“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 […]

Chicago-based rockers SOiL (no to be confused with L.A.’s Soil) have recorded a cover version of Soundgarden‘s early 90’s track “Rusty Cage”. You may check it out at the quartet’s official MySpace profile at www.myspace.com/soil.

After playing 223 shows all over the world throughout 2007, America’s metal defenders Trivium have announced: “We’ll be off the road for roughly the first 6-9 months of 2008 writing and recording our third release.” Obviously, we’ll have to wait at least about a year for the follow-up to “The Crusade” (2006)… So meanwhile, check […]

After confirming their participation at next year’s Rock im ParkВ and Rock am Ring festivals in Germany (check out the Gig Guide), Metallica announced they’ll continue their European conquest to the east: The four-piece shall play the Slaski Stadium inВ Chorzow, Poland onВ May 28.

Bulgaria’sВ ska-punk mastersВ Svetlio & The Legends shall play live at The ClubВ in Sofia, Bulgaria this Friday, December 21. The party starts at 10:30 p.m.,В with tickets costingВ 5 Euro.

After we entered into 2007 with an alternative speech to the nation by Bulgaria’s anti-heroВ Bitcheto (check it outВ here), the tradition shall go on! This time the ALTERNATIVEВ address to the Bulgarian nationВ on New Year’s eveВ shall be done byВ Svetlio& The Legends themselves! Their speech in the first minutes of January 1,В 2008 shall be preceded by tons of […]

After announcing that the new Slipknot album shall be “heavy as fuck”, Joey Jordison revealed some more details about the follow-up to “Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)” (2004). The nine masked cutthroats shall enter studio in January, with a CD release planned for the spring. Slipknot plan to start touring a month before the album’s […]

The 43th issue of Bulgaria’s Pro-Rock Magazine (view cover below) shall be published this Saturday, December 22. Except for the cover story (dedicated to Rob HalfordВ and Fight), the edition shall also feature articles about Nightmare, Paths of Possession, Mystic Prophecy, Radiohead, Darkest Hour, Primordial, In Vain, Coheed and Cambria, Laethora, Gallhammer, Shaman, Civilization One, Blotted […]

Walls of Jericho shall a release a new, as yet untitled EP in March via Trustkill Records. It’s being produced by Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour), who also does guest vocals on several tracks. The effort’s premiere shall concide with another release of the Detroit-based female-fronted metalcore quintet – the DVD “Live in South America”, […]