A two day festival will be held at the R.B.F. Club in Sofia on the occasion ofВ the sixth anniversary of Bulgaria’s rock musicians’ society website – muzikant.org. Friday, 15 October will be headlined by Bulgarian Idol winner Toma, supported by fice more acts -В LockMaruhu, Overgame, Juvigy, Da Madafuckin’ Madafaka’s and Angel Dimitrov. Saturday, 16 October […]

The long-awaited secondВ effort by Bulgaria’s hottest metal band ODD CREW will be officially released on 22 October. Entitled ‘A Bottle of Friends’, the album conists ofВ 12 tracks with the artwork of the CD being unveiled today.В  The track listing will be announced soon. Meanwhile Tangra Mega Rock has produced a 60 seconds radio spotВ of audio […]

ALICE IN CHAINS’ October 8 concert at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington as part of the BlackDiamondSkye tour will be filmed in 3D with current 3D camera technology, according to a posting on the band’s Facebook page. The BlackDiamondSkye tour also features DEFTONES and MASTODON. The trek is named after each of the three […]

Lordi drummer Kita has been fired – for unmasking himself. The band have issued the following statement: “Kita has made a decision to pursue his own career publicly as himself, without his alter ego Kita. This is in direct conflict with one of the cornerstones of Lordi’s image. Therefore it is not possible for him […]

The festivalВ open to the public last Saturday, October 2 at the ‘Hristo Botev’ hall in Sofia. And it was a pretty successful edition of the convention. A Bodysuspension showВ was presented for the first time in Bulgaria by Spannish artists Sangre Fria (Cold blood). TheyВ were hanging on hooks …erm, pretty spectacular stuff, don’t you think? Check […]

Ex-DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy, who is currently performing with AVENGED SEVENFOLD filling in James “The Rev” Sullivan, met up with Sullivan’s family for the first time on on September 17th in Irvine, CA. Sullivan died on December 28th, 2009 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol. Chris Epting at Beliefnet.com documented the […]

The Sun newspaper reports that the imprisoned George Michael was delighted to receive a handwritten letter from Sir Paul McCartney. The ‘Faith’ singer is serving an eight-week sentence after crashing his car into a high street store. A source told The Sun, “He got the letter on Monday and was really chuffed. Sir Paul said […]

The allegations come from the Anti-Defamation League, who claim the stage show uses imagery associated with stereotypes about Jews and money. In particular the claims point out that during the performance of the song ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’, an animated projection shows airplanes dropping bombs in the shapes of Jewish Stars of David followed by dollar […]

STYX frontman Tommy Shaw has posted an audio clip from his new Bluegrass side-project, THE GREAT DIVIDE, due out in 2011. Check it out ‘The Next Right Thing’ here using the music player in the left hand column. More details will be revealed soon. As previously reported, STYX are streaming their new EP, Regeneration Volume […]

Skarhead will tour Europe in November. The group’s line-up will include Lord Ezec, Myke, Riggs Ross, Mike Cools, AK Rey, and Matty BK. The Sofia show is on Friday, 19 NovemberВ with some impressive local hardcore heroes joining the bill – Last Hope, Vendetta, Death SquadВ andВ Redound. Here’s the latest schedule: 11/5 Versus Theatre in Wroclaw (PL) […]