Amazing Journey is an all-star jam project that existed only in order to pay tribute to legendary British rockers The Who. It featured drummer Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, guitarist Paul Gilbert of Mr. Big and Racer X, bass player Billy Sheehan of Mr. Big and Talas, and vocalist Gary Cherone of Extreme and Van […]

Metallica shall kick off their European tour in Lisbon on June 28. During the next month the quartet shall play a dozen arena shows across the continent, including a date at the Wembley Stadium. The confirmed dates are as follows: June 28 – Lisbon, Portugal – Super Bock Super Rock FestivalJuly 01 – Werchter, Belgium […]

Long-time running rockers The Quireboys are currently in Lost Boys Studios in Bedfordshire, UK, with producer Nick Mailing, recording their next album. The songs for the still untitled CD shall be finished by the end of May for a late summer release. About a month ago, on February 5, The Quireboys released their first official […]

German melodic metallers Blind Guardian will release a new single, “Another Stranger Me”, on May 4 (view front cover in the left). The first edition will be available as a digipack, and the tracklist is as follows: 1. Another Stranger Me 2. All the King’s Horses 3. DreamВ a Little Dream of Me4. Lionheart (demo) 5. […]

American punk rock institution Bad Religion has set “New Maps of Hell” as the title of its new album, due on July 10 through Epitaph Records. The follow-up to 2004’s “The Empire Strikes First” contains 17 songs recorded at Grand Master Studios in Los Angeles with Grammy-nominated producer Joe Barresi, famed for his job for […]

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 […]