Finland’s AmorphisВ shall release theirВ  still untitled eighth album on August 31 in Europe via Nuclear Blast Records. As a first taste of the material, a single will be released on June 27. The CD was recorded at Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki, Finland. Mixing duties will be handled by Mikko Karmila (famous for his work […]

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Emil “Kembula” Trifonov has died in a car accident on Saturday. Kembula is known to many rock fans as a musician in the band Tutaksi and Termus, both active in the mid-90’s. Letaly he was working as a TV moderator. Rest in peace.

Whitesnake are working on their next full-length studio album. Its working title is “Good to Be Bad”, and its release is planned for October 2007 via SPV Records. The band fronted by David Coverdale shall start a world tour in the summer. Until then you can watch the video for the studio version of “Ready […]

Blind Guardian’s show in Sofia on May 17 won’t be at the previously announced Hristo Botev Hall, but at the quite bigger Festivalna Hall. A poster of the event can be viewed on the homepage of the concert promoters Most of Evil Music.

Fear Factory are currently working on their second remix album (after “Remanufacture” a decade ago), tentatively due by the end of the year. The first song off it – a remixed version of the song “Supernova” from the quartet’s latest CD “Transgression” (2005) – can be heard on the band’s official MySpace profile, www.myspace.com/fearfactoryofficial.

Iced Earth have finished mixing and mastering their new 4-song single, “Overture of the Wicked”, due to be released in late May or early June. Besides, the band is finishing the production for the 18 new songs for their upcoming full-length release. It shall be entitled “Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked, Part 1)” and should be […]

Italian power metallers Vision Divine, the current band of former Labyrinth mastermind Olaf Thorsen, will release their new album on June 4 via Scarlet Records. Entitled “The 25th Hour”, the CD was produced by Timo Tolkki of Stratovarius and Luigi Stefanini, who both handled the sound on the group’s 2005 effort “The Perfect Machine” as […]

Sum 41 have announced they have completed the follow-up to 2004 album “Chuck”. The self-produced effort was recorded in Los Angeles and follows the first new material by the band since the departure of guitarist Dave Baksh. The CD should come out this summer. The Canadian quartet has already started auditions to find a replacement […]

Franz Ferdinand have started work on their third studio album. Frontman Alex Kapranos said that the new songs he and guitarist Nick McCarthy are writing are different from their previous work, “but will still sound like Franz Ferdinand”. The Scottish group will forego almost any summer festival appearances in England or Europe to work on […]