U2 have announced details of a new Best Of compilation that will feature their recent collaboration with Green Day.The song, a cover version of the Skids ‘The Saints Are Coming’, will be part of a sixteen song set of “U2’s best songs’ according to the bands official website.The track was recorded by the two bands […]

Launch Radio Networks reports: Robert Plant‘s appearance on the PBS series “Soundstage” will be released on DVD October 24 as ROBERT PLANT AND THE STRANGE SENSATION. The show took place in Chicago on September 16, 2005, and it was shot in high-definition and mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound.The 66-minute performance with Plant‘s band the STRANGE […]

Last night in front of the Monument of the Soviet Army in Sofia was held the first edition of One Day Overground Festival. The basic idea of the festival was to bring together on the same stage 6 of the best contemporary Bulgarian underground bands and to celebrate the one day underground subculture’s appearance on […]

Pixies are set to release a 29-song DVD of an intimate 2004 club performance in Boston.‘Pixies Live At The Paradise In Boston‘ features the band performing to a 200-capacity crowd in their hometown. The DVD also features a bonus 12-song set from their first-ever filmed show in 1986 when the band performed at TT The […]

Floridian black metallers KULT OV AZAZEL have issued the following update via their official web site:“Due to circumstances beyond control, we have postponed the recording of the new album and all other scheduled appearances. From now until further notice all KULT OV AZAZEL activities will be put on hold. The last show we’ll do for […]

SIRENIA, the Norwegian gothic metal band featuring former TRISTANIA guitarist/vocalist Morten Veland, has finished mixing and mastering its new album, “Nine Destinies and a Downfall“, due in early 2007 via Nuclear Blast Records.“Nine Destinies and a Downfall” was recorded at Jailhouse studios in Norway with engineer Hans Eidsgard and Soundsuite studios in France with Terje […]

The Revenge Project are getting ready with some material for their second studio album. The band has already 3 femo versions of the songs – “Read My Lips”, “1000 Voices” and “Visions” (the last one is a cover of a song by Diabolism from 1996).Those 3 songs plus 4 more will be included on the […]

Swedish/Greek melodic death metal outfit NIGHTRAGE has announced the addition of drummer Alex Svenningson (ex-MINDFALL) to the group’s ranks. “He came in the studio and he really nailed down our songs,” stated Marios Ilipoulos, NIGHTRAGE guitarist/songwriter. “He is a great guy and a suberb musician.”Check out a short video clip of Alex in rehearsal performing […]

Taiwan’s biggest metal export, the symphonic black metal band CHTHONIC, will release its fourth album, “Seediqbale“, on October 3 through Down Port Music/RED.The weepy sounds of the er-hu, a two-string violin that dates back to Tang dynasty (618-907), gives CHTHONIC‘s music an ethnic flare while adding another eerie layer to the band’s sounds of strife […]

A “memorial day” for late METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton was held yesterday (Saturday, September 30) at the at Gyllene Rasten restaurant/bar in Ljungby, DГ¶rarp, Sweden. It was on September 27, 1986 — 20 years ago this past Wednesday — that Burton died in a tragic bus accident in Sweden, just over the road from where […]