After a 30-year-long career, Susan Janet Ballion, better known as Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Creatures, has announced she’ll release her first solo album ever. Entitled “Mantaray”, the CD shall emerge in Europe on October 1 and is going to contain 10 tracks incorporating “industrial rhythms, modern glam and an expansive […]

The Lebanon-born American citizen with Armenian origin, Serj Tankian, better known as frontman for the unique System of a Down, shall release his debut solo album (view cover in the left), as it got clear in April. Entitled “Elect the Dead”, the CD is going to appear on October 23 via the singer’s own Serjical […]

California’s punk rock veterans NOFX are thinking of releasing a live album next year. No further details are available yet… except for the fact that a solid European tour is approaching this autumn, as notable from the band’s official homepage…

OnВ August 3В (Friday) the Area 51 ClubВ inВ Varna, BulgariaВ shall host a black metal night headlined by the Greek black metal quintet Crossover. The show will also feature sets by the local bands DemenziaВ and The A.X.E. Project. Tickets for the concert costВ 2.5 Euro, and the poster is available in our GIG GUIDE.

The Bulgarian avantgarde post-punk/ambient project Proletarii released its debut album, “Music for the Glass People” (see cover in the left). To get an impression of how Proletarii sound, you can download one of their tracks in our mp3В section or just visit their MySpace profile. If you like what you hear, get in tourch with Proletarii […]

EMI will release a retrospective Megadeth box set, entitled “Warchest”, on October 15. The collection will contain four CDs revealing the a-quarter-of-a-century-long career of Dave Mustaine & Co., as well as a DVD. The exact contents of the discs are expected to be revealed soon.

Yesterday, July 18, Metallica performed for the second time ever at the Luzhniki Sports Complex in Moscow as part of thier European tour Sick of the Studio ’07. The quartet’s first concert in the Russian capital took place in 1991 together with AC/DC and Pantera. The 62,000 fans that attended the 3-hour-long show yesterday were […]

The front cover of the biography of Judas Priest, “Defenders of the Faith: The Story of Judas Priest”, which we informed you a couple of weeks ago, has already been revealed. You can check it out below. The book, written by Neil Daniels and scheduled for publishing onВ September 14В via Omnibus Press, tells the story of […]

Pearl Aday, daughter of legendary Meat Loaf and fiancee of Anthrax’s Scott Ian (check both outВ on the photo in the left), has completeted the recordings for her new album. Among the most notable guests on it we should mention guitarist Ted Nugent, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and, of course, Scott Ian himself. Pearl […]

After an impressive show in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia together with Britain’s Placebo on June 18, 2007,В Ostava have focused completely on the work on their new, fourth full-length studio album. On Monday, July 23, Bulgaria’s indie rock stars shall start recording tracks for the follow-up to 2004’s “Mono” in Istanbul. Svilen, George & Co. shall work […]