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Bulgaria’s avantgarde dark rock trio The Headstall released its third full-length studio album. Entitled “Ma Voie”В (view cover in the left), the CD can be purchased fur just 5 Euro in Sofia’s music stores Dyukian Meloman and Gorgon.

The German industrial metal trio Oomph! uploaded the video for its new song “Wach auf!” (Wake Up!) on the Internet. You may watch it below. The track was written by the band for the soundtrack to the movie “Aliens Vs. Predator 2”, and shall be released as a single on January 4.

Seattle’s rockers The Presidents of the United States of America have announced the details about their long-awaited fifth full-length studio album. The follow-up to “Love Everybody” (2004) shall be entitled “These Are the Good Times People” (view cover in the left) and is going to contain 14 tracks. The CD is going to surface on […]

Judas Priest, At the Gates, Avantasia, Sodom, Helloween, Soilwork, Ensiferum, SybreedВ and Saturnus are the bands confirmed to take part in the upcoming Castle Fest 2008. The festival shall take place on July 1-5,В 2008 at the Smederevo Fortress in Smederevo, Serbia. For additional info, check out regularly our GIG GUIDEВ and www.castlefestival.org.

Rammstein’s guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe shall release a new single off the self-titled debut album by his side-project Emigrate in January. The word goes about the song “Temptation“. The MCD shall contain the title track, the previous two radio singles “My World” and “New York City” (along with their videos), and the non-album tracks “Face […]

Roadrunner Records did a survey among its bosses, employees and musicians regarding the best 10 albums of the year 2007. Below you can see some of the charts as quoted from the label’s website: Max CavaleraВ (Cavalera Conspiracy, Soulfly): 01. Gorjira – From Mars to Sirius 02. Fedayi Pacha – The 99 Names of Dub 03. […]

The legendary Swiss hard rockers Krokus shall play live in Kavarna, Bulgaria on May 6, 2008. More info about the open air event shall be announced soon.

Missskin.net is a new Bulgarian indie label started in the beginning of 2007. The company has just released its first four singles – “Boot Blues” by Dobri & Pitkin, “Whatever” by Andro Stubel (ex-Exitus), “Coffee & Alcohol” by the acoustic string trio Lyuba, Domby &В Allen, and the new track by the local folk rockers Balkandji, “Vision”, which […]

“Manowar fans have requested a special piece of merchandise from their favourite metal band. Manowar has heard these requests and delivered. The new Manowar condoms are the perfect romantic accessory for all true metal couples,” the so-called kings of metal wrote in an official bulletin. The new Manowar condoms are called The Warrior’s Shield and […]

“Recording sessions for the next Soulfly album have been completed,” the band announced yesterday. The still untitled effort is going to contain 13 songs, some of which feature guest vocals by a.o. David Vincent of Morbid Angel and Dave Peters of Throwdown. “Andy Sneap will be mixing the tracks this spring, and the album will […]