Rocker Gene Simmons is heading back to Israel for the first time in more than 50 years to explore his Jewish roots. The KISS star, born Chaim Witz, emigrated to America with his mother Flora, a Holocaust survivor, at the age of eight after his parents divorced, and he has never returned. But the 61 […]

R.E.M. continue to roll out the videos for their new album, ‘Collapse Into Now,’ which was released this week. Michael Stipe oversaw the plan to have noted filmmakers create videos for each of the disc’s 12 tracks. The newest one to surface is ‘Oh My Heart,’ directed by Jem Cohen. A new York-based filmmaker, Cohen […]

Former Anthrax singer Dan Nelson has joined forces with Dan “Shaggy” Hoffman and Joe Post in a brand new Levittown, New York-based “rock / blues / punk / metal / hardcore / fun” band called Farewell To Washington. According to Nelson, the group will enter “our junkie little studio a.k.a. ‘Potato Junction,’” next week to […]

D.R.I. frontman Kurt Brecht told Buglarian fans via a hot telephone line from Spain the following: “We are very excited because this is going to be the first time we play in Bulgaria. I want to appologise to the fans for waiting for us for so long. But I promise it won’t be the last […]

ALICE IN CHAINS have issued the following brief statement regarding the death of former bassist Mike Starr who died at the age of 44 in his Salt Lake City, Utah home earlier yesterday afternoon (March 8th) atВ 9:42 PM CETВ (1:42 PM local time). “Jerry (Cantrell) and Sean (Kinney) are mourning the loss of their friend and […]

As previously reported, AC/DC are to release ‘Live At River Plate’ CD/DVD on May 10th. It will be the band’s sixth live release which was filmed at the Buenos Aires gigs on December 2nd, 4th and 6th, 2009 in front of 65,000 people each night at the River Plate Stadium in Argentina. The film was […]

It’s closing in on 2,000 fans on Facebook that have now joined the effort in calling for a one-off reunion/tribute concert (or a series of US dates) with the surviving members of Pantera: vocalist Philip H. Anselmo, bassist Rex Brown and drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott. TMD has learned today from a source close to Vinnie […]

The Boston HC outfit will be haunting the Panick Attack show of Alex Boyadjiev on Tuesday night starting 10 pm BG time (9 pm CET). DEATH BEFORE DISHONORВ will play at The Box club in Sofia on Thursday night, supported by local heroes VendettaВ and Death Squad. Tickets are available through www.Eventim.bg.

The bands on the bill of this year’s Sonisphere in Bulgaria will be announced on a secret breakfast in Sofia Live Club this Thursday, 10 March at 10 am in the morning. Yeah!

The show promoted byВ Loud ConcertsВ will be at Sofia’s Winter Palace. Tickets priced 50В BGN (25 Euro) are on sale throughВ www.Ticketstream.bgВ and www.Eventim.bg. They will go up to 60 BGN on the day of the show. CINDERELLAВ and MR.BIG will share the headliner’s slot withВ Tom Keifer’s band expected to play second. AВ support act will be announced soon.