Former Benediction and Bolt Thrower vocalist and current Downlord throat Dave Ingram has joined Danish zombie-shaggers Strangler. The band currently only has a MySpace page available, where its four-track demo is available for download. The plans are the 4 songs to be re-recorded with Dave’s vocals and re-release them for free.

US “celtic punk rockers” Dropkick Murphys are completing work on their sixth full-length studio album. Entitled “The Meanest of Times”, the CD shall appear in September via Hellcat Records. Dropkick Murphys’ current line-up features vocalist Al Barr, Marc Orrell (guitar and accordion), James Lynch (guitar), Ken Casey (bass), Matt Kelly (drums and bodhran), James Wallace […]

Norway’s old-school black metal’s finest, Darkthrone, shall release an EP, entitled “NWOBHM” (New Wave of Black Heavy Metal), on July 23 via Peaceville. The effort shall be built up of 4 songs – the exclusive brand-new cut “Hedninger fra Helvete” (Heathens from Hell), The Testors’ cover song “Bad Attitude”, and non-album versions of “Wisdom of […]

San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans Testament have signed a worldwide deal with the German label Nuclear Blast. The first result of this cooperation shall be the quintet’s next full-length studio album, due to appear in March 2008. Testament’s current line-up features original members Chuck Billy (vocals; on the photo), Alex Skolnick (guitar), Greg […]

TodayВ at noon, during theВ Jitball weelly radio show, we called the 27-year-old American singer Alecia Moore a.k.a. Pink for a conversation on Tangra Mega Rock. The young pop-rock performer revealed some details about her upcoming show in Bulgaria live on air, set to take place at Sofia’s Academic StadiumВ this Sunday, July 1.

Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan is set to release his second solo album in October. The follow-up to 2003’s “Paper Monsters” shall be entitled “Hourglass”. It was recorded in New York and shall be mixed in July by Beck and The Kooks producer Tony Hoffer. Tracks slated to feature on the CD are “Saw Something”, […]

Prong have set the tentative tracklist for their new album, due out in October via Ministry mainman Al Jourgensen’s label 13th Planet Records. The release shall be followed by a five-week U.S. tour and a series of concerts in Europe starting in January 2008. The upcoming CD by Tommy Victor (vocals and guitar), Monte Pittman […]

Swedish extreme metallers Arch Enemy have set “Rise of the Tyrant” as the title of their upcoming full-length studio album, due this fall via Century Media. The follow-up to 2005’s “Doomsday Machine” shall contain 11 tracks produced by Fredrik NordstrГ¶m at Studio Fredman in Hyssna, Sweden.

Machine Head have replaced Bullet for My Valentine as one of the opening acts for Metallica on July 8 at the Wembley Stadium in London, England. Also scheduled to appear are H.I.M. and Mastodon. Bullet for My Valentine cancelled their appearance at Wembley and several other European dates in order to allow frontman Matt Tuck […]

The legendary founding member, drummer and vocalist of the iconic rock group Kiss, Peter Criss, shall release his new solo album, “One for All”, on July 24 via Silvercat Records. Next to a bunch of the musician’s own songs, the CD contains several cover versions as well, arranged and fully self-produced by Criss himself.