The organizers of the Party.San Metal Open Air festival, set to take place August 9-11, 2007 in Bad Berka, Germany, have removed Norwegian black metallers Taake from the billing of this year’s event after the group’s singer Hoest appeared on stage in Essen, Germany, last week with a swastika drawn on his chest. The explanation […]

After 3000 fans celelbrated all night long with The Toy Dolls and Mark Foggo’s Skasters last Friday, Tangra Mega Rock is extremely happy to announce its next live party! The show shall take place on April 20 (Friday)В at the Black Box ClubВ inВ Sofia, Bulgaria. Everything’s gonna start at 7:30 p.m. sharp with a short opening set […]

Tangra Mega Rock’sВ first birthday concert turned into an unforgettableВ event for these three thousand fans who attended the puk/ska party at Sofia’s Hristo Botev Hall on March 23… Actually, we should add the date March 24, too, because the show started a bit after p.m. and lasted until 1 o’clock in the morning… To mention the […]

Guitarist/vocalist Billy Graziadei (on the photo) of the recently disbanded NY hardcore godfathers Biohazard resurface with his new band Suicide City. It features also female bass player Jennifer Arroyo (ex-Kittie), The Groovenics‘ singer Karl Bernholtz and guitarist AJ Marchetta, and drummer Danny Lamagna. Right now Suicide City are working on a full-length album. It’s being […]

Deadsoul Tribe frontman Devon Graves (a.k.a. former Psychotic Waltz singer Buddy Lackey) has revealed that the prog metallers’ forthcoming album, “A Lullaby for the Devil”, should be finished by the end of March. A July release via InsideOut is planned. According to Graves, “the songs are generally much faster paced and quite a bit more […]

Current Velvet Revolver and former Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland and his wife Mary trashed a Burbank hotel room during a rampage last weekend. Scott and Mary ripped alarm clocks and phones from their sockets and threw them, made “dents and gauges” in the walls, and there was even blood found on some of […]

Tobias SammetВ of Edguy revealed that the third album by his side-project Avantasia shall be calledВ “The Scarecrow”. The effort was recordedВ by producer Sascha Paeth on rhythm guitar, drummer Eric Singer (of KissВ and Alice Cooper fame) and Tobias himself on bassВ Рё самият Тобиас РЅР° баса. The new Avantasia album will be a concept CD featuring different singers, […]

Scorn, the harsh industrial-dub project by drummer Mick Harris (ex-Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Defecation, Painkiller, Doom, a.o.), has completed work on a new album, entitled “Didn’t Ask to Be Here”. The CD contains 8 tracks with a running time of approximately 48 minutes and is scheduled to be released in June.

After alerting our readers and listeners that Mark Foggo’s Skasters guitaristВ Loek Hauwert has lost his passport yesterday, sometime before, during or after the band’s concert in Sofia, Bulgaria, we’re happy to announce the document has been quickly found. Thanks to everyone who took part in the search!

Brit rockers Supergrass have revealed that they are to make an imminent return to the studio to record new material. Predicting that the process will be finished in a little over a month, the band said they’re aiming for an “energetic sound” for their new record, which will be their first since 2005’s “Road to […]