Coming off the release of his New York Times best-selling memoir, Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith (released October 7th via Simon & Schuster), Joe Perry has just released a 4-song EP: Joe Perry’s Merry Christmas (Unison Music Group). Perry’s first-ever collection of holiday songs features four Christmas classics: ‘White Christmas’, ‘Silent Night’, […]

VENOM – the hugely influential British heavy metal trio widely revered for driving and shaping many aspects of the music industry, including black and thrash metal as well as for their instinctive blending of metallic power and punk spirit – have revealed the artwork for their new studio album, From The Very Depths. It will be […]

Mighty CROWBAR is set to play for the first time in Bulgaria on 5 March. The band will headline one of the concerts on the occasion of radio TANGRA MEGA ROCK’s ninth anniversary bash. More details will be unveiled next week…  

HARDCORE X-MASS 2014 will be held at the *MIXTAPE 5* club in Sofia on 20 December. The fifteen edition of the festival will have eleven bands on the bill. VENDETTA, LAST HOPE, A-MORAL, EXPECTATIONS, BRIGHT SIGHT,  FLY THE FLAG, FACE OFF, ANTI-FUTURE, PIZZA, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (Romania), SMUT (Macedonia) More info – next week.

Troubled AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was at the centre of a new police incident in New Zealand today. He was handcuffed and taken into custody after reportedly breaching bail conditions in connection with the charges of threatening to kill and drug possession, which he’ll answer at trial next year. Eyewitnesses tell the New Zealand Herald […]

There’s been many gruesome feats done by musicians on stage: Iggy Pop gouged his skin with broken glass, while Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat. However, Dutch symphonic metal outfit Delain might have them all beat with their immense commitment to the trope “the show must go on.” It’s tradition for DELAIN to launch […]

VASKO RAYKOV’s very special ALIEN 2112 radio show will present: URBAN GREY’s new video – the band and the director will be live on the radio.   ALIEN 2112 kicks off on Thursdays at 4 pm BG time (5 pm CET).  

Ian McLagan, the keyboardist of legendary rock band SMALL FACES, and later the supergroup FACES, has died at the age of 69. According to the Austin-American Statesman, McLagan was hospitalized in Austin after suffering an apparent stroke. Paste was the first to report news of McLagan’s death. In 1966, McLagan replaced Jimmy Winston to become […]

IRON MAIDEN‘s Trooper beer is to be sold in America in 500ml ‘tallboy’ cans. The ale – which has been a hit since it was first launched by Stockport-based Robinsons Brewery in 2013 – will go on sale in the US in January. Oliver Robinson, managing director of Robinsons Brewery, tells the Manchester Evening News: […]

Taken from this year’s sensational The Satanist album, BEHEMOTH have released their first official live video ahead of their European headline tour. The intensely haunting video captures what the Polish blackened death metallers live show is all about – with Nergal standing firmly at the front delivering the most devilish of sermons to the masses.