From now on you can buyВ ticketsВ for the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, due to take place on November 3 at the Winter Sports Palace. ForВ 35В leva / 18 EuroВ only you’ll be able to watch a whole lot of six bands, namely, Finland’s Amorphis,В Germany’s EdguyВ and Agathodaimon, Britain’s BenedictionВ and Bulgaria’sВ The Revenge ProjectВ and Overdawn. Tickets for […]

Sofia-based melodic death metal band Cupola has made available for free download a brand-new song from its upcoming debut album “Mistaken by Design” (view cover in the left). You can download “War” fromВ HERE. The album itself will be out in early October through the Bulgarian extreme metal label Distributor if Pain. The tracklist is as […]

Britain’s black metal beasts Hecate Enthroned and their Dutch colleagues Cirith Gorgor shall play live in Bulgaria for the first time ever on October 5 (Friday). The concert shall take place at theВ Youth CenterВ in the town ofВ Lovetch, starting at 8 p.m. with sets by the local supporting acts MoriaВ and Grond. Tickets costВ 25В leva / 13 EuroВ (presale)В and […]

Amorphis‘ lead singer Tomi Joutsen (on the photo) has recorded some guest vocals for the debut album by Finland’s “modern thrashers” Discard. Tomi’s voice can be heard on three of the CD’s 11 tracks. The album itself, entitled “Carrion” and scheduled for release on October 17 via Shadow World Records, is described as a mixture […]

The rumours about a one-off reunion by the remaining Led Zeppelin members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones for a show in England are growing stronger and stronger. Total Rock announced that there will be a press conference in London on September 12, when it’s expected that the Led Zeppelin reunion will be […]

Soulfly are about to start recording their sixth full-length studio album. The still untitled follow-up to 2005’s “Dark Ages” shall surface in the beginning of 2008 via Rodrunner Records. Meanwhile, mastermind Max Cavalera, who is going to produce the effort himself, continues working on the debut album by his other project, Inflikted, too…

Kid Rock and Tommy Lee had some sort of a fight at the MTV Video Music Awards last night. Eyewitnesses say that the notorious Motley Crue drummer “kind of antagonized” the southern rock rapper, who approached Tommy and hit him twice. However absurd it may sound, afterwards security dragged Tommy out, while Kid Rock was […]

Bjork may just be releasing a second album this year. On the heels of May’s “Volta”, the Icelandic singer posted a note on her website confirming that she recorded “a special live session album” with her current touring band “a few weeks ago” at Olympic Studios in London. A Bjork spokesperson says “we don’t really […]

Brooklyn’s “experimental hardcore rock” quartet Gay for Johnny Depp is ready to release its full-length debut album. Entitled “The Politics of Cruelty”, the CD is going to appear on November 5 via the label Captains of Industry. You may check out 3 of Gay for Johnny Depp’s songs at myspace.com/gayforjohnnydepp.

In a stunning last-minute move, Walt Disney Properties have pressured promoter Live Nation into canceling Machine Head’s performance tomorrow night at the House of Blues venue in Anaheim (on their Disneyland property). Citing violent imagery, undesirable fans and inflammatory lyrics as the reason, the diversity-impaired corporation began pressuring the promoter on Saturday to cancel all […]