After alerting our readers and listeners that Mark Foggo’s Skasters guitaristВ Loek Hauwert has lost his passport yesterday, sometime before, during or after the band’s concert in Sofia, Bulgaria, we’re happy to announce the document has been quickly found. Thanks to everyone who took part in the search!

Brit rockers Supergrass have revealed that they are to make an imminent return to the studio to record new material. Predicting that the process will be finished in a little over a month, the band said they’re aiming for an “energetic sound” for their new record, which will be their first since 2005’s “Road to […]

Swiss metal experimentalists Samael shall release their eighth album, “Solar Soul”, to June 1 via Nuclear Blast. Here’s the final and complete tracklist of the CD: 01. Solar Soul02. Promised Land03. Slavocracy04. Western Ground05. On the Rise06. Alliance07. Suspended Time08. Valkyries’ New Ride09. Ave!10. Quasar Waves11. Architect12. Olympus

Today, March 23, tickets for Motorhead’s show on June 29 in Kavarna, Bulgaria, shall go on sale. The places where you can buy then can be found HEREВ (unfortunately in Bulgarian only), whileВ additional info on various live events in Bulgaria is published HERE.

Legendary British rockers The Rolling Stones shall headline a 20-date European tour this summer. The shows start on June 5 in Belgium and end on August 21 in London, passing throughout the entire continent. The Stones’ full tour schedule can be seen HERE.

British gothic metal godfathers Paradise Lost have posted a medley consisting of the song “Beneath Black Skies” and the title track from their upcoming single, “The Enemy” (due on April 13 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy only) on the band’s MySpace page. Paradise Lost shall release their next full-length studio album, “In Requiem”, on […]

New Wave of British Heavy Metal veterans Blitzkrieg – the band remembered by many for the cover version Metallica did on their 1981 self-titled track, “Blitzkrieg” – have signed a deal with the German label Armageddon Music, managed by Sabina Classen of Holy Moses. The band is just finishing their new album, “Theatre of the […]

Swedish extreme metallers Arch Enemy announced that original guitarist Christopher Amott (on the photo) is rejoining the band. Christopher surprised many by departing the group in the end of 2005, having been in there for 10 years, together his brother Michael Amott. Having finished an intense 18-month touring cycle all over the world promoting the […]

Madness are to record a new version of their classic 1980 hit “Baggy Trousers” with rapper Sway. The reworked track will be called “Baggy Jeans” and will be released as a single later this year. Madness and Sway have just released their first collaboration, the single “Sorry”, and plan to experiment with other material, too…

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