Six weeks prior to the European release date of the upcoming Dimmu Borgir album “In Sorte Diaboli” on April 27, the album appeared on a website featuring free downloads for everybody. Since press worldwide was supplied with individual download accounts for the music on the Nuclear Blast website instead of regular promotional CDs, the source […]

The Associated Press reported that Brad Delp, the lead singer of Boston who was found dead in his home on March 9, left behind a note stating: “I’m a lonely soul.” According to police reports, Delp has committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning after he sealed himself inside a bathroom with two charcoal grills. In […]

Manic Street Preachers have confirmed the details for their long awaited new album. Entitled “Send Away the Tigers”, the CD shall be built up of 10 songs, and is due to be released on May 7. The full-length effort by the Welsh trio will be preceded by the single “Your Love Alone Is Not Enough” […]

Sum 41 have announced they have completed the follow-up to 2004 album “Chuck”. The self-produced effort was recorded in Los Angeles and follows the first new material by the band since the departure of guitarist Dave Baksh. The CD should come out this summer. The Canadian quartet has already started auditions to find a replacement […]

Franz Ferdinand have started work on their third studio album. Frontman Alex Kapranos said that the new songs he and guitarist Nick McCarthy are writing are different from their previous work, “but will still sound like Franz Ferdinand”. The Scottish group will forego almost any summer festival appearances in England or Europe to work on […]

The title track of the fourth studio album by Antimatter, “Leaving Eden” (see front cover in the left), is available for free download on the gloomy British project’s MySpace profile. After Duncan Patterson (ex-Anathema) left the then-duo in 2005, Mick Moss remained the sole member and gathered a number of session musicians around him (including […]

Dead Kennedys have licensed their classic “Too Drunk to Fuck” for use in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie, entitled “Grindhouse”. The track was originally released as a single in 1981 and quickly became a total hit, although being banned from Radio 1 airplay… Later on, “Too Drunk to Fuck” was included in Dead Kennedys’ last […]

Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren gave a speech on Tuesday at a reception held at the British Consulate in New York City to mark this year’s Live From London showcase during which some of the UK’s up and coming acts hit the USA (a.o. Amy Winehouse and The Holloways). The man behind Sex Pistols’ […]

The Doors founding members Ray Manzarek (keyboards) and Robby Krieger (guitar) have chosen former Fuel lead singer Brett Scallions (on the photo) to front their project Riders on the Storm, filling the void created when The Cult’s Ian Astbury departed the group last month. “Jim Morrison can never be replaced, but this project has never […]

Expect a live report of last night’s Iron Maiden concert in Belgrade, Serbia, very soon…