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 […]

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.

Check out some photos of last Sunday’s show of Zucchero in Sofia in our GALLERY, as well as HERE, andВ then read a report of the concert HERE…

The Swedish metal bandВ Pain,В fronted by Hypocrisy’s leaderВ Peter TГ¤gtgren, decided to sign again with Nuclear Blast Records. Nuclear BlastВ released the group’s 1997 self-titled debut album. Peter andВ Pain areВ  currently working on the band’s new CD, planned to be released in October.

The band revealed that they have been working on new material – with Mark Ronson and Eliot JamesВ on production duties. In a message to fans on the band’s mailing list, they also explained: “We’ve been hard at work writing, rehearsing and recording songs,” they wrote. “It all started with the two new songs you may […]

Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died yesterday at his home in Basel, Switzerland.. He was 102. Hofmann’s most famous discovery LSD happened onВ April 16, 1943.В В  Three days later, on April 19, he ingested 250 milligrams of LSD, embarking on the first full-fledged acid […]

“I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation,” YorkeВ explained the band’s decision last year to letВ fans pay if andВ what they wanted for digital downloads of their album “In Rainbows.” “Yes. It was a one-off in terms of a story. It was one of those things where we were in the position of […]

The yet untitled album of the re-united ExtremeВ is planned for release later this year. The band say they are soonВ going toВ finish the recording.В