Jello Biafra will celebrate his 50th birthday with two shows in San Francisco on July 16 and 17 with his latest, as yet untitled band (featuring Billy Gould of Faith No More on bass). Joining the punk rock icon and former Dead Kennedys leader at the event, dubbed “Biafra Five-O“, will be The Melvins, Triclops, […]

Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner, former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson, ex-Judas Priest and Iced Earth and current Beyond Fear and Yngwie Malmsteen singer Tim “Ripper” Owens, and Daitribe guitarist Tristan Grigsby have joined forces to record a song for the upcoming tribute album to late Pantera and Damageplan guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott. Entitled “Leave It […]

Former Gravity Co. frontmanВ Yavor Zahariev returns with a brand-new electronic project. The group, called Free Will Society, shall make its live debut on stage on June 14 at the Lifehouse Club in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Queensryche frontman Geoff Tate is to launch his own brand of red wine. This is to be called Geoff Tate Insania… Cheers!

While preparing to unleash their “Live Dominance” DVD in September, Hatebreed announced they also plan to release an album of cover versions later this year. It shall be entitled “For the Lions” and will include songs from Metallica, Misfits, Cro-Mags, DRI, Judge, Obituary, Agnostic Front, Madball, Sheer Terror, Negative Approach and more.

Metal God Entertainment and Rob Halford have announced the release of “Into the Pit” – a four-disc Fight retrospective (view cover in the left) featuring the band’s three audio recordings re-engineered for release (“War of Words – Remixed & Remastered”, “Mutations – Remastered”, and “A Small Deadly Space – Remixed & Remastered”), plus the two-hour […]

The young Bulgarian progressive rock band Mystica shall celebrate the release of its debut album “Dreams in Real Forms” (view cover in the left) with a live show onВ June 6В at The Club in Sofia. Check out two of Mystica’s new songs at myspace.com/mysticabg.

Due to huge demand, 1800 additional standing front of stage tickets (view the yellow sector below) for the upcoming show by Metallica, DownВ and The Sword in Sofia, Bulgaria are on sale now. The concert is scheduled forВ July 25, 2008В at the Vassil Levski National Stadium.

Sir Paul McCartney has topped a new Sexiest Smile poll. The Beatle came out on top of a survey compiled by organisers of National Smile Month, actress Helen Mirren came second, Camilla Parker Bowles is third, and The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger came last in the poll…

Sigur Ros have announced details of their next album. The Icelandic band has confirmed that their fifth record will be called “MeГ° SuГ° Г­ Eyrum ViГ° Spilum Endalaust“. It will feature 11 songs and is going to be released worldwide on June 23.