The visitors of cokemusic.bg have voted for the ten best school rock bands in Bulgaria. These are New Voice, Balance, Nismo, Afterlive, The Strunes, Metal Touch, Soul Stage, Hype, Vice VersaВ andВ Tarnokop. The big winner among them shall be announced on May 22. Keep checking the above-mentioned website for details.

WTF?, the bastard brainchild of Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, Toronto-based dance phenom Deadmau5, DJ Aero and Steve Duda (a.o. producer of Nine Inch Nails), has released its debut EP, “You Can’t Afford This Chicken“, via Xfer Records. The effort features two tracks – “You Can’t Afford This” and “Chicken”. Check out the latter one […]

Local support for next week’s show by Japan’s industrial psychos Gothika in Sofia, Bulgaria shall come from Animassacre (on the photo). Check them out below, as well as at animassacre.com. The event is scheduled for May 15 at theВ Fans Rock Bar, with tickets costing 5 Euro. Animassacre – “Destruktion” (live)

The Offspring have made their new single,В “Hammerhead“, available for free download from myspace.com/offspring. The song precedes the Californians’ new full-length studio album, “Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace“, scheduled for release on June 17.

German thrash metal veterans Destruction have finished the songwriting process for their next album. Schmier, Mike and Marc will enter the Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denmark with producer Jacob Hansen to record the effort, which is going to be called “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.” and is scheduled to surface via AFM Records on August 29 in Germany and […]

On Monday, May 5, Bulgaria’s capital Sofia was shattered by the first edition of the Mayday Fest. The event featured sets by Ignite (on the photo), Born from Pain, Death Before Dishonor, BurnThe8Track, Smut, B.F.D.M., Brothers in Blood, MelekhВ and A-Moral, and a report is available HERE.

Peaceville Records are releasing a 3-CD set, entitled “Frostland Tapes” on May 26. The effort (view cover in the left) is going to contain all four of Darkthrone’s first demos from the late 80’s in one place, plus a rare live recording from Denmark in 1990, as well as the previously unreleased version of the […]

This weekend, May 10-11, the Southern Park in Sofia, Bulgaria shall host an open-air two-day concert in tribute to the late Georgi Minchev. Bands scheduled to perform include Kaskadiori, Sprint, Milena,В Epizod, Djendema, Atlantic, Sunrise, Konkurent, Wickeda, and more.

The reunited The Police will perform their final concert ever in New York in August. The date is to be announced soon.

Pro-PainВ shall play live at theВ Blue Box ClubВ in Sofia, Bulgaria onВ June 3. Tickets for the show, scheduled to start at 7 p.m., cost 13 Euro and are on sale now via Eventim.bg.