Ill Nino‘s new studio album, “Enigma”, has had its release date pushed back from the previously announced July 17. The CD’s currently expected birthday is now September 25 via Cement Shoes Records. A track off “Enigma”, entitled “Alibi of Tyrants”, is available for streaming on the band’s official MySpace profile.

Former Manowar guitarist Ross The Boss has posted samples of two brand-new songs by his Germany-based heavy metal band The RTB Band. Entitled “I Got the Right” and “We Will Kill”, the samples can be downloaded HERE. Besides Ross, The RTB Band features members of the German Manowar cover band Men of War.

The new issue of Bulgaria’sВ Pro-Rock MagazineВ shall be available this Friday, July 20. This time the cover story has been dedicated to the mighty death metal egyptologists Nile and their new album “Ithyphallic”. TheВ edition features also interviews and features about Symphony X, Dublin Death Patrol, DevilDriver, Nostradameus, Megadeth, Izzizzari, Queens of the Stone Age, Pantheon I, […]

The final schedule for this year’sВ Berkrock Festival, set to take place in Berkovitza, Bulgaria on July 26-28 has been revealed. The event shall feature 11 Bulgarian rock bands, plus Serbia’s Priruchnik Janga Trovacha and the headliners Brazen Abbot, fronted by guitar virtuoso Nikolo Kotzev and vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (ex-Deep PurpleВ and Rainbow). Here’s the complete […]

Radiohead are currently mastering their seventh full-length studio album in New York. The work is processing under the supervision of bass player and synth wizard Colin Greenwood, guitarist Ed O’Brien and producer Nigel Godrich. A title and release date for the CD have yet to be announced, but it is believed that the follow-up to […]

As we informedВ you in the beginning of July, former Dream Theater keyboarderВ Derek SherinianВ is working on the debut album with a new metal project featuringВ guitaristВ Paul CrookВ (Meat Loaf, ex-Sebastian Bach),В bass playerВ Scott MetaxasВ (ex-Nuclear Asault), drummer Brian Tichy (ex-Pride & Glory, Ozzy Osbourne, Slash’s Snakepit)В and “a fab singer fom Eastern Europe”. Well, her identity has been revealed. The lady […]

Finland’s goth metallers H.I.M. have revealed the main motive of the cover artwork for their sixth studio album, “Venus Doom”, due in Europe on September 17. You can check it out below. “Venus Doom” was produced and mixed by Tim Palmer, known for his work with bands like The Cure, Tin Machine and Ned’s Atomic […]

Sofia-based punk bands C4 (on the photo)В and Empty Face shall play live at the opening of Atomic Wave Cool Shop at the Sky City Trade Center in Bulgaria’s capital onВ July 18В (Wednesday). Both gagns shall perform for free at 7 p.m. on a stage at the parking in front of Sky City, situated on 52 Kosta […]

In a recent interview published in the Journal de Quebec newspaper, Voivod‘s drummer Michel “Away” Langevin has indicated that Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser (on the photo) would likely play guitar for the group when they head out on the road in support of their next album. The Canadian thrash metal avantgardists’ upcoming 13-song CD shall […]

Franz Ferdinand have revealed that their upcoming third full-length studio album shall be quite “synth-led”. Guitarist Paul Thomson has added that “we’ve gone crazy buying old synths…” The follow-up to 2005’s “You Could Have It So Much Better” is slated for a spring 2008 release.