After releasing their debut album “Take to the Skies” in March 2007 and being hailed as Best Live Band at this year’s Kerrang! Awards ceremony, Britain’s young post-hardcore quartet Enter Shikari are ready to please their fans with a new EP. It’s going to be called “Labyrinth” and is due in November.

Britain’s black metal superstars Cradle of Filth have uploaded their brand-new video for the track “The Foetus of a New Day Kicking” on the Internet. You may check it out below. The tune comes off the group’s latest album, “Thornography”, which came out in October 2006 viaВ Roadrunner Records.

Members of Soulfly, Killswitch Engage, Madball and Bad Brains have and will record guest appearances on Brooklyn’s hardcore rapper Ill Bill‘s second full-length studio album, due out in early 2008. The follow-up to “What’s Wrong with Bill?” (2004) is gonna be entitled “The Hour of Reprisal” and is also going to feature help by Cypress […]

Guitarist Glen Telford has rejoined the revived San Francisco crossover masters Skinlab. Together with Steev Esquivel (vocals and bass), Snake (guitar) and Paul Hopkins (drums) he’ll complete the work on the band’s upcoming EP, “Digi-Kill”, as well as on the quartet’s comeback studio album. The follow-up to the band’s latest studio effort, “ReVolting Room” (2002), […]

NWOBHM veterans Saxon shall issue a new DVD, entitled “To Hell and Back Again”, on November 12. The same day Biff Byford and his lads will be re-releasing their 1997 album “Unleash the Beast”, backed up with some bonus tracks.

Amorphis and Edguy – the co-headliners of the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Fest onВ November 3В at the Winter Sports Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria – shall perform for more than 3 hours in total. BenedictionВ and Agathodaimon, who’ll invade the stage a bit earlier, shall play respectively more than an hour and 40-45 minutes. The entire event starts […]

The new, 40th issue of Bulgaria’sВ Pro-Rock MagazineВ shall be published on Saturday. The cover story this time is dedicated to the women in metal, represented by bands like Nightwish, Warlock, Arch Enemy, Lacuna Coil, Epica, The Gathering,В Holy Moses, Evanescence, Leave’s Eyes, Theatre of Tragedy, Lita Ford, etc. The issue features also articles about Obituary, At Vance, […]

King’s X guitarist Ty Tabor and former Galactic Cowboys six-stringer Wally Farkas have released the second album by their instrumental side-project, Xenuphobe. Entitled “2.0: Electrolux”, the follow-up to last year’s debut “1.0” contains a solid dose of “psychoactive and ambient music”…

OnВ September 29-30В Bulgaria’s capital Sofia shall host the third Paintball Mania National Tournament. The music background for the event shall be played byВ DJ M.O.S. Krindo (Alien Industry), who promises a setlist consisting of tracks by Ministry, Rammstein, Slipknot, Static-X, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, The Prodigy, Coal Chamber, Ill Nino, Nine Inch Nails, Pain, Rob Zombie, Sistem […]

Finland’s rockers The Rasmus have entered their own Dynasty Studio to work on their seventh full-length album with producer Desmond Child (a.o. Kiss, Scorpions, Alice Cooper). The follow-up to 2005’s “Hide from the Sun” (2005) shall most likely bear the title “Black Roses” and is due out in March 2008 via Universal Music Group.