Suicidal Tendencies have recruited a new drummer. Actually, the guy’s an old friend of Mike Muir – it’s Eric Moore of Syco Mico’s side-project Infectious Grooves.

U.D.O. shall play live in Kavarna, Bulgaria on December 31, 2008.

Madball shall play live at Sofia’s BLue Box Club on November 23.

Opeth‘s long-awaited concert DVD “The Roundhouse Tapes” will finally be released via Peaceville Records on October 27. The effort contains footage from the critically acclaimed Opeth performance at The Roundhouse in London in 2006. A mini-site featuring a trailer for the DVD, info on the release, downloads and more is now online at peaceville.com/opeth/theroundhousetapes.

Holy Moses spread the following newsletter: “So, long time ago we can be online again. More than one week here on tour in Eastern Europe without lan connection. And so many things happened during the last days… After our great show in Ostrava, the bus started to drive to Leipzig for the next show. But […]

Al Di Meola and his band theВ New World Sinfonia shall play live in Bylgaria, respectively inВ Plovdiv (Nov. 22) andВ RusseВ (Nov. 23). Tickets are available viaВ ticketstream.bg.

Nine Inch Nails are preparing to resume for a North American tour starting on October 23 in San Antonio. The bad news is that mainman Trent Reznor announced that current NIN drummer Josh Freese will leave the band after the shows. “Yes, we are still dear friends”, Reznor says. “And no, I’m not sure what […]

More than a decade after its conception, Guns N’ Roses‘ “Chinese Democracy” will finally see the light of day before year’s end, Billboard reports. The long-awaited follow-up to “The Spaghetti Incident?” (1993) will be a Best Buy exclusive and will be available Sunday, November 23. In the run-up to release date, album track “Shackler’s Revenge” […]

Megadeth have decided to call their new studio, located near San Diego, California, Vic’s Garage. Recordings for the band’s new album have started there yestereday, October 9. The follow-up to “United Abominations” (2007) shall be produced by Andy Sneap, and is going to be the first CD with Megadeth’s new guitarist Chris Broderick (Nevermore, Jag […]

Franz Ferdinand have decided to entitle their new, their full-length studio third album “Tonight“. What’s known so far is that the follow-up to “You Could Have It So Much Better” (2005) shall contain a dozen of tracks, a.o. “Bite Hard”, “Turn It On”, “Katherine, Kiss Me”, “Ulysses” and “What She Came For”.