Immediately after the news about Iron Maiden’s upcoming show in Sofia on June 4 wereВ officially announced, all phonelines of the local promoter Sofia Music Enterprises exploded from tons of questions regarding the start of the sale of tickets for the concert. Here’s the final news regarding tickets: The first 3000 tix shall cost only 25 […]

Swedish rockers Europe have announced on their official homepage, www.europetheband.com, that they’ll be playing at the Lovech Rock Fest in the Bulgarian town of Lovech on May 11, 2007. The only supporting act confirmed so far are the local rockers BTR. For more info check out regularly our Gig Guide.

The Icelandic singer’s upcoming studio album is entitled “Volta” and is due out onВ May 7. It will feature 10 tracks, written and produced by Bjork herself.She recruited several notable collaborators to work on the CD, like producer Timbaland, Antony Hegarty of Antony & The Johnsons, African artists Toumani Diabate and Konono No. 1 (who won […]

Guitarist Andy La Rocque will be heading to Dallas, Texas on Monday to begin working on King Diamond‘s new studio album. TheВ CD (working title: “Gimme Your Soul… Please”) will feature 13 tracks, including an intro, and will be released by Metal Blade Records by the end of the year.King Diamond haven’t released new stuff since […]

Sweden’s metal pride Soilwork announced the name of their new second guitarist – Mr. Daniel Antonsson (on the photo), who has played with Dimension Zero and Pathos. It also got clear these days that drummer Dirk Verbeuren has quit the French band Scarve to go full-time with Soilwork. The band is already rehearsing new material […]

California-based psychotic metalВ avantgardistsВ Neurosis will release their new album, “Given to the Rising”, on May 8 via Neurot Recordings. The band began recording the 10 tracks for the CD in December at Electrical Audio studio in Chicago with producer Steve Albini. One of these tunes shall be available as a free mp3 next week.

Strapping Young Lad mastermind Devin Townsend has changed the title of his next solo album to “Ziltoid the Omniscient” from the previously announced “The Mighty Masturbator”. The effort will reportedly be recorded completely by Devin alone, not using the services of his The Devin Townsend Band, and shall take care of the singing, guitar, bass, […]

Oslo-based melodic thrashers Susperia shall release their new studio album “Cut from Stone” on April 2 in Norway and April 9 in the rest of Europe via Tabu Recordings. The follow-up to “Unlimited” (2004) was recorded at Strand Studio in Oslo, Norway during 2006. The upcoming CD by vocalist Athera, bass player Memnock, drummer Tjodalv […]

After taking home a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song “Woman” two weeks ago, Wolfmother is beginning to think about the follow-up to their 2006 self-titled debut. The Australian rockers have already recorded a track called “Love Attacker”, which is said to be “a riff-driven, chaotic and loud rock song” and is […]

This year’s edition of the Kaliakra Rock Fest shall take place in Kavarna, Bulgaria, from June 28 to June 30. It has been just confirmed that the headliners for the first evening shall be Heaven and Hell – the band featuring Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and bass player Geezer Butler, vocalist Ronnie James Dio […]