OnВ July 15, 2008 the Funkiss Club in Sofia, Bulgaria shall host the birthday party of Let Them Die’s vocalistВ Simona. The event shall feature live sets by Shoot2Kill, Avril in Blood, S.W.A.F.I.В and Let Them Die.

Dozens of professional live photos of the recent Bulgarian shows by Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper, Slayer, Manowar, In Flames and many, many more can be seen at photo.arrakis-studio.net. All pictures are courtesy of Victor Alexandrov. Rhino (Manowar, HolyHell)В & Victor Alexandrov

The cult British label 4AD (a.o. Dead Can Dance, The Birthday Party, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, This Mortal Coil) has signed the band Department of Eagles. The word goes about a project featuring three members of Brooklyn’s experimental act Grizzly Bear (Daniel Rossen, Chris Bear and Chris Taylor),В plus frontman Fred Nicolaus. The group’s first issue for […]

After we offered you a live report of the Graspop Metal Meeting 2008В and showed you part of Judas Priest’s set, now it’s time to see what Testament did at the Belgian festival on June 27. Here’s how Chuck Billy & Co. performed “Into the Pit“: Testament – “Into the Pit” (live 2008)

A lost album Jimi Hendrix recorded with Stephen Stills has been discovered more than 30 years after it was created. Stills recently found the recording among a stack of material he taped during the 70’s, and is due to be released by his Crosby, Stills and Nash bandmate Graham Nash. The lost Jimi Hendrix album […]

The video for “Love Is Noise” – the debut single off The Verve‘s comeback album – is available for watching below. As for the follow-up to 1997’s “Urban Hymns”, it was already revealed that its title shall be “Forth“. The Verve – “Love Is Noise“

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are to release their entire album back catalogue digitally re-mastered and remixed in 5.1 surround sound. The first four albums – “From Her to Eternity“, “The First Born Is Dead“, “Kicking Against the Pricks” and “Your Funeral, My Trial” – are set to surface at the end of the […]

The former lead singer for the 90’s Denver, Colorado-based metal band Angellic Rage, Paul Stitt a.k.a. Paul Vee, was murdered in Las Vegas during a liquor store robbery on Tuesday night. The police are trying to find his killers by looking at a surveillance video. Angellic Rage gained a cult following in their hometown during […]

Tennessee’s The Showdown will release their third full-length album on August 19 via Solid State Records. The CD (view cover in the left) will be entitled “Back Breaker“, and a track from it, “Achilles – The Backbreaker“, is available for streaming on myspace.com/theshowdown.

At the end of this news you may watch Buckcherry‘s video for their new song “Too Drunk…” (nothing to do with Dead Kennedys’ “Too Drunk to Fuck”). As for the band’s news full-length studio album, “Black Butterfly“, it will be released on September 23. Buckcherry – “Too Drunk…“