Deep Purple‘s keyboardist Don Airey will release a new solo album, entitled “A Light in the Sky”, on February 25 via Mascot Records. The effort features plenty of guest musicians, a.o. Laurence Cottle (bass), Darrin Mooney (drummer of Primal Fear and Gary Moore), Thunder‘s Chris Childs (bass), Gary James (drums) and Danny Bowes (vocals), and […]

Judas Priest, At the Gates, Avantasia, Sodom, Helloween, Soilwork, Ensiferum, SybreedВ and Saturnus are the bands confirmed to take part in the upcoming Castle Fest 2008. The festival shall take place on July 1-5,В 2008 at the Smederevo Fortress in Smederevo, Serbia. For additional info, check out regularly our GIG GUIDEВ and www.castlefestival.org.

Slayer, who recently received their third Grammy nomination (for the track “The Final Six” in the category “Best Metal Performance”), announced their plans to start working on new material right after New Year! The quartet’s 11th studio album is intended for a 2008 release, and will be followed by a world tour.

Cavalera Conspiracy – the super-project formerly known as Inflikted and featuring Max Cavalera (vocals, rhythm guitar), Igor Cavalera (drums), Marc Rizzo (lead guitar) and Joe Duplantier (bass) – have announced they’ll release their debut full-length studio album on March 24 in Europe via Roadrunner Records. The still untitled record is currently being mixed at Undercity […]

The American death metal egyptologists Nile have uploaded the video for their song “Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor from Attacks Against He Who Is in the Water” on the Internet. Check it out below. The track comes off the band’s latest studio album, “Ithyphallic”, which came out in July via Nuclear Blast.

Chicago-based rockers SOiL (no to be confused with L.A.’s Soil) have recorded a cover version of Soundgarden‘s early 90’s track “Rusty Cage”. You may check it out at the quartet’s official MySpace profile at www.myspace.com/soil.

After playing 223 shows all over the world throughout 2007, America’s metal defenders Trivium have announced: “We’ll be off the road for roughly the first 6-9 months of 2008 writing and recording our third release.” Obviously, we’ll have to wait at least about a year for the follow-up to “The Crusade” (2006)… So meanwhile, check […]

After confirming their participation at next year’s Rock im ParkВ and Rock am Ring festivals in Germany (check out the Gig Guide), Metallica announced they’ll continue their European conquest to the east: The four-piece shall play the Slaski Stadium inВ Chorzow, Poland onВ May 28.

Bulgaria’sВ ska-punk mastersВ Svetlio & The Legends shall play live at The ClubВ in Sofia, Bulgaria this Friday, December 21. The party starts at 10:30 p.m.,В with tickets costingВ 5 Euro.

After we entered into 2007 with an alternative speech to the nation by Bulgaria’s anti-heroВ Bitcheto (check it outВ here), the tradition shall go on! This time the ALTERNATIVEВ address to the Bulgarian nationВ on New Year’s eveВ shall be done byВ Svetlio& The Legends themselves! Their speech in the first minutes of January 1,В 2008 shall be preceded by tons of […]