Portuguese dark metallers Moonspell are currently in pre-production with Waldemar Sorychta (Grip Inc.) for the follow-up to their acclaimed 2006 effort “Memorial”. The band is scheduled to enter Antfarm Studios in Denmark in January with producer Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Dark Tranquillity) to begin recording the CD for a tentative late spring/early summer release via […]

Iceland’s experimentalists Sigur Ros have announced they are working with Smashing Pumpkins producer Flood on their new, fifth full-length studio album. The quartet is laying down tracks in a house in downtown Reykjavik, and the finished product is expected to surface in late 2008.

Exactly a month after being released in the UK via V2 Records/EMI, the sixth full-length studio album by the Welsh indie rock trio Stereophonics is finally officially available in Bulgaria, too. Licensed by Virginia Records, the effort, entitled “Pull the Pin” (view cover in the left), was recorded in a line-up featuring main songwriter Kelly […]

Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine has announced his plans to manufacture his own coffee blend. Details about the brand’s name should be available next week…

Al Jourgensen’s label 13th Planet Records has launched a special website dedicated to Ministry’s late bass player Paul Vincent Raven. You mayВ check it outВ atВ thirteenthplanet.com/raven.

Joey DeMaio and Eric Adams shall visit Bulgaria’s capital Sofia on December 1 to present the brand-new Manowar DVD “Magic Circle Festival 2007”. What’s known so far is that the two American musicians shall be accompanied by their russian colleagues Sixth Sense, and thatВ a special press conference shall be held at Sofia’s Black Box Club.

Drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott (Hellyeah, ex-Pantera, Damageplan) has revealed that he intends to release “Dimevision 2” – a DVD tribute to his late brother and bandmate Dimebag Darrell Abbott. Besides, Vinnie and his father are putting together the first official photo book for Dime. Both issues will be out next year.

Kiss will play a full concert right after the opening of the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship, which happens to be the Australian Grand Prix. The legendary quartet will provide a spectacular conclusion to the race, set to take place in Melbourne on March 16.

After some serious line-up changes, the Bulgarian alternative rock quintet Awake returns on stage. To begin with, the guys shall take part in the 11th edition of the Seattle Night Fest, set to take place on November 26В at theВ Alcohol Club in Sofia. Three days later the band shall play at the Swingin’ Hall in the […]

Iron Maiden’s Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 08 is continuing to sell amazingly well. The latest countries to go Maiden-mad are Sweden and Finland, where the band sold 123,500 tickets on Monday alone! The tour kicks off in India on February 1 and shall circle the entire globe throughout 2008. It will see Iron […]