This year’s edition of the annual Bulgarian punk/hardcore festival Hardcore X-Mass shall take place today, December 28. The event, scheduled to take place at the Black Box ClubВ inВ Sofia, starts at 4 p.m. and features following 14В bands (in following running order): 16:00 – 16:20 – Toxic Hate Alive Inside16:30 – 16:50 – Catalyst17:00 – 17:20 – […]

You wander what Living Colour‘s frontman Corey Glover is doing besides dealing with his legendary funk rock band? Well, for some time now he’s been acting. As Judas. In the current reincarnation of “Jesus Christ Superstar“, as you can see below:

Sweden’s avantgarde metal masters Katatonia shall enter studio in the end of March to start recording their 8th album. The only thing known so far is that the release date of the follow-up to the great “The Great Cold Distance” (2006) “has been set for mid autumn,” followed by a European headlining tour. “July“

Long-running hard rockers Whitesnake have revealed the name of the drummer who’ll replace Tommy Aldridge on the skins. The new addition to David Coverdale’s band is Chris Frazier (on the photo), known for his work with Steve Vai, Doug Aldridge, Tribe After Tribe, Doro and many more. Whitesnake are currently working on their new studio […]

Swedish death metal veterans Grave have set “Dominion VIII” as the title of their eighth full-lentgh studio album. According to the band, the CD will contain “nine tracks of sheer evil and mass brutality”. “Dominion VIII” is due in April/May via Regain Records. The release will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the band.

Southern “sludge grind metallers” Soilent Green have announced they’ll release a new album on April 15 via Metal Blade Records. The CD was produced by Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, ex-Morbid Angel) at Mana Recording in St. Petersburg, Florida.

On December 30 at 10 p.m. sharp Bulgaria’s РњРњ TV shall start broadcasting an 8-hour-long rock & metal night. Until 6 a.m. on December 31 the viewers of the music television shall be able to watch interviews, videos by bands like Nightwish, Amorphis, Twisted Sister, Six Feet Under, Metallica, Hatebreed, Orphanage and many more, as […]

They wish you a Metal Christmas and a Heavy New Year! Hail! And kill!

Brooklyn’s Type O Negative have posted the following message on their official MySpace profile: “The “September Sun” video was posted by accident on a prominent music website, a fan downloaded it and posted it on YouTube, however, this video is not supposed to be released yet. Therefore it has been taken down for now. When […]

Fear Factory guitarist Christian Olde Wolbers announced he’s keen to hear from bands who would want him to produce them. In case you’re interested, e-mail some info about you at christy@archetypemanagement.com and… Good luck!