California-based metalcore quintet Bleed the Sky has set “Murder the Dance” as title of its upcoming second full-length album. The follow-up to the debut “Paradigm in Entropy” (2005) shall contain 12 tracks produced by Fear Factory guitarist and former bass player Christian Olde Wolbers, and is scheduled for an autumn release via Nuclear Blast.

Monster Magnet have decided to call their upcoming full-length studio album “4 Way Diablo”. The follow-up to “Monolithic Baby” (2004) shall appear on November 2 via SPV and is going to contain 13 songs, including a cover version of The Rolling Stones’ “2000 Light Years from Home”.

Prog metal masters Deadsoul Tribe, fronted by former Psychotic Waltz leaderВ Buddy Lackey (vocals and flute), shall release their fifth full-length studio album (view cover in the left)В onВ September 11В via InsideOut Music. The follow-up to “The Dead Word” (2005) shall be entitled “A Lullaby for the Devil” and is going to contain 10 songs.

Finland’s extreme metal heroes Children of Bodom have already completed the the songwriting process of five tracks for their next full-length album. The band, which will celebrate a decade since the release of its debut effort, “Something Wild”, in November, inteds to enter studio a month earlier and to release its new offering in March […]

Long-time running German thrashers Sodom shall release a new CD, entitled “The Final Sign of Evil” (view cover in the left), in September via SPV. We’re not talking about a real album, but about re-recordings of the material from the band’s 1984 debut EP “In the Sign of Evil”, plus seven bonus tracks, all of […]

Bulgaria’s hardcore beasts Last Hope, their Dutch colleagues Born from Pain and Portugal’s metal leaders Moonspell shall headline the first night of the Summer Rocks Festival, set to take place onВ August 17-19В in Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul. Except for the three bands mentioned, the visitors of the open air event shall also witness performances by Madball, […]

Last night, July 4, a few minutes before the start of the show by Marilyn Manson, Type O NegativeВ and Alien Industry in Sofia, Bulgaria,В Peter Steele revealed in an interview for the Bulgarian Krechetalo TV Show: “I respect Marilyn Manson very much as a person and an artist. However, while Type O Negative is and shall […]

Almost 10 thousand Bulgarian fans witnessed the show by America’s shock rock stars Marilyn Manson and Brooklyn’s princes of darkness Type O Negative at the Academic Stadium in Sofia. The concert began a bit after 7 p.m. with a short set by the local industrial metal leaders Alien Industry. Afterwards the stage was invaded for […]

Duran Duran have decided to call their next studio album “Red Carpet Massacre”. The Brits are putting the final touches to the record with producer Nate Hills. No release date has been announced yet, but it’s known that the effort is going to contain tracks like “Last Man Standing”, “Box Full O’Honey”, “The Valley”, “Falling […]

Seattle-based prog metallers Queensryche shall release a compilation album in August via Capitol Records/EMI. The best-of-effort shall be entitled “Sign of the Times” and is going to feature the quintet’s greatest hits, as well as an unreleasedВ song, “Justified”, co-written by frontman Geoff Tate and former guitarist Chris DeGarmo.