It appears that rumours of BLUE CHEER’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Because the band are planning a return to action with several releases in the pipeline. The hugely influential proto-metallers were thought to be over following the death in 2009 of bassist/vocalist and driving force Dickie Peterson. But now guitarist Tony Ranier, who was […]

The family of the late singer Whitney Houston have agreed to let her funeral be broadcast online this weekend. A single video camera will be placed inside the church on Saturday to record the service at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Footage will be made available to media outlets via the […]

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 […]

VAN HALEN’s ‘A Different Kind Of Truth,’ debuts this week at #1 on Billboard’s Rock Albums chart. The first VAN HALEN album with David Lee Roth in 28 years sold 187,000 copies to be the week’s top-selling album across all rock genres, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Debuting behind the veteran […]

After making disparaging comments about recently deceased pop singer Whitney Houston, KFI AM 640 radio personalities John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou — of the Los Angeles station’s ‘The John and Ken Show’ — have been suspended for a week and a half. The station announced the suspension on its web site Thursday, calling the comments […]

Crazy Australian hardcore band DEEZ NUTS will play for the first time in Bulgaria on 22 March. The gig is set to play at Sofia’s *MIXTAPE 5* – the small venue and at the same time, US prog metal legends FATES WARNING will play in the big venue of the club on the occasion of Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH Annivesrary. […]

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 […]