In the early morning ofВ JulyВ 30В Bulgaria’s music TV channel РњРњ TVВ shall broadcast a 6-hour-long Modern Metal Night. From midnight until 6 a.m. the viewers shall watch tons of videos, live cuts and interviews with bands like Killswitch Engage, Bleeding Through, Chimaira, Hatebreed, Trivium, Shadows Fall, Ill Nino, Mastodon, Lamb of God and many more.

The country project Bourbon Crow, featuring vocalist Wednesday 13 a.k.a. Buck Bourbon (best known for his work with Murderdolls) and bassist Rayen Belchere a.k.a. Jessie Crow, are to start workinf on their second album. The follow-up to the debut “Highway to Hangovers” (2006) should appear in the beginning of 2008. To check out some of […]

Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison has revealed to Britain’s Kerrang! Magazine that the follow-up to the band’s 2004 effort “Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)”, due out in 2008, will be “heavy as fuck! It’s going to be heavier than “Vol. 3″, but just as weird and as experimental. We have a whole bunch of song titles, […]

Former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has parted ways with Satellite Party – the new project led by Perry Farrell (ex-Jane’s Addiction, Porno for Pyros) – due to the fact that “although I am very proud of the music and production of “Ultra Payloaded” (the band’s debut effort), I have always felt uncomfortable with the direction […]

Since a day or two there are strong rumourc circling through various Internet media that the legendary London-formed 60’s rockers The Yardbirds are planning a reunion tour in October. This would feature guitarists Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, bass player Chris Dreja and drummer Jim McCarty. There’s still no word who’d be brought in as […]

The exact schedule of the 20 years anniversary Nuclear Blast Festival has been revealed. The event shall take place on October 27 at the Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart, Germany, featuring performances by five of the label’s most prominent current signings, as well as a set by The NB Allstar Band, consisting of “Peavy, Victor and Andre […]

The new project by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, Inflikted, has already got an official MySpace profile. You can check it out at myspace.com/officialinflikted. Except for the reunited Sepultura founders and former members, Inflikted features also bass player Joe Duplantier (Gojira) and lead guitarist Marc Rizzo (Soulfly). At present the quartet is recording its debut […]

OnВ August 3В (Friday) the Area 51 ClubВ inВ Varna, BulgariaВ shall host a black metal night headlined by the Greek black metal quintet Crossover. The show will also feature sets by the local bands DemenziaВ and The A.X.E. Project. Tickets for the concert costВ 2.5 Euro, and the poster is available in our GIG GUIDE.

The Bulgarian avantgarde post-punk/ambient project Proletarii released its debut album, “Music for the Glass People” (see cover in the left). To get an impression of how Proletarii sound, you can download one of their tracks in our mp3В section or just visit their MySpace profile. If you like what you hear, get in tourch with Proletarii […]

EMI will release a retrospective Megadeth box set, entitled “Warchest”, on October 15. The collection will contain four CDs revealing the a-quarter-of-a-century-long career of Dave Mustaine & Co., as well as a DVD. The exact contents of the discs are expected to be revealed soon.