a show by the Bulgarian one-man folk/ambient project Kayno Yesno Slonce, the German electro-psychedelic formation Alcalica, and the mysterious trio Osil Amuk… The event (organized by Corvus Records) starts at 7:00 С‡.. Tickets cost 5 leva / 3 Euro.

Nile are currently finishing mixing their new album, entitled “Ithyphallic”, which shall be the death metal egyptologists first release via Nuclear Blast Records. The band entered Sound Lab Studios in South Carolina with producer Neil Kernon in the end of February. Karl Sanders (vocals, guitar, keys), Dallas Toler-Wade (guitar and vocals) and George Kollias (drums) […]

Swedish metallers EvergreyВ have officially parted ways with bassist Fredrik Larsson – only nine months after he was recruited as the replacement for Michael Hakansson, who, on the other hand, left in order to join HammerFall. Apart from that, Evergrey are working on the follow-up to 2006’s “Monday Morning Apocalypse”, due later in the year.