Powersword – the new Norwegian “true power metal” band that consists of current, former and session members of 1349, Pantheon I, Urgheal, Trollfest, Zeenon and The Allseeing I – will release its debut album this autumn. Entitled “Eurosteel“, the CD will feature 8 songs. Two of them (“Fighting for Steel” and “My Love Won’t Make […]

Former Soundgarden and Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell has premiered the debut single for his upcoming third solo album. Entitled “Long Gone“, the song (as well as the entire CD) has been produced by Timbaland. You can stream the track at ryanseacrest.com/media/ (scroll down to the “Audio” section), and then check it out on a live […]

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.

In an era of low-budget videos, R.E.M. are back with one full of special effects. The band makes good with its major-label budget for the video for “Man Sized Wreath“. It’s the third single (after “Supernatural Superserious” and “Hollow Man“) off this year’s album “Accelerate“. R.E.M. – “Man Sized Wreath“

At the end of this new you can watch Radiohead‘s new video for “House of Cards“. No cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data, and was directed by James Frost. Radiohead – “House […]

High-quality fan-filmed video footage of veteran San Francisco thrash metallers Exodus performing on July 5, 2008 at the Tidal Wave Festival at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco’s McLaren Park can be viewed below. As we already informed you, Exodus shall play at this year’s Thrash Till Death Festival in Kavarna, Bulgaria on August […]

Austrian Death Meachine – the new solo project of Tim Lambesis, best known as frontman of California’s metalcore masters As I Lay Dying – has put up two songs off the upcoming debut album “Total Brutal” on myspace.com/austriandeathmachine. The tracks’ titles are “Come with Me If You Want to Live”, “If It Bleeds We Can […]

A brand-new interview with Down drummer Jimmy Bower, given exclusively to Tangra Mega Rock, can be read at this location.