Vinnie Paul has rejected a lucrative offer to take part in a one-time Pantera reunion to pay tribute to his brother Dimebag Darrell Abbott who was murdered in 2004. Vinnie Paul had previously discounted an online campaign for the tribute show reunion by telling www.darkside.ru, “Dime was such a huge part of it that it […]

COHEED AND CAMBRIA are hard at work on their next album and frontman Claudio Sanchez is offering up a free download of an acoustic take on the new track ‘Sentry The Defiant’ — check it out here. Despite having dropped two members in the past year, COHEED AND CAMBRIA’s new album seems to be coming […]

We’re assuming Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl spent some time with Muse recently because now he says that their next album will be recorded in space. Foo Fighters had a lengthy conversation with MTV on the red carpet at The 54th Annual Grammy Awards, where the Foo Fighters nearly swept all categories they were nominated […]

Liverpool, UK-based atmospheric rockers ANATHEMA will release their new album Weather Systems on April 24th. The track ‘The Beginning And The End’ off the new album can be downloaded for free at this location. And here’s the Weather Systems tracklist: 01. ‘Untouchable, Part 1 02. Untouchable, Part 2 03. The Gathering Of The Clouds 04. […]

A full length sample of EPICA’s new song ‘Storm The Sorrow’, the first single from their new album Requiem For The Indifferent, is available below. Click the Amazon.com widget at the bottom of the page to order. EPICA will release their new album, Requiem For The Indifferent, in Europe on March 9th via Nuclear Blast. The North […]

April 6th 2012 is the day! The new ACCEPT album ‘STALINGRAD’ will be released worldwide. The previous record ‘Blood Of The Nations’, which was released in August 2010 was a huge success and nominated over 50 times worldwide for the “Hardrock and Metal Album Of The Year” being the most successful album of ACCEPT history.  […]

DIMITER VASSILEV, aka NUFRI, leader of seminal Bulgarian alternative band PANICAN WHYASKER, but also member PYROMANIA, R.O.B.T.F., BASTARDOLOMEY and more, has started a brand new band called SKITNICKS. A brand new song called ‘SHIZO DOLL’ is entering our TUBORG TOP 40 Mega Rock chart his week. SKITNICKS consists of NUFRI (vocals and guiar), drummer MILEN IVANCHEV (Bastardolomey), guitarist IVO PESHEV (Pistamashina) and bass player RADO YOVHEV (Тremor). You can listen to some more songs […]

IRON MAIDEN are going back on the road this summer, and they’re turning the clock back to 1988. The band will launch their Maiden England world tour in North America on June 21, in Charlotte, North Carolina. And the set list and stage production will closely mirror the Maiden England video, which was filmed on […]

OPETH will be playing for teh first time in Sofia on 1 March for radio Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH Anniversary bash. According to Swedenabroad.com, in celebration of OPETH’s nomination to the Swedish Music Export Prize and the Swedish Grammy Award, the Ambassador of Sweden hosted a reception at the Swedish residence where the band members had the opportunity to […]

Drummer Tonmi Lillman, known as ‘Otus’ in the Finnish heavy metal group LORDI, passed away yesterday (Feb. 14) at the age of 38. No cause of death has been revealed as of yet. The full identity of Otus, in keeping with Lordi’s policy, remained a secret until now. The band wears masks and all the […]