The 62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi – a former Capuchin missionary in Ivory Coast – is gaining fame around the globe not as a monch, but as a… metal singer! The long-white-bearded has no qualms bobbing his head and shouting lyrics about alcohol, sex, tobacco and life in general into his microphone. Describing himself as […]

The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti is working on a new album with his side-project Little Joy. The band is a collaboration with his girlfriend Binki Shapiro and Brazilian singer and guitarist Rodrigo Amarante (ex-Los Hermanos), and their debut CD is slated for an autumn release.

All the 11 songs on Alice Cooper‘s new concept studio album, “Along Came a Spider“, are available for streaming on myspace.com/officialalicecooper. The effort is officially due out in Europe on July 28 via SPV.

Metallica have revealed the front cover artwork for their new album, “Death Magnetic“. You can view it below. The CD was produced by Rick Rubin and is due out in Europe on September 22.

This year’s edition of the annualВ International Jass FestivalВ inВ Bansko, BulgariaВ shall take place on August 8-13, 2008. Sever open-air stages shall host performances by Bulgarian artist like a.o. Vassil Petrov, Nona Yotova, Camelia Todorova, Theodossiy Spassov, Milcho Leviev, Stefka Onikian, Ya-Ya, Mind Trips, Dirty PurchaseВ and Hilda Kazassian,В as well asВ Palyrria (Greece), Giovanca (Holland), Eftekasat (Egypt), The Belgrade Dixieland […]

This Saturday, July 19, 2008, a new show starts on Tangra Mega Rock – Tangra Mega Live! Listen to the two-hour-long weekly show Saturdays at 10 p.m.! The first edition of Tangra Mega Live starts this Saturday with live shows by Radiohead, Foo FightersВ and Smashing Pumpkins!

Former Megaherz members Alexx Wesselsky (vocals) and Noel Pix (guitar and programming) will release the third album with their current electro-metal project Eisbrecher on August 22 via AFM Records. The follow-up to last year’s “AntikГ¶rper” will be entitled “SГјnde” (“Sin” in German) and will be “the darkest and hardest album so far”. Eisbrecher – “Phosphor” […]

Destruction mastermind Schmier has revealed that “Gary Holt of Exodus and Jeff Waters of Annihilator play as guest musicians on the song “Urge (The Greed of Gain),” which will be part of the German thrash metal veterans’ new album, “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“, due out on August 29. “The first solo is Gary’s, the second is Mike Sifringer’s […]

Former Manowar guitarist Ross The Boss releases an album on August 22 via AFM Records. Entitled “New Metal Leader” (view cover in the left), the music on the CD will be… true metal, of course… or, if we quote the official press release: “first-class, stomping, ground shaking epic heavy metal in the style of “Battle […]

A spokesperson for The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood has confirmed that the guitarist has entered rehab. He told the BBC NewsВ that Wood was “seeking help” in a rehab centre for alcohol-related issues. Ronnie previously entered rehab in 2002…